Why are so many southerners fat?

Question

I get it that you all like your fried foods, but how about some exercise to burn it off?

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W. Virginia town shrugs at poorest health ranking
Walden is a third generation physician in the area, but he's also traveled extensively around the world. He says it's always a little jolting coming home and realizing how obese his hometown is compared to the rest of the world.

"I don't know that I've ever been in a place where I've seen so many overweight people," he said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081116/ap_o…

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Darwin,

I hear they fry twinkies and choclate bars too. Yuck!

Answer 1

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They drive everywhere, even to the mailbox
There are no sidewalks for casual walking and unlike big cities they do not socialize enough - there is no competition for slimmest and trimmest.
BTW Texans are fattest

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NYer relocated to SC

Answer 2

HAHAHA, I live in the second thinnest state in the union. I wouldn't know lol. ;)

Answer 3

First, why is this in elections.
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Second, Good food.
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Third, I am blue as you can get, but the reds can not help their problems....being fat is the least of their worries, uneducated would be top priority. These are the reps..
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Last, not all "fat" southerners voted Mccain, I live in the South, I'm over weight, but am educated, and voted for Obama.

Answer 4

This question belongs in the health section. Your political bias is showing.

Answer 5

They probably don't exercise properly.

Answer 6

Fried Chicken
Biscuits & Gravy
Collards with Bacon
Fried Green Tomatoes
Warm Cornbread
Homemade Banana Pudding
Sweet Tea
Chocolate Pie
BBQ Pork Ribs

What's not to love?

Answer 7

It is the just the lifestyle and the food that they eat. Fried everything, will do that to you.

Answer 8

Because we do not have Union meetings to attend nor do we have any Union dues that forces us to work another job. However, this will turn around, since all the companies are moving to the south from the Union heavy north.

Unions had their place in the 1930's but not today.

Source(s):

http://trusttruth.com

Answer 9

They fry everything including ice cream.

Answer 10

the diet is meant to taste good not be good for you, most everything is fried , even veggies. lots of cakes and other sweets and the less money in the family the less the women and kids exercise. The TV is the main entertainment. and maybe there have a gene that is inclined to overweight. but you are right the problem is worse in the south than just about anywhere else

Answer 11

I don't consider West Virginia the South.....they formed their own state during the Civil War and they were with the Union....geographically, they aren't really the South either....plus the whole country is overweight, not just one region....

Man, people really pick on the South..and that seems to be okay...isn't it time for a change??

Answer 12

Why are so many Northerners gay? and wimpy!!!!!!

Answer 13

Southerners eat dirt, which is very fattening.

Answer 14

Have you been living under a rock? The whole damn U.S. is obese, not just the south!

I'm a Florida resident and I'm not fat, thank you very much!

Answer 15

This must be a crack at Republicans again. So much for your "tolerance" for people different than you. I live in the north east and not all are skinny.

Answer 16

New York Congressman Gerrold Nadler:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/images/elect…

I was never sure what Teddy Kennedy's problem was, but we can all be comforted with the knowledge that the Kennedy's can afford the gas bill when he's cremated.

Answer 17

You sound like a stupid yankee that's never been down south. Get an opinion of your own & stop reading crap to get attention on Y/A . In other words, get a girlfriend or better - a life. Education is a too fine a thing to waste & you are a prime example of deficiency.

Answer 18

I never could figure that out either, I live in California and we have a gym on practically every corner. You always see people out walking, jogging and doing yoga in parks everywhere. When I went to Georgia to visit my aunt, finding a gym was like finding a needle in a haystack! And I agree about the fried twinkies and chocolate bars. That is just asking for clogged arteries. I love southern food too, but I know my limits and that is not the way to eat everyday.

Answer 19

I am 5'11 and 165
25 yr old

Answer 20

Because in the south we know to ask "Are you phat or are you NOT"
(also it less cold.)