Anyone here from Mississippi? What do you think of this article?

Anyone here from Mississippi? What do you think of this article?Miss. ranked fattest state in nation
August 28, 2007 02:00:42 AM PST

Experts say Mississippians need to skip the gravy, say no to the fried pickles and start taking brisk walks to fight an epidemic of obesity.

According to a new study, this Deep South state is the fattest in the nation. The Trust for America's Health, a research group that focuses on disease prevention, says Mississippi is the first state where more than 30 percent of adults are considered obese.

Aside from making Mississippi the butt of late-night talk show jokes, the obesity epidemic has serious implications for public policy.

If current trends hold, the state could face enormous increases in the already significant costs of treating diabetes, heart disease and other ailments caused by the extra poundage.

"We've got a long way to go. We love fried chicken and fried anything and all the grease and fatback we can get in Mississippi," said Democratic state Rep. Steve Holland, chairman of the Public Health Committee.

Poverty and obesity often go hand in hand, doctors say, because poor families stretch their budgets by buying cheaper, processed foods that have higher fat content and lower nutritional value.

schildt2009
Fresh vegetables are actually pretty cheap. You can grow them for very cheap especially down south where you have a longer season. Nobody wants to dare mention the term 'laziness'.

Southern Comfort
well the3 south as a whole eats too much fried foods and we love our gravy biscuits beans and cornbread I am from georgia and we eat the same as miss. except for the crawdads

philbertpheinstein
Also, those "poor" Mississippi blacks don't like to work a lot, if at all. Setting on the porch your entire life does tend to make a person "poor" and fat..

John D
Let me finish my triple whopper, giant fries, apple pie and supersized diet coke and then I'll let you know.

Shae J
Ack! So Mississippi took over from Texas ! (No really - that was the last I'd heard in the polls...)

Start distributing the book "Fast Food Nation". Put me off french fries for months !

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