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by debodun on July 1st, 2009

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A health report on Yahoo states that most obesity in the U.S. occurs in the deep south. Mississippi and Alabama head the list with over 30% of adults listed as being obese. What is it about the South that causes this?

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  • by Pecks bad boy on July 8th, 2009

    Pecks bad boy

    As a vegetarian and health conscious person, when traveling down south, I had a much harder time finding things I could eat. Everything was fried and very few vegetarian choices. Even hard to find salads. Most were just iceberg lettuce shredded cheese and croutons ewww.

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  • by bagicide stayed 10 months too long on July 1st, 2009

    bagicide stayed 10 months too long

    Fried chicken, fried fish, fried snapping turtle, fried everything. They also tend to drink a lot of pop or sweet tea in the heat. As the saying goes, sweet tea is the house wine of the south.

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  • by john pennington on July 1st, 2009

    john pennington

    Eating fast foods with a McDonalds just about on every corner.

    People in the south like foods high in fat.

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  • by jin jang on July 1st, 2009

    jin jang

    It seams the diet in those states consists of much deep fried meats,which include allot of fat as from pig meat.That combined with little exercise will cause obesity.Their menus and types of cooking foods,without deep frying,need to change.The thinnest state is Colorado.

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  • by yummy_mummy on July 1st, 2009

    yummy_mummy

    Fried chicken and beer.

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  • by Legend In Your Own Mind on July 8th, 2009

    Legend In Your Own Mind

    Eating like pigs will do it.. eating pigs might do it too.

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  • by Willi McC on July 8th, 2009

    Willi McC

    The heat most likely. Even a thin fella like myself can almost drop dead just trying to walk from the door of his house to his truck when the humidity is high in the southern summer. Imagine what that would be like if you were obese and tried to go for a walk - let alone for a jog. Come to think of it nobody i know jogs down here this far south in NM either. If the rattlers didn't getcha the javalinas would.

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  • by tomsims on July 1st, 2009

    tomsims

    Good food and warm hospitality.

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  • by Esteban-- Smart ass Pumpkin on July 1st, 2009

    Esteban-- Smart ass Pumpkin

    Bleached blondes, bad boys and beer.

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