I did not realize this is mostly in the SOUTH.

This would be funny to hear for you, but to become fat in the south you just have to have a good appetite: most moms, grandmas and aunts will cook you INCREDIBLE meals (very flavorful stuff), but of course it will also be loaded with fats.

The likelihood of this being a problem related to preprocessed stuff is low

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Danox 18 hours ago | parent [-]

The thing that hurts most people around the world is that we still eat as if we’re gonna work from sun up to sundown habits are hard to break…

	▲	red-iron-pine 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		capitalism needs to sell you more food and bigger portions. BIG FARMERS BREAKFAST, and many types of breakfast foods are largely a marketing invention; many societies never ate large breakfasts, and many still don't, e.g. the soup & natto breakfast in Japan