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<blockquote data-quote="PiedmontSteward" data-source="post: 1181977" data-attributes="member: 42270"><p>Not really. Systemic poverty generates many, many problems and obesity from poor nutrition is one of them. The South, which is solidly RTW, is still one of the poorest regions in the US today. 8/10 states with the highest rates for obesity are RTW states and amongst the poorest in the country. Here's a story from 2011 from USA Today: <a href="http://yourlife.usatoday.com/fitness-food/diet-nutrition/story/2011/07/Southerners-poor-have-highest-rates-of-obesity/49173468/1" target="_blank">- USATODAY.com</a></p><p></p><p>"The South still has the highest percentage of people who are too heavy. Nine of the 10 states with the highest obesity rates are in the South, the report says. Mississippi continues to be the state with the highest level of obesity at 34.4%; Colorado has the lowest rate at 19.8%. The South may be hit hardest by obesity because of high rates of poverty and a traditional diet that is unhealthy, Levi says." </p><p></p><p>"Nearly 34% of adults who earn less than $15,000 a year are obese, compared with 24.6% of those who earn more than $50,000 a year."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PiedmontSteward, post: 1181977, member: 42270"] Not really. Systemic poverty generates many, many problems and obesity from poor nutrition is one of them. The South, which is solidly RTW, is still one of the poorest regions in the US today. 8/10 states with the highest rates for obesity are RTW states and amongst the poorest in the country. Here's a story from 2011 from USA Today: [URL="http://yourlife.usatoday.com/fitness-food/diet-nutrition/story/2011/07/Southerners-poor-have-highest-rates-of-obesity/49173468/1"]- USATODAY.com[/URL] "The South still has the highest percentage of people who are too heavy. Nine of the 10 states with the highest obesity rates are in the South, the report says. Mississippi continues to be the state with the highest level of obesity at 34.4%; Colorado has the lowest rate at 19.8%. The South may be hit hardest by obesity because of high rates of poverty and a traditional diet that is unhealthy, Levi says." "Nearly 34% of adults who earn less than $15,000 a year are obese, compared with 24.6% of those who earn more than $50,000 a year." [/QUOTE]
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