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Aardvark wrote:
> 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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