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Forums > Travel Yunnan > Bikes

@joshua

I lot of this sort of stuff often is sold in and around the local wet markets. You get the guys selling stuff off the back of a bike or trike. There are big woven (from plastic straps) baskets and panniers out there as well.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Looking for cast iron stove.

Ray
Have you tried contacting suppliers from made in China.com. Some will supply just one in China.
Another way round this is to find someone with a company to order you a sample stove for approval on the idea that you will want many.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Are cheap Chinese bikes worth buying ?

They are dirt cheap because they are low tech by construction as well as low tech equipped.. Usually made from steel (not alloy) tube and are relatively heavy. Perhaps the only weak point is that the bearings will wear out.

Hard to carry but easy to live with. Nothing wrong with mine. It just shakes the bones.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > All you can eat buffet ???

Sounds like a recipe for diabetes. Your blood sugar will spike and you will also trip insulin that turns blood sugar to fat.

If you load up on meat, dairy, and eggs you are still prone to high cholesterol, the enemy of red meat eaters. Even lean beef can comprise 40% total calories from fat (not by weight).

Just a polite suggestion.
A system of alternative day fasting (ADF) may be better if you are cutting. Day one, feast day no restrictions. Day two, only one meal of 1/3 of normal calorie intake. There is some overcompensation on feast days, but research has shown that this settles down to about 110% of required intake, and fast day has 66% deficit. ADF also tweaks the hormones that cause insulin production (reduces them).
ADF also fits in with day on/day off training routines.

Another way to tweak the metabolism is to eat 6 smaller meals a day and you need some carbs at night to fuel the growth. But I am assuming you have already tried this.

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I have noticed a lot more 'black' cabs where I live. One advantage of the little guy now owning a car. They will negotiate, some are greedy just find the next one. They actually line up like a taxi rank where I live.

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I agree that the problem is related to the moving away from the Paleao diet. The big shift seems to be more meat (they love high fat cuts), more oil, more noodles, and perhaps more than anything more rice.
Western fast foods, do not exist in my wife's hometown, diabetes, is a major problem there too. The people are also more active than I see in Kuming. The key change in their life has been more affluence.

The population is eating a lot more food generally than they did before. Blaming obesity on western fast food is easy, but I am not sure there is solid causality. Western fast-foods arrived arrived at the same time as more affluence.

The affluence coincided with more processed foods (a western style diet, but not fast foods, or western corporations). Perhaps it would be fairer to call this a developed countries bad diet.

In the supermarket we can see how much store space is dedicated to high fat,high sugar, snacks. These are mostly home market products. Some of the local drinks are much more prevalent than Coke, and have more sugar in them. For the supermarket it is a no brainer what to give shelf space to, as these foods all have high profit margins.

Buying oil and meat used to be a luxury. Now everyone can afford much larger portions, and more frequent consumption of both. My mother in law will admit to consuming more meat in some meals now than she used to get in a month. In the past her main source of oil was rendered animal fats, vegetable oil was store bought and rare.

I see my kids in school. Half of them have parents who understand nutrition, and the kids are consuming a Paleo diet. The other half consume a lot of high carb snacks between meals and eat huge portions of rice and oily foods at the canteen. WangLaoJi is seen as a semi-medicinal stimulant.
Or could draw a correlation between student diet and performance, but that would be unreliable as the kids on a healthy diet have parents who seem to make better choices generally. The educational attitude may also reflect the family values.

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Yes, when I first came to China 10 years ago I would maybe see one morbidly obese person, usually a pre-teen, about once per month. Now I see many more daily, and I also see more morbidly obese adults. You can't blame this all on western fast food.
I will use about 5 ltr of oil per year, mostly for baking bread, and less than 1 ltr for frying food. I see a neighbor coming home from the supermarket with that much every week.
People also think Asians are skinny because they eat rice. But rice is a simple carb. Lots of rice leads to fat. Add to that all the oil and sugar.

As for sedentary life, it is a problem, but 11% of the popn. do not live a sedentary life.

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A reasonable choice of lumber that has improved over time. Fancy hardwoods like walnut, and mahogany are in abundance. There are some plywood and rubber-wood boards available. There are also some kiln dried imported softwoods and merbao available. Some of the lumber is very green, so look for the kiln dried if you need stable timbers.

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Echo everything said by others.
Breakfast great and the serve from 8am. Most other places say 9am and they still are not ready.
Sandwiches are cheap 22-32, and really packed full of filling. We got some sandwiches for a day out, the only mistake I made was ordering two, as this was too much. These are seriously good sangars, and they are wrapped in alu foil.

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In fairness to Metro, they are a wholesalers, and not really a supermarket. Hence the need for a card, which can be got around.

They have improved in the year I have been away. They now carry a more consistent range of imported foodstuffs and they also seem to have sorted out the mported milk supply.

They have a wider range of electrical appliances now, there is a coice of more than one toast. There is also a better range of seasonal non foods, like clothes, shoes, garden furniture and camping gear.