Is everyone from Louisana fat?

[daneblazer]

I watched the Swamp People marathon over the holiday (awesome show btw) then watched the Saints game and every other fan they showed on tv was 400lbs. Is it just me or do they grow them large there? Maybe that's why half the state is below sea level?

[convick]

Shreveport is the biggest dump I ever been to, that much I know. To be fair, it is better than Jackson, MS!

Good food in Baton Rogue though..

[Emily_Haines]

It's not Louisiana............pretty much everyone in America is grotesquely obese

[Thunder Gulch]

I love Cajun/ Creole cooking, which is heavy on butter and salt. If I lived there, I'd be the same.

[ThaWoj]

we like to eat down here

i was born in chicago but live here now. everything is fried. even oreo cookies are put in the deep fryer
i think we are 49th or 50th in "healthiest state in america" lol

[bb_skoots]

Alot of the people here in Ohio are enormous. Obesity is becoming the norm.

[yisman]

Most Obese States
Alabama remained in second place, while Tennessee dropped from last year’s tie with Alabama down to fourth place. West Virginia rose from fourth place last year to third place this year. Kentucky rose from last year’s seventh place to tie with last year’s fifth fattest state, Louisiana.

Although Mississippi took first place in 2011 based on the three-year average used in the rankings, both its one-year overweight and its one-year obesity percentages fell in comparison to the previous year, while Alabama’s one-year figures rose. If this trend continues, Alabama may displace Mississippi as the fattest state within two years.

http://calorielab.com/news/2011/06/30/fattest-states-2011/

2010
Rank 2011
Rank State % Obese
2010 % Obese or
Overweight
2010 3-year
Obesity
Average % Obesity
Change Ranking
Change
1 1 Mississippi 34.5 68.8 34.4 0.6 0
2 2 Alabama 33.0 70.0 32.3 0.7 0
4 3 West Virginia 32.9 67.9 32.2 0.9 1
2 4 Tennessee 31.7 67.8 31.9 0.3 -2
7 5 Kentucky 31.8 67.5 31.5 1.0 2
5 5 Louisiana 31.7 66.4 31.5 0.3 0
6 7 Oklahoma 31.3 67.3 31.4 0.8 -1

[ttwarrior1]

yeh my kin folk

[daneblazer]

I love Cajun/ Creole cooking, which is heavy on butter and salt. If I lived there, I'd be the same.

Went to a Cajun place last night and probably ate a half gallon of butter. But it was soooo good.

[tokio]

the accent on that show . didnt realize the movie Waterboy is actually how they sound.

[DiggityDaggityDo]

I watched the Swamp People marathon over the holiday (awesome show btw) then watched the Saints game and every other fan they showed on tv was 400lbs. Is it just me or do they grow them large there? Maybe that's why half the state is below sea level?

Yeah, I think it's prety much a southern thing. Fat fukks everywhere.

[daneblazer]

They're back. Between Saints and Lsu it's close. I think the saints fans win this contest tho