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CDC Report Says Mississippi Is Most Obese

Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee lead the nation when it comes to obesity, a new government survey reported Thursday.

More than 30 percent of adults in each of the states tipped the scales enough to ensure the South remains the nation’s fattest region.

Colorado was the least obese, with about 19 percent fitting that category in a random telephone survey last year by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The 2007 findings are similar to results from the same survey the three previous years. Mississippi has had the highest obesity rate every year since 2004. But Alabama, Tennessee, West Virginia and Louisiana have also clustered near the top of the list, often so close that the difference between their rates and Mississippi’s may not be statistically significant.

Why is the South so heavy? The traditional Southern diet – high in fat and fried food – may be part of the answer, said Dr. William Dietz, who heads CDC’s nutrition, physical activity and obesity division.

The South also has a large concentration of rural residents and black women – two groups that tend to have higher obesity rates, he said.

Colorado, meanwhile, is a state with a reputation for exercise. It has plentiful biking and hiking trails, and an elevation that causes the body to labor a bit more, Dietz said.

Obesity is based on the body mass index, a calculation using height and weight. A 5-foot, 9-inch adult who weighs 203 pounds would have a BMI of 30, which is considered the threshold for obesity.

CDC officials believe the telephone survey of 350,000 adults offers conservative estimates of obesity rates, because it’s based on what respondents said about their height and weight. Men commonly overstate their height and women often lowball their weight, health experts say.

“The heavier you are, the more you underestimate your weight, probably because you don’t weigh yourself as often,” Dietz said.

Overall, about 26 percent of the respondents were obese, according to the study, published this week in CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

A different CDC survey – a gold-standard project in which researchers actually weigh and measure survey respondents – put the adult obesity rate at 34 percent in 2005 and 2006, the most recent years for which there are data.

Article by Mike Stobbe

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Perhaps The Most Twisted, Sadistic Cult Stories Ever

In Brno, Czech Republic, Kalra Mauerova, 31, is being accused of partially skinning her caged son and feeding it to relatives. She wept in court as she admitted torturing her son, Ondrej and his ten-year-old brother, Jakub. Ms. Mauerova, a member of the Grail Movement cult, caged Ondrej for months while relatives, also members of the cult, ate his raw flesh This is according to her testimony to a judge.

The court in Brno heard the family sexually abused the boys and forced them cut themselves with knives.The boys said they were either kept in cages or handcuffed to tables where they were left for days to stand in their own urine.

The abuse was discovered when a man living nearby installed a TV monitor to keep watch on his newborn baby. Instead of pictures of his newborn he was confronted by live images of Ondrej naked in the cellar – beaten and chained.

Mauerova is believed to have installed the monitor so she could watch her victims suffering from her kitchen. Ms Mauerova accused a fellow cult member, Barbora Skrlova, of brainwashing her. The abuse of Ondrej and Jakub was co-ordinated via text messages sent by a leader of the Grail Movement cult, who was known only as the “Doctor”.

The trial of Mauerova, another relative and their bogus sister Skrlova, who fled and was later found posing as a boy in Norway, continues.

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McDonald’s Fast Food – The Ultimate Diet?

A man in Virginia lost about 80 pounds in six months by eating almost all of his meals at McDonald’s.
t is not what you are thinking. This is not someone out to disprove that movie “Supersize Me”. Instead of the greasy burgers and toxic french fries, he mostly ate salads, wraps and apple dippers without the caramel sauce.

Chris Coleson once weighed approximately 278 pounds in December. The 5’8″ Coleson now weighs about 199 pounds, and his waist size has shrunk from 50 to 36.

The 42-year-old businessman from Quinton says he chose McDonald’s because it’s convenient.

Coleson says his inspiration came from his two children and from the story of a blind war veteran who rode a tandem bicycle cross-country.

Coleson says his goal is to get back to the 185 pounds he weighed when he married his wife, Tricia Summer. Their 10th anniversary is Saturday, June 21st.

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