Attended the Cheonan Dance Festival tonight and it was pretty cool, though I must admit I was more interested in the festival food as opposed to the actual dancing part of the festival.
Koreans definitely know how to cook up a mean plate of food.
In my own personal opinion, Western food is so completely boring compared to Korea’s food. I love that their food is spicy. Beads of sweat build up on the tip of my nose, I have to fan myself a bit and sometimes it's so spicy that you can’t help but feel like your sweating your brains off while chowing down! I love it!!!
Half the time I feel like I don’t know all that I’m eating because along with the main dish comes a million-and-one veggie side dishes – veggies that I don’t even know the name of let alone have ever seen grace my plate in Canada and that’s okay with me. Bring on your identifiable veggies Korea. They could serve them with dog for all I care – and yes, I have eaten it – but if it’s tasty and my tummy smiles back than I’ll have some more please.
Koreans eat dog, China apparently eats cat (and anything drowned in deep fry, or so my friends tell me), but as much as Westerns want to point their finger and yell out “eww, that’s nasty”, they load up on veggies while so many Westerns are loading up their tummies with quite the opposite. Fast food, heart attacks-on-a-bun, and clog-your-arteries foods are consequently making obesity and other health related problems such a common issue among them.
I really noticed this when I brought Snickers to Canada for the first time, summer of 2010. He literally stepped off the plane and gasped in the airport. He’s convinced Canada is the land of the supersized – supersized houses, supersized meals, supersized price tags… but also supersized people. Honestly, I felt somewhat embarrassed because in Canada -- a country where vegetarians and vegans can so easily thrive and manage, where you can easily ask for menu alterations and buy non-fat this, low-carb that, and organic whatever -- it’s got a serious weight problem.
Please don't get the wrong idea, I’m not writing all this to sound like some kind of bully, that’s not it at all, instead I write about this because it is a big problem and I really wish I could do something about it. That’s why I love people like Tosca Reno, a woman who went from flabby and forty to fabulous and fifty and who is eagerly trying to educate the world about taking control of their health. The woman is simply amazing and very motivating.
"But you're so skinny Amy, you don't have to worry about your health"... what?! First of all, I live in Korea so according to Korean standards I'm not and it's only because of hard training, a dedication to educating myself about fitness and maintaining clean eating that I got to the size I am. My mother didn't give me any skinny genes. Thanks but no thanks.
Exercise only accounts for 10% of your overall health, genetics are another 10% but diet is 80%.
Yikes, eighty percent of what we eat (or don't eat) determines your health... ouch!!!
It’s one thing to be a larger person but it’s another thing to be larger because you’re unhealthy. My mom was a larger woman and even after she consciously worked at cleaning up her eating habits and adding daily exercise she remained large. She never really did drop in weight but changing her attitude about health changed her life so much. Not only did her level of health improve but consequently so did her level of comfort, level of confidence and level of happiness, all because she made a conscious effort to be pro-active about her health.
According to Forbes.com, “There are currently 1.6 billion overweight adults in the world, according to the World Health Organization. That number is projected to grow by 40% over the next 10 years. The following list reflects the percentage of overweight adults aged 15 and over. These are individuals who have individual body mass indexes, which measures weight relative to height, greater than or equal to 25. Obese is defined as having a BMI greater than or equal to 30.”
Make a change with your own health and there, that’s one person not feeding into that nasty statistic!!!
Koreans definitely know how to cook up a mean plate of food.
In my own personal opinion, Western food is so completely boring compared to Korea’s food. I love that their food is spicy. Beads of sweat build up on the tip of my nose, I have to fan myself a bit and sometimes it's so spicy that you can’t help but feel like your sweating your brains off while chowing down! I love it!!!
Half the time I feel like I don’t know all that I’m eating because along with the main dish comes a million-and-one veggie side dishes – veggies that I don’t even know the name of let alone have ever seen grace my plate in Canada and that’s okay with me. Bring on your identifiable veggies Korea. They could serve them with dog for all I care – and yes, I have eaten it – but if it’s tasty and my tummy smiles back than I’ll have some more please.
Koreans eat dog, China apparently eats cat (and anything drowned in deep fry, or so my friends tell me), but as much as Westerns want to point their finger and yell out “eww, that’s nasty”, they load up on veggies while so many Westerns are loading up their tummies with quite the opposite. Fast food, heart attacks-on-a-bun, and clog-your-arteries foods are consequently making obesity and other health related problems such a common issue among them.
I really noticed this when I brought Snickers to Canada for the first time, summer of 2010. He literally stepped off the plane and gasped in the airport. He’s convinced Canada is the land of the supersized – supersized houses, supersized meals, supersized price tags… but also supersized people. Honestly, I felt somewhat embarrassed because in Canada -- a country where vegetarians and vegans can so easily thrive and manage, where you can easily ask for menu alterations and buy non-fat this, low-carb that, and organic whatever -- it’s got a serious weight problem.
Please don't get the wrong idea, I’m not writing all this to sound like some kind of bully, that’s not it at all, instead I write about this because it is a big problem and I really wish I could do something about it. That’s why I love people like Tosca Reno, a woman who went from flabby and forty to fabulous and fifty and who is eagerly trying to educate the world about taking control of their health. The woman is simply amazing and very motivating.
"But you're so skinny Amy, you don't have to worry about your health"... what?! First of all, I live in Korea so according to Korean standards I'm not and it's only because of hard training, a dedication to educating myself about fitness and maintaining clean eating that I got to the size I am. My mother didn't give me any skinny genes. Thanks but no thanks.
Exercise only accounts for 10% of your overall health, genetics are another 10% but diet is 80%.
Yikes, eighty percent of what we eat (or don't eat) determines your health... ouch!!!
It’s one thing to be a larger person but it’s another thing to be larger because you’re unhealthy. My mom was a larger woman and even after she consciously worked at cleaning up her eating habits and adding daily exercise she remained large. She never really did drop in weight but changing her attitude about health changed her life so much. Not only did her level of health improve but consequently so did her level of comfort, level of confidence and level of happiness, all because she made a conscious effort to be pro-active about her health.
According to Forbes.com, “There are currently 1.6 billion overweight adults in the world, according to the World Health Organization. That number is projected to grow by 40% over the next 10 years. The following list reflects the percentage of overweight adults aged 15 and over. These are individuals who have individual body mass indexes, which measures weight relative to height, greater than or equal to 25. Obese is defined as having a BMI greater than or equal to 30.”
In the Forbes list of “The World’s Fattest Countries” 2007...My teacher once told me, “If you’re not a part of the solution, you’re a part of the problem”, so what part are you playing?! I'm busting my butt everyday not only to help encourage my friends with fitness and educate and train my personal training clients but at trying to set an example for them all. I'm hosting my boxercise class for free and may end up having to even pay to host it because of my boxing club's building rules. I want to extend myself to others, help those in my life take control of their lives by stepping up their health. So if you're thinking "I'm only one person", well let me tell you that one person can make a difference.
USA, ranked 9th with 74.1% of it’s population being overweight
Canada ranked 35th with 61.1%
South Korea ranked 123rd with 42%.
Make a change with your own health and there, that’s one person not feeding into that nasty statistic!!!
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