The big cost of obesity in South Africa

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StrontiumDog said:
You got the good genes from your grandparents then? Or as you say, lucky! And bad diet to boot, you are really living the life then :p
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Give my mother the dirty eye and ask why i do not have my dad's bad genes, but the milkmans very good genes :laugh:

surface said:
kids are on steroids ? :unsure:
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any oak on the field less than 30 years is a kid compared to me. but, if you look at the varcities clubs, it is clear that some of the boikies do not stick to chicken breast and egg yolks.

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diet as in eating healthy, not as in dieting.
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I fail at healthy and the limit how much to eat. both sort of diets do not exist for me. But i do train hard with the lads, lots of running and maneuvers. and as the senior big chap i am expected to be close to the ruck, so lots of running towards the ruck, or taking the ball up, or be close to ruck for defensive maneuvers. my saving grace actually that i can still do it, most of the time, and no serious injuries. had Achilles tendon buggering around, and then flu three times. otherwise the body still holds up.
When i stop playing i will have to booze less and be more strict with the eating. gonna suck big time:(
 
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Big Rat said:
OR.....
Give my mother the dirty eye and ask why i do not have my dad's bad genes, but the milkmans very good genes :laugh:


any oak on the field less than 30 years is a kid compared to me. but, if you look at the varcities clubs, it is clear that some of the boikies do not stick to chicken breast and egg yolks.


I fail at healthy and the limit how much to eat. both sort of diets do not exist for me. But i do train hard with the lads, lots of running and maneuvers. and as the senior big chap i am expected to be close to the ruck, so lots of running towards the ruck, or taking the ball up, or be close to ruck for defensive maneuvers. my saving grace actually that i can still do it, most of the time, and no serious injuries. had Achilles tendon buggering around, and then flu three times. otherwise the body still holds up.
When i stop playing i will have to booze less and be more strict with the eating. gonna suck big time:(
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Yeah, if you're active you can basically eat anything. :thumbsup:
 
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LCBXX said:
If ZA has an obesity problem, how is it possible that many Citizens go hungry?
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I think it is a bit of a starvation mentality that comes from living in an unstable country.

Food security in South Africa is a very, very recent phenomenon, so pretty much everyone who grows up here will develop cultural norms about not wasting food. If you went to your grandmother's house and took a plate of food and didn't finish it, she would likely scold you for wasting food. This means people here learn to eat food when they are not hungry because they have been taught that food is scarce.
 
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surface said:
I am not too much into sports scene but have honestly not heard of it in cricket/soccer/tennis yet. Maybe I need to get out of my boring suburb.
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you know the big school derbies? Gim/Boishaai, grey college/selbourne, paarl roos hts drosty etc...
Ask yourself why those big laddies that runs 8 second 100m, benchpresses the whole team just disappear after school.
School, no testing, but if you get to province/ bluebull cheetah level all of a sudden you need to let the gogo juice go. and then all falls apart.
Sports where power is more of a factor gets more advantage. soccer and cricket and tennis you need to be fit, rugby you need to be strong, then fit.
 
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konfab said:
How quickly could you do a 5km run?
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still counting since 2019! :laugh:
Hell no. did a 1.6km round the 11 minute mark, wet muddy field in boots. But i will not even attempt a 5km run. no need for rugby to have that kind of endurance, stop start is different than continious run.
 
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Big Rat said:
still counting since 2019! :laugh:
Hell no. did a 1.6km round the 11 minute mark, wet muddy field in boots. But i will not even attempt a 5km run. no need for rugby to have that kind of endurance, stop start is different than continious run.
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My brother in Christ... It is a 5km run, not the comrades marathon. 5km in endurance running is pretty much the warmup.

If you cannot do a 5km run in an ok-ish time, then you cannot really say you are fit in any way shape or form.
 
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konfab said:
My brother in Christ... It is a 5km run, not the comrades marathon. 5km in endurance running is pretty much the warmup.

If you cannot do a 5km run in an ok-ish time, then you cannot really say you are fit in any way shape or form.
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Who's saying that? :ROFL:
 
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Big Rat said:
Here i am, considered to be a fattie at 150kg, dropped a few. but i am healthy, 120/80 blood pressure, bloodsugar on the dial, cholesterol on the dial. Keep frustrating my doctor because all tests show me as healthy as can be, just the weight factor.
Then comes my buddy who cannot be in the same room as i when i sneeze, he will be blown away, he he has cholesterol in the 9's.
Or another skinny chap who is heavy diabetic, injects twice a day.
So how does me matching their combined weight make me the fat unhealthy bastard?
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This is 3 years ago, probably at the 155kg mark here. what helps me is being 1.96M helps to hide it;)
So tell me i'm a fattie.... :laugh:

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You're a fatty!

There. What now?
 
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konfab said:
My brother in Christ... It is a 5km run, not the comrades marathon. 5km in endurance running is pretty much the warmup.

If you cannot do a 5km run in an ok-ish time, then you cannot really say you are fit in any way shape or form.
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please do show where i say i am fit. I say i am active on a rugby field, do my part.

Show me a rugby club doing 5km runs as part of their exercises. we do about 5 kilos during the practice, but never a constant 'there, go jog'.
Short sprints, fall down get up sprint some more. it is entirely a different scenario than a solid 5k run.
We have lads like that, top fit, does his jogging on own time, and come game time, with all the tackles, energy sapping mauls and rucks, tackled, get up support next ruck scenarios, they do not last as long as the guys doing the short stuff.

the longest we run continuous is probably our broncos. goal line to 5, back to goal, to the 22, back to goal, to the 40m back to goal to halfway and back, then recycle backwards through that again, so 5 of those. 5 of these is about a 2kilometres, and it is not a jog, bit more brisk. and that stop start is the worst part.
But, if you want i'll go try to do it on Thursday at the field.
46 years old, 150 kg doing 5km, gonna be interesting :ROFL:
 
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Big Rat said:
please do show where i say i am fit. I say i am active on a rugby field, do my part.
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Here i am, considered to be a fattie at 150kg, dropped a few. but i am healthy, 120/80 blood pressure, bloodsugar on the dial, cholesterol on the dial. Keep frustrating my doctor because all tests show me as healthy as can be, just the weight factor.
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"Healthy as can be"
 
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Big Rat said:
I imagine you switching jerseys with that no1 in front of me. i knew what happened.
So i have my petty revenge for your nasty words.:D
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The truth is now nasty words?

Look I'm not being mean or anything. But it's like you're determined to say you aren't fat when the blubber is staring us in the face

I'm not a Vogue reader pretending a whale on the cover is "plus sized"
 
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From all my time on the internetz and observing health advice, it is usually the gluttony types with all the exercise, diet and benchmark advice.
 
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I'm built like Shrek, yes I admit, fat.
However, started to chow more veggies and fruit.
Drinking meds for issues serious weightloss can solve.
Started walking again - am more fit than expected but nowhere close to where it should be.
Besides, suggesting a fat dude starts running will result in a throat punch.
 
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