Mississippi Fattest, Colorado Thinnest in New Federal Obesity Statistics: Is Southern Food to Blame?
Heisenberg
2012/08/14 20:00:00
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Sure, America has an obesity problem... but which states carry the epidemic most? According to recent statistics, Mississippi has the highest obesity rate in America, at 34.9 percent while Colorado has the lowest, at 20.7 percent of its adults being obese.
As far as regions, the obesity rate for the South was the highest -- at 29.5 percent, followed by the Midwest at 29 percent, then the Northeast at 25.3 percent and lastly the West at 24.3 percent. Do you think Southern comfort food is to blame for the higher obesity rates in the South?
LATIMES.COM reports:
As far as regions, the obesity rate for the South was the highest -- at 29.5 percent, followed by the Midwest at 29 percent, then the Northeast at 25.3 percent and lastly the West at 24.3 percent. Do you think Southern comfort food is to blame for the higher obesity rates in the South?
LATIMES.COM reports:
Ready for this one? Americans are fat. More accurate, Americans are still fat.
Read More: http://www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/la-heb-...
Folks just need to eat right and exercise regularly. And enjoy the occasional "bad for you" things that you like. Moderation in all things including moderation; ya gotta have a blowout every once in a while.
By the way, I live in Colorado and I see fat people all the time.
Folks have put Money before Life.
Their Dollars ($$$) have over-ridden their Sense (¢¢¢).
be 20lbs overweight, from the South, but it is some of the best cooking you will ever eat!
"Oh I didn't make myself fat, McDonald's Made me fat" or "My son didn't become a psycho killer because of the way I raised him, Violent video games made him a psycho killer" or " My teen daughter isn't a pregnant whore because of me; it's from watching all those videos and TV reality shows"..If you are obese, chances are it's your own fault. Not your friggin thyroid, not hidden ingredients in your canned cheese. Own up and Grow up.
And, of course, lack of exercise and laziness.
Best results when both Sides are Worked Against your Middle
(a gradient, choose your Weigh).
Maybe why many Orientals drink hot tea (or warm sake),
keeps the fats liquid & the rest of dinner better mixed for digestion.
Brits are known to drink rather tepid ales, same rationale?
However, how much of WHAT will contribute!
Eating healthy stuff isn't enough... you have to control how much you eat! I see fat vegetarians... if you eat enough lettuce, you will look like an elephant.
Lets face it.... some of the larges animals on the planet are vegetarians.