Chiang Mai and Pattaya ranked among the healthiest cities in the world: study

[AlexPTY]

i just cannot stop laughing, sorry

[les Dennis]

I guess they weren't including STDs 

[sammieuk1]

Must have been a post mortem poll????

[masuk]

3 hours ago, petedk said:

What is the definition of healthy?

I thought that the air pollution in Chiang Mai sometimes is so bad that health warnings are given.
Never mind....just go to the gym or one of the green spaces and all will be well.

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A great majority of people out in the streets wear carbon filtered masks for weeks during the pollution season.  It helps filter out the pesticides in the smoke.

[DM07]

...wait...WHAT?

How healthy a city is, is determined by how many Spas and fitness centers there are?

 

I haven't read through all the posts, so I am aware that this may have been said before, but...

......

Chiang Mai has health hazard alerts all the #$%^&*@ time, because the idiots up there burn everything from fields to forests to tire- piles!

Let's have some numbers on the water- quality in Pattaya!

 

Healthiest cities my behind!

[geriatrickid]

4 hours ago, KhunBENQ said:

Pattaya, healthy?

Is it April fools day already?

Who paid for this scientific study?

Wow, so you weren't fooled?

Pay for play for sure. The company is trying to sell holidays.

[cnx101]

Obviously they didn’t include DaNang in this survey.

[Lupatria]

4 hours ago, petedk said:

I thought that the air pollution in Chiang Mai sometimes is so bad that health warnings are given.

...but that is not the ordinary smog, it's herbal medicine and incense burned for the health and well being of the population. You may compare it to Grasse in southern France where they spray perfume on the streets. But to be honest, all I smell here is the usual propaganda.

[Gillyflower]

In CM I clean my face with a pad and cleansing milk every night.  Sometimes I've only been out for an hour, but I can tell you that pad is quite black.

[hkt83100]

Has any one of those responsible for such a BS report ever been living in one of the cities on the list? I bet not.

[Wake Up]

walk around Pattaya and you will see some guys in amazing shape. lots of people work out daily in Pattaya. Also lots do not but you have to admit some of the strongest guys around called Pattaya home.

[toenail]

This ranking is another proof how ratings are calculated by a machine and not by people. I use to live in Pattaya for 12 years and moved due to the following: 1) difficulty of walking or jogging outside due to ting-tong motorbike drivers & crumbling debris on sidewalks; 2) polluted bay which makes it unhealthy to swim in 3) poor polluted air in the city due to bumper to bumper buses and traffic 4) spas??? Good ones are expensive There are other cities in Thailand that would be healthier to live in ! ( Question: Why are there so many suicides in the city of Pattaya? I guess mental health does not count. 

[futsukayoi]

Vegan food may be very trendy but hardly healthy.  After a hard gym work out not exactly what you want to for muscle and energy.  Whenever I glance into a vegan restaurant it seems full of pasty scrawny customers.

 

Same thing with spas.  May be relaxing and pleasant (the missus thinks so) but what are the health benefits.

[Burma Bill]

TravelSupermarket (UK)- you must be joking! Probably a sales gimmick to attract customers. Bring your own air cylinder for Chiang Mai and a wet suit for protection when swimming in the filth and rubbish off Pattaya.

[garyk]

I never knew Pattaya was the helathiest city in the world, horniest yes. 

Learn something new everyday here on TV... haha

 

[MadMuhammad]

6 hours ago, pegman said:

6 parks or green spaces in Pattaya? They must be including some vacant lots. That town is a concrete jungle.

Grand Buddha Hill & Viewpoint is less than a couple of km’s from the centre of town

[jayboy]

Pattaya residents should be congratulated for doing so well in this prestigious poll.Lets give them a big clap.


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[Krataiboy]

6 hours ago, Kaoboi Bebobp said:

 

 

145 restaurants with vegan options? ???? ???? I would not even trust their vegetarian offerings. I once saw a Thai company's frozen "vegetarian" pasta topped with two small slices of cooked ham. 

That's 145 ways to wreck your stomach with the dangerous pesticides used to grow most of the fruit and veg sold here.

[Inepto Cracy]

Spas, did they try to write knock shops in English language ?

Oh they did not write in English. You know when you flush a toilet, the water talks and says pat ta ya.

[nakhonandy]

Trying to think of the 6 green spaces in Pattaya, unless it stretches Now to Silverlake!

Then you have the dreadful burning in Chiang Mai. 

Healthy? I don't think so. 

[hugocnx]

9 hours ago, petedk said:

What is the definition of healthy?

I thought that the air pollution in Chiang Mai sometimes is so bad that health warnings are given.
Never mind....just go to the gym or one of the green spaces and all will be well.

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Healthy in the survey's opinion is when you are a vegan, take a walk in some of the parks when the air is polluted 6 out of 12 in Chiang Mai and you be nice now and do your gym, Pilatus and yoga stuff.

I think this is a lot of bs narrow minded thinking. My thoughts for a bottle of Benmore.

[hugocnx]

I did my share of unwinding in Chiang Mai. Hardly fart anymore these days.

[hugocnx]

9 hours ago, Spidey said:

Lots of vegan options in Thai restaurants. Pad pak bung and pad pak rua mit are 2 of my favourite dishes.

Nah, not really Thai food. To much veggies in it. LOL

[Henrik Andersen]

What a joke 

how much they got paid for this??? 

Pattaya is a concrete jungle 

Pollution hanging in the air 

Burning garbish all the time 

Number one in road kills most of Thai food is unhealthy to eat 

Swimming in the sea is just stupid 

OK meaby if is about massage shop or sex I will agree with number 3

Never believe everything you read especially about Thailand 

 

[hugocnx]

9 hours ago, LomSak27 said:

 

Doh! Say no more.

Fake news then?

[puukao]

UK travel site TravelSupermarket.............

 

My travel site Chealieoaisewakadilkeioakeiaioakdfsi.net also has a ranking!!!  Can I get an article????   

 

Also, my super secret travel site ;asdjflsk;fjdsf;lasf.com can also give very, very important ratings!!!!    

 

[marqus12]

Beijing also in the top ten ???

[MyFriend You]

4 hours ago, Wake Up said:

walk around Pattaya and you will see some guys in amazing shape. lots of people work out daily in Pattaya. Also lots do not but you have to admit some of the strongest guys around called Pattaya home.

The most beer belly's I have ever seen are in Pattaya City, and I live in JomTien.

[DrTuner]

4 hours ago, Wake Up said:

walk around Pattaya and you will see some guys in amazing shape. lots of people work out daily in Pattaya. Also lots do not but you have to admit some of the strongest guys around called Pattaya home.

Used to be popular with bodybuilders getting their roidrage on, not sure what the situation is these days.