🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sat, 20 Sep 2008 07:12:53 -0700, relic wrote:

> Aardvark wrote:
>> On Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:16:40 -0700, relic wrote:
>>
>>> Aardvark wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:13:21 -0700, relic wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Aardvark wrote:
>>>>>> On Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:30:56 -0600, Kadaitcha Man wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> used2be wrote:
>>>>>>>> it really helps wearing this pedometer...it makes me much more
>>>>>>>> aware of how much (or how little) i'm walking.  i get up and walk
>>>>>>>> around alot more now for sure!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 3300 steps?  That's barely a mile!  You know what you need to do,
>>>>>>> have somebody drive you about 4 miles down some back road where
>>>>>>> there is hardly any traffic and all the houses have vicious dogs
>>>>>>> napping on the front stoop, and drop you off with nothing but a
>>>>>>> bottle of water. Then you'll be forced to walk 4 miles home.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> He's probably one of those morbidly obese Americans who can't fit
>>>>>> through the fucking front door but he's somehow managed to shuffle
>>>>>> the 3300 tiny steps from the bedroom into the kitchen to raid the
>>>>>> fucking fridge.
>>>>>
>>>>> Like these:
>>>>> http://www.daylife.com/photo/067q1zz6c8bHv
>>>>
>>>> Didn't see any morbidly obese Americans there.
>>>
>>> They're all in Liverpool.
>>
>> I've never seen a morbidly obese American in Liverpool. Have you? I
>> think you may be mistaken.
> 
> No, only morbidly obese British there.

"The prevalence of morbid obesity is increasing in the UK. Recent UK 
government statistics suggest that 20% of adults are obese and 1% 
morbidly obese"
http://ceaccp.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/extract/8/5/151

"The United States has the highest rates of obesity in the developed 
world.[99] From 1980 to 2002, obesity rates have doubled reaching the 
current rate of 32% of the adults population.[105] Rate of obesity vary 
by ethnicity and gender. In the USA 28% of men and 34% of women are obese 
with rates rising to as high as 50% among African American women. [106]
The prevalence of class 3 obesity (BMI ≥40) has increased the most 
dramatically from 0.78 percent in 1990 to 2.2 percent in 2000."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity

Liverpool, Merseyside had a population of 439473 according to the 2001 
census (http://www.statistics.gov.uk/census2001/profiles/00by.asp). That 
means there are around 4.5 thousand inhabitants of the area classified as 
morbidly obese, of whom I must admit I have seen quite a few over the 
years although not on a daily basis. If I were to switch on my television 
set and look at one of these US- made Jerry Springer type shows how many 
morbidly obese Americans do I see?

BTW I am neither a Liverpudlian nor a Scouser nor even British. Nor do I 
live in the city of Liverpool, nor even in the county of Merseyside. So 
basically I don't really give a shit.

FYI
HTH
HAND
FOAD   



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