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| Tweet Topic Started: May 11 2010, 01:52 PM (377 Views) | |
| musicasacra | May 11 2010, 01:52 PM Post #1 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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http://www.livestrong.com/article/93638-whtr-the-new-determinant-health-risk/ |
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| Aqua Letifer | May 11 2010, 01:54 PM Post #2 |
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Yeah, as good a rule of thumb as any I suppose. I've always been a fan of percent body fat. |
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| Larry | May 11 2010, 08:05 PM Post #3 |
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Mmmmmmm, pie!
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Ah.. I thought they'd started a new royalties agency.... |
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Of the Pokatwat Tribe | |
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| taiwan_girl | May 12 2010, 05:54 AM Post #4 |
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So more is better? Just kidding.The article makes sense I think. It all comes down to eating healthy and exercising. |
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| big al | May 12 2010, 06:33 AM Post #5 |
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Interesting how acronyms/initialisms mean different things to different people. Here's an example I recently encountered reading a scientific article: TTL. Being an electrical engineer, I think immediately of transistor-transistor logic when I see TTL. Even though the article defined TTL as tubulin-tyrosine ligase, I still had a hard time not immediatly thinking transistor-transistor logic when I encountered TTL in the article. Sometimes I encounter this when I try to find an organization by typing in its abbreviation as a web address; for example, nema.org works for the National Electrical Manufacturers' Association. but pso.org takes me to the Pacific Symphony, not the Pittsburgh Symphony. The initials of the company I work for lead to a manufacturer of cabinets and fixtures in Minnesota. I discovered that when someone asked me why our website's name had the word net ahead of the .com. Big Al |
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Location: Western PA "jesu, der simcha fun der man's farlangen." -bachophile | |
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| ivorythumper | May 12 2010, 10:45 AM Post #6 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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So a 6' man with a 38" waist line is borderline overweight? |
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| Red Rice | May 12 2010, 11:21 AM Post #7 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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That WHR is pretty forgiving. I would think that a 6' man with a 38" waist is significantly overweight. |
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Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool. I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss! - Cecil Lewis | |
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| Riley | May 12 2010, 08:58 PM Post #8 |
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| ivorythumper | May 12 2010, 10:59 PM Post #9 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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OK, upper end, but I have a lot more years eating and a lot slower metabolism.... |
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| John D'Oh | May 13 2010, 04:19 AM Post #10 |
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MAMIL
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Thank God, I'm no longer overweight. MS - I am forever in your debt! In reality, I'm about 15 pounds heavier than I'd like to be. When I did the 'are you a porker?' test on the Nintendo Wii, it painted me as borderling obese, which is absolutely bloody ridiculous. I hate to think what the stupid test does to the self-confidence of children who are a little heavy. My kids thought this was so funny they faked a character and both stood on the weighing mat together to create this Augustus Gloop like figure. |
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| Axtremus | May 13 2010, 04:47 AM Post #11 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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May be the Japanese just have a different standard for what counts as obesity. |
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| John D'Oh | May 13 2010, 05:30 AM Post #12 |
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MAMIL
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Maybe they need to attend cultural sensitivity training classes. Never mind all that nonsense with the bowing and admiring the business cards - stop laughing at the fat gaijin! |
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| Axtremus | May 13 2010, 05:33 AM Post #13 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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More likely, the Brits just have a different standard for cultural sensitivity. |
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| John D'Oh | May 13 2010, 06:10 AM Post #14 |
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MAMIL
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We've always been renowned for being highly sensitive to the whacky behaviour exhibited by lesser cultures. |
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