People who get fat usually can’t exercise out of it. The more they exercise the more they eat. You need hormonal signals to switch from “summer build fat” mode to “winter burn fat” mode

Our food supply is always summer: fruit, sugar, carbohydrates. What carbohydrates grow in your region in winter? There are none in mine and none where my ancestors lived.

The only way I have ever lost weight to the point where my waist is narrower than my hips has been very low carbohydrate diets, and I have tried lots of ways of losing fat.

You can’t outrun a cheeseburger

Ok also regulate sugar as a drug of dependence

Ban every food and drink invented in the last hundred years

About 2 or 3m away in a boat. Closer in the wild in Kakadu than in the farm in Cairns

There are so few dangerous animals. Up north there are crocodiles, ask a tropical Aussie how to avoid those.

On the coast there’s the blue ring octopus so we’re taught to not pick up small octopuses, and cone shell molluscs so we wear shoes when walking on seaside rocks and rock pools. There are two dangerous spiders, redbacks are the same as black widows, Sydney funnel-webs weave a distinctive web, you mostly avoid those by not sticking your fingers into finger sized holes,

There are snakes that mostly flee from you. Wait a few metres away from the snake and wait for it to move. Almost all snake bite victims in Australia are snake handlers and wildlife fans.

Our one dangerous bird (cassowary) is only dangerous if cornered and attacked

Australia has none except crocodiles, I have seen crocs in the wild

I saw black bears in Canada from the car

I’m glad the animal we had that was hippo-like in behaviour - a dangerous herbivore - is extinct. We have the old bunyip stories telling us to keep out of swampy parts of rivers.