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by mfoy_ 3819 days ago
You're saying that the problem is that the Southerners are just eating too much rich food. The article, and I, are saying that that is a symptom of an underlying problem. The underlying problem is the eating habits which are artifacts of growing up in poverty-- Poverty caused by the civil war.

Hence the leap to "Civil War --> Heart disease"