Here's video footage of the Think Pink, HOG ride in Bahrain last week. Uploaded here not only to promote the boys, but because there's some decent footage of the roads and buildings here in Bahrain. Well done and Keep it up boys:
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Saturday, October 29, 2011
Saturday, July 17, 2010
Fat Arabs: it's official
When I last visited America I was amazed at how slim everyone seemed to be. At the time I put it down to being in San Fransico and being surrounded by a city of people who were simply healthy. But then I got to Florida and it was the same.
I couldn't imagine, from everything I'd read and heard about America, the people I saw in the street were slimmer on average than the people I saw in the street in the Gulf. Basically I didn't believe what I was seeing.
Turns out I was right; many Americans are slimmer, on average, than Gulfies.
Each year the Economist publishes figures which include the percentage spending of GDP on health care, average figures for literacy and clean water supplies, as well as a list of the levels of obesity.
Scarily, of the top 9 places in this particular award, 4 members of the GCC make an appearance. Only Oman and the UAE are not mentioned. Thanks to LONDONGIRL for highlighting this idea.
The cartoon below highlights changes in dress sizes before and after marriage:
Places were given as follows:
10th Place: Cyprus
Joint 8th: Bahrain
About 1 million people live in Bahrain, of which it is said 23.3% of men are obese and 34.1% of women. Overall it is thought 28.7% of the adult population is obese.
Joint 8th: Kuwait
With a population of around 4 million, it is said 28.7% of Kuwaitis are obese. 29.9% of all women have a BMI of 30 or more, compared with 27.5% of men.
7th Place: Albania
6th Place: Mexico
5th Place: Panama
4th Place: USA
3rd Place: Saudi Arabia
Population is estimated to be around 25 million people. Of these, 35.2% of adults are obese; 26.4% men and 44% women.
2nd Place: Lebanon
1st Place: Qatar
Qatar's estimated 1.5 million citizens very large indeed; 39.95% of adults are obese. 34.6% of men have a BMI of over 30 and nearly half of all women; 45.3% are obese.
I couldn't imagine, from everything I'd read and heard about America, the people I saw in the street were slimmer on average than the people I saw in the street in the Gulf. Basically I didn't believe what I was seeing.
Turns out I was right; many Americans are slimmer, on average, than Gulfies.
Each year the Economist publishes figures which include the percentage spending of GDP on health care, average figures for literacy and clean water supplies, as well as a list of the levels of obesity.
Scarily, of the top 9 places in this particular award, 4 members of the GCC make an appearance. Only Oman and the UAE are not mentioned. Thanks to LONDONGIRL for highlighting this idea.
The cartoon below highlights changes in dress sizes before and after marriage:
Places were given as follows:
10th Place: Cyprus
Joint 8th: Bahrain
About 1 million people live in Bahrain, of which it is said 23.3% of men are obese and 34.1% of women. Overall it is thought 28.7% of the adult population is obese.
Joint 8th: Kuwait
With a population of around 4 million, it is said 28.7% of Kuwaitis are obese. 29.9% of all women have a BMI of 30 or more, compared with 27.5% of men.
7th Place: Albania
6th Place: Mexico
5th Place: Panama
4th Place: USA
3rd Place: Saudi Arabia
Population is estimated to be around 25 million people. Of these, 35.2% of adults are obese; 26.4% men and 44% women.
2nd Place: Lebanon
1st Place: Qatar
Qatar's estimated 1.5 million citizens very large indeed; 39.95% of adults are obese. 34.6% of men have a BMI of over 30 and nearly half of all women; 45.3% are obese.
Saturday, July 11, 2009
How hot did you say it was?
One of my favourite stories about the heat happened whilst we were in Jordan:
We were having breakfast in our hotel restaurant when a little girl from England threw her entire 3 foot body at the window and pressed herself as close as she could get to it. She raised her arms above her head and continued to press or wriggle her entire body into the window. Finally when she was sure of her vision and the warmth she was feeling, she turned around and said with some astonishment in her voice, "Daddy, Dad-dy, it's still sunny".
Summer's Here
It's the 11th July and summer is here. Instead of talking about how hot it is and how it's impossible to do anything outside, today's post lists some of the ways you know summer has arrived:
1. In the lift you can’t tell if the fan is on or off, the temperature feels the same either way
2. The sweat starts building up on the top of your head and runs down your face, taking your make-up with it, then runs past your armpits and down the small of your back and ends up in puddles around your backside. Then if it’s really hot, it continues to run down your legs and past the backs of your knees
3. The temperature feels the same whether you are standing in the shade (55oC/ 130oF) or the sun
4. If when you open your car door you look at the shadows on the ground you can watch the heat leaving the car in curls. Then you enter the car, sit down and burn your bottom on the seat. You attempt to turn the steering wheel but it is so hot it burns the skin off the palms of your hand. And you think about wearing gloves so you can touch the steering wheel, but it’s so hot your hands have swelled and the gloves are now too small to put on. When you finally manage to sit on the seat you find all your CDs have melted in the heat so now you can’t play your music and the plastic ballpoint pens have bent in half so you can’t write with them.
5. The birds in the garden have their beaks open and are panting
6. The water in the open air swimming pool is too hot to swim in after 10am in the morning
7. Your glasses steam up when you go inside and hit the air conditioning
8. The windows in your house are full of condensation because there is such a difference in temperature between inside and outside
9. When you go to the toilet you can feel the heat on your bottom coming off the water because the water is so hot
10. You switch off the water heater and use the water from outside
11. The pavements are so hot they burn your feet through your shoes
12. When you enter your office building you’re soaked to the skin and everybody sympathizes with you over the heat. And they’ll also be able to tell you the last day it was cooler and will compare today’s heat with yesterday’s heat
13. You think you’re going to die from heat exhaustion
We were having breakfast in our hotel restaurant when a little girl from England threw her entire 3 foot body at the window and pressed herself as close as she could get to it. She raised her arms above her head and continued to press or wriggle her entire body into the window. Finally when she was sure of her vision and the warmth she was feeling, she turned around and said with some astonishment in her voice, "Daddy, Dad-dy, it's still sunny".
Summer's Here
It's the 11th July and summer is here. Instead of talking about how hot it is and how it's impossible to do anything outside, today's post lists some of the ways you know summer has arrived:
1. In the lift you can’t tell if the fan is on or off, the temperature feels the same either way
2. The sweat starts building up on the top of your head and runs down your face, taking your make-up with it, then runs past your armpits and down the small of your back and ends up in puddles around your backside. Then if it’s really hot, it continues to run down your legs and past the backs of your knees
3. The temperature feels the same whether you are standing in the shade (55oC/ 130oF) or the sun
4. If when you open your car door you look at the shadows on the ground you can watch the heat leaving the car in curls. Then you enter the car, sit down and burn your bottom on the seat. You attempt to turn the steering wheel but it is so hot it burns the skin off the palms of your hand. And you think about wearing gloves so you can touch the steering wheel, but it’s so hot your hands have swelled and the gloves are now too small to put on. When you finally manage to sit on the seat you find all your CDs have melted in the heat so now you can’t play your music and the plastic ballpoint pens have bent in half so you can’t write with them.
5. The birds in the garden have their beaks open and are panting
6. The water in the open air swimming pool is too hot to swim in after 10am in the morning
7. Your glasses steam up when you go inside and hit the air conditioning
8. The windows in your house are full of condensation because there is such a difference in temperature between inside and outside
9. When you go to the toilet you can feel the heat on your bottom coming off the water because the water is so hot
10. You switch off the water heater and use the water from outside
11. The pavements are so hot they burn your feet through your shoes
12. When you enter your office building you’re soaked to the skin and everybody sympathizes with you over the heat. And they’ll also be able to tell you the last day it was cooler and will compare today’s heat with yesterday’s heat
13. You think you’re going to die from heat exhaustion
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