Comments on: Southern States Remain Country's Fattest

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

[whiskyrocker]

There are people grossly overwieght everywhere in this country.

[kansas1946]

Fat, uneducated, and voting Republican. I bet if they started voting for Democrats, they would lose weight. :o)

[daysrnumbrd]

Come on America, we can do better than this.

Posted by yankeerebel7 at 06:02 PM : Jul 17, 2008
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There''s three things the powerful elite do not want the masses to be:

1. Healthy/fit
2. Well educated
3. Well motivated...

...to make the changes needed to regain a well functioning government that our founding fathers originally created.

[irliberal]

Southern States Remain Country''s Fattest

Oooo there''s a shocker.

Tomorrow''s headlines...

"Dust found on Mars!"
"Smoking Causes Cancer"
"GW Bush and Cabinet Prosecuted For War Crimes At the Hague"

[kennergirl]

Southerners are so dumb.... yak yak yak. YAWN.

Can''t you do any better than that?

Maybe your narrow-minded brain can''t think of anything else. Figures.

[runningralph]

What happened to the scheme that was being talked about a while back where they were going to liposuction all the obese people and make biofuel out of the fat? Maybe if all those fatsos went on a diet food prices would drop. I have some good advice. Apply for a job in a salt mine in Chad and you''ll come back after a year slim and trim.

[condumbism]

Southern condumbs not only the fattest, but the dumbest.

Dats why everybody call dem po white trash.

[yankeerebel7]

haha this is true. It''s because their food is high in fat, but *** good I must say. Also, the heat and humidity play a factor.

But America as a whole is FAT...there''s just a 10% difference between the fattest states and "fittest" states. Come on America, we can do better than this.

[nssherlock1]

Soooooo, there is a fortune to be made in Diet Moonpies?

[vnveteran72]

Not much excercise in waddling from Air Conditioned House to SUV to Wide-Load Mobility Chair in Air Conditioned Meglo Mart and back again, loaded down with cases of Ding-Dongs and Ho-Ho''s......

[libsluv2spit]

all this uproar about rising food prices..it is not a question of starving to death (there are a lot of cheap inexpensive source of body fuel) but more of EATING LESS..and it scares the living daylights out of certain people..

[meanbiker]

No kidding.. Southerners are fatter.. I''ll bet is cost a pretty penny to find that out..and here I would of told ya that for $3.59 (price of a pack of smokes)

Ya want to know why they are so fat in the south? Collard greens, turnips, fried okra, crayfish and Shine...

[kevboom]

Try living around all this fried chicken, calabash fish, barbeque, sausage, pork chops, country ham, butter-soaked veggies, cornbread, biscuits, hush puppies, fried tomatoes, cheese grits, peanuts, pralines, moon pies, pecan pies, lime pies, and see how thin you are CBS! Now I need to go eat! Thanks!

[bobnjersey]

[Obesity is based on the body mass index, a calculation using height and weight. A 5-foot, 9-inch adult who weighs 203 pounds would have a BMI of 30, which is considered the threshold for obesity. ]

bmi? this is questionable. a 5-foot, 9-inch male in great condition (good muscular development) could have a body weight of 200 lbs and not be obese.

[talkingham]

Interesting they run this story instead of the research on high fat/low carb diets versus the heart association suggested low fat/high grain/high carb study released in the New England Journal of Medicine today.

That detailed 2-year study of diets, the largest study of its kind, shows that high fat, high cholestero/low carb diets completely outperform the heart association supported low fat diets, nearly doubling the weight lost and reducing bad cholesterol far better than the low fat diet.

Of course all those doctors suggesting low fat diets and pushing blood thinners and statins don''t make much money on a diet where you don''t need to take their cholesterol reducing medications nor does the edible oils industry which has been a primary force against natural animal based fats and has promoted the now dispproved theory that eating good meats, eggs and butter causes heart disease. Most people don''t realize just how quickly most vegetable oils go rancid since the way they are produced there are virtually no natural preservatives in the oils to keep them stable. Meanwhile nutritionists keep telling you to consume these highly unnatural poly-unsaturated oils which go so readily rancid.

[punchline3]

The good news is they have fewer people who suffer from anorexia.

[rushman71]

Hey, what do you expect? It''s too danm hot to go out for a walk.....to the end of the driveway!!!