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| Why are (most) Koreans slimmer than (most) Foreigners? |
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47% |
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| More exercise/activity |
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5% |
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| Societal Pressure to be slim |
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14% |
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| Artificial means (lyposuction, etc) |
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25% |
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| Other |
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7% |
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The Man known as The Man
Joined: 29 Mar 2003
Location: 3 cheers for Ted Haggard oh yeah!
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| This is why language gets corrupted so easily, because of the tendency of idiots to spout BS about things they know nothing about. This is how Konglish came into being. |
Well he put "doesn't it?" at the end of his sentence, indicating that he wasn't sure and was just making a guess. Was there really the need to come back so hard? |
Where's the hetoersexual love?
No priest would ber be homersexual-both CS Lewis and Shakespeare were Catholics, so there is no way there would be GAY priests in thier works.
It's diet, and environment-I'm more than proactive on the exercise side, eat healthy [like a real person-not vegetarians or vegans] but every once in awhile, about 3.5 months or so, especially with winter coming, I want fat and grease in pizza or gord forbid KFC.
I'll never be slim, and I am fairly certain I will never be a candidate for Type-2 diabetes, at least as far as the weight is concerned. |
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The Man known as The Man
Joined: 29 Mar 2003
Location: 3 cheers for Ted Haggard oh yeah!
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| Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2004 12:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Ha...my students get excited if while I write on the blackboard my long piece of chalk snaps in two. They think I'm strong then. LOL |
Thee is so much Freudian entendres their for the plucking |
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matthewwoodford
Joined: 01 Oct 2003
Location: Location, location, location.
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| Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2004 9:45 pm Post subject: |
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| kiwiboy_nz_99 wrote: |
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| This is why language gets corrupted so easily, because of the tendency of idiots to spout BS about things they know nothing about. This is how Konglish came into being. |
Well he put "doesn't it?" at the end of his sentence, indicating that he wasn't sure and was just making a guess. Was there really the need to come back so hard? |
I was very harsh, but he was very stupid.  |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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I read somewhere that Koreans' physiology is so that their fat isn't store subcutaneously, but rather between muscles and around organs. This explains why although they appear slimmer, they are just has likely to develop heart diseases as Europeans.
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matthewwoodford
Joined: 01 Oct 2003
Location: Location, location, location.
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| Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2004 7:26 am Post subject: |
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| Strong smell of bovine faeces. |
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little mixed girl
Joined: 11 Jun 2003
Location: shin hyesung's bed~
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| Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2004 2:14 pm Post subject: |
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genes.
also the fact that there's more walking in korea than the states...
walking from yonsei to edae...that's a killer...
i really i am willing to say it's the food, cuz if i sat around eating jjigae, ddeokbokki, and jjajang myun all day, i'd be a fatty too...  |
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Wisco Kid
Joined: 07 Sep 2004
Location: Changwon
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| Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2004 4:45 am Post subject: |
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When I ask my students :"What did you eat for lunch?"
90% of the time they answer : "Rice and kimchi".
If that's all they're eating for lunch, then I'd say it's diet.
But really, I think it's mostly genetics, and Itawonguy, you are just plain wrong if you think that genetics are going to change drastically in one generation. You are confusing nature with nurture. |
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d503
Joined: 16 Oct 2004
Location: Daecheong, Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2004 5:12 am Post subject: |
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its diet. In my expert opinion. Actually I base it around the fact that I am about as active as I was in the states and I am still losing weight, not that I'm complaining  .
I also have to say though that a lot of westerners are percieved as fatter than they are here because of larger frames. I think of it everytime I am standing in a packed elevator and your average guy is at least and inch shorter than me and your average women doesn't come up to my chin. And I'm not that tall.
But i am expecting a fatter korea soon. |
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Keepongoing
Joined: 13 Feb 2003
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2004 12:47 pm Post subject: Alkaline |
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| one big difference in the diet is that Westerners have a high acid diet and Koreans have a much more alkaline based diet. Surprisingly the kimchi is very high in alkaline as well as some other very good stuff. The high intake of red chili peppers is also good and also increaeses the libido. Much less oils are used in cooking and things are more often boiled. |
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Moldy Rutabaga
Joined: 01 Jul 2003
Location: Ansan, Korea
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Daechidong Waygookin
Joined: 22 Nov 2004
Location: No Longer on Dave's. Ive quit.
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| matthewwoodford wrote: |
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| Swiss James wrote: |
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I think its genetics..
they would have been poor from chosan right up till the 1980's
their diet also was rice plus this was a famine driven country and well below poverty..
once PARK CHUN HEE drove the koreans out of poverty the koreans started to eat MEAT! then during the 90's American businessman worked with local food manufactors and started to increase the supply of snacks, fast food. baskin robbins, BK, KFC, and koreans took to it like flies take to *beep*
so they are now getting fatter.. and the genetics are changing. so in the next 50 years there will be alot of fat people here.. of course more thin!
becuase koreans are still very traditional so most house holds will keep to korean food..
KIMCHI!!!!  |
Errr, when you eat more fatty food and then get fatter, that's not your genetics changing- that's called your diet. |
yes but over time it becomes genetics... doesnt it? |
Over time it becomes...?!! On a geological or evolutionary timescale perhaps it does, but not as that phrase is normally understood.
This is why language gets corrupted so easily, because of the tendency of idiots to spout BS about things they know nothing about. This is how Konglish came into being. |
shows you dont have a clue what you are talking about buddy!
you want to date genetics back to the beggining of time?????
give me a break !!
dude.. yes you are a perfect example of language being corrupted!
you trying to tell me it takes more than 20.000 years to changed genes???
hahahahahahaha thats a laugh~~!
mate genes can be pasted down from father to son!!
thats 15 years!!!! |
Um, no. When you eat KFC by the truckload and get fatter, thats your diet. Your genes dont change. |
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weatherman
Joined: 14 Jan 2003
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 3:07 am Post subject: |
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Besides the types of good foods Korean Moms, Grandmoms, and aunts are cooking~~~~~~~
a lot of it is Korea's traditional food culture. The basic meal does't lend itself to snacking on leftovers too easily. You eat when food is served. Might have some fruit between meals~~~ I believe most Korean also have a good sense not to eat crappy meals or snacks because they know society judges them so much on they way they look. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 8:42 am Post subject: |
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| weatherman wrote: |
Besides the types of good foods Korean Moms, Grandmoms, and aunts are cooking~~~~~~~
a lot of it is Korea's traditional food culture. The basic meal does't lend itself to snacking on leftovers too easily. You eat when food is served. Might have some fruit between meals~~~ I believe most Korean also have a good sense not to eat crappy meals or snacks because they know society judges them so much on they way they look. |
I'm rather familiar with that "traditional food culture" of Korea's, and I think it is a major factor why Koreans tend to be slimmer. I can also see it disappearing with gathering speed the longer I live here. True, snacking on leftovers of traditional Korean food presents a problem, as you can't exactly stuff a handful of kimchee & banchan in your pocket as you head out the door.
But there are other unhealthy, fattening alternatives out there today that kids, in particular, are eating in ever-growing assortments and amounts. Packaged, processed, sold at 7-11, served at Korean snackbars & roadside stalls, served at KFC & McDonalds, etc. Few kids have the good sense to identify and avoid junk food, and they have the money to buy it.
This is a modern phenomenon, as traditionally -- that is, right up to and including the generation just before ours -- most Koreans ate whatever they could get, and there was rarely enough of it. The content and size of "snacks" back then and now are worlds apart, I'm sure. Today Koreans have instant, microwaveable, ready-to-eat everything, from rice to pizzas to self-buttering popcorn and all manner of "crappy meal & snack" items in between.
And it's not just little kids whose diet and nutrition are going to seed. I've got a second office in a building populated almost exclusively by female 20-something flight attendants and ticket agents (yeah, they're a bit of a distraction ). You'd expect them to be the most health- & weight-conscious segment of the population. I'm telling you, these girls live on convenience-store food for days on end. Ramyon, greasy breaded stuffed things, aloe juice, and instant cappuccino. That plus Chinese delivery food, draft beer & fried chicken. Not a tubby girl among them, but I can't believe they can live and eat that way till the end of their career before it starts to show.
Add to that the disruption of mealtimes, where dad eats dinner at whatever hour he happens to stumble home from work, or he dines out with colleagues, the kids eat whatever they see & want between school and home, and then a meal served at home by mom or grandmom or aunt. More snacking follows on the way to & from study hall. Oh yeah, and no exercise.
I agree Korean society can be very harsh in the way it judges people on how they look. But I wouldn't count on that preventing Koreans from skidding down the same slippery slopes of Overeating/Under-exercising and into the valley of obesity that several Western countries have already fallen.
In much of the West today, you see people of truly stupendous proportions just walking around, working in offices, driving cars and flying on airplanes. You see them without looking for them. They're just there. Go back one or two generations, and you'd have to wait for the circus to come to town.
Korea now has "diet" summer camps for overweight children, and teachers on Dave's tell us the numbers of super-sized students are growing. Two Korean friends of mine -- neither are gyopos -- have trouble finding off-the-rack clothes that fit them anymore.
Yeah, I vote "diet" on this one. |
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babtangee
Joined: 18 Dec 2004
Location: OMG! Charlie has me surrounded!
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| Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 3:21 am Post subject: |
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In much of the West today, you see people of truly stupendous proportions just walking around, working in offices, driving cars and flying on airplanes. You see them without looking for them. They're just there. Go back one or two generations, and you'd have to wait for the circus to come to town.
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Hehheheheheheheheh...
But I didn't have my infamous dong pae 'til after my wife introduced me to Korean food... 
I hate her. |
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Kwangjuchicken
Joined: 01 Sep 2003
Location: I was abducted by aliens on my way to Korea and forced to be an EFL teacher on this crazy planet.
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| itaewonguy wrote: |
| matthewwoodford wrote: |
| itaewonguy wrote: |
| Swiss James wrote: |
| itaewonguy wrote: |
I think its genetics..
they would have been poor from chosan right up till the 1980's
their diet also was rice plus this was a famine driven country and well below poverty..
once PARK CHUN HEE drove the koreans out of poverty the koreans started to eat MEAT! then during the 90's American businessman worked with local food manufactors and started to increase the supply of snacks, fast food. baskin robbins, BK, KFC, and koreans took to it like flies take to *beep*
so they are now getting fatter.. and the genetics are changing. so in the next 50 years there will be alot of fat people here.. of course more thin!
becuase koreans are still very traditional so most house holds will keep to korean food..
KIMCHI!!!! |
Errr, when you eat more fatty food and then get fatter, that's not your genetics changing- that's called your diet. |
yes but over time it becomes genetics... doesnt it? |
Over time it becomes...?!! On a geological or evolutionary timescale perhaps it does, but not as that phrase is normally understood.
This is why language gets corrupted so easily, because of the tendency of idiots to spout BS about things they know nothing about. This is how Konglish came into being. |
shows you dont have a clue what you are talking about buddy!
you want to date genetics back to the beggining of time?????
give me a break !!
dude.. yes you are a perfect example of language being corrupted!
you trying to tell me it takes more than 20.000 years to changed genes???
hahahahahahaha thats a laugh~~!
mate genes can be pasted down from father to son!!
thats 15 years!!!! |
Well that is just crazy. 20,000 years to change genes??? Well even in the bad shape I am in I can change my genes in maybe 2 minutes. I image that botton flys might take longer than zipper, however.
And 15 years to pass down genes from father to son? Why so long? Maybe a father gets a new pair of genes and then decides they are a bit too small. Instead of returning them to the store, he could pass them on to his son, if his son is a bit smaller that is. |
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