Down south, they have a tradition called "All Day Singing and Dinner on the Ground. It's basically an all day service with picnic dinner where all the church ladies bring food. Participating in one of those a month is enough to make anyone obese. Fried chicken, hush puppies, potato salad, banana pudding, peach cobbler. That was just the stuff that my grandma would take each month. To this day I have problems consuming any food that was part of the Sunday church dinners except corn bread.
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Ray Champagne <r...@raychampagne.com> wrote: > > http://www.newser.com/story/114954/churchgoers-more-likely-to-be-obese.html > > (NEWSER) Achieving inner peace comes with a price, apparently. People who > go to church regularly are more prone to pack on the pounds, reports > *Time*<http://healthland.time.com/2011/03/24/why-going-to-church-can-make-you-fat/>. > In one analysis, researchers at Northwestern University found that those who > attended church or some kind of church function a minimum of once a week > were twice as likely to be obese as those who had no religious involvement. > The researchers' best guess isn't too complicated: The church provides a > wide social network, and that in turn provides lots of opportunity to > socializeand eat. > > But there's hope, says one Northwestern medical student: That same social > network can help people *lose *weight. "By virtue of their pre-existing > infrastructure and social support networks, religious groups and > organizations are pretty well suited to enact health interventions for diet > and exercise in a pretty efficient and effective manner." > > -------------- > > Let the flames begin! > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:335469 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
