You are some fat bastards, but not the fattest

Post #322,419 by drook 3/5/10 2:24:13 PM 3/5/10 2:24:43 PM Reply	You are some fat bastards, but not the fattest http://www.cdc.gov/m...html/mm5845a2.htm Check the chart at the bottom. Of course, those statistics were gathered before the dawn of the deep-fried slider. -- Drew Edited by drook March 5, 2010, 02:24:43 PM EST Expand All History
Post #322,431 by Ashton 3/5/10 4:32:50 PM Reply	MiCthulhu.. correlation may not be causality. They Say But it looks like more testimonial that the Civil War (er, the First one, but maybe also the Present beginning one) was a Huge Mistake. We shoulda let the crackers secede. By now they'd be the local teaching-lab: for getting Muricans prepared for the adjustment to Full Banana Republic folkways and mores (to complement the bankruptcy when it is formally declared.) I mean, I mean: ain't that darkest hued-territory ~~ an almost exact overlay on the Slave (and slavering) States du that jour, going right up to the borders!? (noticing for the later 'Nevada' ... and especially Las Vegas' county: the modern concentration point for CDO operators, bankers and those occasional amateur-gamblers/voyeurs/suckers.) (No wonder that photo-essay of Walmart Shoppers, some months back, was in da Souf == avoirdupois rhymes with I-slept-with-my-pa, maybe?) Gahhhh.. as they say.
Post #322,433 by Ashton 3/5/10 4:46:15 PM 3/5/10 4:47:08 PM Reply	Arggh-dupe; wrong arrow. But it looks like more testimonial that the Civil War (er, the First one, but maybe also the Present beginning one) was a Huge Mistake. We shoulda let the crackers secede. By now they'd be the local teaching-lab: for getting Muricans prepared for the adjustment to Full Banana Republic folkways and mores (to complement the bankruptcy when it is formally declared.) I mean, I mean: ain't that darkest hued-territory an almost exact overlay on the Slave (and slavering) States du that jour, going right up to the borders!? (noticing for the later 'Nevada' ... and especially Las Vegas' county: the modern concentration point for CDO operators, bankers and those occasional amateur-gamblers/voyeurs/suckers.) (No wonder that photo-essay of Walmart Shoppers, some months back, was in da Souf == avoirdupois rhymes with I-slept-with-my-pa, maybe?) Gahhhh.. as they say. Edited by Ashton March 5, 2010, 04:47:08 PM EST Expand All History
Post #322,436 by boxley 3/5/10 5:26:54 PM Reply	naw, its yer yankee finger, here have a southron one :-) If we torture the data long enough, it will confess. (Ronald Coase, Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences, 1991)
Post #322,450 by mhuber 3/6/10 2:10:08 AM Reply	Obesity MINUS diabetes I notice that some states (WI, MN, in particular) have high obesity but low diabetes. Fat but healthy? Cheese consumption, maybe?
Post #322,456 by Another Scott 3/6/10 7:57:40 AM Reply	Eastern European stock somehow a factor? Dunno.
Post #322,458 by boxley 3/6/10 8:53:30 AM Reply	stocky !=obesity it may be genetic If we torture the data long enough, it will confess. (Ronald Coase, Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences, 1991)
Post #322,512 by Mycroft_Holmes_Iv 3/7/10 9:57:01 PM Reply	Yes and no... Genetics plays a role in Type I && II (but not in gestational or (sometimes) ones involving injury. Overweight can be a side effect of Diabetes...(and not eating right can affect you getting Type II diabetes) I know diabetics (who don't handle their sugars properly) who have gotten heavily overweight. I know others who have watched their weight and reversed diabetes. But my Grandfather was rail-thin and had to take insulin the entire time I knew him. No hard and fast rules. It's a fun disease.
Post #322,466 by malraux 3/6/10 9:14:25 AM Reply	Seems odd... I seem to remember reading somewhere that diabetes had a higher incidence in Scandinavians. Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.

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