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Yaya
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
Location: Seoul
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 Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2010 5:35 pm Post subject: Stay thin by ditching fat friends |
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(Reuters) - Americans will keep growing fatter until 42 percent of the nation is considered obese, and having fat friends is part of the problem, researchers said on Thursday.
The study is based on the idea that obesity can spread like an infectious disease and people can catch it from their friends.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6A35SO20101104 |
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SinclairLondon
Joined: 17 Sep 2010
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| Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2010 7:07 pm Post subject: |
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| In my case, its true. I left America at 103, shot up to 107 in Korea but I'm around 75 now. Not being surrounded by my 110 plus friends for years has really changed perspectives. |
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flakfizer
Joined: 12 Nov 2004
Location: scaling the Cliffs of Insanity with a frayed rope.
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| Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2010 9:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Or, keep your fat friends and look thinner by standing next to them. |
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D.D.
Joined: 29 May 2008
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| Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2010 9:14 pm Post subject: |
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| You can allow them to have free access to your plate while dining and end up shedding many pounds. We can call it the "dont keep your eyes on your fries" campaign. |
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Pa Jan Jo A Hamnida
Joined: 27 Oct 2006
Location: Not Korea
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| Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2010 9:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Same logic could be applied to unemployable losers. |
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Sleepy in Seoul
Joined: 15 May 2004
Location: Going in ever decreasing circles until I eventually disappear up my own fundament - in NZ
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| Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2010 10:27 pm Post subject: |
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| SinclairLondon wrote: |
| In my case, its true. I left America at 103, shot up to 107 in Korea but I'm around 75 now. Not being surrounded by my 110 plus friends for years has really changed perspectives. |
Is that pounds, kilos or stone? |
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D.D.
Joined: 29 May 2008
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| Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2010 10:37 pm Post subject: |
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| thats a no brainer those weights are in kgs. |
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nero
Joined: 11 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2010 11:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Obesity IS a disease and catching. I learned this on Fresh Air. It's very sad and VERY scary. I won't even tell you what the cure is...I will get banned. |
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Hyeon Een
Joined: 24 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2010 1:27 am Post subject: |
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| Obesity IS a disease and catching. I learned this on Fresh Air. It's very sad and VERY scary. I won't even tell you what the cure is...I will get banned. |
This is an odd post.
I think you should expand on this a little. |
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Mariella713
Joined: 22 May 2010
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| Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2010 12:48 pm Post subject: |
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I had 2 fat friends at university. Every time I saw them they were stuffing their fat faces...thankfully I never caught their infectious obesity disease. It must have been a lucky escape  |
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Mr. Kalgukshi
Joined: 19 Jan 2003
Location: Here or on the International Job Forums
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| Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2010 1:18 pm Post subject: |
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Inappropriate postings have been deleted. Repeats will result in severe sanctions.
For those of you who like to take shots at different nationalities, if you continue, you will find your time here ending sooner rather than later. |
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jlb
Joined: 18 Sep 2003
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| Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2010 4:12 pm Post subject: |
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That study is pointing out the obvious! With my obese friends, all they seem to want to do is sit around and eat junk. Movie/junkfood. Restaurant/junkfood, +dessert and drinks. Shopping/junkfood. Girls night in/junkfood.
The skinny people I know? We do more active stuff a lot of the time. Go for a hike, travel somewhere, go bowling. And then we'll often get some food with it, but a normal size portion with no dessert. |
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Kaypea
Joined: 09 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2010 7:31 pm Post subject: |
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| jlb wrote: |
That study is pointing out the obvious! With my obese friends, all they seem to want to do is sit around and eat junk. Movie/junkfood. Restaurant/junkfood, +dessert and drinks. Shopping/junkfood. Girls night in/junkfood.
The skinny people I know? We do more active stuff a lot of the time. Go for a hike, travel somewhere, go bowling. And then we'll often get some food with it, but a normal size portion with no dessert. |
It's fun to be medium-sized and do both 
Damn, I don't think I've "done dessert" the whole time I've been in Korea. It seems like it's either dinner or dessert for me and my reasonably thin friends here... like maybe we'll have a waffle instead of dinner.
Sometimes I miss weekends with obese friends/family back home, where you eat dinner than have ice cream then eat nachos then chips, all the while downing beer or vodka and coke... and then feel kind of sick, but oh well. I've never done that or seen that done in Korea. Maybe *that's* why I'm 5 kg thinner here without dieting. |
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Globutron
Joined: 13 Feb 2010
Location: England/Anyang
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| Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2010 7:40 pm Post subject: |
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I had a lot of chubby friends back home, but I'm 6 foot tall or more, and 78.
Years old. |
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Kaypea
Joined: 09 Oct 2008
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| Globutron wrote: |
I had a lot of chubby friends back home, but I'm 6 foot tall or more, and 78.
Years old. |
Gramps! 
How do you deal with the Korean whippersnappers? |
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