Fat men cant hunt.

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If you can't kill it and cook it, you'll be going hungry...

Most of us love our convenient Western lifestyles - supermarket shelves groaning with every possible type of food known to man, takeaway deliveries only a phone call away, and handy fridges to keep everything fresh.

However, our Stone Age ancestors lived on a hunter/gatherer diet - and many of the health problems that we in the West currently face can be linked directly back to the change in the way we eat.

In some parts of the world, people still need to hunt, kill, prepare and cook all of their own foodstuffs. Just how would a group of overweight, out-of-condition Brits cope with having to search for their supper?

Fat Men Can't Hunt is a four-part series that follows a group of eight men and women to see if they can live among the San Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert in Namibia. The men will have to join hunts, spending days at a time foraging for food. Meanwhile the women will have to stay in the camp, living their lives according to the strict social rules that govern local women.

Isolated in one of the world's harshest environments, will our brave volunteers adapt to their new lifestyle or end up begging to be airlifted to the nearest kebab shop?
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On BBC 3.

I watched the one i recorded last night and man am amazed as to how ignorant we westerners can be sometimes. Here are just some highlight.

One of the fat woman asked what will happen if she venture from the camp (after been told not to and how lion roam in the safari) and the guide told her she will be confronted by hyena or a lion. She then proceed to ask that what will a hyena (or lion) do!!! - At this point i must say this is what i once mentioned in a thread about how westerners are so brain-washed into beliving that wild animals like Bears, lion etc are cudley! :p Anyway back to the highlight - she was told she would be eaten. (she still appear not to belive it).

Some of them have never seen an animal killed before and seem not to know where meat come from. :eek:

The way the tribe also speaks is weird - similar to a well known tribe in SA.

Those are the ones i can think of for now. Anyone want to watch it should try bbc3 for the re-run. It is hilarious and funny.
 
And I'm sure if you sat a hunter-gatherer in front of a PC they'd cope admirably, right?

We've changed—for the better, IMO. Our ignorance of primitive ways of living doesn't make us rubbish people.
 
I think anyone raised in that sort of environment, being taught how to hunt and live as a group dependent on one another at a young age will think of their life as normal. So any group of westerners is obviously not going to hit the ground running with this sort of stuff. I'm sure if you brought a tribe from wherever and showed them the western lifestyle, they'd soon be overweight and lazy. :)
 
robmiller said:
And I'm sure if you sat a hunter-gatherer in front of a PC they'd cope admirably, right?

We've changed—for the better, IMO. Our ignorance of primitive ways of living doesn't make us rubbish people.
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That's not what am saying.

You think we have? Please watch the re-run before you comment. I never implied we are rubbish.

Speaking of change for better - One of the participant in the programm have a corner shop that is less than a mile or so from her house and in three years she has never walked to the shop, she drives instead. This is down to her been morbidly obese from binge eating.
 
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I doubt a healthy western person would survive very well either.

Sure they'd have the fitness to hunt, but would they actually want to go through with it? Doubtful.....

Can't really see the point of the program, we have long since gone past the state of having to hunt. We rather cleverly realised that a daddy animal and a mummy animal locked in a field produce baby animals that grow into rather nice meals. :p
 
MonkeyMan said:
I doubt a healthy western person would survive very well either.

Sure they'd have the fitness to hunt, but would they actually want to go through with it? Doubtful.....
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There is one guys in the programm - The official guide of the camp, he sounds autralian and has been living in that part of the world for 13 years or so.

Speaking of fitness, will you belive that the tribe elder weighs only 5 stone! (10% body fat too iirc). Now in this part of the world, that will be unhealty but the program explains that it will be an advantage for him - Hunting, etc.

MonkeyMan said:
Can't really see the point of the program, :p
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Apparently the volunteers have tried all sort of weigh-loss scheme but with no good result. :p
 
ElRazur said:
That's not what am saying.

You think we have? Please watch the re-run before you comment. I never implied we are rubbish.

Speaking of change for better - One of the participant in the programm have a corner shop that is less than a mile or so from her house and in three years she has never walked to the shop, she drives instead. This is down to her been morbidly obese from binge eating.
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This is one person out of the whole UK population, you can't extrapolate that to everyone. Most people in the UK are not morbidly obese, even if the amount of people who are overweight is on the rise.
 
I watched some of it and it just gets on my goat, it was the same with the programme where fat people walked the length of the country, I mean they are given this oppertunity and are probably paid and all they can do is moan at how hard it is, I mean did they think it was going to be easy :confused:

"I am in the african plans, its too hot" :mad:
 
TommoUK said:
This is one person out of the whole UK population, you can't extrapolate that to everyone. Most people in the UK are not morbidly obese, even if the amount of people who are overweight is on the rise.
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I didnt say she represent the whole of uk now or did i? I was just explaining some of the "changes" that wasnt necesarily good.
 
ElRazur said:
However, our Stone Age ancestors lived on a hunter/gatherer diet - and many of the health problems that we in the West currently face can be linked directly back to the change in the way we eat.
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Our Stone Age ancestors were probably lucky if they got to 30, now even unheathy people can live to 70+.

Everything else about animals etc is just education, some people are just not educated about wild animals, I have met people from London who have never seen a sheep in the outdoors before !
 
The one i cant stand on the show is the black one, seems like they all have the same problem. Do nothing but moan and use their big mouths to talk crap.
 
teaboy5 said:
The one i cant stand on the show is the black one, seems like they all have the same problem. Do nothing but moan and use their big mouths to talk crap.
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The black woman is annoying - the one from liverpool. My god she is annoying and she wouldnt even od nothing... :mad: :mad:
 
To blow my own trumpet, I would cope fine. I can catch and skin a rabbit. I know how to extract the correct parts of flesh from various animal's. I'm also a dab hand at using the natural surroundings to my advantage i.e. using natural materials to make shelter, weapons, equipment, etc.. just call me Ray Mears :cool:

/me L33T
 
Captain Planet said:
To blow my own trumpet, I would cope fine. I can catch and skin a rabbit. I know how to extract the correct parts of flesh from various animal's. I'm also a dab hand at using the natural surroundings to my advantage i.e. using natural materials to make shelter, weapons, equipment, etc.. just call me Ray Mears :cool:

/me L33T
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How would you catch the rabbit if you didnt have any resources such as wire or string to make snares?
 
ferretmaster said:
How would you catch the rabbit if you didnt have any resources such as wire or string to make snares?
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Throwing stick? keep it simple man!

Anyhow, you can make string from the simplest of sources in the wild
 
Thats Fattist :eek:


They wouldnt need to hunt, They woulkd sit there and wait it out until one of the other fat people die first then they will eat them :D
 
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