So – it’s now official - we Australians are the fattest nation in the world. 26% of Australians are estimated as being fat or obese. How have we ever achieved an honour like that? By continually eating and having minimal exercise, I suppose.
I reckon a lot of it also is to do with our national laziness. In Tasmania in particular, we generally have got to be THE laziest people out!
Do we care? I don’t think so. We don’t seem to. Will it harm us? Hell yeah! Many of us will die well before we normally would have, had we not eaten our way to the grave.
Friday, 20 June 2008
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i don't think tasmanians on the whole are lazy. yes we too suffer from the global malaise , but, in my world at least, people seem to be fairly active. cooking, surfing,walking, building..... i think perhaps it may be an urban thing, and with less than 500 000 people in the state, we are a rural society.
I agree with you Anon. I was really generalising about our activity levels, and yes, I think in the rural areas we are way more active than the 'townies'.
I just know that a cafe on the left hand side of Elizabeth St (travelling out of the city towards Moonah) will go a lot better than one sited on the right, which many years ago was attributed to our general laziness factor. We are too lazy to cross the road, generally.
That's not a hard and fast rule, by the way. Look at Kaos, and North Hobart, but like I said, generally it holds true.
As a non-motorist, I must agree. I just can't understand this compulsion to drive even short distances. Walk, cycle, take the bus! Save the planet and your own waistline at the same time. It's different in the bush, I realise, but in town - why?
I have heard that this is not because we have become particularly fatter, but that BMI definitions have changed. The numbers that delineate overweight and obese have been reduced.
Haven't had a chance to investigate the truth of this yet though.
What's all this walking, surfing, building shit?
Why do people feel driven (pardon the word) to DO SOMETHING ACTIVE.
Look, sit on your arse, think a bit, read, watch telly, drive to the footy to SIT and watch.
Tell the health and fitness brigade to shove it.
Don't be brainwashed.
I hate seeing these military-style power walkers zombying their way around town.
And those cyclists are a pain in the arse for drivers. They should go on a track. The roads are just not made for vehices and bikes to live together harmoniously, I'm afraid.
And Joggers, gyms, aerobics...aaargh!
Maybe it's because (according to the alcohol police) we're all 'binge' drinkers...
Let's protest by bringing back some proper words, like 'carousal' or 'brannigan' or maybe inventing new ones like 'alcorgy'...
What abut golf?
Anon 5.18 - I don't understand. How is 'carousal' (or do you mean 'carousel'?) a proper word? What's a 'brannigan'? I consider myself reasonably well-read but have never heard of this word!
As for 'alcorgy' - what would that be?
Sir G - you're in your prickly mood here! We DO sit back and watch the flowers growing! That's why I'm trying to get THE OTHERS to be more active! I'm not proposing for one minute that I myself (or YOU) adopt this habit of activity!! Perish the thought!
We've got way too many things to do than go to the gym and all that bullshit! Let the power-walkers power round town, looking like absolute idiots!
We'll be the ones sitting back sipping our frothy hot chokkies in Retro, or the Mall, not envying them one iota. Living to be as old and wise as Dame Elisabeth Murdoch (100 next birthday).
Silver Fairy - love your name BTW - yes, golf. If that's your hobby, go for it, but I'm sure I speak for myself and Sir G when I say please forgive us if we don't accompany you on the golf course. Even I, an early riser, am not early enough for the golfing fraternity!
What was it said about golf: a good walk spoiled.
Not prickly Rita, just reinforcing my belief system with gusto (not Bisto, for all youse poms).
We cannot let the perceived wisdom be that exercise=good and morally superior.
These brainless bastards (getting prickly...) follow any trend sold to them in lycra with the ``top-selling'' logo.
(Goes away to read more rebus and pour a glass of something nice).
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