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[Steelrails]

Who really knows what goes on with obesity and diet health.

My dad has like no fat, isn't really muscular, and will probably live to 100.

My mom has been overweight forever, goes to exercise classes, and has occasional health problems.

Both eat the same food. When I was a child it was a mixed bag of healthy and unhealthy. Their diet is somewhat more healthy now.

Food is important, but so are genetics and luck. And again, portion size, portion size, portion size. That and cola. Cola is a dessert, not a water substitute. We used to understand that back home, which is why sometimes you'll see older people use the phrase "have a Coke" in much the same way they'd say "I'm going to have an ice cream." and consume it in such a fashion.

It's strange, usually when someone mentions a country's cuisine people are pretty quick to say healthy or unhealthy. No one sits and tries to argue that Greek or Japanese food is unhealthy. No one tries to hold up British food as a pillar of nutrition.

I agree though that the midwestern poor and working class diet is often abysmal. But that's diet and not food.

[methdxman]

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[carleverson]

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I can say that in the past few months i've been steadily putting on weight. Both deskwarming and the standard tray-full-of-food-and-banchan every day for lunch/dinner didn't help, neither did the weekly-biweekly lunch/dinners at the local Samgyeopsal joint. I'm wondering if I should start getting up earlier to have breakfast and a light lunch, then skip dinner entirely. Or cut out the Carbs like rice and...pretty much everything else on the damn plate...

[nero]

Why is 'American diet' equated with 'Western diet?'

Just interested to know.

[rainism]

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[southernman]

I've browsed through this mainly because its raining very heavily today.

I think we agree that most restaurant food is crap and unhealthy in both Korea and western countries, with obvious exceptions.

Any serious athlete prepares their own meals the world over. So in the OP's case he no doubt cooks his own food. No one should claim to be any kind of a serious athlete unless they can and do prepare the majority of their meals or gets someone else too, even highschool athletes know that

I've been here for a while now, the only time i've ever been overweight was due to the fact I had to much PS food, especially the disgusting white rice.

I had my recent health check about two weeks ago. I'm the ideal weight for my height and my blood pressure was spot on as well (and I'm old as hehe). Recently over the last few months I've cut out rice completley from my school diet and cut back on most other things. Which helped me lose several kilos of wintertime overeating.

I cook at home, with heaps of vegetables and am very choosey about the meat I eat. It's hardly rocket science, eating well. You cook your meals yourself, you use only healthy ingredients and in some crazy mystical way you become healthy.

A lot of fat/unhealthy people use the excuse that they lead such busy lives that they haven't the time to prepare and cook their own meals, off course this is bollocks. But it is certainly extreme bollocks in the case of teachers here, we work riduculously short hours and have heaps of free time.