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Old 06-28-2012, 08:08 PM
 
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I don't know the truth to it. I lived in Minnesota for +17 years and in Houston for 1+ year.
I have met several more extreme obese people in Houston in 1 year than in my 17 years in Minnesota.
These are the people that I personally know, not just a stranger passer by.
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Old 06-28-2012, 09:56 PM
 
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I don't know the truth to it. I lived in Minnesota for +17 years and in Houston for 1+ year.
I have met several more extreme obese people in Houston in 1 year than in my 17 years in Minnesota.
These are the people that I personally know, not just a stranger passer by.
You'd think MN people would be pretty fat. It's so cold you stay inside. Inside, on the couch = food. Yet Houston is so hot people stay inside, couch, never push away from the table.
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Old 06-29-2012, 01:17 AM
 
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Well lets see, I'm not in an upper income bracket but I am at the gym 4-5 days per week. I don't think I am vain, turns out that although going to the gym isn't my favorite hobby, I like the way I feel healthwise and like what it does to my body appearance when I make it a routine hobby.
But the upper income people can afford the plastic surgeries, spas, designers morw yhan average person can.
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Old 06-29-2012, 02:14 PM
 
Location: Houston
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Aside from any evidence that Houstonians are vain or fat ... the fact is that Houston has a stereotyped image that writers and magazines can invoke when they wanna cook up junk articles w/o going to the trouble of gathering real data and analyzing it rationally. Houstonians may or may not be vainer or physically fatter that the rest of America, but America sure seems to be getting lazy and fat intellectually.
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Old 06-29-2012, 02:31 PM
 
Location: The Greater Houston Metro Area
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Aside from any evidence that Houstonians are vain or fat ... the fact is that Houston has a stereotyped image that writers and magazines can invoke when they wanna cook up junk articles w/o going to the trouble of gathering real data and analyzing it rationally. Houstonians may or may not be vainer or physically fatter that the rest of America, but America sure seems to be getting lazy and fat intellectually.
True!

Magazines have to fill up space to surround their ads. They usually don't hire Pulitzer winners to write that garbage - and never bother to verify.
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