[The first county-by-county survey of obesity reflects past studies that show the rate of obesity is highest in the Southeast and Appalachia. High rates of obesity and diabetes were reported in more than 80 percent of counties in the Appalachian region that includes Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia, according to the new research from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]
http://www.rr.com/news/topic/article/rr ... most_obese

Top 5 counties come from only two states. Counties in the South are the most obese...

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"...they came down into the stands and asked if I knew how to do play by play. I said...No. But. I'll take a shot at it if you want".- Rick Jeanneret

I always wonder how much energy the body expends keeping warm. Certainly that could account for Northerners generally being thinner. I always noticed that if I'm outside for an extended period of time, I'm always more tired if it's been cold.

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Well, I hope winter comes soon, its been 1 year since I've been behind this desk and 45lbs. later, I went from 185 to 230. It doesn't help that the misses is plowin 3 meals a day down my gullet. (Thats right, its the "its not my fault" routine for me )
Please Mr. Winter, show up soon

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Lord Stanley's Cup is what its all about.
Mr. Pegula, your destiny awaits you sir.

obese = anyone fatter than me

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Oh lord, it's hard to be humble, when you're perfect in every way. I can't wait to look in the mirror, 'cause I get better looking each day. To know me is to love me, I must be a hell of a man. Oh lord, it's hard to be humble, but I'm doin' the best that I can.

I like that.

I'm going the other way. I dropped 20 pounds in the past 4 weeks, and still dropping.

Getting back to high school shape, baby! WOO!

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Wheelhouse

One thing I dislike is the message that being obese is all right... I don't mind the whole "these women are beautiful, too" part of it, but the part that it's perfectly acceptable purely because it has become normal? Absolutely not. It's even worse than smoking, and in glossing over it the health risks are completely ignored. Obesity is beautiful, if you'd like to die at age fifty-three of a heart attack.

When I was a kid, I thought that Augustus on Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory was really chubby, and he truly was when that movie was filmed in the '70s and still was when I was a child. I watched that movie again recently and couldn't believe how not-fat-at-all he looked compared to when I was little, though he was supposed to be the token chubby kid. Shouldn't have changed since then.

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‎"Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."
-Khalil Gibran

Who is saying being obese is ok????

Sure, people say "full bodied" women, or women with curves is ok...because it is. And it's perfectly normal.

Obese is not.

Full figured:


Obese:


Subtle difference

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Hold my beer and watch this...

Obese women are saying that it's OK. A lot of talk shows and etc. are featuring women, too, that are legitimately obese and saying that they are full-figured, like in that first picture... No. Just, no. That woman is still healthy. Where they are is absolutely not. Changing language is bad. Vewy, vewy, bad.

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‎"Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."
-Khalil Gibran

Thanks for helping to educate me Crosscheck, I need all the help I can get - it seems a little clearer now, although i have suffered permanent retina damage

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Neil Young

Fuckin Teqiula, now I know what happened to my hip. Thanks Crosscheck

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Lord Stanley's Cup is what its all about.
Mr. Pegula, your destiny awaits you sir.

The difference in energy levels after sitting through a warm bills game as opposed to a cold one is pretty huge. Or after working in the field when it's cold out, I just feel beat down whereas if it's warm I just ache a little from whatever I did.

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Proud LGBTQQ Individual

I'm 5'7" 222lbs. of pure chicken wing fury, yet I'm officially certified hotter than Brad Pitt. Chicks dig the beer gut.

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Oh lord, it's hard to be humble, when you're perfect in every way. I can't wait to look in the mirror, 'cause I get better looking each day. To know me is to love me, I must be a hell of a man. Oh lord, it's hard to be humble, but I'm doin' the best that I can.

in addition:
-Smoking is far more dangerous than being fat.
-A fat ass , legs , arms isnt the problem. the belly fat is the dangerous one. in fact.

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HOCKEY IS BACK!

Just had to clarify that for you.

There are other things you can smoke that are far less dangerous than being fat... but may indirectly make you become fat, due to the munchies.

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Wheelhouse

The definition of obese needs some updating too.

I'm 6'2", 225 pounds. I'd like to move some of those pounds to other places, but that's a topic for another thread.

I'm technically borderline obese by the standard definition, and frankly that's nonsense. Those of you that I've met in person can attest to that.

Being obese from a young age is more dangerous than smoking from a young age, in terms of life expectancy.

And if you've got fat everything else, you're gonna have a fat belly. I've never seen an obese person with a trim waist.

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Miles to go before I sleep

‎"Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."
-Khalil Gibran

Borderline obese? We're the same weight despite a 7" height difference, which tells me you need to drink more beer and eat more wings. By the ETC definition, you're borderline anorexic!

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Oh lord, it's hard to be humble, when you're perfect in every way. I can't wait to look in the mirror, 'cause I get better looking each day. To know me is to love me, I must be a hell of a man. Oh lord, it's hard to be humble, but I'm doin' the best that I can.

The key is earning the belly. Nothing worse than dessert jiggle fat on some pear shaped dude who doesn't drink beer.

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Oh lord, it's hard to be humble, when you're perfect in every way. I can't wait to look in the mirror, 'cause I get better looking each day. To know me is to love me, I must be a hell of a man. Oh lord, it's hard to be humble, but I'm doin' the best that I can.

Trust me, I know. I've been fighting a cold for the last week, and I've lost about 10 pounds from where I normally am at. OJ and Nyquill just doesn't fill the void the way Labatt's Blue and a 20 spot of hot ones with extra bleu cheese does....

You're only 5'7 ETC?

The whole Obese thing is actually a misleading fact. They go with the perfect BMI.

Say someone is 6 foot and 220. Is that fat or obese. Most likely it is obese because that isn't the weight you should be being 6 foot tall, but is that person actually fat. They very well might not be because they are solid muscle. They are still big, but they are big from muscles.

They whole obese thing in America is sometimes wrong. If I were to work out and gain 40 pounds and be 190 at my age I would be considered obese also, but I wouldn't be at all.

They need to make it to morbidly obese as a problem, people who weigh well over 230or so is obese.

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