. What's the correlation other than poverty contributes to obesity? Power plants in their back yards? Southern air? Yankee conspiracy? Lack of education? Old habits are hard to break?
Any thoughts?
Well, DUH!, its the Yankees of course!
Ever since the late unpleasentness the Yankees have been source of all of our problems....
But seriously I think its education, what you grow up eating, what people around you eat, and nowadays advertising.
I LOVE sawmill gravy. Take whole milk, mix it with fat from your breakfast sausage/bacon, add lots of salt and pepper. Pour copious amounts over biscuits made with butter or lard.
Course that is just a side dish for the eggs, bacon, sausage, hashbrowns and biscuits with jam. This is good food if you are walking behind a plow for four hours when you break for lunch. Not so good if you sit all day.
My wife's grandfather spent most of his life as a farmer behind a mule, not on a tractor. He, his brothers, and hired hands needed to fuel up. If you lived in a rural environment you had pigs. You ate pig fat. Chickens were expensive and you did not eat much of them. But you ate pigs. And what fat did people have? Pig fat. Tain't no EVOO at the little store down the road.
The other side of this is that its still a sin to waste food. You are told to clean your plate. Waste not, want not is what my granny always said. I have heard that all my life. My father grew up dirt poor and they cleaned their plates to get every scrap. That habit did not stop when he got older and could buy whatever he wanted to eat. And of course he passed these eating habit on to me.
We are only a generation or two away from times when hunger and malnutrition was not uncommon.
People still have these old eating habits that have worked for eons but we are in a different time and habits have to change.
And lets face it, who does not LIKE to eat?
Later,
Dan
