A question that Republicans cannot and will not answer

Rightardia has mentioned this many times.

What states take more as recipient states form the federal government than they pay in taxes?

What states have the lowest incomes?

What states have the lowest literacy and highest high school drop out rates?

What states have high obesity rates, teen pregnancy and VD rates?

These, of course are the Red States.

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US is number three in the world

Rightardia has found an area in which the US is nearly the best country in the world for this. We give the Red States all of the credit for this amazing statistic.



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The South will never rise again, it's too fat.

Andrew Price on June 30, 2010 at 2:30 pm PDT

An update on our collective waistline: The Trust for America's Health has a new report out. It has a blunt title "F as in Fat," and the news isn't good. The map above shows America's obesity rates state by state which is in the 25 to 30 percent range.

To put that in perspective, in 1991, no state had an obesity rate higher than 20 percent. some researchers have attributed the problem to high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) which stimulates weight gain more than sucrose.

The Republicans put a tariff on imported sugar so the Archer-Midlands Corporation would be able to sell the domestic HFCS competitively. The process to make HFCS is nearly identical to the one that makes Ethanol.

The report also notes the relationship between income and weight: "35.3 percent of adults earning less than $15,000 per year were obese compared with 24.5 percent of adults earning $50,000 or more per year."

Part of the problem there is that a salad costs more than a Big Mac. So that's something to remedy. More cycling and walking would help, too.

Colorado has the lowest obesity rate at 19 percent. Apparently a year-round routine of uninterrupted mountain biking, rock climbing, and snowboarding more than offsets the side effects of the munchies.

The Southland will never rise again because it is too fat!

Not only is the South too fat, it's menfolk can get it up either to rise to the occasion. Two thirds of Americans have love handles. The extra weight hasn't hampered their interest in having a healthy sex life.

Research shows that overweight men are just as interested in sex as the next guy, but they may not be able to perform.

Experts say that 90 percent of erectile dysfunction is physical in origin, not psychological. In large-scale studies, nearly 80 percent of men who reported having erectile dysfunction were also overweight or obese.

This is why the South will never rise again. It can't get it up.

sources: http://www.good.is/post/this-is-where-you-re-fat/ and http://www.emaxhealth.com/52/2778.html

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Via Matt Yglesias

Study Reveals genetic cause of severe obesity in childhood

ScienceDaily (Dec. 6, 2009) — Scientists in Cambridge have discovered that the loss of a key segment of DNA can lead to severe childhood obesity. This is the first study to show that a genetic alteration can cause obesity. The results are published December 6 in Nature.

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The study, led by Dr Sadaf Farooqi from the University of Cambridge and Dr Matt Hurles from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, looked at 300 children with severe obesity.

The team scanned each child's entire genome looking for types of mutation known as copy number variants (CNVs). CNVs are large chunks of DNA either duplicated or deleted from our genes. Scientists believe this type of mutation may play an important role in genetic diseases.

By looking for CNVs that were unique in children with severe obesity, compared with over 7,000 controls (apparently healthy volunteers from the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium 2), they found that certain parts of the genome were missing in some patients with severe obesity.

According to Dr Farooqi: "We found that part of chromosome 16 can be deleted in some families, and that people with this deletion have severe obesity from a young age.

"Our results suggest that one particular gene on chromosome 16 called SH2B1 plays a key role in regulating weight and also in handling blood sugar levels. People with deletions involving this gene had a strong drive to eat and gained weight very easily."

Dr Matt Hurles adds: "This is the first evidence that copy number variants have been linked to a metabolic condition such as obesity. They are already known to cause other disorders such as autism and learning difficulties."

The findings also have implications for diagnosing severe childhood obesity, which has on occasion been misattributed to abuse. Some of the children in the study had been formally placed on the Social Services 'at risk' register on the assumption that the parents were deliberately overfeeding their children and causing their severe obesity. They have now been removed from the register.

"This study shows that severe obesity is a serious medical issue that deserves scientific investigation," says Dr Farooqi. "It adds to the growing weight of evidence that a wide range of genetic variants can produce a strong drive to eat. We hope that this will alter attitudes and practices amongst those with professional responsibility for the health and well-being of children."

Obesity is increasing throughout the world and is now recognised as a major global public health concern. Although the increased prevalence of obesity over the past 30 years is undoubtedly driven by environmental factors, genetic factors play a major role in determining why some people are more likely to gain weight than others.

The study was funded by the Wellcome Trust.

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Adapted from materials provided by University of Cambridge, via EurekAlert!, a service of AAAS.

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