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Do you find yourself in the Diabetes belt?
It's all related, it turns out. Who Knew?
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/06/opinion/paul-krugman-pepperoni-turns-partisan.html?rref=collection%2Fcolumn%2Fpaul-krugman&contentCollection=opinion&action=click&module=NextInCollection®ion=Footer&pgtype=article
"At one level, there is a clear correlation between lifestyles and partisan orientation: heavier states tend to vote Republican, and the G.O.P. lean is especially pronounced in what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention call the diabetes belt of counties, mostly in the South, that suffer most from that particular health problem. Not coincidentally, officials from that region have led the pushback against efforts to make school lunches healthier."
tridim
(45,358 posts)Says the republican idiot in my office who constantly eats Little Debbie HFCS bombs and drinks 64 ounces of Mountain Dew every day.