Does just immigrating to the USA lead to weight gain?
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I immigrated from New Orleans, where you could walk lots of places, eat low-cal boiled crawfish, and had lots of parks, to a small town in North Carolina, where everywhere is two-lane highway and there aren't any nearby decent trails, and eventually gained nearly fifty pounds - was already ten pounds overweight when I arrived here. I finally knuckled down and joined the Y, where I learned about MFP, and am on my way down . . .0
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lemurcat12 wrote: »So is there something in the air, or culture, comforts, or availability of food, which creates undisciplined cretins in the US (and Canada)?
Post WW 2 prosperity & the timing of the development of our cities (ie around cars, once ppl had personal $ for that). Continual Sprawl since the 70s
That's the car bit (although Canadians always tell me they are much less car-dependent than Americans), but there's also the crazy portion size bit and the cultural changes (eating constantly vs. how it used to be, as detailed in a list upthread). I think part of that is much less of a tie to cultural traditions surrounding eating and the general individualistic culture.
But that's just my theory! ;-)
Agreed!!!
Yeah no we are just as bad as you guys, those ppl are lying
Have to agree with this - and the Canucks love to drink in volume, possibly only surpassed by the Scots and Aussies.
Do we? I guess so, Maybe younger ppl0 -
Everything I know about Canada I learned from Strange Brew!
(j/k, I've also seen all of Slings & Arrows, as we used to go to Stratford, ON every year.)0 -
lemurcat12 wrote: »Everything I know about Canada I learned from Strange Brew!
(j/k, I've also seen all of Slings & Arrows, as we used to go to Stratford, ON every year.)
Oh, nice
Yeah actually a lot of Strange Brew probably still applies
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lemurcat12 wrote: »So is there something in the air, or culture, comforts, or availability of food, which creates undisciplined cretins in the US (and Canada)?
Post WW 2 prosperity & the timing of the development of our cities (ie around cars, once ppl had personal $ for that). Continual Sprawl since the 70s
That's the car bit (although Canadians always tell me they are much less car-dependent than Americans), but there's also the crazy portion size bit and the cultural changes (eating constantly vs. how it used to be, as detailed in a list upthread). I think part of that is much less of a tie to cultural traditions surrounding eating and the general individualistic culture.
But that's just my theory! ;-)
Agreed!!!
Yeah no we are just as bad as you guys, those ppl are lying
Have to agree with this - and the Canucks love to drink in volume, possibly only surpassed by the Scots and Aussies.
Do we? I guess so, Maybe younger ppl
Granted this would be my sample size of ~50 and mostly the Military and Mounties. Given my state whilst making said observations the quality of the sampling is lacking...and involved head butting - that I've never had explained to me.0 -
Everything I know about the US I learned from cable television!0
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lemurcat12 wrote: »So is there something in the air, or culture, comforts, or availability of food, which creates undisciplined cretins in the US (and Canada)?
Post WW 2 prosperity & the timing of the development of our cities (ie around cars, once ppl had personal $ for that). Continual Sprawl since the 70s
That's the car bit (although Canadians always tell me they are much less car-dependent than Americans), but there's also the crazy portion size bit and the cultural changes (eating constantly vs. how it used to be, as detailed in a list upthread). I think part of that is much less of a tie to cultural traditions surrounding eating and the general individualistic culture.
But that's just my theory! ;-)
Agreed!!!
Yeah no we are just as bad as you guys, those ppl are lying
Have to agree with this - and the Canucks love to drink in volume, possibly only surpassed by the Scots and Aussies.
Do we? I guess so, Maybe younger ppl
Granted this would be my sample size of ~50 and mostly the Military and Mounties. Given my state whilst making said observations the quality of the sampling is lacking...and involved head butting - that I've never had explained to me.
lol - oh wow, ok! I can't help w that one, sorry0 -
odd both sets of my grandparents immigrated to Canada and they are both thin or average weight still0
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Ha!
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The solution is simple...
Free beer for everyone!
P.S. I should have explained. Dry counties are red, mixed are yellow, and wet counties are blue.0 -
The people of the Czech Republic love their beer. I gotta go now. LOL0
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lemurcat12 wrote: »
Or Biggest Loser, Jerry Springer or even Duck Dynasty?0 -
The solution is simple...
Free beer for everyone!
P.S. I should have explained. Dry counties are red, mixed are yellow, and wet counties are blue.
Chicago is yellow on the map, and the reason why is that (due to a state law passed in 1934) we can go dry by precinct, following a local referendum. The prior mayor used it a lot to get rid of problem bars and liquor stores, so there are a variety of dry precincts, mostly on the south side.
This may surprise you (not), but alcohol is not difficult to come by in Chicago despite this option.0 -
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Our city tried to clean up our red district by offering free land for any church that wanted to build there. The result? Church street. It's still in the middle of our red district.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCauley,_Edmonton0
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