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creeper1
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 Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 3:48 pm Post subject: Obesity rates accelerate in the US |
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I was watching a video on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Sj7FOfRbEw
The US is STILL getting fatter as if it wasn't fat enough.
On the video they show a new type of ambulance that is more like a tank. It is simply huge!
The video also details how obesity is one of the things bankrupting the US.
It got me thinking that this is one of the more depressing things about going home.
A single guy being use to seeing smoking hot Korean gals going home will likely be dissapointed with the bigger size of the girls back home.
It leads to demotivation. Why care about your appearances if there are no hot girls worth pursueing? You will probably end up getting fat yourself. |
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Dodge7
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| Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 4:26 pm Post subject: |
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| obesity rates are skyrocketing here as well. |
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No_hite_pls
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| Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 4:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Dodge7 wrote: |
| obesity rates are skyrocketing here as well. |
I went to expo and was amazed by how many fat Korean children I saw there. |
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Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 4:55 pm Post subject: |
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Whenever I go back to North America, I'm struck by not just the massive size of so many out of shape people, but also the amount of people in "super shape". There are quite a few people walking the street of NA in fantastically fit shape... and I rarely see that here in Korea.
Thin, yes. But super fit - rare. |
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sml7285
Joined: 26 Apr 2012
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| Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 5:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Captain Corea wrote: |
Whenever I go back to North America, I'm struck by not just the massive size of so many out of shape people, but also the amount of people in "super shape". There are quite a few people walking the street of NA in fantastically fit shape... and I rarely see that here in Korea.
Thin, yes. But super fit - rare. |
I've found that Koreans don't exercise regularly for the most part. They eat healthy, but most don't work out every day unless they're athletes. In the US, you see just everyday normal people out running or at the gym. |
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12ax7
Joined: 07 Nov 2009
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| Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 6:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Captain Corea wrote: |
Whenever I go back to North America, I'm struck by not just the massive size of so many out of shape people, but also the amount of people in "super shape". There are quite a few people walking the street of NA in fantastically fit shape... and I rarely see that here in Korea.
Thin, yes. But super fit - rare. |
Both extremes are products of the high standards of living, I guess. |
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northway
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 6:53 pm Post subject: |
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| sml7285 wrote: |
| Captain Corea wrote: |
Whenever I go back to North America, I'm struck by not just the massive size of so many out of shape people, but also the amount of people in "super shape". There are quite a few people walking the street of NA in fantastically fit shape... and I rarely see that here in Korea.
Thin, yes. But super fit - rare. |
I've found that Koreans don't exercise regularly for the most part. They eat healthy, but most don't work out every day unless they're athletes. In the US, you see just everyday normal people out running or at the gym. |
Or even walking, for that matter. Korea's public transportation is such that there's really no reason to ever walk anywhere, whereas Americans in major cities tend to be thinner due to the amount of walking they do. Seoul's unfriendliness to bipedal transportation is actually one of the things I dislike the most about the city. |
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Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 7:56 pm Post subject: |
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| northway wrote: |
| whereas Americans in major cities tend to be thinner due to the amount of walking they do. |
Um.... really?? |
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northway
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 7:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Captain Corea wrote: |
| northway wrote: |
| whereas Americans in major cities tend to be thinner due to the amount of walking they do. |
Um.... really?? |
Not thinner than Koreans, thinner than their American peers, sorry if that was unclear. |
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transmogrifier
Joined: 02 Jan 2012
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 1:58 am Post subject: |
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| northway wrote: |
| sml7285 wrote: |
| Captain Corea wrote: |
Whenever I go back to North America, I'm struck by not just the massive size of so many out of shape people, but also the amount of people in "super shape". There are quite a few people walking the street of NA in fantastically fit shape... and I rarely see that here in Korea.
Thin, yes. But super fit - rare. |
I've found that Koreans don't exercise regularly for the most part. They eat healthy, but most don't work out every day unless they're athletes. In the US, you see just everyday normal people out running or at the gym. |
Or even walking, for that matter. Korea's public transportation is such that there's really no reason to ever walk anywhere, whereas Americans in major cities tend to be thinner due to the amount of walking they do. Seoul's unfriendliness to bipedal transportation is actually one of the things I dislike the most about the city. |
I don't know - the wife and I went walking along the river last night, and it was pretty damn busy. So many rat-dogs as well. |
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fermentation
Joined: 22 Jun 2009
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| Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 3:15 am Post subject: |
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| Captain Corea wrote: |
Whenever I go back to North America, I'm struck by not just the massive size of so many out of shape people, but also the amount of people in "super shape". There are quite a few people walking the street of NA in fantastically fit shape... and I rarely see that here in Korea.
Thin, yes. But super fit - rare. |
That's true. There are a lot of fat slobs in America but there are also a good number of people who are fit and work out regularly. I see too many Korean dudes who think a soccer match with their friends on the weekend and hitting soju with samguypsal afterwards is working out. A lot of Korean girls are thin but I found them to be flabby at the same time as well. |
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northway
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 4:06 am Post subject: |
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| transmogrifier wrote: |
I don't know - the wife and I went walking along the river last night, and it was pretty damn busy. So many rat-dogs as well. |
That's true, but there's definitely a lot less walking as a means of getting from place to place like you see in New York or Boston. |
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sml7285
Joined: 26 Apr 2012
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| Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 4:08 am Post subject: |
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| northway wrote: |
| transmogrifier wrote: |
I don't know - the wife and I went walking along the river last night, and it was pretty damn busy. So many rat-dogs as well. |
That's true, but there's definitely a lot less walking as a means of getting from place to place like you see in New York or Boston. |
Walking is exercise, but I hardly consider it "working out". Maybe I'm crazy. |
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KimchiNinja
Joined: 01 May 2012
Location: Gangnam
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| Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2012 10:30 pm Post subject: Re: Obesity rates accelerate in the US |
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| creeper1 wrote: |
| The US is STILL getting fatter as if it wasn't fat enough. |
How can that even be possible!!! Is there no limit?
Both mega-fat and mega-fit are unnatural and the result of doing too much. Just eat a natural diet and walk around and stuff, it's not hard.
Tips: sell the car, sell the TV, eat rice, eat miso soup, drink green tea, stop putting MASSIVE amounts of sugar and salt and over-flavor in EVERYTHING! My Korean friend said after she came back from the US she couldn't taste anything for six months...her taste buds were fried.  |
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wishfullthinkng
Joined: 05 Mar 2010
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| Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 12:40 am Post subject: |
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| northway wrote: |
| That's true, but there's definitely a lot less walking as a means of getting from place to place like you see in New York or Boston. |
new york and boston are EXTREME examples of life in america and is not representative or even close to the norm. unless it's places like chicago/nyc/dc where it's fairly easy to walk around or miami/la where people are pushed harder to be beautiful, then the rest of the usa is nothing like any of the forementioned cities. most of the rest of the usa like the "mid-west" is just fat people driving around eating way too much. the only time you really see skinny people in those types of towns are when they are young and athletes in high school or before they have gotten older with children.
i speak from having spent lots and lots of time in all of the places i speak of.
and while new yorkers do walk more to get from place to place it's much much more compact than seoul and makes more sense (if we are not speaking of the outer burrough which almost everyone takes a taxi or a subway to get to anyways). seoul in comparison to nyc, has many more place to walk for leisure in general if one so chose, and they are used often by people of all ages.
while your point is correct in speech, it does not portray the true situations in both places. |
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