[Doctore]

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2013/...-fat-study

I knew the previous numbers thrown around in this country were way too low, as I've noticed more and more fatties recently, even though I live in the area with supposedly the slimmest people (uni campus, hipster SWPL zone). Many young women are walking around with pot bellies now.

The standards for dangerously fat - 102cm waist for men, 88cm for women - are way too high IMO, and yet 40% of Aussie adults exceed that!!! And even that is still a too optimistic measure. Imagine if they could do DEXA scans quickly and cheaply... that figure would rise to 70%!

Don't Bang Australia lol

[Kangaroo]

It is disgusting, I just got back from Europe and am angered walking around the city this week watching all the fatties eating ice cream and other sugar filled snacks. Worst still is the slim girls walking around with over inflated confidence and attitudes.

[The Lizard of Oz]

Nonsense. I don't even need to see the article -- 4 out of 10 adults in any developed country are not "dangerously fat" or dangerously anything under any reasonable definition of "dangerous".

These bullshit numbers get thrown around and passed along as if they had any meaning. We are supposed to believe that more than 1 out of 5 Americans "experience major depression at some point".

Where are all the corpses of fatties lining the streets of Sydney, do people just walk around them and give them a kick for good measure?

Buy this book, The Numbers Game. It is an excellent guide for laymen that teaches you how to get a handle on numbers that get thrown around. The first step is to think whether a number cited somewhere makes any sense.

[Doctore]

I suggest you look at the suburbs of Sydney, and other not-so-rich areas of NSW.

While you're at it, actually read the article.

[eradicator]

(10-16-2013 05:17 PM)Doctore Wrote:  

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2013/...-fat-study


The standards for dangerously fat - 102cm waist for men, 88cm for women -

102 cm= 40 inches and 88 cm = 34.5 inches for the folks that are not used to the metric system.

Honestly, I was getting a blank look like when one of my brit friends says they "lost 2 stone in the past 6 months!" and I am like "huh?"

[big poppa]

Depends what areas. Out in the western suburbs of Sydney and in country towns I'd probably put fat people at about 50% of the population. Take a walk around Newtown, George street, manly and its probably about 10%. Don't think we are quite at America's level yet from what I hear, but we're no more than 15 years behind them

[Fredster]

Melbourne has fatties everywhere.

I'm just going about doing daygame...mostly approach Asians..because the Caucasians are fat.

But OP is right about the fat statistics, I'd say 6 out of 10 Caucasians are fat in Melb. The only slim ones I approach are Kiwi( nickname for New Zealand) chicks and the tourists.

If your a red pill guy it will feel like your scraping for crumbs.

[Handsome Creepy Eel]

Lizard of Oz Wrote:

These bullshit numbers get thrown around and passed along as if they had any meaning. We are supposed to believe that more than 1 out of 5 Americans "experience major depression at some point".

I get what you're saying, but they're trainwrecks waiting to happen. That is a whole lot of reduced quality of life, pain and expense for everyone in the form of diabetes, heart attacks, strokes, hip replacements...

Claiming that this isn't dangerous just because it's not a fast killer is misleading. By that logic smoking isn't dangerous either.

[SeanBateman]

I can vouch for this. In my extensive boots-on-the-ground observations in both countries it's only a touch better than America. There is a significant fatness problem outside of the affluent metropolitan areas. It's a beach culture so there are often some fit bodies to be found near the coast but there are plenty of fatties as well, and inland it gets bad. Australia is a great country by a lot of measures, but unfortunately it suffers from a significant fatness problem.