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Fat Elvis
August 29, 2007The favorite son of Tupelo, Mississippi may have had it coming one way or another.
Depending on what you believe caused Elvis to die on the toilet.... he probably would have had a massive heart attack anyways.
Mississippi is the fattest state in the union according to a new study by the Trust for America's Health.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - 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.
There are nearly 3 million people living in the "Deep South" of 'Ole Miss. That would mean nearly 1 million of them are obese.
Big shocker there.... they practically invented fried _____________ (chicken, okra, pie, etc.) They may have even started the fried turkey tradition in Mississippi. And who hasn't been to a catfish fry.
I know all about the fried culture of the great state of Mississippi. My mom's father comes from those parts and he can make some amazing fried chicken and catfish.
The story makes some intresting points though...up until this year, schools in Mississippi were not required to have P.E. time. This year, mandatory 150 minutes a week (or 1/2 an hour a day).
How on earth can you not have some kind of structured time where you run the kids around until they are tired?
I don't remember how long each day I was in PE in elementary school....but I remember Coach K. at Benbrook Elementary. He was everybody's stereotypical PE coach.
Grey coaching shorts up to his thighs.....grey shirt stretched across his huge back. He looked like a retired linebacker and he worked us until we fell down.
If he said start doing jumping jacks....you didn't wait to see how long he'd say to do them. You just started jumping.
And lunches... we never had soda machines in the elementary school. And my mom never gave me a canned soda to drink. It was always either tea, kool-aid or water. Usually kool-aid with about 1/2 the sugar it should have had.
Percentage wise...Mississippi probably has Texas beat on the overweight problem. But I'm pretty sure that Texas has a much larger number of people, including children, who are overweight.
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