Wyoming people skinny, but Atlanta is obese

If I lived in a southern state, I wouldn't be on this site. I would weigh 900 pounds and be okay with it.

I think your sample size is too small and nonrandom.

agree

The statistics are also, unfortunately, in the OP's opinion's favor:



http://health.usnews.com/health-news/articles/2012/08/16/most-and-least-obese-us-states

Note that all but 3 of those states are in the southeast.

http://www.ncsl.org/issues-research/health/obesity-statistics-in-the-united-states.aspx

Take a look at statistics from the CDC. There's only a 3% difference in the rate of obesity between Wyoming and Georgia.

If I lived in a southern state, I wouldn't be on this site. I would weigh 900 pounds and be okay with it.

Too funny!:laugh:

I think Alabama has the highest obesity rates in all of the states right?

That being said, it's all the good food thats being sold.

If you consider KFC good food. u.u.

Whenever I visit Atlanta for work, we eat a LOT. Whenever people tell me what they love about Atlanta, it's ALWAYS the restaurants. I also think that the Waffle House has a bit to do with it.

I once got arrested in a Waffle House

Story time!

It's a very long and VERY drawn out story that can really only be told in person, but I'll give you the abridges version. It happened back when I used to play and sing for a living. My guitar player (who is legally insane) got us in to the trouble. It all escalated and wound up with the two of us getting hauled to the pokey. When we went to the arraignment he actually tried to enter an insanity plea. Well, you can't do that at an arraignment...it's either "guilty or not guilty". The prosecuter was laughing so hard at the scene we created in the court room that he called us over to talk about our plea. When we walked up to him he was like, let me ask you fellas a question. What were you doing in a Waffle House at 3:00 am anyway? I tried to give him some kind of answer about being a musician, work hours, etc and he cuts me off mid sentence and says, "No, no, no...I mean what where you doing in a Waffle House when there was an IHOP, a Perkins, and a Denny's all within a few blocks of that place? The food at all of those places is WAY better"! He said, "Look, you two have never been in trouble around here before, why don't we agree you'll stay out of Waffle Houses in my county for the next 6 months and we'll call it good, ok?"

I couldn't say yes fast enough!

I left out the parts about running in to an old college friend who actually was the guy that had to fingerprint me at the jail, the nurse at the jail interrogating me about whether I'd been drinking, our drummer coming to bail us out, and my lunatic guitar player laying on the jail cell floor singing the Star Spangled Banner at the top of his lungs and crying about police brutality.

It was a night I'll never forget

It depends on where you're looking. It's like going into a bar on a Friday night and concluding that everyone in the state drinks alcohol. If you were skiing in Wyoming, you were surrounded by people who ski. In Atlanta, if you were at restaurants with soul food, you were surrounded by people who eat soul food. See where I'm going?

After your run in with the law, did you add the song, "the night the lights went out in Georgia" to your playlist.

No, but after our ban was over we kicked around the idea of making a "Live at Waffle House" CD and use our mug shots as the photos for the CD cover It really just made us more well known. I never will forget the night I told the story from the stage at a show. My mom was sitting in the audience and it was the first time she'd heard the story. My poor mom

3 percent difference between wy and ga? I should clarify. I was in Jackson Hole Wyoming, and McDonough and Lovejoy Georgia.

There's also a big difference in population density between the two states, which could account for it. My best friend lives in Cheyenne and oh, the tales... She drives into Fort Collins an hour away here in Colorado for decent food.

Obesity rate for Atlanta metropolitan area: 28.7% (above state average of 28%)

Obesity rate for Wyoming (as a state): 25%

http://www.governing.com/gov-data/obesity-rates-by-state-metro-area-data.html

I understand the point you're trying to make here (both of you), and I agree that the demographics matter especially with statistical measures like these. That being said, I think the OP has a valid point that certain states do have impressively (not in a good way) high rates of obesity and sedentary lifestyles that make a visual impact upon visitors from states, cities, or neighborhoods that don't. I've noticed the same thing on my last two trips to Atlanta as well. It's not a good trend.

Statistically, there's a 3% difference, which may not sound like much, but depending on where the OP lives in Wyoming, that difference could be much larger.