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Post subject: America Grows... Around the waist
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http://content.health.msn.com/content/article/57/66201.htm
Seems that the east side has ALL of the top ten fat cities... While with the exception of Virginia Beach, all the top ten fit cities are on the west side- and my hometown is #1! 
Wonder why that is? Better weather on the coast so more people swim/surf/ski/etc? Or is it really the humidity? ...Or are we just plain better than the east side?
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 Sat Jan 04, 2003 3:25 pm |
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I don't care cause i'm one of the few underweight people in this country.
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| Sat Jan 04, 2003 4:49 pm |
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I'd say we're just better. My cities #5 on da fitness. Sweeeeet.
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| Sat Jan 04, 2003 4:51 pm |
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I think it's just a matter of stress. The western U.S. has a higher rate of population growth, so higher job competition should follow. Thus, Westerners have to worry more about their jobs, which keeps their metabolism in high gear, thus burning more calories. The East coast, however, is more established socially, so many people don't have to worry as much. They are less fat than westerners.
Finally, the Midwest is farm country. Farmers are not fat, but with modern technology, they don't need many people per acre. Thus, the rural Midwest is skinny, but they don't show up as cities. Meanwhile, the Midwestern cities (for the most part) are less well-established than the East, but less competitive than the West. Thus, a lot of people get to sit on their duff, but haven't been weeded out.
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| Sat Jan 04, 2003 8:47 pm |
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Why do people decry these "fat epidemics." It's just a lot of people being in a situation and lifestyle that leads them to be fat. Why talk about it, though--each person must take care of themselves individually; it's not like there's some country-wide, every person fix.
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| Sat Jan 04, 2003 9:55 pm |
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My brother went to a stand-up show the other night, and one of the guys was talking about the "obesity epidemic." His routine had lines like: "Every generation has had its own epidemic: polio, cancer, AIDS. And we get the 'obesity epidemic.' Years from now our kids are going to ask us stuff like, 'Grandpa, how did you live through the obisity epidemic?' 'Oh, Timmy, it was tough. There were eclairs and bon bons and McDonalds everywhere! You couldn't take a step without having a Hershey's bar shoved down your throat.'"
These studies make being overweight sound like having pnemonia or the hanta virus. People have been fat from the beginning of time, and people will be fat well after we've depleted this planet's resources and blasted off into space to look for another mudball to suck dry. You see the pressure to be thin everywhere in the media, from fitness commercials to Cosmo. I'm waiting for the day when Earth's next ice age comes around (and it will, just ask any geologist) and all the people who spent their lives sliming away their body fat to 0% are going to freeze to death. We'll all probably be dead from old age when that time comes, but I'm going to be laughing my dead, bony ass off from beyond the grave.
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| Sun Jan 05, 2003 1:10 am |
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| John_Bono_Smithy_Satchmo wrote: |
| Why do people decry these "fat epidemics." It's just a lot of people being in a situation and lifestyle that leads them to be fat. Why talk about it, though--each person must take care of themselves individually; it's not like there's some country-wide, every person fix. |
sure there is... it['s called tweak.
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| Sun Jan 05, 2003 5:57 am |
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| Them rich kids in China are fat. We say nothing about that. |
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| Sun Jan 05, 2003 7:45 pm |
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That's because we're not china.
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| Sun Jan 05, 2003 10:18 pm |
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| is this where we tell everyone how much weight we've gained? I've gained five pounds this year, the first time I've gained weight in a year since high school...just call me Tubby McFatFat from now on |
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| Mon Jan 06, 2003 7:55 am |
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| I'm thin. I've always prided myself on not having a total beer belly. But to look around, you see far fewer. At least they can sue McDonald's. |
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| Mon Jan 06, 2003 3:50 pm |
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but beer is so tastey.... hmmm.... meals in a can.....
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| Mon Jan 06, 2003 6:21 pm |
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I don't think they visited Zephyrhills.. cause we get all the "snowbirds" in the winter turning Florida into Neo Michigan. I swear, you can't walk down the isles in walmart without getting rammed into a shelf. I also think we are they city with the worst drivers, and worst 24/7 mood. Those people are just plain MEAN.
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| Tue Jan 07, 2003 11:02 am |
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easy solution is don['t shop at walmart... walmart's crap anyway.
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| Tue Jan 07, 2003 12:34 pm |
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Walmart or K-Mart.. I know, lets buy the rest of Martha Stewarts stuff befor they rip it off the shelves!!111. Thats why I go to walmart. Better game selection, and no martha.
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