Not buying this. The Mediterranean is hot, it has better food than Southern US - and the people are not fat. People are fat because they allow themselves to be fat. Everything else is just an excuse.
Who would have thought that Southern Cooking would be fattening! Shocked!!!!! shit is the bomb though.
Typical Libertarian hogwash. Not every American child is lucky enough to have good parents, or even one good parent. Aside from children of bad parents, let's say 50 million as an estimate, there are roughly 3 million American children with no parents at all. I know you're not offering to raise them.
Then they shouldn't have kids. Simple. And you have no idea what I do to help less fortunate kids. I know it's foreign to someone like you who has never made an honest living, but you don't need the government to help raise kids.
The quite obvious flaw in this chart is the failure to account for different races of people, who on the average have quite different normal levels of body fat. One look at the map confirms this, as does comparing the levels of different countries with little ethnic diversity. As for the sprawl/driving more theory, people here in Beautiful Central Oregon are noticeably leaner and fitter than their urban counterparts, yet we routinely drive 60-100 miles to work and back or to the store or doctor. What we don't do is spend much time watching TV or playing video games. I suspect we drink much less alcohol also, and of course hike, bike, paddle, climb, run and swim a lot more.
Simple-minded maybe. I'm talking about the kids. They don't get a vote in whether they are born, or whether their parents are crackheads or stupid or working 3 jobs to feed and clothe them. I'm talking about the kids with nobody to tell them what is good for them. There are millions of them, will always be millions of them. Stop ducking the question. Who's going to teach them? WTF is that supposed to mean? Got something you want to get off your chest?
I will leave you all with 3 words I ate last weekend. Chicken fried bacon. Actually a few more. This was served with a side of gravy for dipping the chicken fried bacon. Truly, and I am not exagerating, one of the single best things I have ever tasted in my life.
Lots of families want to adopt kids. You worked for the government, retired early and now collect an outsized retirement package that the rest of us pay for. For a second career, you chose to be a a leech on the real estate process, driving the cost of homes up. You've never generated a profit for anyone but yourself. Don't be mad at me for the choices you've made. Own them. Take responsibility.