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good lord! Green beans cooked in bacon? .
The thing though about the diet difference that doesn't sit quite right with me is that I see plenty of people eating fast food and eating junk food in large quantities and are eating at a breakneck speed up here. And we do love our Samuel Adams which is on the heavier side of beer. So I'm not completely convinced that is all diet.
Interesting post. Where I am now (not speaking for all of the south) NE Tennessee has too much barbeque and heavy steak meals. I don't eat fried food. To get decent seafood I have to drive an hour to a decent restaurant in Kingsport.
IMO its bad habits/lifestyle. This evening at the gym I was one of eight people there- If I were up north the gym would be packed (It only costs 100.00 for a whole year) .
My stbx's family all live in Virginia and within the last ten years, eat mostly ham and fatty foods. I guess it's a regional/cultural thing.
Good point, MiamiRob. A friend came to visit and remarked the same thing, NO walking areas and heavy traffic. We have alot of parks here, but only a few with any walking trails. So if one wants to walk they have to walk on the street around the park, makes NO sense at all. Don't know what the point is to building them and using taxpayer money! And everyone very obese here in this part of Texas anyway. However, there seems to be a gym on every corner, go figure...
I know the people I used to work with would eat breakfast before work, snack on cake at around 9am, lunch at 12, snack at 3 in the breakroom then be starving and run home for dinner by 5 and that was everyday.
From what I see in Tennessee its the lack of exercise and poor diet and other factors, Tennessee consumes more perscription drugs than any other state in the country and not by just a little bit, thats saying alot considering we only have a little over 7 million people in the whole state. Kinda hard to exercise on loritabs, paxil, mental illness drugs and all the other ones they consume.
I think its a perfect storm of a fatty diet and a sedentary lifestyle centered on motor vehicles. I have advised my friends who cook southern cuisine: Don't eat like a field hand if you don't work like a field hand!
Good point, MiamiRob. A friend came to visit and remarked the same thing, NO walking areas and heavy traffic. We have alot of parks here, but only a few with any walking trails. So if one wants to walk they have to walk on the street around the park, makes NO sense at all. Don't know what the point is to building them and using taxpayer money! And everyone very obese here in this part of Texas anyway. However, there seems to be a gym on every corner, go figure...
"Panhandle of Texas" what part? My hometown is Dumas....
Hard to say why southerner's are fatter. My grandmother from Appalachia lived to be 96. As long as I can remember she put a big hunk of lard in everything she cooked. And what a good cook she was. She stayed thin her whole life and so did my grandfather who took biscuits and gravy in his lunch bucket everyday. I was thin until I moved North. Then I put on over 50 pounds while I lived there. This is confusing, huh?
I know the people I used to work with would eat breakfast before work, snack on cake at around 9am, lunch at 12, snack at 3 in the breakroom then be starving and run home for dinner by 5 and that was everyday.
From what I see in Tennessee its the lack of exercise and poor diet and other factors, Tennessee consumes more perscription drugs than any other state in the country and not by just a little bit, thats saying alot considering we only have a little over 7 million people in the whole state. Kinda hard to exercise on loritabs, paxil, mental illness drugs and all the other ones they consume.
drugs for emotional problems have nothing to do with poor diet. People just have bad eating habits, and then add a sedentary lifestyle to this.
Up north, or in any city, a person walks alot more, gets exercise, and does'nt just drive to work and the mall.
I think its a perfect storm of a fatty diet and a sedentary lifestyle centered on motor vehicles. I have advised my friends who cook southern cuisine: Don't eat like a field hand if you don't work like a field hand!
I think you hit the nail on the head with that one - historically, people in the south, despite their rich and not-heart-healthy diet, expended a heckuva lot more calories in the good ol' days than they do nowadays. If it were diet alone, then the south would have been a land of fatties since the plantation days, no?
And $100 for a gym would get you about two months in Southern California, not a whole year. I envy you sunnyhelena, now that's a bargain!!
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