{"id":8530,"date":"2013-04-13T12:00:03","date_gmt":"2013-04-13T16:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=8530"},"modified":"2013-04-13T03:43:57","modified_gmt":"2013-04-13T07:43:57","slug":"the-myth-of-fat-southerners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/the-myth-of-fat-southerners\/","title":{"rendered":"The Myth Of Fat Southerners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/041313_0726_TheMythOfFa1.jpg\" width=\"639\" height=\"398\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the United States it is commonly believed that southern States are the most obese. It turns out that&#8217;s a myth:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The data that indicates that southerners are the fattest comes from a periodic nationwide survey done by the CDC asking respondents about their height and weight.<\/li>\n<li>However this relies on self-reported data. When southerners are actually weighed then they no longer top the charts.<\/li>\n<li>The reason why the CDC survey shows them to be the fattest then may simply be because southerners are the most willing to be honest about their weight.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the study, its findings, and its methodology over <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.al.com\/spotnews\/2013\/04\/people_in_the_south_are_not_so.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.al.com\/spotnews\/2013\/04\/people_in_the_south_are_not_so.html\">All Alabama<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2013\/04\/assorted-links-761.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the United States it is commonly believed that southern States are the most obese. It turns out that&#8217;s a myth: The data that indicates that southerners are the fattest comes from a periodic nationwide survey done by the CDC asking respondents about their height and weight. However this relies on self-reported data. When southerners [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/041313_0726_TheMythOfFa1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8530"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8536,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8530\/revisions\/8536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}