Southerners Eating Our Way Toward Strokes

If you're thinking of having another piece of fried chicken, a couple more biscuits with gravy or, maybe one more big glass of sweetea (Southern for "sweet tea"), you might want to consider a new study that says you're heading for a stroke.

The study looks at our region as the stroke belt and tells us that our lives are at stake (steak?) because of our Southern diets. We're eating ourselves to death.

Here's the Richmond Times-Dispatch story on the study.

Ally'all be sure to tell mama'n'em about this. Cain't go breakin' up the fambly.