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Post by Jaga on Sept 16, 2007 13:34:17 GMT -7
In the past poor people usually did not have enough food, so they were skinnier than the rich. Now it is just the opposite, especially in America.... people on the wellfare have usually enough money, especially for a junk food and not too much exercise etc. So the poorer you are, the more probability that you are overweight!  |
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Post by bescheid on Sept 16, 2007 15:53:10 GMT -7
One thing I have noticed of the Americans. They do not walk. Even to the Wefare office, they drive.
Charles
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Post by kaima on Sept 16, 2007 16:24:16 GMT -7
One of my frustrations on the Ohio trip was that everyone considered a 2 mile / 3km walk to be a day’s exercise! Since coming back to Alaska I have been out on a weeknight for a two hour mountain biking run through the relatively flat wooded city parklands where we had to dismount a few times to get across the swampy areas, we were disappointed at meeting no moose at all, and happy to not have met the resident brown bear along one part of the trails. Then yesterday I was out for a mountain hike foe three hours with a woman friend and her 14 year old daughter. We had beautiful fall colors, fresh berries in quantities we could not imagine to pick all of them, were kicked off a military land we accidentally trespassed, and were finally beaten off the mountain by wind and rain - but we left with smiles.
It is shocking to see how fully dependent upon motor vehicles Americans have become!
Kai
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Post by rdywenur on Sept 16, 2007 16:59:17 GMT -7
Not dependant...just lazy. But I bet if we got more people to walk as they do in Europe it could catch on. Problem is it is not safe to walk the streets here.
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Post by suzanne on Sept 20, 2007 19:19:14 GMT -7
Then yesterday I was out for a mountain hike foe three hours with a woman friend and her 14 year old daughter. We had beautiful fall colors, fresh berries in quantities we could not imagine to pick all of them, were kicked off a military land we accidentally trespassed, and were finally beaten off the mountain by wind and rain - but we left with smiles. It is shocking to see how fully dependent upon motor vehicles Americans have become! Kai A 3-hour hike with fall colors and fresh berries to pick sounds like heaven to me!  Yes, we are dependent on motor vehicles, but distances are so great and public transportation, outside of major cities, is pretty nonexistent. That being said, I know I should use my bike more than I do .....  |
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Post by Jaga on Sept 20, 2007 19:36:58 GMT -7
It is also not very nice to walk, since nobody walks around you, only the cards just drive along.
In Europe or Boston a walk is something normal, but this is not the case somewhere else in the US.
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