Declawing is better for some cats. Houston Humane Society is advertising front paw declawing!!

On 12 Mar, 20:41, Charlie Wilkes
wrote:
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 08:52:47 -0700, bookie wrote:
On 12 Mar, 05:34, "William Graham" wrote:
It seems that the Brits are having the same couch potato problems that
we are here in the US:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/
dietfitness.htm...

ha ha! i haven't read the article but the fact it is taken from the
daily mail says it all! pretty much everything printed in the daily mail
is well known to be absolute crap, find something from the guardian or
the Times and i may well read but i would not put my eyes through the
pain of reading anything from the daily mail, that paper is not even
good enough of lining my cats litter tray with, I would rather read the
Sun in prefernce to the daily Mail

Ok, then, here's something from the Guardian, complete with a lovely pin-
up shot:http://society.guardian.co.uk/childr...021463,00.html

Charlie

thing is he is probably seen as a real slim jim in the states, there
are probably loads of fat people in the mid west begging their doctors
for surgery to get their jaws wired just so that one day they may
actually get down to that boys size and shape.

the only reason that kid made the news is because he is a one off
inthis country, you dont; get stories like that making the papers in
the states because such instances must be so common.

and where is he from exactly? oh yes, the north, typical fat *******
pie-eating geordie fatso, how amusing

On 12 Mar, 20:51, Charlie Wilkes
wrote:
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:39:27 -0700, bookie wrote:
On 12 Mar, 16:38, "James" wrote:
On Mar 12, 10:52 am, "bookie" wrote:

On 12 Mar, 05:34, "William Graham" wrote:

It seems that the Brits are having the same couch potato problems
that we are here in the US:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/
dietfitness.htm...

ha ha! i haven't read the article but the fact it is taken from the
daily mail says it all! pretty much everything printed in the daily
mail is well known to be absolute crap, find something from the
guardian or the Times and i may well read but i would not put my eyes
through the pain of reading anything from the daily mail, that paper
is not even good enough of lining my cats litter tray with, I would
rather read the Sun in prefernce to the daily Mail

My impression on fat is it depends on what part of the US you visit.
Some places everyone seems to be blubberbutts while other places people
are pretty normal. For a long time I thought cartoons of fat people
were just cartoons. Then I saw people that actually shaped like
cartoon fat people.

so which is the fattest part of the states? here it is staffordshire and
the north in general which harbours all the fatties, probably the north
west most of all,

In the U.S. the trend is more socio-economic than regional... the
preponderance of fatsos are the poor and working class. If you want to
scope the tubbies, go to WalMart, McDonalds, or any place where food is
cheap and calorific.

I would also say that rural/suburban people tend to be fatter than urban
residents.

Charlie- Hide quoted text -

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i think the fattest person i ever saw in my life was someone in a
dairy queen in miami, i was scared they might fall on me, or eat me
possibly.

I also read a report about a partuicularly tubby tribe of american
indians, somewhere new arizona or nevada (not sure where now, may have
been new mexico) but they seemed to live off 'fried dough' or
doughnuts cos that was the cheapest form of energy they could get and
was all their benefit cheque could stretch to. They were immense, and
it was partly a genetic predisposition to laying done lost of fat for
survival purposes i guess, their bodies were just so efficient at
storing up any calories they took in for future use in case of 'lean
periods'

"bookie" wrote in message
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On 12 Mar, 05:34, "William Graham" wrote:
It seems that the Brits are having the same couch potato problems that we
are here in the US:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...ietfitness.htm...

ha ha! i haven't read the article but the fact it is taken from the
daily mail says it all! pretty much everything printed in the daily
mail is well known to be absolute crap, find something from the
guardian or the Times and i may well read but i would not put my eyes
through the pain of reading anything from the daily mail, that paper
is not even good enough of lining my cats litter tray with, I would
rather read the Sun in prefernce to the daily Mail

I don't know anything about the "Daily Mail". but all you have to do is
google "BMI by country" or some such thing and you will find many web sites
that address the problem of obesity in both GB and the US as well as many
other countries.....Rest assured, it is not a problem peculiar to the
US.....

Why are you so hung up on this subject? - Are you having a personal problem
with body fat? If so, there are any number of places where you can get help.
If I were younger as you apparently are, I would join a health club where I
could swim and use their workout equipment.........

"Charlie Wilkes" wrote in message
news
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:39:27 -0700, bookie wrote:

On 12 Mar, 16:38, "James" wrote:
On Mar 12, 10:52 am, "bookie" wrote:

On 12 Mar, 05:34, "William Graham" wrote:

It seems that the Brits are having the same couch potato problems
that we are here in the US:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/
dietfitness.htm...

ha ha! i haven't read the article but the fact it is taken from the
daily mail says it all! pretty much everything printed in the daily
mail is well known to be absolute crap, find something from the
guardian or the Times and i may well read but i would not put my eyes
through the pain of reading anything from the daily mail, that paper
is not even good enough of lining my cats litter tray with, I would
rather read the Sun in prefernce to the daily Mail

My impression on fat is it depends on what part of the US you visit.
Some places everyone seems to be blubberbutts while other places people
are pretty normal. For a long time I thought cartoons of fat people
were just cartoons. Then I saw people that actually shaped like
cartoon fat people.

so which is the fattest part of the states? here it is staffordshire and
the north in general which harbours all the fatties, probably the north
west most of all,

In the U.S. the trend is more socio-economic than regional... the
preponderance of fatsos are the poor and working class. If you want to
scope the tubbies, go to WalMart, McDonalds, or any place where food is
cheap and calorific.

I would also say that rural/suburban people tend to be fatter than urban
residents.

Charlie

The obesity problem is apparently world wide, and is partly due to the
preponderance of fast food, coupled with activities that require little or
no physical activity, such as computing, watching TV, and listening to
I-pods and the like....As the emerging countries improve their economic
status, they become prone to all these activities.
It is a problem that was addressed many years ago, actually. I can
remember back in the 60's that science fiction writers and others (who liked
to speculate on the future) predicted that the "man of tomorrow" would
become a lump of fat, with tiny legs and arms, who did nothing but press
buttons and let machinery perform all his necessary functions.......Of
course, they were talking about a future thousands of years from now, but
the fact is, that a little bit of it is already coming true only 40 years
later.......

On Mon 12 Mar 2007 08:06:00p, William Graham wrote in
rec.pets.cats.health+behav
:

The obesity problem is apparently world wide, and is partly due
to the preponderance of fast food, coupled with activities that
require little or no physical activity, such as computing,
watching TV, and listening to I-pods and the like....As the
emerging countries improve their economic status, they become
prone to all these activities.
It is a problem that was addressed many years ago, actually.
I can
remember back in the 60's that science fiction writers and
others (who liked to speculate on the future) predicted that the
"man of tomorrow" would become a lump of fat, with tiny legs and
arms, who did nothing but press buttons and let machinery
perform all his necessary functions.......Of course, they were
talking about a future thousands of years from now, but the fact
is, that a little bit of it is already coming true only 40 years
later.......


The scary part is the problem affecting more and more kids. Many
kids are now facing "double diabetes" - juvenile diabetes coupled
with diabetes brought on by obesity, usually called "adult onset
diabetes" because they have the same problems adults have when they
get old and fat. I don't know what can fix this. It isn't as safe
to go out and play these days, not like when my generation was
younger. When I was young, we had mom at home and the neighborhood
was safe. We played outside all day every day when not in school.
These days kids are in front of the computer or the Playstation or
the TV. It isn't their fault. Schools are trying to "up" the
physical activity, but how to get more of that without sacrificing
the amount of learning?

--
Cheryl

"Cheryl" wrote in message
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On Mon 12 Mar 2007 08:06:00p, William Graham wrote in
rec.pets.cats.health+behav
:

The obesity problem is apparently world wide, and is partly due
to the preponderance of fast food, coupled with activities that
require little or no physical activity, such as computing,
watching TV, and listening to I-pods and the like....As the
emerging countries improve their economic status, they become
prone to all these activities.
It is a problem that was addressed many years ago, actually.
I can
remember back in the 60's that science fiction writers and
others (who liked to speculate on the future) predicted that the
"man of tomorrow" would become a lump of fat, with tiny legs and
arms, who did nothing but press buttons and let machinery
perform all his necessary functions.......Of course, they were
talking about a future thousands of years from now, but the fact
is, that a little bit of it is already coming true only 40 years
later.......


The scary part is the problem affecting more and more kids. Many
kids are now facing "double diabetes" - juvenile diabetes coupled
with diabetes brought on by obesity, usually called "adult onset
diabetes" because they have the same problems adults have when they
get old and fat. I don't know what can fix this. It isn't as safe
to go out and play these days, not like when my generation was
younger. When I was young, we had mom at home and the neighborhood
was safe. We played outside all day every day when not in school.
These days kids are in front of the computer or the Playstation or
the TV. It isn't their fault. Schools are trying to "up" the
physical activity, but how to get more of that without sacrificing
the amount of learning?

--
Cheryl

That's right. When I was a kid back in the 40's, we had no TV, and I stayed
outside playing until near 10 PM every night....My mom didn't worry about me
because missing/kidnapped kids were almost unheard of in those days. There
were no fat kids in my school. If you couldn't run your fanny off, you would
probably get beaten up by the bigger kids......It's a totally different
world today.

On Mar 12, 6:54?pm, "William Graham" wrote:
Why are you so hung up on this subject? - Are you having a personal problem
with body fat? If so, there are any number of places where you can get help.
If I were younger as you apparently are, I would join a health club where I
could swim and use their workout equipment.........
\

LOL! My thoughts exactly. I"ve never seen anyone spend so much time
targeting their specific object of disdain. The shabby superiority
complex is alive and well, I guess. To each his own, I suppose.
I never think about the shortcomings of the people of other countries.
I've got better things to think about.

Sherry

From down south . I thought it was the Glaswegians who were the most
overweight?
--
Alison



"bookie" wrote in message
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On 12 Mar, 18:26, "Alison" wrote:
"bookie" wrote in message

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there was actually a survey done by the nhs and they found that the
areas with the unhealthiest lifestyles and highest rates of heart
disease and high cholesterol were inthe north and north west,
unsurprisingly, if i find the link i will post it.
and no i am not in london.

havign lived in staffordshire (near stoke on trent in fact) for a
while I was not surprised by the findings myself.

why? where are you from?

"cybercat" wrote in message
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She is in London, and is obviously generalizing. Back for what, two days,
and already being a pill?

What?

Alison

"Alison" wrote in message
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"cybercat" wrote in message
.. .


She is in London, and is obviously generalizing. Back for what, two
days, and already being a pill?

What?

Alison

Don't bother to answer this. Whatever being a pill is, it can't be worse
than being a Guardian reader.