On: Why Are Southerners So Fat?

[chwolfe]

We eat food that was appropriate when you worked outside for 12 hours a day. We also live in rural areas so you have to drive everywhere.

[kingkongrevenge → chwolfe]

The lifestyle hasn't really changed that much in 40 years but the waistlines have. It's not like everyone was out swinging pick axes all day in the 60s. They were driving around and often sitting in AC, just like now.