Comments on: Southern States Remain Country's Fattest

Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee Have Highest Obesity Rates While Colorado Is The Slimmest

[ubrew12]

dmw1167 said: "I have gone through Brooklyn...it looked like a landfill of trash and drunks actually laying in the gutters"
Your typical Red State gets three times as much money from the Federal government (per tax dollar sent to the Feds) as your typical Blue State. This dearth of funding has REAL consequences in poor urban areas.

My opinion: Southerners are infected with ''Red-State'' disease. They''ll encourage you to work hard, eat frugally, don''t question or enjoy your government (cuz thats whining), and pray. Meanwhile, they''ll be on the sofa eating corn dogs and watching Dr. Phil. Uncle Sam''s been generous to them and, it turns out, they consider giving advice to be THEIR job.

[irliberal]

With home heating costs this winter, a lot of Northerners may want to move in with those fat Southerners in a few months.

Posted by nsSherlock1 at 10:56 PM

Pellet stove. Already purchased the pellets. Don''t need anything else.

So the fat southerners will have to find some other rube to squeeze. 8-)

[sistatee-2009]

It''s them-thar grits is doin'' it.

[nssherlock1]

With home heating costs this winter, a lot of Northerners may want to move in with those fat Southerners in a few months.

[mycomment-2009]

Is that your strategy? LOL!! Have another doughnut there tubby. You''''re funny!
Posted by IRLiberal at 10:45 PM : Jul 17, 2008

I guess you have too much fat between your ears to understand sarcasm.

[bm6005]

Please keep the arguing going. I haven''t laughed this hard since Boosh II announced his candidacy!!!

[irliberal]

Maybe if you ate a doughnut and raised your blood sugar enough to wake up from your coma...you might realize what a dumb a** you''''ve been and vote republican.

Posted by Mycomment at 09:42 PM

Is that your strategy? LOL!! Have another doughnut there tubby. You''re funny!

[yankeerebel7]

What sounds more appetizing...a traditional Southern meal or a traditional Northern meal? But still, this is sad. America''s fatness is sickening...especially when I see little fat kids, that''s the worse. Terrible parenting.

[mycomment-2009]

I must admit I have a hard time finding healthy food choices in the supermarkets here.
Posted by rob416 at 10:02 PM : Jul 17, 2008

Say what? The stores you shop at don''t have fresh fruits and vegtables? No lean meats? No fish? No whole grain bread? No low fat dairy products? Where are you shopping at....McDonalds?

[rob416]

Here it comes attacks on each other from different parts of the Nation. Well I''m from the North and now live in the South and can honestly say there is a real problem with obesity. The reasons are obvious to me as the CDC stated. To much fried foods, cooking in grease, eating unhealth foods and lots of sugar. I must admit I have a hard time finding healthy food choices in the supermarkets here.

In spite of all of that, I do not see where it is necessary to attack overweight indivduals based on what region of the Nation they are from. Some people on this forum need to grow up.

[mycomment-2009]

Fat, uneducated, and voting Republican. I bet if they started voting for Democrats, they would lose weight. :o)
Posted by kansas1946 at 07:01 PM : Jul 17, 2008

Maybe if you ate a doughnut and raised your blood sugar enough to wake up from your coma...you might realize what a dumb a** you''ve been and vote republican.

[pagirl8]

Hey runningralph--just wanted to let you know that because of the auto industry in the South, there are MANY Asians living here. Also--as someone who was raised in the North and is now living in the South I can honestly say that there are LOTS of obese AND dumb people living in thr North,too.

[sociald63]

when these fat ones die - does the funeral service charge them twice as much ??

[formrusmcsgt]

There are people grossly overwieght everywhere in this country.

Posted by whiskyrocker at 07:09 PM : Jul 17, 2008

There is no shortage of lard-a$$es, that''s for sure.

Have these people no pride?

Do they seriously think that they are appealing to their mate with all that lard stored all over their body?

[formrusmcsgt]

"The heavier you are, the more you underestimate your weight, probably because you don''t weigh yourself as often," Dietz said.
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Or they don''t want to admit to packing around a two-year supply of calories instead of one....

[u243379]

Who wants a 6 pack when You can have a keg??

[cat54mom]

...Yet their waist-line measurements still surpass their IQ!

Posted by DaysRnumbrd at 05:54 PM : Jul 17, 2008
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So, there are no fat Northerners (aka Yankees)?

Your enlightened comment makes me wonder how high your IQ is. Or maybe you''re just a bigot.

[wardoglrs]

Isnt that Huks territory....No wonder he was running...

[smirk5]

And people laughed when I sent that case of pork rinds to help Florida Hurricane victims a few years ago.

[smirk5]

I love happy news like this. Makes my day.