Eat a balanced diet and exercise regularly to keep an healthy weight, many Thais do neither.

I've seen them hop on Baht buses to travel walkable distances (200/300 metres) on many occasions.

 

what about the average weight of foreign men?! pot.kettle.black.

5 minutes ago, it is what it is said:

 

what about the average weight of foreign men?! pot.kettle.black.

some people think being fat and overweight is ok and healthy, except if it's a thai girl

8 minutes ago, maechanman said:

Eat a balanced diet and exercise regularly to keep an healthy weight, many Thais do neither.

I've seen them hop on Baht buses to travel walkable distances (200/300 metres) on many occasions.

 

yea, like the average european/american is a healthy lifestyle role model. glass houses.

1 minute ago, scubascuba3 said:

some people think being fat and overweight is ok and healthy, except if it's a thai girl

there's non so blind than those who don't want to see.

21 hours ago, bignok said:

Does it really matter if people are fat or skinny? People live longer. 

 

 

It does if you find fat women (or men) repulsive. 

 

22 hours ago, sidjameson said:

I've kept the same weight for the last 30 years

 

Me too more or less.  Currently 74.05 Kg and 185 cm tall. 

When I first started coming to Thailand around 2000 or 2001 it was wonderful. All the women were slim. None of them had fake breasts. It sure has gone downhill. 

6 hours ago, bignok said:

Obese people buy more food, so more consumption taxes. Same thing with drinkers and smokers. So they are paying for it. Health insurance goes up due to inflation. Drivers pay more in fuel costs. So it's the eaters, the drinkers, the smokers, the drivers that fund the economy. The person who doesn't drive, doesn't eat much or drink or smoke isn't contributing much at all to the pool of funds. They save $200 a week and pay out perhaps $10 extra in premiums.

Strange logic but think you are trying to get an excited response.  Not even worth my time responding.

9 hours ago, bignok said:

I don't know why you make up lies about what others have seen.

 

Had relatives in old people's homes. There were people over 90yo. At least 40% were fat.

Could it be that they weren't fat until the very last month's of their life? In a home means lack of mobility and once you're in a home and probably the 6 months prior to it piling on the pounds would be fairly common I think.

 

22 hours ago, bignok said:

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/overweight-fat-obese-skinny-study-bmi-university-bristol-a8127381.html

 

 

Who has written the Study, Mr. MCDonalds or Mrs KFC?

9 minutes ago, UWEB said:

Who has written the Study, Mr. MCDonalds or Mrs KFC?

I take a healthy woman 55+ any day. Do not like skinny flat ass girls ????

22 minutes ago, UWEB said:

Who has written the Study, Mr. MCDonalds or Mrs KFC?

I heard the 2 were having an affair. 

The study may have been written by both. 

23 hours ago, Fat is a type of crazy said:

Worst of course is being mostly immobile fingering your mobile phone all day and eating salty fatty stuff. Which a fair few seem to do. 

Agree, although in Thailand the biggest problem is sugar; they put it in everything, even bread. Sugar is a bigger problem than red meat, fat, salt or carbohydrates 

Hang on a sec. I’m confused. My partner weighs way below 63kg. Does it make her below average? Don’t think so!!!

7 minutes ago, Eloquent pilgrim said:

Agree, although in Thailand the biggest problem is sugar; they put it in everything, even bread. Sugar is a bigger problem than red meat, fat, salt or carbohydrates 

Red meat, fat and salt are the best foods to eat for strength, energy.

5 minutes ago, AustinRacing said:

Hang on a sec. I’m confused. My partner weighs way below 63kg. Does it make her below average? Don’t think so!!!

Range is 40 to 100kgs. 

2 hours ago, Freddy42OZ said:

It does if you find fat women (or men) repulsive. 

 

What if they find skinny people repulsive? Or smokers or drinkers?

Have to say Thais appear to be the most laziest nation when going shopping to any shop with 500 meters. I will walk or cycle, all the neighbours go on motorbikes - they are getting fat through lack of exercise - not so much from eating too much. 

Everybody is blaming obesity on the food , being it Fast food or the wrong Food or eating to much food.

Guess what, It's not the Food it's the people.

They haven't got the Won't power to say,  I Won't eat this , I won't eat that and I Won't eat so much.

Exercise is an other bit of help, you look at it now . Kids don't play in the back yards  they cant even walk 100 meter to a shop Just hop on the motorbike and go, if they could they would go to the Toilet on the bike.

30 minutes ago, bignok said:

What if they find skinny people repulsive? Or smokers or drinkers?

I find anyone who does not do exactly as I do repulsive.....So people who drink and smoke and leave pizzia boxes on the floor for days are OK by me...

1 hour ago, Eloquent pilgrim said:

Agree, although in Thailand the biggest problem is sugar; they put it in everything, even bread. Sugar is a bigger problem than red meat, fat, salt or carbohydrates 

Myth, i eat loads of sugar when exercising, 150g in my water bottle today, I'm not sugar phobic and fit and slim. Main issue is fatty junk food, pastries, chocolate, ice cream, crisps etc etc

My wife is about 63 K, but she is 5ft 9 ins tall, and with a figure to match.

63 Kgs is "average" but there are a lot more seriously overweight people (mostly women) and fewer thin ones. It is the diet and the western influence on "body shaming" and bigger curvier women that has caused this. Many you see are damaging their health in the long term as obesity is the route to many other medical conditions just as much as malnutrition.

 

It is a shame as Thailand was known for its beauties not just the smiles. 

Burger me!

On 5/15/2023 at 1:10 PM, bignok said:

Are skinny people more happy? 

You don’t need to be skinny or overweight ! Eat normal well balanced diets and exercise. You’ll be healthy, unless a medical problem. Noticed the Thai ladies are getting bigger since a good while.,Rubbish food and eating all day, soda drinks , all unhealthy.,

On 5/15/2023 at 11:57 AM, stoner said:

interesting enough 6 of the top 20 for lowest kgm average female...in no particular order. 

 

laos 

myanmar

cambodia

viet nam

indo

philippines

I suspect that these nationalities are probably lower in height than Thai.  My Thai lady is 48KG and comes up to my shoulders.  In Vietnam, many locals there came up to her shoulders

On 5/15/2023 at 11:57 AM, stoner said:

interesting enough 6 of the top 20 for lowest kgm average female...in no particular order. 

 

laos 

myanmar

cambodia

viet nam

indo

philippines

My GF is Cambodian and I can confirm she is well under 63kgs. Thank goodness!  Did have a chunky Thai GF 68kgs before, but long gone.

 

 

IMO it would be interesting to know if the incidence of cancer in Thais is increasing, due to obesity.

Before WWII, breast cancer among Japanese women was almost unknown. As Japan adopted a more Western diet, breast cancer rates took off, and now approach those found in Western countries.

 

Cancer loves sugar. One of the diagnostic tools for detecting tumors is infusing a patient with a sugar made radioactive with a carbon isotope, then observing where the sugar goes in a PET scan. The rate of sugar uptake is much faster with cancer cells than normal cells.

 

It's perhaps no accident the largest Thai sugar company has acquired virtually all of Austalia's sugar cane industry.

13 hours ago, UWEB said:

Who has written the Study, Mr. MCDonalds or Mrs KFC?

The research, published in the International Journal of Epidemiology, was conducted by a group of scientists at the University of Bristol led by Louise Millard and George Davey Smith.