Lacessit

I got quite confused about Korat, its other name is Nakhon Ratchasima. IIRC the second name was on all the road signs.

I weigh 81 kg. My scooter weighs 150 kg. Unless you weigh 230 kg, you won't be kicking me in the back. You will be too busy scraping yourself off the pavement, after being flattened. I do use sidewalks occasionally. However, pedestrians have right of way. I stop and let them pass before moving again.

Perhaps you should also include China in your reclassification. Most of the ones I know in Australia are high income earners.

I don't know if you follow a Dr Ken Berry on YouTube, he says sugar is inflammatory. Strawberries, blueberries ( especially ) and raspberries are all good fruits. Apples are halfway, bananas and mangoes are high in sucrose and fructose.

An interesting link to Brown Mixture, thanks. When I came out of a government hospital after a bout of pneumonia, one of the going-home pharmaceuticals issued to me was Brown Mixture.

The other way is eating the right foods. We eat far too much carbohydrate and sugar, it is everywhere in Thailand. About 3 years ago, I resolved to lose weight. Low carb vegetables, no alcohol, as much protein and cheese as I wanted. Carbs are what the body burns to produce energy. If the body does not get enough carbs, it turns to fat for its energy source. I went from 93 kg to 78 kg on that diet. I have backslid a bit, now 81 kg. My waist went from 41 inches to 38.

You are right, the OP did state "overweight and obese". If the obesity rate is 36% in America, it makes me wonder what the combined data would be. The two attributes are measured by BMI. It can be somewhat misleading. Elite midfielders in Australian Rules football would fail the BMI test, due to their high muscle mass. So would gorillas.

My degree is in chemistry. Physics was a mandatory part of the curriculum. I understand thermodynamics has been dropped as a subject from quite a few science and engineering courses. Not because it is irrelevant, because it is too hard. I said the laws of thermodynamics are the drivers of global warming and climate change. Show me your evidence they are not. I agree there are some fields of science open to dispute. Thermodynamics is not one of them, neither is the physics of infra-red radiation being absorbed by the carbon dioxide molecule. But hey, knock yourself out. If you can disprove the laws of thermodynamics, I'll nominate you for the Nobel Prize in Physics.

A cult of reason, logic, and facts. Unfortunately, it is very small, and swamped by a majority of morons on social media.

Art was by far my worst subject in college. Models are predictions of what may happen. Some are quite close to what actually happens, others are not. The laws of thermodynamics were formulated about 150 years ago, They are the drivers behind global warming and climate change. Starting with Carnot (1796 - 1832 ), these laws were developed progressively by other science luminaries - Joule, Clausius, and Lord Kelvin. Scientists have been attempting to overturn the laws of thermodynamics for the same 150 years. None have succeeded. Deniers are welcome to try for themselves. It will be like monkeys typing out Encyclopedia Brittanica, someone might get lucky a billion years from now.

Another failure of Google's AI.

It also depends on what form the rice is in. Brown ( unpolished ) rice is much higher in fibre, vitamins, and minerals. Fibre assists in attaining a full feeling faster than white rice.

A lot of village rice is windfall that the machines can't reach. The women have a choice, harvest for free, or add it to the machine cropping for 200 baht/day. Rice is grown twice a year in the region. Most of the men drink Lao Khao, which is zero carbs. It's also a question of quantity, meals are not big. Protein is fish, frogs, chicken, eggs, and snakes. White grubs are a real delicacy. Pork is for special occasions. IMO the obesity figures you are quoting are a result of biased sampling, and not representative. When a villager is earning 2000-3000 baht per month, how much processed food do you think they can afford?

I really have to question what cohort of the Thai population was sampled to achieve an obesity rate of 47.8%. That's much higher than America, the home of lardasses. In my GF's village, most of the male Thais are skinny as rakes. They work hard, and can't afford Western food.

Does every American have some kind of mommy complex, that they want outsized mammaries? Simple fact: The bigger they are, the higher the risk of breast cancer. Breast cancer was almost unknown in Japanese women, prior to WWII. On topic: Obesity is most deadly in the elderly. The probability of Type 2 diabetes, stroke, and heart failure increases with every extra kilo. Obesity rate in the USA = 36.5%. Obesity rate in Japan = 4.3% USA average life expectancy = 78.7 years. In Japan, 84 years.

Neither is exaggeration.

You may be right. However, excuse me for wanting confirmation from a credible source.

Mankind will not end. The affluent will survive, the poor won't.

Still trying to bait me? On ignore now, look for someone else to try your gaslighting. "Gaslighting is a form of psychological manipulation where a person seeks to sow self-doubt and confusion in their victim's mind. Typically, gaslighters are seeking to gain power and control over the other person, by distorting reality and forcing them to question their own judgment and intuition."

Do the poll yourself. I assume your nom-de-plume comes from your habit of pouring gasoline on fires. Mine comes from the Latin expression " Nemo me impune lacessit". Treat me with respect, I'll give it back. Don't, and I won't.

There are predictions, and there are facts. The Larsen Ice Shelf in Antarctica is breaking up at unprecedented speed. Between 2002 and 2021, the Greenland Ice Cap lost an average of 280 gigatons of ice per year.

Apparently a lot of the Russian tanks in reserve are not functional, due to poor maintenance and corruption. America stores its tanks under shelter. The Russians store their tanks outside, in extremes of cold and heat. After 50 years of storage under those conditions, what would you expect?

Refugees are seeking a better life, either as a result of war, or poverty. By 2050, conservative models are showing the flows of water from the Tibetan Plateau will be halved, and that's without the Chinese building thousands of dams. Climate change. The Tibetan plateau is the source of water for the Mekong, Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers. About one billion people depend on those rivers for their food. You think you have mass migration now? Wait for it. https://www.business-standard.com/world-news/china-approves-construction-of-world-s-largest-dam-over-brahmaputra-river-124122601219_1.html

You don't need to apply for a marriage visa. You can apply as a single person, with 800K baht on deposit in a Thai bank. IMO it is the simplest route, although the most expensive. A marriage visa is 400K baht on deposit. It is a lot more complicated than the single route, because there are house visits, and other bureaucratic hoops to jump through. The income requirement for a single is 65,000 baht/ month. Married, it is 40,000. I'm still trying to get my head around that logic. It can't be even one baht less, so exchange rate fluctuations can make it tricky if sailing close to the wind. One can use an agent, for fees varying between 13,000 and 30,000 baht. The agent bribes an IO. Once you use an agent in a specific office, you can't revert to another method without considerable grief. The other risk is a new broom or a general reform, although that risk appears to be very low. Re pension transfers, the rules are still in a state of flux, with different locations interpreting the tax rules according to what their head honcho says. Much like Immigration. While Australia has a double tax agreement with Thailand, whether it is honored at a local office is open to question. Nobody knows if pensions will be treated as income. There are two rules that seem to be clear. Any savings prior to 2024 which are transferred into Thailand are tax-free. Married to a Thai, you have 550,000 baht in allowances before tax is levied on anything in excess of that amount. Personally, I will not be submitting tax returns in Thailand until an Immigration Officer tells me it is necessary for my next extension.

Off topic, the thread is about how the domestic aircraft system is falling apart, and shipping. Putin's support would melt away if he starts conscription in Moscow and St. Petersburg, why do you think he is importing North Korean soldiers?