While I was in New York in May, I received news that my beloved Mississippi was the "fattest station in the nation" for the third year running (according to
CalorieLab; other articles and sites have said that this is the fourth year for Mississippi - alas). My home state of Tennessee falls closely behind at number six.
The article gives the typical reasons and explanations for Mississippi's obesity: fast food is quick, convienent, and located everywhere, while some of the grocery stores (you know, where you buy fruits and veggies and all that great healthy stuff) are over 40 miles away. Crazy, but it's not hard for me to believe!
Would you know, obesity's even becoming a very large (pun intended) problem even with pets. Check out this monster of a cat, nicknamed "Princess Chunk," found wandering the streets of New Jersey:
She weighs 44 pounds! To put that into perspective, that's the average size of a five-year old child, according to the
National Center for Health Statistics.
Read the complete article and view a slideshow of other strange pets (including a woman who has her lab running for town mayor)
here.
