[quote]Nards wrote:
And if you want to see really lazy, you can even see it here in Taiwan.
This is a video I made outside a department store. It’s 8 storeys tall and this is the line for the elevator. yes, there’s an escalator inside too. Also, don’t forget that it’s for damn sure that not all of these people are going all the way to the 8th floor. Shit.
I remember you posted this a while ago, Nards. The first time I saw it I just couldn’t get my head around their reasoning. Damn!
[quote]sam_sneed wrote:
[quote]therajraj wrote:
I just did a quick google of the fittest and fattest cities in the US.
According to a 2 year old yahoo article Miami,FL is the fattest city in the country. Kinda odd with the weather and beaches??[/quote]
Those articles are pure bullshit. I’ve been to over 30 states and the big cities in those States. Miami is NOT fatter than San Antonio. That’s the worst city I’ve seen. The worst area I’ve been to was Southwest Texas in the desert on rt 90 between San Antonio and Big Bend NP. Every single person I saw was 300+. It was eerie.
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Everything is bigger in Texas even the people.
This area you are talking about Sam is actually currently being studied for its huge rise in Type 2 diabetes in CHILDREN. Yes that is right there are kids 9 years old with Type 2, which what we used to call Adult onset Diabetes.
I blame Mexican food restaurants, also and during 6 months out of the year its too fucking hot to do anything outside during the day. 
[quote]DJHT wrote:
[quote]sam_sneed wrote:
[quote]therajraj wrote:
I just did a quick google of the fittest and fattest cities in the US.
According to a 2 year old yahoo article Miami,FL is the fattest city in the country. Kinda odd with the weather and beaches??[/quote]
Those articles are pure bullshit. I’ve been to over 30 states and the big cities in those States. Miami is NOT fatter than San Antonio. That’s the worst city I’ve seen. The worst area I’ve been to was Southwest Texas in the desert on rt 90 between San Antonio and Big Bend NP. Every single person I saw was 300+. It was eerie.
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Everything is bigger in Texas even the people.
This area you are talking about Sam is actually currently being studied for its huge rise in Type 2 diabetes in CHILDREN. Yes that is right there are kids 9 years old with Type 2, which what we used to call Adult onset Diabetes.
I blame Mexican food restaurants, also and during 6 months out of the year its too fucking hot to do anything outside during the day. :)[/quote]
You’re not going to get me to say anything negetive about ‘Tex-Mex’ food…LOL, but you are ‘bang on’ about the heat!
[quote]BlueCollarTr8n wrote:
[quote]DJHT wrote:
[quote]sam_sneed wrote:
[quote]therajraj wrote:
I just did a quick google of the fittest and fattest cities in the US.
According to a 2 year old yahoo article Miami,FL is the fattest city in the country. Kinda odd with the weather and beaches??[/quote]
Those articles are pure bullshit. I’ve been to over 30 states and the big cities in those States. Miami is NOT fatter than San Antonio. That’s the worst city I’ve seen. The worst area I’ve been to was Southwest Texas in the desert on rt 90 between San Antonio and Big Bend NP. Every single person I saw was 300+. It was eerie.
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Everything is bigger in Texas even the people.
This area you are talking about Sam is actually currently being studied for its huge rise in Type 2 diabetes in CHILDREN. Yes that is right there are kids 9 years old with Type 2, which what we used to call Adult onset Diabetes.
I blame Mexican food restaurants, also and during 6 months out of the year its too fucking hot to do anything outside during the day. :)[/quote]
You’re not going to get me to say anything negetive about ‘Tex-Mex’ food…LOL, but you are ‘bang on’ about the heat!
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I loved the Tex-Mex food so much I married one. This past week has been hotter than hell?
No doubt, but i’m just shocked how generally ignorant most people are to fitness and what not. I was at the doctors today. He told me that my BMI is overweight and borderline obese, perhaps I should lose some weight. Now granted I’ve been bulking so I’m not as lean as I should be but i’m certainly leaner than your average person but at 5’11 220lbs, I should be concerned He also didn’t consider the fact that he weighed me in my steel toe work boots as well as all of my work clothes. I’m actually around 210lbs.
What was even more ironic is this guy is alittle shorter than me, probably goes 280lbs, and looks as if the only weight he’s ever touched is a big mac.
[quote]behexen wrote:
No doubt, but i’m just shocked how generally ignorant most people are to fitness and what not. I was at the doctors today. He told me that my BMI is overweight and borderline obese, perhaps I should lose some weight. Now granted I’ve been bulking so I’m not as lean as I should be but i’m certainly leaner than your average person but at 5’11 220lbs, I should be concerned He also didn’t consider the fact that he weighed me in my steel toe work boots as well as all of my work clothes. I’m actually around 210lbs.
What was even more ironic is this guy is alittle shorter than me, probably goes 280lbs, and looks as if the only weight he’s ever touched is a big mac.[/quote]
But he can actually code it to your insurance company about counseling you on your weight and charge more.
[quote]Edevus wrote:
I live in Estonia and come from Spain. From Mallorca more specifically, which is an island and beachwhoring is quite common. You’d expect people to be in shape but…no! I estimate that, among young people, 50-60% are overweight. Here in Estonia I’d say it’s 10% or even less.
In Spain people eat out very often and there’s plenty of junk food available. In Estonia, people almost never eat out and besides McDonald’s and Hesburger there isn’t much choice for junk food.
I don’t think it’s coincidential.
15 minutes wait to take the elevator? Man…
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I spent some time in a small city in Romania on the Danube (Galati) and was amazed at how many gorgeous women there were. Then I realized that it was mainly because there were hardly any fat people at all.
It is depressing when you realize how many hot chicks there could be in the US if so many of them weren’t freaking whales.
[quote]Steel Nation wrote:
[quote]Edevus wrote:
I live in Estonia and come from Spain. From Mallorca more specifically, which is an island and beachwhoring is quite common. You’d expect people to be in shape but…no! I estimate that, among young people, 50-60% are overweight. Here in Estonia I’d say it’s 10% or even less.
In Spain people eat out very often and there’s plenty of junk food available. In Estonia, people almost never eat out and besides McDonald’s and Hesburger there isn’t much choice for junk food.
I don’t think it’s coincidential.
15 minutes wait to take the elevator? Man…
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I spent some time in a small city in Romania on the Danube (Galati) and was amazed at how many gorgeous women there were. Then I realized that it was mainly because there were hardly any fat people at all.
It is depressing when you realize how many hot chicks there could be in the US if so many of them weren’t freaking whales.[/quote]
I am waiting for the first law suit against McDonalds, it will come at some point.
Would you rather have a country of…
a lot of great food and some hot chicks
or
Very little good food and tons of hot chicks?
[quote]PimpBot5000 wrote:
North America is like one of those chicks with a lean upper body and a really, really fat ass (along with a strangely flabby right shoulder)[/quote]
Interesting graphic. I wonder what’s so different in Canada that they have such a lower incidence of obesity?
[quote]late2thegame wrote:
[quote]PimpBot5000 wrote:
North America is like one of those chicks with a lean upper body and a really, really fat ass (along with a strangely flabby right shoulder)[/quote]
Interesting graphic. I wonder what’s so different in Canada that they have such a lower incidence of obesity?[/quote]
No calories in snow and tree bark.
[quote]DJHT wrote:
[quote]late2thegame wrote:
[quote]PimpBot5000 wrote:
North America is like one of those chicks with a lean upper body and a really, really fat ass (along with a strangely flabby right shoulder)[/quote]
Interesting graphic. I wonder what’s so different in Canada that they have such a lower incidence of obesity?[/quote]
No calories in snow and tree bark.[/quote]
lol
I’m not sure about all of the US but a lot of the cities and towns I was in didn’t even have sidewalks. Canadian cities are built to encourage people to be more active, side walks and bike paths everywhere. Of course most of the places I’ve been to in the US were in the south east. Our national fast food place is Tim Hortons’ they have donuts and coffees but the meals are soup and sandwiches. These are 24hr places. But I still think it probably has to do with activity level.
Up to what grade is phys ed required in the US?
When I was in school it was required up to and including the 10th grade and was available as a option all the way to the 12th grade.
[quote]therajraj wrote:
Would you rather have a country of…
a lot of great food and some hot chicks
or
Very little good food and tons of hot chicks?[/quote]
The first one, I’m married.
[quote]therajraj wrote:
Would you rather have a country of…
a lot of great food and some hot chicks
or
Very little good food and tons of hot chicks?[/quote]
The latter. Good food to you means a fast food joint every 1/4 mile?
Good food to me means cooking ingredients to form a meal that’s not only great in taste but also great in nutritional content.
Good food is easy to make. It just takes a little time and since we live in a culture of I-want-it-fucking-yesterday it’s logical that most people would choose the former…
[quote]Sick Rick wrote:
[quote]therajraj wrote:
Would you rather have a country of…
a lot of great food and some hot chicks
or
Very little good food and tons of hot chicks?[/quote]
The latter. Good food to you means a fast food joint every 1/4 mile?
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Watch the Show Diners Dive-ins and Drives.
What I find funny is that many of the same people in this thread who are lamenting the increase in fatties in this country are also in Squat Rack Curls, volumes 1-5, making fun of every single stupid thing they see in the gym. I think it’s beyond facetious to get on here and participate in a thread that almost solely consists of making fun of people who don’t know how to properly work out, without offering advice or doing anything to help those people, and then get on this thread and start bitching and whining about how many fat people there are.
If you care about how many fat people there are to the point where you feel the need to start a thread about what a travesty this is and how disgusting it is and how it didn’t used to be like this and blah, blah, blah, then what the fuck are you doing to help alleviate this epidemic, aside from ridiculing fat people’s appearances and ridiculing the warped, ineffective workout regimens of the fat masses you see in the gym?
[quote]AccipiterQ wrote:
I think I saw maybe a dozen people with bodyfats within 8% of mine even. [/quote]
This could be read to mean that you are REALLY fat. Just sayin’.
DB
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
What I find funny is that many of the same people in this thread who are lamenting the increase in fatties in this country are also in Squat Rack Curls, volumes 1-5, making fun of every single stupid thing they see in the gym. I think it’s beyond facetious to get on here and participate in a thread that almost solely consists of making fun of people who don’t know how to properly work out, without offering advice or doing anything to help those people, and then get on this thread and start bitching and whining about how many fat people there are.
If you care about how many fat people there are to the point where you feel the need to start a thread about what a travesty this is and how disgusting it is and how it didn’t used to be like this and blah, blah, blah, then what the fuck are you doing to help alleviate this epidemic, aside from ridiculing fat people’s appearances and ridiculing the warped, ineffective workout regimens of the fat masses you see in the gym?[/quote]
And what is your solution?
People know that eating junk food is unhealthy. People know that being so overweight is not attractive and it’s unhealthy. People know that sports are good for the body and the mind.
Yet “nobody” does it because it takes effort.
If it was in my hand (like, politician) :
-I’d tax soda and junk food like McDonald’s and company.
-In the physical activity subject in school I’d add nutrition, so children learn more about it and maybe grow interested.
I’m really sure that the availability of junk food is the main reason of people being overweight in USA and many European countries right now. It’s disgusting to see a 6 years old girl who’s like 45kg.
[quote]Charlie Horse wrote:
lol
I’m not sure about all of the US but a lot of the cities and towns I was in didn’t even have sidewalks. Canadian cities are built to encourage people to be more active, side walks and bike paths everywhere. Of course most of the places I’ve been to in the US were in the south east. Our national fast food place is Tim Hortons’ they have donuts and coffees but the meals are soup and sandwiches. These are 24hr places. But I still think it probably has to do with activity level.
Up to what grade is phys ed required in the US?
When I was in school it was required up to and including the 10th grade and was available as a option all the way to the 12th grade.
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PE: Depends by state and district. We don’t have national educational guidelines (other than testing mandates). In my case, I did PE but my fitness was really determined by team sports – swimming and water polo (both for school and extracurricular teams), and later, mountain biking and cycling. Though that was a couple of decades ago. Strength training’s something I discovered in my late 30s.
Cities: It depends in the US, and some cities do better than others. Generally the older and larger cities are better from a walkability perspective. I’m in San Francisco, and it’s great: small, compact, great transit, ample sidewalks, lots of amenities and shopping districts every few blocks through most neighborhoods. New York and Chicago are similarly good. LA, or many of the newer Sunbelt (south/southwest) cities not so much. Designed for cars and urban sprawl. Mind, even in the SF Bay Area, as you hit suburbs, it’s like that as well. My Canadian experience is limited, but I was gobstopped by how active streetlife on my one pass through Montreal was (at 2 am no less).
I suspect the Canadian slimness is a long-term cortisol response to fear of the Southern Neighbor’s latent aggression 
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