Keep rollin', rollin', rollin'.

[davywavy]

According to the latest studies of populaiton trends, the UK will have 13 million obese people by 2010. My immediate response to this was: "How on Earth will they fit all of them into Meadowhall?"
Additionally, those studies list the top ten 'obesity black spots' across the country, and I'm not surprised to see that Barnsley (pretty much where I grew up) is ranked at number 8. What does surprise me is that there are seven towns where people are even fatter. I wonder if they compete.

Of course, obesity is inferred by calculating BMI (Body mass index), a system which just divides weight by height and so consistently declares body builders and rugby players as being clinically obese. According to BMI measures, this fellow comes in the 'great fat wobbling sack of crap' category:


Be that as it may, though, I haven't seen that many people looking like that filling the aisles at the Trafford Centre.

Comments

[vulgarcriminal.livejournal.com]

RAWHIDE.

Er, where's this map? Wigan has to be high.

[(Anonymous)]

Having never visited the chav infested hell hole which is the Trafford Centre, nor have I, Saints be praised

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/5299510.stm

People in glass houses

[(Anonymous)]

According to that BMI graph, David, I'm underweight. How about you?

H

[vulgarcriminal.livejournal.com]

No Wigan or Salford.

What the hell?

Re: People in glass houses

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Heaving, sweaty obese tubster.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Yroskhire people are fatter than Lancastrians! Ha! Take that!

Re: People in glass houses

[(Anonymous)]

Remind me to launder that towel you borrowed

H

Re: People in glass houses

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

I think it may still be wedged in one of my folds. I'll let you have it back when I find it.

Re: People in glass houses

[vulgarcriminal.livejournal.com]

What else is in there?

Re: People in glass houses

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

A lot of loose change, a couple of books, and nobody has seen much of Nik Kershaw in the last ten years, have they?

[vulgarcriminal.livejournal.com]

I'm neither. Even my ancestors are neither... Occasionally I have some Lancashire in me though (har, har.)

I think, the next Yorkshire Day, you should make a point of telling the Lancastrians that at any point you all are going to ooze over the Penines and sit on them.

Re: People in glass houses

[vulgarcriminal.livejournal.com]

No Holy Grail then? Disappointing.

Re: People in glass houses

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

I think there may be some McDonalds Shake containers. Do they count?

Re: People in glass houses

[vulgarcriminal.livejournal.com]

Only if they have the blood of the Messiah in them.

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

"I haven't seen that many people looking like that filling the aisles at the Trafford Centre".

That is because they are all trying to get into Meadowhall, surely?

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

The Doors at Meadowhall are like a 2000ad cover.

http://www.2000adonline.com/covers/2000ad/hires/440.jpg

Amazing how prescient John Wagner is.

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

The problem with BMI is that muscle weighs more than fat, so if you have big muscles it always classes you as a lardy bucket

(speaking as a size 12 "clinically obese" rock climber...)

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Well, exactly. I'm the figure of trim, yet it says I'm fat!
Completely unreasonable.

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

You have a 26 inch waist too?

[vulgarcriminal.livejournal.com]

http://onemorebite-weightloss.com/muscle-to-fat.html

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

No, neck.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Point. Muscle is desnser than fat, not heavier, so muscly folks look trimmer than porky ones of the same weight.

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

Um... that sort of proves that an equivalent SIZED bit of muslce DOES weigh more than an equivalent sized lump of fat...

Of course five pounds of one thing is going to weigh exactly the same as five pounds of something else, but the five pounds of muscle is lots SMALLER than the five pounds of fat. If the two bits were the same SIZE the muscle would be heavier.

[vulgarcriminal.livejournal.com]

I'm being pedantic. 1 pound = 1 pound, regardless of density.

[vulgarcriminal.livejournal.com]

I'm being petty. 1 pound = 1 pound regardless. But saying muscle is denser is apt.

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

Aye, but I wasn't talking about pounds, I was talking about sizes - or is size 12 a pounds weight figure in America? :P

[vulgarcriminal.livejournal.com]

'muscle weighs more than fat'

?

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

An equivalent sized bit of muscle DOES weight more than the same sized bit of fat.

A size 12 person who is muscular weighs more than a size 12 person who has no muscle.

[gwaunquest.livejournal.com]

I'm waiting for the invasion by the, very swift of foot, alien horde which has been fattening humanity for the last 20 odd years. Or for John Prescott and the like to rip off their fake bodies and run slavering into the shopping centres full of people incapable of breaking into an unsteady trot.

[vulgarcriminal.livejournal.com]

They invented HFCS.

Re: People in glass houses

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

If they're McDonalds Shakes, that's probably the only thing they don't have in them.

Yum yum.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Whole milk, sucrose, nonfat milk solids, corn syrup solids, cream, guar gum, sodium hexametaphosphate, carrageenan, imitation vanilla flavor, cellulose gum, high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, water, invert sugar, strawberry juice concentrate, citric add, sodium benzoate as a preservative, propylene glycol, artificial color (FD&C red 40, FD&C yellow (FD&C blue 1), artificial flavor.

[reddragdiva]

BMI stands for Bullshite Marketing Index and is pretty much entirely rubbish.

Re: Yum yum.

[(Anonymous)]

No modified starch? No sulphites? No modified fats / palm oil? Sometimes I think McDonalds isn't really going all-out to kill us after all.

I mean, propylene glycol is almost a health suppliment. My car runs like a dog without it.

- Ah, are you quoting the US ingredients? I think the EU shakes have Gypsum in.

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks for your considered medical opinion Doctor.

[reddragdiva]

No, thank you for your marketing wisdom! A BMI of 24 means BUY STUFF. What's the matter, don't you care about the economy?

[(Anonymous)]

?

[(Anonymous)]

I wonder what he typed first, before changing it to neck.