MereMåle

On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 10:23:11 -0500, "Jenny"
<lottadatacarbs@hotmail.com> wrote:

snip T
>The main reason that women in Asian cultures are thin probably has to do
>with cultural traditions in which women don't get much food. Often the get
>to eat only the food that is left after the men have eaten. Food for
>everyone in these cultures is pretty limited to start with: so the
>explanation is serious malnutrition. These are the same cultures that
>starve female babies when times are tight.
>
BS,,,
Maximus BS Jenny, or at least you have
not convinced me, yet..!
1. The women do the gathering (food source)
2. The women do the food prep (food source)
3. The women do the cooking (food source)
4. The women feed the children (food source)
5. The women server the food - men and guests (food source)
6. The women clean and wash up (food source)
7. The women feed the animals (food source)
8. The women are often 'treated' in exchange for sex
(food source)

Compared to the one bowl of steamed rice (maybe) per day the
average field hand gets in a subsistence existence, I would
say the women certainly get the better end of the deal.
So why are they thin?
...try again with "inventive mode" in OD <BG>

MM
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Tony Lew

"revek" <pphillps1962@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<c3rj8j$2abofg$1@ID-190183.news.uni-berlin.de>...
> Tony Lew burbled across the ether:
> > "revek" <tanirevek@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> > news:<c3njf6$2a22rf$1@ID-190183.news.uni-berlin.de>...
> >> In news:5c7896da.0403221239.184da0a3@posting.google.c om,
> >> Tony Lew <rosescripter@yahoo.com> coded for transmition to space:
> >>>>> I think you're confusing Asia with the Middle East.
> >>>>
> >>>> Nope. She used the wrong word. She meant to use 'oriental' which
> >>>> includes more than Asia.
> >>>
> >>> Wow! Where did you get this fantastic ability to read minds?
> >>
> >> Same place you did. I just didn't pussyfoot around about it. "I
> >> think you're confusing" indeed.
> >
> > So, you see no difference between:
> >
> > "I think you're..."
> >
> > and
> >
> > "She meant to..."
>
> Not in this particular context.

In the context of knowing what someone "meant" to do?

Piedlourde

Ahhh, how I love armchair anthropology. :P

Piedlourde

revek

In news:5c7896da.0403241222.3d6af56@posting.google.co m,
Tony Lew <rosescripter@yahoo.com> coded for transmition to space:
> "revek" <pphillps1962@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:<c3rj8j$2abofg$1@ID-190183.news.uni-berlin.de>...
>> Tony Lew burbled across the ether:
>>> "revek" <tanirevek@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>>> news:<c3njf6$2a22rf$1@ID-190183.news.uni-berlin.de>...
>>>> In news:5c7896da.0403221239.184da0a3@posting.google.c om,
>>>> Tony Lew <rosescripter@yahoo.com> coded for transmition to space:
>>>>>>> I think you're confusing Asia with the Middle East.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Nope. She used the wrong word. She meant to use 'oriental'
>>>>>> which includes more than Asia.
>>>>>
>>>>> Wow! Where did you get this fantastic ability to read minds?
>>>>
>>>> Same place you did. I just didn't pussyfoot around about it. "I
>>>> think you're confusing" indeed.
>>>
>>> So, you see no difference between:
>>>
>>> "I think you're..."
>>>
>>> and
>>>
>>> "She meant to..."
>>
>> Not in this particular context.
>
> In the context of knowing what someone "meant" to do?

In the context of this discussion. I've been interacting, sometimes
rather strenuously, with Jenny for over a year. I believe I have a
fair grasp on how her mind works. I have a suspicion you are just
being pissy this week.

--
revek
'The surest sign that there is intelligent life elsewhere in the
universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.' Calvin and
Hobbes

frascalis

To all,

I lived in Singapore for a few years and was truly amazed at how much people ate everyday. But then everybody seemed to be skinny and not particularly active either !

Although Orientals of course ate a lot of rice and noodles, they also ate copious amount of meat too. Usually their food was very greasy also due to various "imports" from Malaysia and India.

I tried to follow the thread to get an explanation.....but could not find any !

I know oriental people who eat western food everyday also, and a lot more than me. Nonetheless they do not seem to put an ounce on.

Like the first poster : I am jealous !!!!!!!!!!

Genetic after all ??