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Ole Miss Takes The Prize: Mississippians Purchase 82 Gallons of Soft Drinks Per Capita Each Year

Mississippi may be low on educational and employment studies, but it is number one in a recent survey of the most unhealthy states with the surprising record of having each citizen on average buying 82 gallons of soft drinks annually.


The findings are in the medical journal Lancet and look at the average of BMI (Body Mass Index) — finding “[i]n 2008, 9.8 percent of the world’s male population were obese, as were 13.8 percent of women. In 1980, these rates were 4.8 percent and 7.9 percent.” Here are the states taking the prize in the U.S.:

10. New Mexico

Grocery Stores Per 1,000 Residents: 0.26 (23rd)
Amount Spent on Fast Food Per Capita: $737 (8th most)
Gallons of Soft Drinks Purchased Per Capita: 58 (12th least)
Pounds of Sweet Snacks Purchased Per Capita: 111 (13th least)

9. Arizona

Grocery Stores Per 1,000 Residents: 0.17 (47th)
Amount Spent on Fast Food Per Capita: $761 (4th most)
Gallons of Soft Drinks Purchased Per Capita: 60 (21st least)
Pounds of Sweet Snacks Purchased Per Capita: 109 (11th least)

8. Ohio

Grocery Stores Per 1,000 Residents: 0.18 (45th)
Amount Spent on Fast Food Per Capita: $622 (20th least)
Gallons of Soft Drinks Purchased Per Capita: 70 (11th most)
Pounds of Sweet Snacks Purchased Per Capita: 122 (10th most)f over 10%, which is the 11th-worst rate in the country.

7. South Dakota

Grocery Stores Per 1,000 Residents: 0.5 (4th)
Amount Spent on Fast Food Per Capita: $547 (9th least)
Gallons of Soft Drinks Purchased Per Capita: 64 (23rd least)
Pounds of Sweet Snacks Purchased Per Capita: 122 (8th most)

6. Nevada

Grocery Stores Per 1,000 Residents: 0.23 (29th)
Amount Spent on Fast Food Per Capita: $939 (most)
Gallons of Soft Drinks Purchased Per Capita: 58 (10th least)
Pounds of Sweet Snacks Purchased Per Capita: 114 (19th least)

5. Oklahoma

Grocery Stores Per 1,000 Residents: 0.25 (24th)
Amount Spent on Fast Food Per Capita: $676 (15th most)
Gallons of Soft Drinks Purchased Per Capita: 69.8 (8th most)
Pounds of Sweet Snacks Purchased Per Capita: 103.2 (3rd least)

4. Kansas

Grocery Stores Per 1,000 Residents: 0.35 (7th)
Amount Spent on Fast Food Per Capita: $610 (19th least)
Gallons of Soft Drinks Purchased Per Capita: 64 (23rd most)
Pounds of Sweet Snacks Purchased Per Capita: 121 (12th most)

3. Missouri

Grocery Stores Per 1,000 Residents: 0.26 (22nd)
Amount Spent on Fast Food Per Capita: $623 (21st least)
Gallons of Soft Drinks Purchased Per Capita: 65 (18th highest)
Pounds of Sweet Snacks Purchased Per Capita: 121 (17th most)

2. Alabama

Grocery Stores Per 1,000 Residents: 0.21 (37th)
Amount Spent on Fast Food Per Capita: $649 (23rd most)
Gallons of Soft Drinks Purchased Per Capita: 77 (4th most)
Pounds of Sweet Snacks Purchased Per Capita: 113 (16th least)

1. Mississippi

Grocery Stores Per 1,000 Residents: 0.21 (34th)
Amount Spent on Fast Food Per Capita: $588 (17th least)
Gallons of Soft Drinks Purchased Per Capita: 82 (most)
Pounds of Sweet Snacks Purchased Per Capita: 113 (17th least)

Source: Yahoo

52 thoughts on “Ole Miss Takes The Prize: Mississippians Purchase 82 Gallons of Soft Drinks Per Capita Each Year”

  1. there’s an old saying in alabama “thank god for mississippi”. they keep alabama from being last on education, wages, ect…

  2. Tootie-

    You ask me two questions you know the answers to. My question to you is, “Are you a Christian or are you a bigot?” One preaches love, the other preaches hate. You can’t be both. If you try to be both, your head will explode from the inner conflict. As your old friend Ayn Rand used to say, “Check your premises”.

  3. Oh gosh. Does the racist bigot Henman thinks the watermelon reference is about blacks?

    The racists always bring up these charges.

    I brought up watermelons because I freaking LIVE in the south and depend on them during the summer months as I work outdoors. And several years ago I could no longer afford to buy them but I could buy lots of cheap ice cream!

    OMYGOSH! IS ICE CREAM A RACIST COMMENT TOO??????

    Here is a great article about the problem I faced:

    http://www.edmondsun.com/features/x519231898/Watermelon-price-rises-sharply-in-2008

    Just a snippet:

    “Rising costs for fuel, fertilizer and other items are blamed for an increase in the price of Oklahoma watermelons of up to 50 percent.

    At the 64th Rush Springs Watermelon Festival over the weekend, most melons were selling for between $6 and $7, about $2 higher than the previous year, said longtime festival official Dan Williams.

    Rep. Joe Dorman, D-Rush Springs, said he saw the highest grade melons go for $12, when they were selling for about $7 last year.

    50 percent! I watched this all very carefully with this year being the first year since that time that I was able to buy watermelon regularly. Whereas no other fruit I liked had such an outrageous rise in cost. I suppose I should have made up a fruit that had such a drastic increase just to please Henman.

    I was running into $8 watermelon prices and had to decline.

    So I would buy cheap ICE CREAM (cold, wet, sweet) instead. I was reporting MY experience. And the racists and bigots around here probably jumped to conclusions.

    They always do!

    Henman: Don’t be racist and bigot.

  8. BIL, but I’m so proud because Missouri did; we do need to step up our game though, maybe next year we can be #1!

  9. Hey! Lousy-ana didn’t make the list! But there is a silver lining to that cloud . . .

    At least we’re still number one in gun violence.

  10. Tootie-

    You eat watermelon? Don’t let your bigot friends see you with a watermelon-they might lynch you by mistake.

    Tootie said “Nevertheless, get rid of WIC.”

    Tootie, your Christianity and your bigotry are colliding head on again. If I’m not mistaken, Jesus Christ commanded his followers to FEED the hungry, not STARVE the hungry. Until you renounce either Christianity or bigotry, I’m going to continue to call you on your hypocrisy.

  11. I think we can all thank the Prohibitionists for the prevalence of this crap in our culture.

  12. (The following is mostly meant to be tongue-in-cheek:)
    Maybe the lousy lifestyle of Red-staters (smoking, meat/sugar/junk-food consumption, lack of exercise) would be a reason for us Blue-staters to NOT want single payer healthcare? Wouldn’t it be yet another way that we industrious, productive progressives and moderates give government subsidies to the lazy, corpulent conservatives?

  13. “Generally, the reason the poor are fat is because junk food is cheaper and puts on the pounds.”~Tootie

    Stress is a very large part of the obesity equation. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19121989
    Large numbers of studies have pretty much proven the link to the point that it can no longer be denied. That said, poverty, oppression, threat and abuse keep people in a state that prevents homeostasis; therefor any act that promotes the above is a DIRECT attack on a persons health and well being.

    Any deliberate act that results in the above is a deliberate assault on a person.

    It ain’t the pork rinds 😉

  15. POP?

    Someone must be from the midwest.

    Oh stats!

    Here’s one:
    80% of black women aged 40 years or over are overweight; 50% are obese, (Johns Hopkins).

    In America blacks have the highest obesity rate, then Hispanics, then Whites, then Asians. Hispanic obesity has leveled out. White and Asian obesity is declining. Black and American Indian obesity rates are on the rise.

    Generally, the reason the poor are fat is because junk food is cheaper and puts on the pounds. A watermelon this summer was about 5 dollars (it was worse the summer before–about 7 dollars). But a big jug of junky ice cream at Wal Mart is about 3 bucks. A huge bag of awful candy is cheep (especially on sale after a holiday like Halloween or Valentines Day when one can stock up). Produce is rarely on sale. You have to shop the little stands or farmers markets for deals on the good food and that means extra driving trips or nothing because many folks are not near these outlets.

    Though I have noticed that since Obama, WIC foods at Wal Mart include brown rice, beans, and low sodium choices. That’s good.

    Nevertheless, get rid of WIC.

    Again, it is unconstitutional.

    http://www.theroot.com/views/michelle-obama-obesity-and-black-epidemic

  16. I have not touched a soda this century. This has to play hell with the averages. No one I know drinks pop any more.

  18. Well SWM, if you haven’t had a stroke yet and you have children….I presume you are safe for the time….but hang around here and one is sure to occur…….

  19. There was a study yesterday that said the consumption of diet soda leads to strokes. It is better to leave soda alone but I am back on Coke Zero.

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