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3 Months in Asia, lost 20 pounds
It seems like it is very easy to be healthy in Asia as compared to America, as the size of the average person would indicate. Sure, we are not all Texans, but we are not known for being a healthy country. I guess this is one advantage to the rice and something diet, which I'm not implying is really all that difficult, being that there is quite a selection of "something" to go on your rice. Lets not forget the economic incentives. For the cost of a McDonald's value meal, I can get roughly five Thai meals. Best of all, its real food. It seems like any food that people actually have time to eat during the average working day in America is most certainly not. Can you decode that ingredients list? My guess is not, unless maybe you have a chemistry degree. Every morning on the walk to my favorite wifi coffee shop, where I spend my afternoons programming, I pass three fruit markets. For about twenty cents I get an ice cold coconut to go, where the lady happily chops off the top with her machete and hands me a straw. Actually, in my area it is far easier to find a coconut, than a soda machine. In the foreigner areas, there is lots of foreigner food. European, Middle Eastern, Asian, Indian and fast (American). Honestly, can't say I miss seeing a McDonald's on every corner anyhow.
