Quote :

"‘Creping’, as plastic surgeons describe it, can occur when a person’s body weight falls so much that not enough fat covers their limbs to plump up their skin. The effect is often heightened when a person spends a lot of time in the sun, as the Beckhams do at their home in California."

You learn something new everyday...!

10/7/2010 4:00:51 PM

k

10/7/2010 4:06:42 PM

when she did this:
http://www.clevelandleader.com/node/14641
it made me

then i saw her models and i
http://www.lovelyish.com/733116802/are-victoria-beckhams-models-really-a-size-4-6/



actually now that i think about it, shes probably talking about european sizes 4 and 6, which translate to american 0 and 2....

[Edited on October 7, 2010 at 4:12 PM. Reason : dfdessd]

10/7/2010 4:08:26 PM

Yeah, I was about to say, size 6 in Europe is size 2 in the US. So a US size 0 is a Europe size 4.

10/7/2010 4:18:38 PM

All I know is that I would look like a huge cow compared to women in Europe. Do they have better/natural/less processed food?

10/7/2010 4:28:02 PM

They smoke a lot of cigarettes

10/7/2010 4:28:36 PM

^i think thats closer to it.

they just dont eat as much. (think)

Quote :

"Yeah, I was about to say, size 6 in Europe is size 2 in the US. So a US size 0 is a Europe size 4."

but then think about it....most fashion designers were looking for size 0...european



[Edited on October 7, 2010 at 4:36 PM. Reason : gihygijh]

10/7/2010 4:35:28 PM

i don't have any numbers on how much they smoke, but the food in europe is definitely better, from personal experience.

but then again, McD and its ilk are everywhere, so if anybody really wants garbage to eat, they can get it wherever they want. from my couple of months in europe every year, it does seem like they eat more produce and less processed stuff than americans. again, i have no numbers, if they do even exist in this case.

10/7/2010 4:38:58 PM

i lived in italy and germany for a while i thought it was pretty comparable to the US.

basically this

Quote :

"so if anybody really wants garbage to eat, they can get it wherever they want."

i think is the problem.

now this is just opinion but i think its an attitude americans have towards food in general: bigger is better: "OMG look how big this burger is for 4 bucks!" not "OMG this 4 oz piece of chicken tastes soooo good for $4".

[Edited on October 7, 2010 at 5:03 PM. Reason : not the only thing though...]

10/7/2010 4:59:57 PM

sorry for the double but this got me to thinking.
i know greeks tend to be all about plumpness. at least the older generation (well, this is completely anecdotal from my best friend for years being greek )
so i decided to look at a world map to see what other countries have higher obesity instances and this is what i got:



i dont know how accurate it is


but is that sudan? (im horrible at geography!)




[Edited on October 7, 2010 at 5:07 PM. Reason : actually im gonna try and find something a little more credited later ]

10/7/2010 5:05:13 PM

But if they get too skinny then this can happen too

http://blogs.wsj.com/juggle/2010/10/06/for-women-it-pays-to-be-very-thin/?mod=wsj_share_twitter

10/7/2010 5:07:02 PM

^^If you are referring to the dark red country near the top of Africa, that's Saudi Arabia.

10/7/2010 5:08:26 PM

^ Eritrea?

also

USA #1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11ONEONEONE

10/7/2010 5:08:42 PM

Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, and Bahrain are all red as well.

(Too much money, maids, servants, drivers, no activities other than malls, cafes, restaurants!!!)

(Eating is a serious cultural 'activity' in Arab cultures)

Quote :

"but is that sudan?"

HAHAHAHA... obesity in Sudan??!!!


[Edited on October 7, 2010 at 5:11 PM. Reason : ]

10/7/2010 5:10:52 PM

^thats why i was asking



http://www.femininebeauty.info/phillippa-diedrichs-fashion-advertising
(keep in mind these too are european sizes)

so the girl on the right is actually a 4 and girl on the left is actually an 8.





[Edited on October 7, 2010 at 5:14 PM. Reason : oops]

10/7/2010 5:13:15 PM

If you want to read something ridiculous:

Feeding desire: fatness, beauty, and sexuality among a Saharan people
By Rebecca Popenoe



They force-feed the girls while they're young to make them fat and desirable for marriage.

10/7/2010 5:15:41 PM

10/7/2010 5:17:03 PM

^^i've heard of that!

10/7/2010 5:17:49 PM

Yeah. They'd basically consider me a male in that country.

10/7/2010 5:18:15 PM

i remember hearing on npr or something how they force em to drink calorie ridden goos and the girls try their best not to throw up

10/7/2010 5:20:12 PM

Yeah I had to read it for an anthropology class. They eat a gooey concoction made of milk and grain.

When they reach a certain age, the girls are sent to a female family member who forces the consumption of this goo and use physical abuse to have the girls choke down the food. Crazy.

10/7/2010 5:23:29 PM

i force young girls to drink similar goos often and they usually try their best not to throw up

10/7/2010 5:23:55 PM

10/7/2010 5:24:17 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemiology_of_obesity

Images to see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:World_map_of_Male_Obesity,_2008.svg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:World_map_of_Female_Obesity,_2008.svg

A must see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:World_map_of_Energy_consumption_1961.svg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:World_map_of_Energy_consumption_2001-2003.svg

I was going to complain about the 3 shades of orange in that image above, but the links I just posted have 10 shades of orange. What kind of morons would do that?

Some more images which I will post:

10/7/2010 5:25:00 PM

nm

[Edited on October 7, 2010 at 5:32 PM. Reason : im dumb]

10/7/2010 5:32:14 PM

Quote :

"i dont know how accurate it is"

Yesterday a pediatric surgeon said the numbers are increasing drastically in Asian areas

10/7/2010 5:36:19 PM

About the force-feeding in the Sahara:

http://www.weirdworm.com/5-insane-marriage-rituals-from-around-the-world/2/

Quote :

"Fat Farms Practiced in: Mauritania (Africa) There are different standards of beauty in every part of the world. For example, despite the majority of Western brides stopping short of having their kidneys removed to lose weight before the big day, some cultures actually find huskier women more attractive…. and are prepared to go to disturbing lengths to put more junk in their women’s trunks. Enter the Mauritanian Fat Farms. Fat Farms are sort of the opposite of Fat Camps – a place where brides as young as five are sent to gain weight under the watchful eyes of wrinkled old crones, in order to become more attractive and get married as soon as possible. In the practice known as Leblouh, the girls are force fed a truckload of food—which might include more than 4 pounds of millet and 5 gallons of camel milk a day—and if they vomit, the supervising hags force them to eat it up. Failure to comply is reportedly often met with torture. So OK, maybe those places are not that different from Fat Camps. The sad part is, this practice has virtually disappeared until a couple of years ago when a military junta took over the country and reinstated it, probably hoping that fatter women will be easier to catch or something. Not like anyone would sleep with them otherwise, being a bunch of civilian-terrorizing assholes with grenade launchers."

They are destroying thousands of lives and affecting generations in the future, but of course, someone like indy will say I am bigoted for being strongly opposed to this cultural practice destruction of women and that it should be stopped by any means possible save physical harm.

10/7/2010 5:38:06 PM

i want to suck her toes

10/7/2010 5:40:13 PM

^^ relax.
people arent always going to agree with you.
other people are just as adamant that you are that they are right.

no need to call people out.

10/7/2010 5:42:45 PM

what happened in here?

10/7/2010 5:44:15 PM

4 pounds of grain and 19 liters of whole fat milk... WTF? And vomit?

These people should be jailed.

Quote :

"In the practice known as Leblouh, the girls are force fed a truckload of food—which might include more than 4 pounds of millet and 5 gallons of camel milk a day —and if they vomit, the supervising hags force them to eat it up . Failure to comply is reportedly often met with torture. So OK, maybe those places are not that different from Fat Camps. The sad part is, this practice has virtually disappeared until a couple of years ago when a military junta took over the country and reinstated it ."

[Edited on October 7, 2010 at 5:45 PM. Reason : ^^ child abuse is child abuse]

10/7/2010 5:44:31 PM

Quote :

"if they vomit, the supervising hags force them to eat it up"

THATS WHAT I HEARD!!

i couldnt remember what it was i just remember it was horrid.

^and some people believe its ok to spank their children and other people see that as abuse. it ends here. im not getting into a pissing contest. this is supposed to be about information.

[Edited on October 7, 2010 at 5:47 PM. Reason : guhg]

10/7/2010 5:45:30 PM

This is faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar from spanking. This is complete physical and mental destruction, literally.

/argument

Anyway, I just realized that 5 gallons is one of the large upside-down bottles in offices. Hardly anybody could drink that much WATER, so just imagine trying to drink that much WHOLE MILK... AS A CHILD!

Sick, sick, sick.

10/7/2010 5:51:52 PM

hahaha ok. you piss further. its only because you have a penis.

man i started looking at taboos around the world and im now curious if and where incestuous marriage is allowed or encouraged or.....arranged.

10/7/2010 5:55:42 PM

south carolina

10/7/2010 5:58:20 PM

^1st cousins right?

im talking brother sister shit

[Edited on October 7, 2010 at 6:03 PM. Reason : actually i need to study some more before cody gets back....WHELP SEE YA LATER (dumb and dumber )]

10/7/2010 5:59:54 PM

Pursuant to the USA vs Europe food choices discussion:

http://www.divinecaroline.com/22177/94738-seven-foods-banned-europe-available

Seven Food Products Banned in Europe Still Available in the U.S.

10/7/2010 6:58:42 PM

I would like to see more pictures crepin' from being too skinny. It happens more places than just the leg/knees, right?

10/7/2010 7:02:10 PM

I did a GIS, but only found just one in the first several pages: (the rest was materials and industrial processes)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1198795/Elle-Macpherson-shows-fine-Bodywork-46-gleams-car-launch.html


...

Quote :

"The condition, often called 'creping' by cosmetic surgeons, is the result of nothing more than the aging of the skin making it less firm and taut. The effect is particularly prevalent on people who have little fat on their bodies and who have spent much of their lives in sunnier climes, which happens to be the case with Miss Macpherson. Unfortunately, the fact that the light source is coming from the side rather than from a camera flashbulb in front of her in this picture only appears to exaggerate the effect. Surgeons who analysed this picture added that the effect is also apparently made worse since the photograph captures the exact moment when the skin on her right thigh is moving over the leg muscle as the weight is transferred from her left to her right leg."

10/7/2010 7:31:58 PM

^^^

I hope that the planned ban on Food Dyes goes through and that the US picks it up. (Though I doubt we will.)

10/7/2010 7:40:05 PM

Quote :

"man i started looking at taboos around the world and im now curious if and where incestuous marriage is allowed or encouraged or.....arranged."

I have read in various places that incest taboos are well-nigh universal

10/7/2010 7:47:12 PM

i'd still take that over a fat woman

10/7/2010 7:49:16 PM

BMI is foolish as a measurement of health.

10/8/2010 10:04:08 AM

Elle MacPherson does not look too skinny to me so her skin should not be doing that. She looks to be a healthy size and weight.

[Edited on October 8, 2010 at 10:07 AM. Reason : a]

10/8/2010 10:07:18 AM

wtf the EU is banning food dye because it might be linked to Attention Deficit Disorder?

pfft!
I think ADD is just future shock

its what happens when you put a hunter gatherer in a world full of flashing lights and loud noises

10/8/2010 10:13:19 AM

This is what crack does when you smoke too much of it

10/8/2010 10:16:18 AM