Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Mississippi

Congratulations to the state of Mississippi which, for the third year in a row has been declared the most obese state in the U.S. Can we say dynasty? Almost one third of Mississippi residents are obese.

You have to be happy for the "Western Alabama Landfill" as they say, because it is the state that finds itself constantly at the bottom in categories such as education. This proves that no one is bad at everything, because everyone is good at something. And Mississippi is good at being fat.

Considering that the United States is easily the number one consumer of resources in the world, you could technically say that Mississippi is the fattest place in the world. In fact, the South is probably the fattest region in the world. Alabama ranked 3rd in this study, with 29.4% of its residents obese. If you don't believe me, just go to Alabama Adventure's (formerly Visionland) water park at any time during the day and look around. You never would have thought so, but it's true. Probably no one else in the world eats like we do. Or maybe they just exercise more. I don't know.

So here's to Mississippi because that state is 1) fat. 2) it has casinos. Congratulations!

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