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I think it's more due to lack of education on nutrition and lack of wealth to purpose healthier food options.
I doubt that considering how popular our foods are and how your educated, wealthy, and civilized cooking shows usually prepare a dish from New Orleans or another southern state. I mean 7 out of 10 times that fat guy with the highlights is making a cajun dish. I think you people up north too rich and spoiled to know anything about our lifestyle or our food. I've never had a meal up top that I couldnt get in New Orleans better
I doubt that considering how popular our foods are and how your educated, wealthy, and civilized cooking shows usually prepare a dish from New Orleans or another southern state. I mean 7 out of 10 times that fat guy with the highlights is making a cajun dish. I think you people up north too rich and spoiled to know anything about our lifestyle or our food. I've never had a meal up top that I couldnt get in New Orleans better
regardless of why the south is so obese.... it's not something brag about.
and yea stats like that certainly do enforce negative perceptions of the south.
also even if the food is really good... exercise???
regardless of why the south is so obese.... it's not something brag about.
and yea stats like that certainly do enforce negative perceptions of the south.
also even if the food is really good... exercise???
Washington DC is ranked as the most physically fit city in the country. Miami is one of the sexiest cities in the country and Austin, Texas was ranked as THE sexiest city in the country. Charlotte, Atlanta, and 7 other cities in Texas were ranked highly as the sexiest cities by Mens health. Most New England cities were ranked at the bottom of the list. They must do at least a little exercise if they're that sexy....maybe its just a lot of really sexy obsese people lol
I doubt that considering how popular our foods are and how your educated, wealthy, and civilized cooking shows usually prepare a dish from New Orleans or another southern state. I mean 7 out of 10 times that fat guy with the highlights is making a cajun dish. I think you people up north too rich and spoiled to know anything about our lifestyle or our food. I've never had a meal up top that I couldnt get in New Orleans better
NOLA does have great food. But it is not cosmopolitan. You cannot get good Mexican, Jewish deli, Greek, Chinese, Japanese, nor Sicilian style Italian food like you can in NYC, Chicago, LA, Boston.
It's common to incorrectly say north vs south. And it's also common to say, as you mentioned in your earlier post:
This is what I commented on initially to point out another common, yet incorrect statement about the Civil War. And as you did in each round of responses, you have included irrelevant information in the last post. I never said there were no northerners for the confederacy so there is no need to mention it. But I think you can finally see the point of my first post, so my work is done. I enjoyed our conversation.
the only incorrect statement you found in my comment of the civil war was that i said north and south, not union and confederacy. it's really pointless, as you knew what the hell i meant. the union were northern states and the confederacy were southern states. whether a few southerners joined the union army or a few northerners joined the confederacy had absolutely nothing to do with the point of my statement. the only reason you picked at it was because it was the ONLY thing you could pick at, either that or you're annoyingly politically correct.
I think it's more due to lack of education on nutrition and lack of wealth to purpose healthier food options.
lack of education on nutrition? give me a break. seems pretty informative to me, just as much so as any other department of education's curriculum outline;
alabama department of education health curriculum; "This curriculum guide for health education from kindergarten through high school contains course objectives, content outlines, resource suggestions, and classroom activities appropriate for each grade level. The following units of study are included: 1) consumer health, 2) dental health, 3) environmental health, 4) family health, 5) mental health, 6) nutrition, 7) personal health, 8) disease prevention, 9) safety, and 10) drug use."
as for wealth, that's not a very legit reason. the south's cost of living is much lower than that of a place like new jersey. the salaries down south are more in tone with the cost of living. $40,000 in the south could buy you a nice 4 bedroom house with a garage. $60,000 in connecticut will get you a 2 bedroom shack. gas is $3.59 p/gallon in birmingham, al. gas is $4.09 p/gallon in bridgeport, ct. i'd bet a loaf of bread is probably 0.20 cents cheaper or more on the dollar in birmingham over bridgeport.
the south is just a food loving place. chicago is a fat city because it is a food loving place. buffalo, ny is a fat city because it is a food loving place. cookouts are common down south and there will be tons of food. i went to a family reunion in nashville and you should've seen the stuff they whipped up. i'm in shape, i do landscaping so i have to be in shape, but it was like thanksgiving times 3.
the only incorrect statement you found in my comment of the civil war was that i said north and south, not union and confederacy. it's really pointless, as you knew what the hell i meant. the union were northern states and the confederacy were southern states. whether a few southerners joined the union army or a few northerners joined the confederacy had absolutely nothing to do with the point of my statement. the only reason you picked at it was because it was the ONLY thing you could pick at, either that or you're annoyingly politically correct.
I don't consider it pointless when referring to the union as the north discredits the role of southerners in the union victory. The union did not consist of northern states and the south southern states. The union consisted of all states. Again, it was not a few southerners that joined the union army. It was a substantial number that had a significant role in the union victory, including high ranking military officers and even the U.S. President. I am trying to be historically correct. I am not sure what political correctness has to do with the argument.
Washington DC is ranked as the most physically fit city in the country. Miami is one of the sexiest cities in the country and Austin, Texas was ranked as THE sexiest city in the country. Charlotte, Atlanta, and 7 other cities in Texas were ranked highly as the sexiest cities by Mens health. Most New England cities were ranked at the bottom of the list. They must do at least a little exercise if they're that sexy....maybe its just a lot of really sexy obsese people lol
i agree. there are tons of hot girls down south, and NOBODY in this country should be dogging the south based on obesity, i mean really.
Washington DC is ranked as the most physically fit city in the country. Miami is one of the sexiest cities in the country and Austin, Texas was ranked as THE sexiest city in the country. Charlotte, Atlanta, and 7 other cities in Texas were ranked highly as the sexiest cities by Mens health. Most New England cities were ranked at the bottom of the list. They must do at least a little exercise if they're that sexy....maybe its just a lot of really sexy obsese people lol
washington DC and Miami are southern geographically and that's about it. They are in no way shape or form "southern" other perhaps a slight twang in their accents.
Also who is doing these sexy rankings? could you do a ranking on something more subjective?
besides you can have a lot of sexy young women, but if they're all obese by the time they're 30 who cares?
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Originally Posted by jluke65780
Exactly. The south just simply has a higher obesity rate, but no region in this country needs to be bragging.
unbelievable. I cannot believe that in the most fit state in the country nearly a fifth of the people are obese! and one in three people in Mississippi are obese?!?!?!
Mind boggling.
totally agree, this whole country has a problem... not just the south.
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