Talk:Stroke Belt

Fats v. fried foods
I have changed one of the hypothesised causes from "fats" to "fried foods".

Firstly, that is what the CBS News article referred to actually says.

Secondly, that article itself it seriously misleading. All fats cannot be lumped together: they are drastically different in their health effects. The article says: "Much of the South's traditional foods date back to the days of slavery. Frying was preferable in the region's hot climate". But historically, food was fried in animal fat; today, it's fried in vegetable oil.

For more information, see "Know Your Fats" by Mary G. Enig, Ph.D. [Bethesda Press (2000), ISBN 0-9678126-0-7].

Paul Magnussen (talk) 16:32, 8 October 2008 (UTC)


 * You make a good point about frying being a theme of that source article. Thanks for making that change. However, the source article also makes reference to the extensive use of fat in Southern cooking. For example, it mentions "cornbread slathered with butter" and "vegetables and greens flavored with bacon and meat drippings." If you believe that people no longer cook with animal fat, apparently you haven't experienced country cooking in the south recently, or you would know that (for example) foods like green beans are often cooked with pork fat. I have put the notion of fatty food back into the article text. --Orlady (talk) 18:01, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

World's Major Soft Drink Distributors at dead center of this Heat Map
I'm no doctor, but it seems less than coincidental to me, that the world largest and major creators and distributors of high sugar and high fructose corn syrup soft drinks, lie at the very epicenter of this map. Coca Cola out of Atlanta, Georga (which produces more than just Coca Cola... several hundreds of different brands of softdrinks) and Pepsi Cola out of New Bern, North Carolina (ditto). You can also add in Dr. Pepper of Waco, TX, on the edge of the map, who would obviously distribute eastward into the hot zone of the map, as there's not much population westward (desert).

Soft drinks have been directly linked to a world of health problems, including insulin resistance, hypoglycemia, diabetes, stomach acid and ulcers, tooth decay, obesity, metabolic syndrome X, flatulence, and chronic fatigue. Naked calories rob the body of vitamins and minerals, and provide no fiber to create a satiated feeling, leading to their over consumption, particularly when the world's most highly consumed and addictive drug caffeine is added into this witch's brew of a mix.

Soft drinks & Poor Nutrition leading to Obseity.... leading clogged arteries, and stroke. Coincidence? I don't think so. Open anybody's refrigerator in the south, and no matter how empty it will be of real food in poor households, you'll find Coca Cola, Pepsi, some other soft drink, Kool Aide or Gatoraide, or sweet tea. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.226.11.248 (talk) 22:29, 1 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Possibly interesting, but it's WP:Original research. --Orlady (talk) 22:38, 1 March 2011 (UTC)


 * I'm not cartographer, but it seems to me, no matter how far out I sail, I don't fall off the edge of the map, sayeth Christopher Columbus (original research - no; original observation - perhaps, perhaps not).  I defer to wiki being an encyclopedia anyone can edit, not just an encyclopedia that just published scientists in the scientific community can edit.  Truth can be stumbled upon by anyone.  Nevertheless, I confine it to talk.  All research at one time, is original research.  If something exists and is true, publishing a paper about it will not make it more or less true, only throw the idea out there to a wider audience for critique and review.  Thusly, I submit my observation / postulation for critique in *talk* regarding a possible, at least what I consider self evident, cause of (the main article) the Stroke Belt  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.226.11.248 (talk) 22:52, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

Unoriginal research:  Diabetes Belt and Stroke Belt coincide: http://www.usnews.com/science/articles/2011/03/08/diabetes-belt-outlined?msg=1 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.226.11.248 (talk) 19:51, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

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