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Thursday, August 16th, 2012

Mississippi Most Obese State: Southern Diet or Culture on the Skids?

Author:     PATRIK JONSSON
Source:     The Christian Science Monitor
Publication Date:     14-Aug-12
 Link: Mississippi Most Obese State: Southern Diet or Culture on the Skids?
Stephan:   We are growing apart as a country. The difference between the red value states and the blue value ones seems to become more pronounced day by day. One thing is becoming increasingly clear. Living in red value states, particularly red value southern states is not good for your health. As a Virginian this makes me very sad.

ATLANTA — Fried catfish, hush puppies, piles of pork, shrimp po’boys – the delicacies of the South, as a recent obesity report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta seems to suggest, are also its enemy.

Southern states are, on par, the chubbiest (with Mississippi topping the list for the sixth year with 1 in 3 adults technically obese).

Most curiously, while the Southern diet hasn’t really changed much, the percentage of Mississippians who are obese has more than doubled in the last 20 years, from 15 to 35 percent since 1991 – mirroring in large part what the CDC calls a ‘dramatic

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