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Statistics show that the "stroke belt" is also where you have the highest likelihood (in the US) of dying of cardiovascular and lower respiratory disease (smoking), cancer and accidents. Obesity, diabetes and metabolic syndrome are probable causes, but what about accidents? Why do southerners have the most accidents? Bless their dangerous little hearts....
SOURCE
http://consumer.healthday.com/cardiovascular-health-information-20/heart-attack-news-357/southeastern-states-have-highest-number-of-preventable-deaths-687436.html
SOURCE
http://consumer.healthday.com/cardiovascular-health-information-20/heart-attack-news-357/southeastern-states-have-highest-number-of-preventable-deaths-687436.html
http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/trends.html
You can check out the progress of America's increasing BMI by state, since 1985, on this govt page. The South leads the charge.
Colorado is the Rocky Mountain holdout but they are sliding too.
You can check out the progress of America's increasing BMI by state, since 1985, on this govt page. The South leads the charge.
Colorado is the Rocky Mountain holdout but they are sliding too.
http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/video/kayakers_plunge_90_feet_over_waterfall/#62943
Notice how the first guy takes a stroke about halfway down the falls. And the rest all toss their paddles before hitting the bottom. Notice also how big the grins are. Nothing like putting your life on the line to make you realize how happy you are to be alive. Gotta have a good hand roll to consider this an option. And huevos.
Notice how the first guy takes a stroke about halfway down the falls. And the rest all toss their paddles before hitting the bottom. Notice also how big the grins are. Nothing like putting your life on the line to make you realize how happy you are to be alive. Gotta have a good hand roll to consider this an option. And huevos.
Here I am eating my eggs and grits, and Suzanne is reading the headlines to me. Mexico drug wars: five human heads in a cooler. Germany: man in military garb opens fire at secondary school. The leading line in that story was that it looked like something that would happen in America. Alabama: 27 year old man with an Irish last name kills his whole family plus a few. The only survivor was 4 months old. If the news is right. Every source has a slightly different story.
Grits and garlic still taste good. I'm comfortable in my large apartment just blocks from the homeless hangout by the tracks. But the insanity is at our door. The desperation is building. I wonder about the Alabama man. Why kill one's entire family? That angry? Or could it have been in part a mercy killing? The news says that he was a mild mannered nice fellow. Being nice on the surface does not mean a person is happy on the inside. Times are hard and getting harder. More people are going to loose it. Drugs will be increasingly valuable. And porn. I read last night that one of the few markets that is showing great gains is the "adult entertainment" sector. This is just the end of the beginning.
Grits and garlic still taste good. I'm comfortable in my large apartment just blocks from the homeless hangout by the tracks. But the insanity is at our door. The desperation is building. I wonder about the Alabama man. Why kill one's entire family? That angry? Or could it have been in part a mercy killing? The news says that he was a mild mannered nice fellow. Being nice on the surface does not mean a person is happy on the inside. Times are hard and getting harder. More people are going to loose it. Drugs will be increasingly valuable. And porn. I read last night that one of the few markets that is showing great gains is the "adult entertainment" sector. This is just the end of the beginning.
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