{"id":674,"date":"2006-08-03T09:51:07","date_gmt":"2006-08-03T13:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2006\/08\/03\/statistical-analysis\/"},"modified":"2006-08-03T15:11:52","modified_gmt":"2006-08-03T19:11:52","slug":"statistical-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2006\/08\/03\/statistical-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Statistical Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now, I know that, statistically, the southern states are the fattest states in the country*. I believe that Colorado, Washington (state), Oregon, Massachusetts and Vermont are considered the thinnest states. After living through the past few days of extreme heat and humidity I don&#8217;t understand how that can be. I mean, all I ate yeaterday was cereal, yogurt, some grapes, a granola bar, 1\/2 a turkey burger and some crab meat. That&#8217;s it. I couldn&#8217;t even contemplate having dinner. Hell, I could barely eat 1\/2 of my turkey burger at lunch because the thought of eating repulsed me so much.<\/p>\n<p>My diet the day before was also similar: just add some broccoli, replace the crab meat with chicken hotdogs, and assume I managed to finish the entire turkey burger.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s normally\u00a0the quantity of food I consume before midday&#8230;let alone in an entire day. I stepped on the scale last night and was 5 pounds lighter than I was on Monday. I&#8217;m sure most of it was just the loss of &#8220;water weight&#8221;&#8230;but I&#8217;m doing my best to stay hydrated (I had over 3.5 liters of water yesterday).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, if it&#8217;s like this almost daily in the south for 3 or 4 months of the year&#8230;how can people become obsese down there? I&#8217;d think instead it would be the most emaciated region of the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>*After writing this post I did some research on a website called\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.obesityinamerica.org\/geographic.html\">http:\/\/www.obesityinamerica.org\/geographic.html<\/a>.\u00a0it appears that New England has surpassed the Mountain region (including Colorado) as the thinnest part of the country &#8211; though even the New England\u00a0region has become fatter between 1991 and 2000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, I know that, statistically, the southern states are the fattest states in the country*. I believe that Colorado, Washington (state), Oregon, Massachusetts and Vermont are considered the thinnest states. After living through the past few days of extreme heat and humidity I don&#8217;t understand how that can be. I mean, all I ate yeaterday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}