Why is everyone in Kentucky F A T?
Is it something in the water? Inbreeding? Cheap cost of living? Kentucky must house the lions share of American Obeasts.
I'm guessing poverty and the gap between affordable food and healthy food. You can feed a family on a frozen, family size swanson mystery meat and gravy, and mashed potatoes from a box of flakes for about $3. You can't buy a lb of tomatoes for $3 (where I live). So between that, and the institutionalized, unhealthy comfort food (lack of education about nutrition, it wasn't that necessary when people were working heavy labor all day, men at work, and women to keep up the home w/o today's gadgets. But those fat and calorie laden foods have been codified into their culture. And that sort of food is conveniently affordable. A family that gets 150 in food stamps is going to be living on those mystery meats, potato flakes, cheap frozen pizza, meals like hamburger helper, and they're going to be eating at fast food places too, because that's nearly as cheap as putting together a meal for a family. Also, there's probably a lot of shift work and multiple jobs, so they're not all sitting down to food at the same time.
That's not to say it's impossible to be poor and eat healthy (hello, ALdi), but they're not educated or motivated to make changes and sacrifice the sodium and fats they've become addicted to.
ETA: DARN IT, NINJA'D!!!
As for them housing the lion's share of American Obeasts, you're almost correct. They house the THIRD largest population of american obeasts.
@hotcheetospuffs : Amber must've brought up West Virgina's average after living there with Krystal. When she left she was over four hundred.
They lived in Virginia, not west virginia. If I remember correctly, they live a little outside Northern Virginia, in a DC exurb.
