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Holmes County is America’s Fattest and Poorest. Coincidence? (Video)
6:40 am in Business & Politics, food, Food & Health, mississippi, obesity, united states by TreeHugger
Image: Holmes County convenience store smorgasbord by Dave Anderson/Oxford American
Holmes County, Mississippi has the unenviable distinction of being both America's poorest and most obese county. Kids as young as three are diagnosed with high blood pressure, school buses are overcrowded because only two students can fit in the seat although they're made to seat three, and 40% of the population is obese. (Obesity is generally defined as the point when excess weight starts having serio...Read the full story on TreeHugger
