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You mean to tell me that people in the south can't grow their own food,I mean it is the agrarian south.
I feel that people tend to fry their foods in the south more than any other part of the country using lard and cooking oils high in saturated fats.So I don't believe it it is a socioeconomic thing,its just we love our southern fried chicken,cornbread and hushpuppies.
You can be indigent and still be able to grow yourself a decent low-cost garden out back and eat healthy or more healthy than the rest of the country just so you don't fry your foods,so you can throw the socioeconomic thing out the window.
It is all about what you put in your mouth and how much exercise it entails after one eats. So it is about choice,
That is a very good question and I noticed the same thing when I went to the website that rated the states. I also noticed that most of the thin states are in very cold climates. Could it be that we use fewer calories to keep warm and like to eat anyway.
I have no idea why this was posted in the Nashville forum and am moving it to General US.
I guess I put it here because I live in Nashville and it's in the south but you're probably right, it's more of a General US question.
As far as the socioeconomic factors are concerned it may be part of the issue but in my home state of Montana there are a number of counties that are some of the poorest in the entire country and yet they don't have a higher percentage of overweight people (my sister lived in the poorest county in Montana for many years and there are very few people there who are obeise). I'm also not convinced by the idea that people who have to drive everywhere if they live in Nashville or the south and are therefore not getting enough exercise are getting fatter. Before I moved to Nashville I spent the last few years in Phoenix where you have to drive everywhere and Arizona is not one of the overweight states. To be honest I don't know what to think. It just seems a little weird that the southern states have the largest percentage of overweight people.
1. You almost never see anyone outside of there house exercising.
2. Fried food. One of their favorite activites is going to all you can stuff restaurants. Nothing else really to do around here so people go out and eat.
3. They drink tea loaded with sugar at every meal. If you look at how many calories and carbs are in one of those 32 oz drinks its a meal by itself.
I think the fried foods play a big part in the problem. There's not a lot of people eating fried stuff everyday in other locations. Yep, it's time to throw out those frying pans in the south. Light up the BBQ instead.
I don't know anyone who fries every meal. We fry some things here and there, fried chicken, chicken fried steak, etc...but it's in moderation. We grill out more than anything, and most people I know do too.
I would like to know the variation of a standard deviation statistical study between the weight differenes or the waist sizes between the regions of the country. The OP stated so much fatter,that doesn't give one a lot to go by. I would love to see that article.
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