Columnist muses on Southern vs. Yooper food

Taking as its subject a nutritional study conducted by a scientist with roots in the U.P., a newspaper writer compares a U.P. diet to standard southern fare.

Excerpt: I just read that a Southern diet will kill you, and that’s what I’ve been living on for the past 76 years.

According to the Los Angeles Times, eating the way we eat can bring on strokes, heart problems, diabetes and other nasty conditions. The villains are fried chicken, fried fish, bacon, ham and sweet tea.
 
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Source: Aiken Standard
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