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It's Official: Jackson, MS is the Fattest City in America

haymarket said:
While I have never been to Jackson - I have been to Memphis. They are the home of Gus's Fried Chicken. And if that contributed to the weight of the citizenry - it is well worth it. Best chicken in the world!!!!!
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People tend to be fatest where the food is the bestest.
 
poweRob said:
People tend to be fatest where the food is the bestest.
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I find that it's just the opposite. People tend to be fattest just because there's a habit of eating fattening foods as a pastime. People in places where the food is really good, they tend to "dine" and enjoy their food as part of a lifestyle of good living, including exercising, socializing, enjoying a little art and reading, etc.

Highly processed foods have chemicals in them that increase the appetite to make you want more (like the potato chip effect). And that's what the fattest people eat. Let's face it: you don't get fat by eating too many apples and oranges.

I grew up in the deep south. Yes, the food was good. But there is this thing where people are ALWAYS eating, and there is not much thought given to the health of it, the timing of it. That's sissy eating. "Green beans ain't good unless'n'there's bacon in 'em!" Sausage ain't good unless'n'there's pork in it and lots of fat! Finger lickin' good...that's what freshly fried cracklins are! (fried skin of pig) Why eat six of those, when there's still room for another one or two! Everything's better with white rice and white taters! Brown rice? High fiber bread? That's librul stuff....real men eat white bread! I love me some Ding Dongs, damn!

Not everyone. But enough.
 
DifferentDrummr said:
Fried foods are why Jackson is fat.

When a high percentage of eligible voters tends to vote for party X, but the local tallies always come out for party Y, there's more than just the stench of rotten food in the air...
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Not enough moving around is a part of it, too

Clinton took Hinds County with 71%. Y'all really need to stop crying about the election.
 
JumpinJack said:
Jackson has received the #1 spot on a list of the fattest cities in America, by WalletHub.com.

It's the #1 city for diabetes and #4 for percentage of adults with high blood pressure.

WalletHub’s report compared 100 of the most populated U.S. metro areas across 17 key indicators of weight-related problems.

#2 city was Memphis.
#3 fattest city was Little Rock.
#4 was McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX
#5 was Shreveport-Bossier City, LA


https://wallethub.com/edu/fattest-cities-in-america/10532/
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You really need to explore more southern food to understand the obesity problem, it is too damn good to put the fork down.
 
Why are these Jacksonians so porky?

You hardly see any fat people in European cities (except in the UK, which is full of porkers), yet they have access to exactly the same foods and lifestyles. It's not as though Europeans are primitives out farming all day and have no access to tv/internet and fast foods. Yet a walk around almost any city will show you that correct body weight is still the norm. What's going on in Merka?
 
RickJames3000 said:
Obviously you have no idea about what a metro area entails.
Give it up. Your argument has no merit.
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You haven't presented a single fact. I will give up as I have no use wasting my time with willfully ignorant trolls, not because they are correct about everything, or so far as I can tell, anything at all. That is why the site has features to deal with such people.
 
backpacker said:
You haven't presented a single fact. I will give up as I have no use wasting my time with willfully ignorant trolls, not because they are correct about everything, or so far as I can tell, anything at all. That is why the site has features to deal with such people.
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I understand. Having your argument exposed is probably very trying for you.
Go get some rest.
 
evaporate said:
Why are these Jacksonians so porky?

You hardly see any fat people in European cities (except in the UK, which is full of porkers), yet they have access to exactly the same foods and lifestyles. It's not as though Europeans are primitives out farming all day and have no access to tv/internet and fast foods. Yet a walk around almost any city will show you that correct body weight is still the norm. What's going on in Merka?
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There are a lot of fat Germans, but other Europeans, not so much.

The reason, I suspect, has a lot to do with how often these people drive cars (or don't). When you get around mostly on bicycles and/or public transit, you're not as likely to get fat.
 
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