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Report: Americans Fatter in 37 States
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| 8/20/08
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Posted on 08/20/2008 10:53:25 AM PDT by redstates4ever
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"Fatter in 37 states? what about the other 20?"
"More fried chicken and hush puppies, please..."
To: reagan_fanatic; OESY; Thrownatbirth; Lady Jag; ShorelineMike; dead; Lucky9teen; PBRSTREETGANG; ...
“Report: Americans Fatter in 37 States” *ping*
To: redstates4ever
I’ve lost 25 pounds this year. Started riding my bike to work.
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posted on
08/20/2008 10:57:16 AM PDT
by
babble-on
To: redstates4ever
It really is a problem, not only in the States, but throughout the Western world. As much as I would like to crack a joke about this, or state that it’s everyone’s freedom to eat what they want (which happens to be true, by the way), that wouldn’t diminish the gravity of the situation.
I’m inclined to make a connection with the hugely successful campaign against smoking and the rise in obesity. Both in the end are oral addictions, and may even be ‘rewarded’ in the same brain centers (e.g. the so-called mesolimbic system).
If this were true, then, strange as it may sound, I’d call moderate smoking the lesser of the two evils. It doesn’t impair your life as much, the number of diseases contractable may be roughly equal, and perhaps one’s life expectancy is even longer in the case of moderate smoking.
But in the end, I don’t know. I’ll give it some more thought.
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posted on
08/20/2008 11:00:34 AM PDT
by
Apollo 13
To: redstates4ever
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posted on
08/20/2008 11:01:06 AM PDT
by
ETL
(Lots of REAL smoking-gun evidence on the ObamaRats at my Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl)
To: redstates4ever
Better a few pounds over than to be Starvin' Marvin in Ethiopia.
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posted on
08/20/2008 11:01:23 AM PDT
by
rabscuttle385
("When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat." Ronald Reagan)
To: redstates4ever
I’m guessing obesity rates and welfare/food stamp rolls go hand in hand.
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posted on
08/20/2008 11:06:50 AM PDT
by
Ron in Acreage
(Drill here. Drill now. Drill Paris.)
To: ETL
thats a diet coke right?
when i was a kid I worked at a supermarket and the fattest people would come through the checkoutline with carts full of junkfood and bottles of diet soda, I never understood it.
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posted on
08/20/2008 11:07:19 AM PDT
by
edzo4
To: redstates4ever
Although not good, of all the problems a country can have, (genocide, rebellion, disease, famine) being the fattest is the one problem I'd rather have.
Second only to being over sexed as a problem. :-)
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posted on
08/20/2008 11:09:10 AM PDT
by
lovecraft
(Specialization is for insects.)
To: babble-on
Ive lost 25 pounds this year... I found them.............
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posted on
08/20/2008 11:11:26 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(All that carbon in all that oil and coal was once in the atmosphere. We're just putting it back.....)
To: rabscuttle385
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posted on
08/20/2008 11:11:40 AM PDT
by
ETL
(Lots of REAL smoking-gun evidence on the ObamaRats at my Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl)
To: redstates4ever
"And Leon's getting LAAAAARGER!"
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posted on
08/20/2008 11:12:15 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
( This tag blank until football season.)
To: ETL
Dude, that picture reminds me of Sally Struthers.
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posted on
08/20/2008 11:14:00 AM PDT
by
rabscuttle385
("When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat." Ronald Reagan)
To: dfwgator
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posted on
08/20/2008 11:19:34 AM PDT
by
JRios1968
(I doubled the pressure in my Obamas, now my fuel gauge runs backwards and my tank is overflowing!)
To: dfwgator
Is that Ed ‘The Red’ Asner in that photo? He actually once admitted on Hannity and Colmes that he was a communist.
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posted on
08/20/2008 11:19:45 AM PDT
by
ETL
(Lots of REAL smoking-gun evidence on the ObamaRats at my Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl)
To: ETL
That’s from the movie Airplane!, Ed Asner wasn’t in it.
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posted on
08/20/2008 11:20:59 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
( This tag blank until football season.)
To: redstates4ever
I was gonna make a joke about people being fat in 53 states according to the Obama Campaign, but ya ruint it for me! :-D
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posted on
08/20/2008 11:21:52 AM PDT
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(Drill Here! Drill Now! Pay Less! Sign the petition at http://www.americansolutions.com/)
To: babble-on
Ive lost 25 pounds this year. Started riding my bike to work.Lucky you. I started going to the gym 3 times a week in January, ate more fruit and vegetables and whole grains, and less meat and processed grains, and started riding my bike to work 2-3 days a week last month. How much weight have I lost? Zero. And I'm supposedly 40 pounds overweight by BMI.
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posted on
08/20/2008 11:23:50 AM PDT
by
dan1123
(If you want to find a person's true religion, ask them what makes them a "good person".)
To: Eric Blair 2084; Madame Dufarge; GOP_Lady
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posted on
08/20/2008 11:24:15 AM PDT
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(Drill Here! Drill Now! Pay Less! Sign the petition at http://www.americansolutions.com/)
To: redstates4ever
Americans Fatter in 37 States 38 when this guy shows up at in Denver:
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