Quote: (07-29-2011 06:03 AM)Chemical O Wrote:
Slavic women and Wasp women look very different to me...and i've had different experiences and results as well....
As someone who's been on fairly long vacations in EE (5-10 years ago) there are several conflicting factors contributing to acceleration and retardation of aging:
POSITIVES:
1) Most women on the hunt in EE know what a good figure is for their type and avoid gaining weight as long as they're hunting. Here in the USA even 50 lbs overweight is considered "thick", that's bullshit.
A woman 5'5" ( unless you're a big butt fan) should weight about 105-11o pounds, few Americans do.
2) Worse climate means less sun damage unless they actively tan. I saw some girls from Ireland I believe at the Apple store the other day, they were about 20 years old and had spectacularly rosy, untanned complexions, way better than American girls usually do
NEGATIVES:
1) Lower quality preventive health care kicks in in 30's + -- not that many people take vitamins, there's less organic produce. Fewer preventive dentist visits.
2) who knows what pollution control exists or not. i know at the Black Sea there were a number of seaside cottages that dumped raw sewage right into the sea, only hundreds of yards from swimmers. [More] corrupt government means radiation levels, sanitation ( above) are not transparent-- businesses may be able to totally intimidate any environmental protection workers that exist, if they exist at all. So you don't even know what pollutants are around you, or the levels at which they exist.
3) For the working classes there are a lot of stressors that are hard to quantify-- super-packed buses on polluted streets, walking in the cold might be good exercise if you're healthy-- but when you're tired and you don't want to do it, it can be wearing, poor service from workers-- when you're not getting good food, a lot of this wears on you more. Good fresh food like orange juice from Italy-- super expensive. Vegetables can come from Georgia I think, but there's nothing available to most people like the cornucopia in an American supermarket with POM antioxidant drinks etc.
4) Economic desperation means higher environmental risks are accepted. If you have a filthy iron plant in your town but it's the only source of employment, you'll take it.
The pollution levels in EE cities are definitely of concern to me-- Chelyabinsk for example has a lot of polluting industry and have hired PE people to improve their web search findings!
It may be best to stick to non-industrial areas or areas where the elite have always lived (Moscow) as those people probably knew about and kept pollution away from their families and out in the hinterland cities where the little people lived.
