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Everyone but Southerners are a bunch of fat liars

PostPosted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 2:37 am
by BigBallinStalin

Re: Everyone but Southerners are a bunch of fat liars

PostPosted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 2:40 am
by Symmetry
BigBallinStalin wrote:http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2013/04/people_in_the_south_are_not_so.html#incart_river_default

It's true.


Yay- a fat Americans thread. :roll:

Re: Everyone but Southerners are a bunch of fat liars

PostPosted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 2:51 am
by ooge
University of Alabama at Birmingham study suggests????? well it must be true then :roll:

Re: Everyone but Southerners are a bunch of fat liars

PostPosted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 2:54 am
by BigBallinStalin
Oh, they can't stand it!

Re: Everyone but Southerners are a bunch of fat liars

PostPosted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 7:24 am
by thegreekdog
41% obesity and 31% obesity? Woah.

Re: Everyone but Southerners are a bunch of fat liars

PostPosted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 7:27 am
by Haggis_McMutton
My favourite obesity chart:

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They're running out of colours, people!

Re: Everyone but Southerners are a bunch of fat liars

PostPosted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 5:05 pm
by BigBallinStalin
Haggis_McMutton wrote:My favourite obesity chart:

Image

They're running out of colours, people!


LIES!

See:
But the UAB researchers found that when people were actually weighed, the numbers didn't add up.

Mississippi was fourth and Alabama was in the middle of the pack, Howard said.


By comparing the BRFSS self-reported weight data with the REGARDS scale-weight data, researchers found that most everyone fudges, or underreports, their weight when asked on a telephone.

Turns out that Southerners fudge less, he said.


In the telephone survey results, the East South Central region, which includes Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee and Kentucky, ranked highest. But when weighed, that southern region ranked fifth.

Re: Everyone but Southerners are a bunch of fat liars

PostPosted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 6:21 pm
by Haggis_McMutton
BigBallinStalin wrote:LIES!

See:
But the UAB researchers found that when people were actually weighed, the numbers didn't add up.

Mississippi was fourth and Alabama was in the middle of the pack, Howard said.


By comparing the BRFSS self-reported weight data with the REGARDS scale-weight data, researchers found that most everyone fudges, or underreports, their weight when asked on a telephone.

Turns out that Southerners fudge less, he said.


In the telephone survey results, the East South Central region, which includes Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee and Kentucky, ranked highest. But when weighed, that southern region ranked fifth.


Yeah, but unless the rate at which people lie has changed in the past 20 years, the general trend still stands.

Re: Everyone but Southerners are a bunch of fat liars

PostPosted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 9:00 pm
by BigBallinStalin
Haggis_McMutton wrote:
BigBallinStalin wrote:LIES!

See:
But the UAB researchers found that when people were actually weighed, the numbers didn't add up.

Mississippi was fourth and Alabama was in the middle of the pack, Howard said.


By comparing the BRFSS self-reported weight data with the REGARDS scale-weight data, researchers found that most everyone fudges, or underreports, their weight when asked on a telephone.

Turns out that Southerners fudge less, he said.


In the telephone survey results, the East South Central region, which includes Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee and Kentucky, ranked highest. But when weighed, that southern region ranked fifth.


Yeah, but unless the rate at which people lie has changed in the past 20 years, the general trend still stands.


Huh? The data on the reports were undervalued. After ascertaining the correct values, then they get a different ranking. The "general trend" relied on false data...

Re: Everyone but Southerners are a bunch of fat liars

PostPosted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 9:04 pm
by Lootifer
Haggis_McMutton wrote:My favourite obesity chart:

Image

They're running out of colours, people!

They could be just getting stronger/musclier.

It is quite easy to have a BMI that says you are overweight (24+ iirc) yet have a body fat content kicking around 10%.

Re: Everyone but Southerners are a bunch of fat liars

PostPosted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 1:24 am
by Haggis_McMutton
BigBallinStalin wrote:
Huh? The data on the reports were undervalued. After ascertaining the correct values, then they get a different ranking. The "general trend" relied on false data...



I mean people are still getting fatter. Every single region has gotten significantly fatter. Maybe they're less fat in the south or whatever, but unless back in 1985 people were lying 5x times more than now, then the average american still has gotten way fatter.

Re: Everyone but Southerners are a bunch of fat liars

PostPosted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 2:51 am
by john9blue
Haggis_McMutton wrote:My favourite obesity chart:

Image

They're running out of colours, people!


i like how it starts going from light to dark, then completely changes hue and starts over again.

because color wheels are for losers, amirite???

Re: Everyone but Southerners are a bunch of fat liars

PostPosted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 3:45 am
by BigBallinStalin
Haggis_McMutton wrote:
BigBallinStalin wrote:
Huh? The data on the reports were undervalued. After ascertaining the correct values, then they get a different ranking. The "general trend" relied on false data...



I mean people are still getting fatter. Every single region has gotten significantly fatter. Maybe they're less fat in the south or whatever, but unless back in 1985 people were lying 5x times more than now, then the average american still has gotten way fatter.


Oh, yeah, sure, but I'd like to inform everyone that people in the south are fat, upstanding citizens; whereas, people everywhere else in the US are fat liars. Carry on!

Re: Everyone but Southerners are a bunch of fat liars

PostPosted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 6:51 am
by ooge
"I did not have sexual relations...with that woman...miss Lewinsky" Bill Clinton. another of those truthful southerners :lol: :lol:

Re: Everyone but Southerners are a bunch of fat liars

PostPosted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 7:38 am
by thegreekdog
Lootifer wrote:
Haggis_McMutton wrote:My favourite obesity chart:

Image

They're running out of colours, people!

They could be just getting stronger/musclier.

It is quite easy to have a BMI that says you are overweight (24+ iirc) yet have a body fat content kicking around 10%.


I have the same BMI (like 27) now that I had my junior year in college. My body fat content in 2000 was about 12% to 15%. My body fat content now is much higher, although not measured.

Re: Everyone but Southerners are a bunch of fat liars

PostPosted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 4:01 pm
by Lootifer
I believe ther official term is "gone to seed" greekster.

And lol John.

Re: Everyone but Southerners are a bunch of fat liars

PostPosted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 7:11 pm
by notyou2
Blame the food producers. It is all their fault for putting all kinds of crap in our food at the insistence of their alien overlords. Our grocers are fattening us up for the alien dinner plates.

Pretty sure they are eating all the Americans first.

Re: Everyone but Southerners are a bunch of fat liars

PostPosted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 7:57 pm
by BigBallinStalin
notyou2 wrote:Blame the food producers. It is all their fault for putting all kinds of crap in our food at the insistence of their alien overlords. Our grocers are fattening us up for the alien dinner plates.

Pretty sure they are eating all the Americans first.


They're gonna hit those Islanders first. Got 50% levels of obesity over there.

Re: Everyone but Southerners are a bunch of fat liars

PostPosted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 10:09 pm
by Lootifer
f*ck yeah! Go 'Merica! Go Mehico! Go Kiwis!

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/ ... ld-is-fat/

Trifecta of CHUBS!

/highfive everyone

Re: Everyone but Southerners are a bunch of fat liars

PostPosted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 10:59 pm
by saxitoxin


With the exception of Mexico, I notice the 5 most obese nations in the world are the Five Eyes.

Are there genetic characteristics specific to English people or perhaps it has to do with English food? Perhaps it is the centrality of food in the English language (i.e. "Are you hungry for this victory?")

Re: Everyone but Southerners are a bunch of fat liars

PostPosted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 3:34 am
by Lootifer
'Cause we're all a bunch of rich lazy fuckwits.

edit: lol my BMI is 23. My target BMI is 25-26. Aiming for pre-obese yeaaaahhhh.

Re: Everyone but Southerners are a bunch of fat liars

PostPosted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 5:59 am
by AAFitz
After reading the article one could similarly deduce that Southerners didnt care enough about their obesity to even lie about it?

In RL a person has to do something physical or sacrifice something to lose weight, which takes effort, and quite a bit of effort for some.
In this case however, all the person had to do to drop ten pounds instantly was lie about it, and they were too damn lazy and too comfortable in their mass, to even put the effort into that. Its even worse than we previously thought, IMHO.

Re: Everyone but Southerners are a bunch of fat liars

PostPosted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 4:06 pm
by Lootifer
AAFitz wrote:After reading the article one could similarly deduce that Southerners didnt care enough about their obesity to even lie about it?

In RL a person has to do something physical or sacrifice something to lose weight, which takes effort, and quite a bit of effort for some.
In this case however, all the person had to do to drop ten pounds instantly was lie about it, and they were too damn lazy and too comfortable in their mass, to even put the effort into that. Its even worse than we previously thought, IMHO.

NICE IDENTIFICATION OF A CONFOUNDING FACTOR!! STICK THAT IN UR PIPE AND SMOKE IT BBS!

Re: Everyone but Southerners are a bunch of fat liars

PostPosted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 4:18 pm
by saxitoxin
Lootifer wrote:'lol my BMI is 23


Lootifer at last weekend's regatta

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Re: Everyone but Southerners are a bunch of fat liars

PostPosted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 6:40 pm
by Lootifer
Didnt hear your chubby chasing ass complain last weekend.