Giant Dome To Be Built Over Entire City of Houston

[BeBMan]

Giant dome? Did someone resurrect Albert Speer?

[Docfeelgood]

Mississippi's still fattest but Alabama closing in


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090701/...esity_rankings

_Mississippi had the highest rate of adult obesity, 32.5 percent, for the fifth year in a row.

_Three additional states now have adult obesity rates above 30 percent, including Alabama, 31.2 percent; West Virginia, 31.1 percent; and Tennessee, 30.2 percent.

_Colorado had the lowest rate of obese adults, at 18.9 percent, followed by Massachusetts, 21.2 percent; and Connecticut, 21.3 percent.

_Mississippi also had the highest rate of overweight and obese children, at 44.4 percent. It's followed by Arkansas, 37.5 percent; and Georgia, 37.3 percent.

_Following Alabama, Michigan ranks No. 2 with the most obese 55- to 64-year-olds, 36 percent. Colorado has the lowest rate, 21.8 percent.

nothing about Texas

[Dis]

all redneck areas. big surprise.

Though my city is starting to get alot of fatties. But we have alot of thinnies as well (strippers etc.)

Now don't take offense. But I can't see being fat. I maxed out at 182 and I was disgusted with myself. I lost 50 pounds. Gained a few back, but as muscle. I'm at 148 now.

What bothers me is people think fat is like being gay, and it should be accepted. As I mentioned I mean no offense. For any posters who are fat, I suggest getting the surgery. Yes there is risk, but there is risk in being fat as well.

Most of the fat are poor, and many complain they don't have money for the surgery. But think of all the money you'd save on food. So I'm not really buying that excuse.

Which leads me to another rant I used to make. The poor in the U.S. are fat, not starving. I always like to bring that up when people say the poor are starving to death in the U.S. Only people starving are kids abused by their parents.

[classical_hero]

Are they going to make a "better grand canyon"?