{"id":695,"date":"2008-07-12T11:12:03","date_gmt":"2008-07-12T16:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/07\/the-souths-weight-is-going-north\/"},"modified":"2008-07-12T11:12:03","modified_gmt":"2008-07-12T16:12:03","slug":"the-souths-weight-is-going-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/07\/the-souths-weight-is-going-north\/","title":{"rendered":"The South&#8217;s Weight is Going North"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The South may not rise again, but the numbers on the scales are every day. Our entire country is having trouble with staying at a healthy weight. Obesity is on the rise <em>everywhere<\/em>&#8230; but especially in Dixie. Southern cooking is more known for fried foods and BBQ than lean meats and steamed vegetables. It&#8217;s tasty for sure, but it comes at a price.<\/p>\n<p>Check out this interesting map of how weights breakdown by state. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/01\/meridian-ms-loses-it-with-oprah\/\" title=\"mississippi obesity\" target=\"_blank\">Mississippi<\/a> has the dubious distinction of being number one with the heaviest citizens in the Union.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/obesitystates.jpg\" title=\"Obesity Map\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/obesitystates.jpg\" alt=\"Obesity Map\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South may not rise again, but the numbers on the scales are every day. Our entire country is having trouble with staying at a healthy weight. Obesity is on the rise everywhere&#8230; but especially in Dixie. Southern cooking is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/07\/the-souths-weight-is-going-north\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3687],"tags":[31,7083,92],"class_list":["post-695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adult-health","tag-health-news","tag-mississippi","tag-obesity"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}