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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MaxKaladin" data-source="post: 302604" data-attributes="member: 1196">Cities tend to be dangerous, armed or not.   I come from a well-armed small town in Texas where pretty much everyone has at leas one gun, but there is very little crime and what violent crime there is almost invariably is committed by people who came there from a big city.  I've lived in a large city for the last 5 years and I've never witnessed a violent crime.  You hear about it on the news all the time, but it's always in the same "poor" neighborhoods.  I think it's got more to do with the people involved than anything else.  ANYWAY, on the weight thing.  I'm always amazed at the amount of soft drinks people around me put away.  I never drink them.  I am, however, fat.  My problem, and I think this is overlooked a lot, is metabolism.  I was fine until I got to college.  A busy schedule where I didn't eat meals at regular times, skipped meals entirely and then overate at the next meal and snacked a lot to stave off cravings really threw my metabolism off.  It went into 'survival mode', and I started gaining weight.    I think our hectic "on the go" culture has a lot to do with it.  That and the soft drinks.  I have nieces and nephews who won't touch water and would survive on nothing but soft drinks if given a choice.  As it is, they drink the things way too much.  I think that's a big part of the problem with kids.  That and not being outside enough.  Either they don't want to go out because there is no tv/video games or their parents won't let them out (like one of me nephews) because they're sure the kid is going to get kidnapped and killed (and this nephew is 14) so you get lots of kids spending their time inside instead of outside.  Another thing that comes to mind on that score is air conditioning.  When I was a kid we didn't have it and staying inside was too stuffy in the summer, even in Texas.  Nowdays, given the choice, I wouldn't leave the air conditioning if I didn't have to.  That probably has something to do with it.</blockquote>

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