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[Cthulhu]

I don't think frying it and mixing it with eggs will have the same results, but you probably know that, and are being facetious.

[Torak]

I don't think frying it and mixing it with eggs will have the same results, but you probably know that, and are being facetious.

When I say fried, I mean throwing it onto a burning hot pan long enough to singe the hell out of it. None of that half a gallon of oil and crap that most people do when they fry stuff.

[Nilocy]

hmm, rice diet, dunno about that one. I'd go with only eating pasta myself. Or acctually eating celery, its one of the few negative food product for humans ever. It uses more energy to digest it than it supplies, something to do with the hard exterior and the cell walls being ever so slightly different.

I don't think frying it and mixing it with eggs will have the same results, but you probably know that, and are being facetious.

When I say fried, I mean throwing it onto a burning hot pan long enough to singe the hell out of it. None of that half a gallon of oil and crap that most people do when they fry stuff.

What?! Eggs with no grease?! that so horrible i just might cry.

[Asheron]

Wha... you people do way too much for your health...
I don't try to eat healthy, but I do eat enough vegies and fruit and the stuff. Just impulsive. On the other hand, I eat my fair amount of greasy European food ( I can't take people seriously when they name something freedom fries ). I don't do any special exercises, just the things I do everyday.
Meh. I'm boring.

By the way, rice is glory. Tis a food of champions - Chuck Norris.

[Kagus]

The celery thing is a myth, by the way...  It still provides more calories than it takes to eat/digest, just not a whole lot.  And pasta is completely different from rice, as rice contains a lot of healthy stuff in the skin.

Oh, and as for oil, Indians do use a lot of it.  Breakfast can contain a couple cups of cooking oil, and I don't mean dip-in and take-out, I mean in the food.  There were a few large folks over there, and we couldn't figure out how they managed to do it...  Then someone clued us in on the common knowledge that eating potatoes causes people to get fat.

So, yeah...  Not the oil, not the mass quantities of food, but potatoes.  Oddly enough, from our own experience, we were inclined to agree. 

Also, I think four months is long enough to settle into a diet.  But it is indeed possible that the heat (both of the region and of the food, muahahaha) had something to do with it.  But we didn't get a whole lot of chance to sweat, since it was rather humid.  And "hard labor" didn't enter into it at all.  Remember, these are people who hire a rickshaw to take them distances beyond the end of the block.

And no, that is not an exaggeration.

[umiman]

Kagus: It actually sounds like you're describing things from the perspective of a colonial inspector rather than a tourist. Very... interesting sort of descriptions you give. Where did you visit?

And as someone who spent 75% of his life in 100% humidity countries, I have to disagree with you that humidity reduces sweating. I REALLY have to disagree with you. My washing machine has to disagree with you on principle alone. In fact, in Edmonton where humidity is 0%, I get totally surprised when I see sweat outside. It's like a miracle.

In fact, I have scientific evidence to back it up:

Humans are very sensitive to humidity, as the skin relies on the air to get rid of moisture. The process of sweating is your body's attempt to keep cool and maintain its current temperature. If the air is at 100-percent relative humidity, sweat will not evaporate into the air. As a result, we feel much hotter than the actual temperature when the relative humidity is high. If the relative humidity is low, we can feel much cooler than the actual temperature because our sweat evaporates easily, cooling us off. For example, if the air temperature is 75 degrees Fahrenheit (24 degrees Celsius) and the relative humidity is zero percent, the air temperature feels like 69 degrees Fahrenheit (21 C) to our bodies. If the air temperature is 75 degrees Fahrenheit (24 C) and the relative humidity is 100 percent, we feel like it's 80 degrees (27 C) out.

Dun dun dunnnn! Are you sure you went to India? Was it Nepal you were visiting then? Hehehehe. Just joking man.

[Kagus]

Well, maybe it was just me.  I don't remember sweating all that much, and being surprised that I wasn't.  And it's not that you sweat less in a dry climate, it's just that it dries up before you get a chance to see most of it (I live in Vegas).

And we went to Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh, down south.  Not only is it famous for its cuisine, but it's also the place your calls get routed when you talk to tech support.


How would a tourist describe it, by the way?

[umiman]

On the contrary, when your body is hot, it sweats to cool itself right? But because of high humidity, sweat doesn't evaporate and it makes your body hotter. Your body feels hotter, what's it going to do?

A tourist description would concentrate more on extremes and focal points. This is because tourists don't usually have enough time to bear witness to actual going ons as they're so busy shuffling from place to place that they only notice really, really big differences in culture or architecture. But it tends to depend on the shallowness of the person.

[Kagus]

Like I said, I don't remember sweating all that much.  Might just be my faulty memory though.

And I had four months in India, so I had plenty of time to observe the goings-on.  But most of it seemed quite different, so I wouldn't know what an only slightly different thing would be.

[umiman]

An example then:
Suppose we have two people. One visits Nepal for three days. One visits Nepal as an ambassador for two years.

The tourist would go and return with stories about how the mountains were huge and towering and how people ate llama cheese and how everyone lives in shacks.

The ambassador would go and return with stories about how when someone gets married in Nepal, they do so and so and this and that then engage here and there. Or when someone toasts a drink in a bar in Nepal, you must say "something something" and put your left foot forward. Etc.

[Kagus]

...

They have llamas in Nepal?

[umiman]

They spit in your face. According to Tintin anyway.

[Asheron]

Tintin? Who is that?
Ah, you mean this guy...
You have been lied to, umiman.
His real name is Kuifje. And his dog's name is Bobby.
Proof.

[A_Fey_Dwarf]

Hee, our next door neighbors have alpaca's and they do in fact spit in your face. I consider myself quite healthy, I go to the gym twice a week, compete in a running sport called orienteering every second Sunday, i eat fish, Vegetables, only small amounts of meat. I don't know my blood pressure or cholesterol because I never go to my GP as I am very rarely sick. I don't have any scales in my house(apparently my mother is afraid of them), so I don't know my weight, but I do know my height is around 5'8".

[Narushima]

I'm French. So of course, our food is the best, and we're all healthy and thin.
Yeah, I'm kidding, french people eat as much junk food as anyone and I eat chinese noodles all the time !
Besides that, Marfan syndrome anyone else ?