But, and now I´m maybe being too nasty...but I´ll just put it here regardless: One thing that has struck and amazed me at Ikea: It is that for about 50% of the young people working there this sentence would fit very well if printed on their polo shirts:
I sure hope I´ll not myself start growing horizontally as a result of working in that place... as the only direction I´d like to grow in at this stage in my life is upwards, mentally and spirtually!
Maybe she works at Ikea?
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Being an American, we are quite used to fuller figures. i'm not sure why working at Ikea would add on extra weight, unless there is a calorie packed American McDonalds
next door !!! When traveling to Mainland China I am amazed by how fit everyone is, I'm so used to seeing nice hefty mid-western Americans wattle around.
Yes, there is a hamburgeplace and a very nice icecream-shop as well.
Maybe it´s just me that has not noticed or realized before how alarmingly obese the younger generation of Icelanders is becoming.
But I remember that just the other day there were some figures in the paper that we are fast becoming even more obese than the Americans. We take up a lot of things from the USA culture, good and bad, sometimes so much so that we are in mockery called "The Little America".
Comes from being mid-way between America and Europe I guess. Some people think it´s all an influence from the US base at Keflavík, but I don´t think so, it´s just that the world is getting smaller with better ways of communication.
*chuckles*
*can't stop*
so true. and here i am saying this after having put on a few kilos sitting at home over the last two months.
thanks greta. i better start moving around again.
Where is that consciousness about health? Feel sorry for the icelanders.
There is a nice saying, "There is a container which is worst in the whole universe when it is full, and that container is our stomach." So better not make it full. always keep some room inside. :)
Even so, THIS is what keeps lots of people healthy in my country, even into an old age:
http://www.randburg.com/is/itr/
We have up to now, along with the Japanese, been the nation with the longest life-exspectancy in the world. But I´m quite concerned (along with Magnús Scheving of Lazy Town http://www.lazytown.com) that we will loose our place on that list in future if this development continues.
The Japanese islanders eat a lot of FISH and seafood, and that´s what we islanders of Iceland used to do as well, but now it´s a lot of steaks, mayonese-sauce, hamburgers, french-fries and pizzas!
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