Are You Really Happy Living In Thailand?

[TheDon]

My wifes grandpa in Thailand is 96 and everytime I see him he is drinking a glass of wiskey and he also smokes. The guy even walk about 200 meters down the road everyday to get his fried banana that he loves. He has been smoking for 86 years of his life and he is still fit as my right bicep

[RakJungTorlae]

My wifes grandpa in Thailand is 96 and everytime I see him he is drinking a glass of wiskey and he also smokes. The guy even walk about 200 meters down the road everyday to get his fried banana that he loves. He has been smoking for 86 years of his life and he is still fit as my right bicep

My grandmoms foot fell off just before she died . was really strange. RIP

Not trolling I promise it’s a true story.

[GaiYaang]

My wifes grandpa in Thailand is 96 and everytime I see him he is drinking a glass of wiskey and he also smokes. The guy even walk about 200 meters down the road everyday to get his fried banana that he loves. He has been smoking for 86 years of his life and he is still fit as my right bicep

My grandmoms foot fell off just before she died . was really strange. RIP

Not trolling I promise it's a true story.

Hey, Rak

Is this you or your mate messing around on your user name again.

[RakJungTorlae]

My wifes grandpa in Thailand is 96 and everytime I see him he is drinking a glass of wiskey and he also smokes. The guy even walk about 200 meters down the road everyday to get his fried banana that he loves. He has been smoking for 86 years of his life and he is still fit as my right bicep

My grandmoms foot fell off just before she died . was really strange. RIP

Not trolling I promise it's a true story.

Hey, Rak

Is this you or your mate messing around on your user name again.

LOL. its me.

[Dakhar]

I'm pretty satisfied with my Bangkok-Pattaya schedule (about a week here and a week there), but I think my yearly one month trip back to Texas, plus various 4-5 day holidays scattered throughout the year make for a nicely rounded out balance.

Heng, to keep it short and simple..... I envy you.

[Heng]

I'm sure there are millions if not a cool billion or two who would envy your life, D. Life's great that way.

[Ulysses G.]

Food prepared next to the road is indeed not recommendable, but, the remark about palm and coconut oils being bad for cholesterol levels are outdated.

For palm oil there is unfortunately little research available, but coconut oil is plenty. Coconut oil is probably THE most healthy cooking oil there is. The reason for this is that it is the most stable plant oil if treated with heat. All other oils have a lot of chemical changes, bad for health.

There is enough info on the internet available to back this up. A little search and reading will do miracles...

Another good reason to be in Thailand: palm and coconut oil easy available!

Does anyone know if the coconut and Palm oil in Thailand are usually hydrogenated - made into Trans fats? This would truly be terrible for you.

[tracker]

For the good oils, look for cold pressed virgin oil.

coconut oil, if NOT hydrogenated, get solid at 22 degrees celsius, so place it in your fridge for 30 min and see if those white chunks appear.

Good place to start for coconut oil knowledge is here:

http://www.earthclinic.com/Remedies/coconut_oil.html

On a side-note, and earlier posted about the palm oil being red, the palm oil sold in tesco or anywhere else, with the yellow color, is most likely to be hydrogenated.

If anyone knows of where the organic palm oil is sold in thailand, please post it.

[canuckamuck]

What a bizarre thread to follow the topic "Are you really Happy living in Thailand?."

To answer the OP, yes I am happy.

About the cholesterol, Cholesterol in your food comes mainly from animal products. Oil from Plants will not normally contain any cholesterol. Lower priced oils are almost guaranteed to be hydrogenated and therefore full of transfats (not good for you). Most vendors use the cheap stuff. Cholesterol that is created in your own body accounts for most of your cholesterol count. The amount you take in through diet is not as important as the amount you produce naturally. Aboriginals in the far north live on diets of nearly pure animal fats and they do not generally have high cholesterol. On the other hand many people with healthy diets have high cholesterol. Genetics appears to be the big factor

My answer is, don't worry about cholesterol, unless you have high amounts. Many people are unaffected by cholesterol and can eat what they please.

[kmart]

Can anyone tell me where to buy real Lard around here? I'd really love to re-create the brekky of my youth; streaky bacon and runny eggs cooked in loads of pungent lard, and served in a big white-bread sarnie. Yum.

[canuckamuck]

great pic.

Your description of breakfast brought me back to my youth when we had gallons of lard stored away in the basement. Every meal started with a big scoop of smooth white lard. MMMMM!

Maybe I am not happy in Thailand.

[pattaya_girl]

Yes, I am really happy living in Thailand for 7 Years and have no plans whatsoever of ever going back to live in the cold and miserable UK.

[mikethevigoman]

Can anyone tell me where to buy real Lard around here? I'd really love to re-create the brekky of my youth; streaky bacon and runny eggs cooked in loads of pungent lard, and served in a big white-bread sarnie. Yum.

Jeez this takes me back, we had a family from newcastle move in next door in the late 50s and the kids were always walking about with a lard/dripping sandwich, !...i never tried it but i was partial to dipping a slice of bread into bacon fat

[RonD]

What really sticks out in the statistics is the mortaility in HIV/AIDS..... It's around 170 (!!) times higher (relative, in percentage) of that of Belgium for example. There were more people dying in this communicable diseases than from Injuries in Thailand according to these figures... Depressing

I find the original source more up to date though at: www.who.int

(A thought for all/any bar/girl/boy/whatever hoppers I guess, but really does apply to anyone/everyone)

We're living with risks every day, however at the end of the day it's only statistics, probabilities and has nothing to do with how my individual life will pan out in reality. You can minimise the risks, but still there's no guarantee that you won't get killed in a freak accident even safest part of the world wherever that is. And "health gurus" like Jim Fixx, Steward Berger, Euell Gibbons all died relative young anyway. Winston Churchill smoked and drank the occasional but still lived through to his nineties.

I'm happ(ier) here thus far looking at the quality of life overall each day I wake up. Learning and taking in new culture, new friends (and antagonists), attempting to stabilise work and family life here.

[Heng]

Thailand would be that much happier without HIV subtype E floating around.