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Rural America Fatter Than Urban America
ABC News ^ | September 14, 2012 | DR. JULIELYNN WONG

Posted on 09/14/2012 7:39:18 PM PDT by La Lydia

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University professor to the people who pay her salary and provide her food: You yokels are too fat. We need to find ways to punish you. And you are too dumb to know how tall you are and how much you weigh. You young'uns better watch your back.
1 posted on 09/14/2012 7:39:23 PM PDT by La Lydia
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To: La Lydia

We can shoot straighter too.


2 posted on 09/14/2012 7:42:35 PM PDT by taterjay
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To: La Lydia

Rural people are also much much much smarter then urban people


3 posted on 09/14/2012 7:43:31 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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To: La Lydia
The rates of obesity were much higher than previously reported based on self-report...

My guess is that rural folk don't lie as much (to themselves or others.)

4 posted on 09/14/2012 7:44:31 PM PDT by torchthemummy (Calvin Coolidge - "Patriotism is looking out for yourself by looking out for your Country.")
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To: La Lydia

I think there is something to this study, but not in the way they’d like it to play: our cities are filling with “replacement Americans” (generally from Latin America and Asia) who are much “lighter” than the multigenerational welfare sows they are displacing in those cities (that have had their “cash-for-kids” program cut ff since the 1996 welfare reform - thus dramatically reducing their numbers).

Anyone who has actually been to the welfare reservations in the cities know there is no way even the heaviest “Wal-Mart types” can hold a candle to some of their urban counterparts raised on gubmint cheese and KFC.


5 posted on 09/14/2012 7:47:45 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: torchthemummy

You are correct.


6 posted on 09/14/2012 7:49:02 PM PDT by Delta 21 (Oh Crap !! Did I say that out loud ??!??)
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To: La Lydia

Lotsa problems here... what do they say is rural? The young boys around here are lean, mean fightin’ machines.

The real farm boys, that is. Not the town boys who don’t do sh_t except leave the couch to get a soda.


7 posted on 09/14/2012 7:52:02 PM PDT by One Name
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To: La Lydia

Bump for later


8 posted on 09/14/2012 7:52:02 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Ignorance is bliss- I'm stoked)
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To: La Lydia

I can almost smell the bacon that is for breakfast tomorrow.


9 posted on 09/14/2012 7:52:02 PM PDT by Delta 21 (Oh Crap !! Did I say that out loud ??!??)
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To: La Lydia

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10 posted on 09/14/2012 7:57:32 PM PDT by WorkingClassFilth (I'm for Churchill in 1940!)
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To: kearnyirish2

Possibly....I recall a sports story from the 1980’s though commenting on “Midwest (Brawn?) and Coastal Quickness.” Basically the linemen were farm boys and then the skill positions were urban kids.

I realize that’s not a valid cross-section though....


11 posted on 09/14/2012 8:05:31 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: scrabblehack

The females in the “urban kids” families can probably play as linemen; Midwest brawn has nothing on them (though the NCAA and NFL probably wouldn’t allow those scooters on the field).

I’m so jaded...


12 posted on 09/14/2012 8:09:06 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: La Lydia

From what I’ve read, inner city students also rate themselves as “smarter” than most students. I guess the the urban welfare recipients are smarter and slimmer than the nation as a whole.

On a similar note, am I the only person wondering why Michelle Obama and her ilk are forcing schools and New Yorkers to eat healthy and still allowing food stamp recipients to buy fatty cuts of meat, potato chips, etc., all on the tax payer dime - doesn’t seem quite right to me . . . .


13 posted on 09/14/2012 8:10:16 PM PDT by onevoter
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Urban American is more violent, criminal, and has a higher incidence of suicide. But, they are thinner....
14 posted on 09/14/2012 8:15:41 PM PDT by GOPJ (first they came for those clinging to their guns and religion, and I did not speak out....)
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Washington, D.C. is full of fat urbanites.


15 posted on 09/14/2012 8:35:49 PM PDT by La Lydia
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To: La Lydia
country folks were nearly one-fifth more likely to be obese compared to those living in cities.

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I suppose it all depends on what they mean by "cities."
Does 280,000 qualify?

16 posted on 09/14/2012 8:36:37 PM PDT by publius911 (Formerly Publius 6961, formerly jennsdad)
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To: La Lydia

Funny thing about the obese rural people ... I live way out in fly-over country and don’t see it that way. Matter of fact, while watching the kids at the state fair dairy cattle show I noticed a trend. Of the 50 or so participants from all over the state ... only one was noticeably overweight.

There’s some genetics involved, too. My most active kid helps his dad on the farm, mows our yard and our in-laws’, worked with 4-H calves, worked at the neighbor’s tree nursery, took care of a big garden all summer ... he’s kind of big.

His teen-age sister, who spends an awful lot of time on the computer or watching TV, is basically a stick. The youngest is in between the two extremes. Go figure ...


17 posted on 09/14/2012 8:37:02 PM PDT by Cloverfarm (This too shall pass ...)
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Urban American has a higher incidence of suicide.

Rural Suicides Far Exceed Urban Suicides

Suicide rates are on the rise in rural areas, according to a new study. Compared to urban areas, rural men are committing suicide 54% more often.

http://www.planetizen.com/node/40894

suicides occur at a higher rate in rural areas than in cities or suburbs, with the rate rising steadily the more rural the community.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/13/health/13rural.html?_r=0

18 posted on 09/14/2012 8:37:41 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: La Lydia

Another reason for UN Agenda 21....It is for our health.


19 posted on 09/14/2012 8:38:13 PM PDT by MtnClimber (I did not vote for Zero. Someone else did that.)
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To: MNJohnnie
Rural people are also much much much smarter then urban people

HEY!

20 posted on 09/14/2012 8:38:55 PM PDT by publius911 (Formerly Publius 6961, formerly jennsdad)
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