[krazynuck]

RICHMOND!!!

RICHMOND (NEWS1130) - Canada's obesity rate keeps going up but it's a different story for the City of Richmond. People there are considered the fittest in the country.

Just five per cent of adults are considered obese, compare that to the 35 per cent rate in northern Saskatchewan.

"We have some of the best walking trails in the world. You can walk all the way around the dike there is 29 miles of trails. We have well over 55 kilometers of bike paths," says City Councillor Bill McNulty.

Diversity in Richmond also plays a big role.

"You can start off in the morning at Minoru track and you'll see the same people walking around Richmond Centre Mall. You'll see Thai Chi out there, so you'll have other communities, ethnic communities doing exercises. You'll see people walking their dogs in dog parks. It cuts across all sectors of our community."

Mayor Malcolm Brodie says endorsing a healthy lifestyle has clearly paid off for people in his city. "What people eat how they eat and when they eat must be factors in terms of obesity and healthiness in general."

Just five per cent of adults considered obese
:fuckyea:

http://www.news1130.com/news/local/article/243869--richmond-dubbed-fittest-city-in-canada

[LiquidTurbo]

Been a while since Ive seen an obese Asian.

However I would say article is misleading.
Thin does not mean fit. Nor does it mean good health.
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[Simplex123]

Mayor Malcolm Brodie says endorsing a healthy lifestyle has clearly paid off for people in his city. "What people eat how they eat and when they eat must be factors in terms of obesity and healthiness in general."
Chinese food, with chopsticks, "Siu Ye" (Midnight Snack)

Did they just base this only on the percentage of obese people in each city? That doesn't necessarily mean that we are the fittest lol

[Jsunu]

Yay something to be proud of in Richmond lol! Too bad it is just a study on % of population that is obese rather than overall fitness.

[StylinRed]

all those "fit" asians in richmond have high cholesteral / heart conditions (and im not being stereotypical)

[ilvtofu]

Damn even with jeffield? :fullofwin:

[TOS'd]

Damn even with jeffield? :fullofwin:

Maybe hes whats stopping Richmond from being fittest city in the world.

[sonick]

all those "fit" asians in richmond have high cholesteral / heart conditions (and im not being stereotypical)

and Diabetes.

[7seven]

Slim does not equal fit.

[jaebomb]

Slims better then being a fat fuck
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[1exotic]

Richmond has a strong ratio of 90 pound guys... what do you expect.

[flagella]

Whoever did this study should not have been paid.

[quasi]

LOL, a couple people can't take sarcasm and the rest are sheep.

[wingies]

Fuck dude..come on!
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[KVG]

Is height to weight or age to weight considered? How was this comparison done?

[rocksforsale]

im pretty sure these kind of honger girls with twigs as limbs really skew the data
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IZA8AUSNZ_8/TYwoXkJgZnI/AAAAAAAAAYs/qG8-senzsUs/s1600/cute%2525252Bgirl%2525252Blong%2525252Bhairstyle3. jpg

[SkinnyPupp]

all those "fit" asians in richmond have high cholesteral / heart conditions (and im not being stereotypical)
Exactly. The fact that they are using weight and only weight as an indicator of "fit" is just one big pure pile of FAIL.

There are plenty of obese asians. The thing is, being asians, they are typically smaller. So an obese asian person may only weigh 200 lbs at most, and may not have a huge double chin or giant arms (there are plenty of those around too, but not typically). Does that mean they are as "fit" as the guys in the bodybuilding thread who are 200-250 lbs but lean and ripped? According to this dumbcunt "study" it does.

[gars]

exactly. BMI is probably one of the worst indicators of health. I have a friend who is just naturally petite, but every time she goes to the doctor - she is told she is underweight.

BMI is different for every body type and is not an indication of health.

[7seven]

The news1130 write up is extremely misleading. The study was conducted by the Canadian Institute for Health Information and the Public Health Agency of Canada on obesity rates, not fitness levels.

According to a joint report issued Monday from the Canadian Institute for Health Information and the Public Health Agency of Canada, one in four adults are now obese.

In Richmond, however, just five per cent of adults — one in 20 — are obese.
While the report doesn’t say why the community beats even fitness-crazy Vancouver, which stands at 6.2 per cent


http://www.theprovince.com/health/Obesity+rise+Canada+Richmond+lowest+rate+country/4977837/story.html

[SkinnyPupp]

Been a while since Ive seen an obese Asian.

However I would say article is misleading.
Thin does not mean fit. Nor does it mean good health.
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I see them everywhere in Hong Kong. They are just generally smaller, and the obese body type is different. Just about every man here over 40 has what I have dubbed a "pregnant belly". Big, tight, round belly - a perfect indicator of early onset diabetes and heart disease.

That's more the 'city' crowd though. Now that I live in a rural area, I don't see it as much.

[7seven]

exactly. BMI is probably one of the worst indicators of health. I have a friend who is just naturally petite, but every time she goes to the doctor - she is told she is underweight.

BMI is different for every body type and is not an indication of health.

Exactly, if I strictly went by the BMI, I'm considered obese lol. I'm a gym rat and have more muscle mass making me weigh more than the average in my height group as per the BMI.

[SkinnyPupp]

Also "obese" has nothing to do with just being or looking "really fat". It has nothing to do with body weight or even BMI. All it means is, you are fat enough that it is causing potential health problems. So you could be 200 lbs and obese if you have a lot of visceral fat (the guys with pregnant bellies - liver disease, diabetes, etc) or 500 lbs and have the same problems (among others).

[ilvtofu]

Is height to weight or age to weight considered? How was this comparison done?

The data just counts obese people, not anorexics.

To be fair to the chinese people, there are a lot that still eat a lot and exercise a lot and are still twigs, so I wouldn't flame them and label them as anorexics and unhealthy. They just have different body types. I have noticed that a lot of private exercise facilities have opened in richmond in recent years and this (low obesity rate) may be a result of that.

Badminton courts in particular seem to have exploded around richmond recently

[Chronix]

and Asians have the highest count of having dialysis/kidney problems due to high amount of salt and MSG in their food. (Always see them in the hospital)

[The_AK]

just because you're NOT obese does not mean you're fit

[bloodmack]

yeah, still #1 in stupid car accidents..

[shawn79]

richmond has the best food and restruant in greater vancouver

[Culture_Vulture]

bullshit report with absolutely no scientific merit/effort put into the research
do people honestly have ANY clue what type of health conditions the average Asian has?

[Jsunu]

richmond has the best food and restruant in greater vancouver

As a Richmond dweller, the food here isn't all that special.

[Cman333]

Maybe "slimmest" would be the best term

Fittest? I don't think so


I bet you we have one of the highest smoking populations and least active. LOL

[drunkrussian]

this isn't the first time richmond's won...i agree that it's misleading, seeing as how old, skinny chinese grandparents dominate the city

[drunkrussian]

richmond has the best food and restruant in greater vancouver

As a Richmond dweller, the food here isn't all that special.

as a richmond dweller i too disagree that it has the best food...far from it. However, i will say that the chinese food is better than most places in gvrd and there's nowhere else where you can find so much asian food, in such variety, within such a close proximity, as in richmond. get some taiwanese food, cross the street have some sushi, cross the street have a hk cafe, cross the street have shanghai food.

[RRxtar]

as a richmond dweller i too disagree that it has the best food...far from it. However, i will say that the chinese food is better than most places in gvrd and there's nowhere else where you can find so much asian food, in such variety, within such a close proximity, as in richmond. get some taiwanese food, cross the street have some sushi, cross the street have a hk cafe, cross the street have shanghai food.
pft. aint got shit on vancouver.

get some starbucks, cross the street get some starbucks....


wait you said variety. haha

[Vansterdam]

lol richmond :troll:

[hk20000]

LOL but hey you jelly we get to look at skinny Asian chicks all day long?

[RRxtar]

Im from Kelowna. I get to look at ungodly amounts of hot white bishes all day! Who jelly now!?

[hk20000]

:alone:

[lucidgtr]

richmond? lol all the badminton i guess

[goo3]

They use bmi cuz it's cheap and easy.. and i guess easy to understand for the average fat joe. Actually testing the broad population is a little difficult to do.

don't look too much into it, but since a low percentage of ppl actually bulk up, you can use it to find out in which region of the country the fat fucks reside, generally speaking

[SkinnyPupp]

They use bmi cuz it's cheap and easy.. and i guess easy to understand for the average fat joe. Actually testing the broad population is a little difficult to do.

don't look too much into it, but since a low percentage of ppl actually bulk up, you can use it to find out in which region of the country the fat fucks reside, generally speaking
Wrong. It doesn't tell you anything at all, generally or specifically. It is completely and utterly useless to say one city has more people who weight less than another.

[goo3]

So if you hold all other factors equal and one region has higher average BMI over another, that tells you no information?

And if you compare BMI of children (or adults) over time periods, and the trend is up, then that also tells you no information?

Obesity has always been measured by BMI and probably will be for awhile. It's known to be flawed and inexact, but it's meant to be a general measure of a population, not individuals. You need a little creativity to see past its deficiencies, but not that much. C'mon.....

http://www.eaves.ca/wp-content/uploads/2008/Obese%20Map%20of%20NA%202.png

http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/9251/obesitylr6.gif

[MoBettah]

Time to move to Hawaii

[drunkrussian]

So if you hold all other factors equal and one region has higher average BMI over another, that tells you no information?

And if you compare BMI of children (or adults) over time periods, and the trend is up, then that also tells you no information?

Obesity has always been measured by BMI and probably will be for awhile. It's known to be flawed and inexact, but it's meant to be a general measure of a population, not individuals. You need a little creativity to see past its deficiencies, but not that much.

yeah for obesity. but i think he was saying that the term "fittest" here is misleading, as it implies general health too. in richmond anorexic chicks and old ppl with taburculosis skew the bmi charts lol
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[InvisibleSoul]

I would like to see the list of slimmest cities and the corresponding percentage of Asian or Chinese that live there.

I think Asians are genetically predisposed to not be as likely to get fat.

[will068]

I would like to see the list of slimmest cities and the corresponding percentage of Asian or Chinese that live there.

I think Asians are genetically predisposed to not be as likely to get fat.

worldwide ? Some war-torn country in Africa probably.

[InvisibleSoul]

worldwide ? Some war-torn country in Africa probably.
No, in Canada.

[Culverin]

I would like to see the list of slimmest cities and the corresponding percentage of Asian or Chinese that live there.

I think Asians are genetically predisposed to not be as likely to get fat.

That's probably true, cause asians lived in abundance?

Whereas those (races?) that lived where food was scarce seem to get fat easily. North American aboriginals and black people?

[WakeMeUp]

All that map above is showing is the rough percentage of Asian vs White vs Black people in the population. More Asians in BC and Ontario, and Blacks concentrated in the Southern states. These studies are so transparent and the results can largely be explained by race.

[SkinnyPupp]

That's probably true, cause asians lived in abundance?

Whereas those (races?) that lived where food was scarce seem to get fat easily. North American aboriginals and black people?
Because in North America, the poorer you are, the fatter you are. Low cost food is all refined garbage carbs and modified oils, with huge portions. Studies have been done on native populations in the US, where they see a sudden and drastic increase in average body weight and diabetes (something they NEVER would get) after being moved into reservations.

One study in Australia took some overweight poor aboriginals and moved them back to their original land, to eat their normal diet (meat, foraged fruits, vegetables) and of course they immediately lost weight.

You could take a 'diabetes' map and overlay it with a 'poor areas' map and they would probably correlate quite well.

And this is not to say that all fat people are poor, or all poor people are fat, but poor people tend to have the worst diets.

[white_guilt]

the least obese and also the most underweight city in all of Canada. the women there are twigs and the men there are pure molecular strings.

[belka]

So fit = underweight and skinny? Stupid.

[JSALES]

don't believe that's accurate

[jack3d]

too bad its got the highest anorexia rate

[LW]

I wouldn't have guessed that. But as discussed, being thin certainly doesn't indicate fitness accurately. I know plenty of thin people that couldn't run 5K, period.

[Meowjin]

richmond has awesome and cheap food. No idea what you fools are talking about.

[SkinnyPupp]

^^^ But it's not trendy to eat cheap food that just tastes good.

[Mananetwork]

Been a while since Ive seen an obese Asian.

However I would say article is misleading.
Thin does not mean fit. Nor does it mean good health.
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I'm glad someone else caught this too! Thought the same thing.

[goo3]

yeah for obesity. but i think he was saying that the term "fittest" here is misleading, as it implies general health too. in richmond anorexic chicks and old ppl with taburculosis skew the bmi charts lol
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Blame the news for that, not the measure.

[SkinnyPupp]

Blame the news for that, not the measure.
Blame the CDC for that. They have no reason to be as inflated and big as they are, so they make up reasons like "obesity epidemics" and "fat = dead". Their "research" doesn't stand up to the least bit of scrutiny though.

[Meowjin]

i wouldnt deny if richmond is fit though. The gym's are always packed here, and minoru track is pretty busy... hell even my 60 year old godmother and godfather go to watermania and do water excersises.

[krazynuck]

the shell trail is always packed with people as well....I am sure that parts of the city are fit while others only look fit

[Naked Ocelot]

all those "fit" asians in richmond have high cholesteral / heart conditions (and im not being stereotypical)

yep some of the most unhealthy people appear to be thin and so called "fit"