“Japan has no fat people” “Everyone walks everywhere” “Japanese food is healthy” “Japanese women are all trad and stay home and cook healthy meals” etc etc Just more “amazing Japan” slop you see everywhere on the internet, lmao. It’s not yet at American levels, but Japan has plenty of obesity and it’s growing rapidly among the young. -Go to any small or medium sized city in Japan where public transit is nonexistent and everyone drives: you will see plenty of stroads, fast food chains, and all the same kind of fatties you’d see in the American South or Midwest. -“Japanese food is healthy” is true if you ignore all the carbs and sodium and fried and processed food that Japanese people eat regularly

@CacheThatCheque The main thinsg keeping Japanese skinny to me are : Small food portions No 3 liter Soda bottle in supermarket Bullying of fat people

@CacheThatCheque Not rapidly no

@CacheThatCheque I live in a bed town and can confirm, it’s mostly the same fast food chains everywhere and I am strongly incentivized to own a car

@CacheThatCheque The number of chubby gravure idols is increasing

@CacheThatCheque I personally blame my weight gain on 7/11 peanuts butter sandwiches, maple syrup and butter pancakes and their cafe latte.

@CacheThatCheque Around half of all Americans are obese and around 75% are overweight. Walking around Tokyo I don't see anything comparable to what I do when I fly back to the States. And I go to Gunma often and despite the need to drive, I rarely see fatties.

@CacheThatCheque The post does explicitly say 5% obesity, not no fat people. Though it's probably more like 10% if you use a lower threshold of 28 to account for East Asians having lower lean body mass and tendency to develop metabolic issues at lower BMI than whites.

@CacheThatCheque Just have to start bullying the fatties like the Japanese. Simple as that.

@CacheThatCheque Japan has the shortest life expectancy in the world. All of them will be diabetic, more so than India.

i don't think jp food that is not home cooked is super healthy, but there's more healthy options imho, vs. it's quasi impossible to get a healthy restaurant meal at some random place in usa if you don't go far out of your way to get something healthy and in some places it's not possible at all. jp people they just don't seem to eat that much.

@CacheThatCheque Compared to americans, every country is skinny. Thats how low the benchmark is.

Japanese people don't snack as much as other IMHO. When I worked in Germany people were constantly munching on snacks in the office. In Japan eating at your desk outside of lunch time is frowned upon. There will be Omiyage but people will eat it at the correct location and maybe one.

@CacheThatCheque Japan cooks with seed oils this is the one thing I cant tell if its good or bad.

@CacheThatCheque The main thing is Japanese people just eat less. Literally all that’s needed to not be fat is to not eat too many calories. It’s so simple

@CacheThatCheque I spent 3 months in Tokyo with a host family. The mother and teenage daughter were overweight and the father was chain smoking and on a dozen type of meds. Anecdotal I know, but still...

@CacheThatCheque I hate Japanese slop as well everybody is glazing Japan so much, but you can not say there are many fat people in Japan

@CacheThatCheque Do you know the difference bwteeen obesity and fat? The former is an actual landwhale that needs a mobility scooter because they're too fucking fat to even walk (plentiful in America and near non-existent in Asia), the latter is just someone who's chubby.

@CacheThatCheque More acceptance of biking/cycling culture as well, I guess.

@CacheThatCheque Actually there is public transportation for middle cities

@CacheThatCheque These weebs gonna weeb

@CacheThatCheque Old Japanese people have as much diabetes as old Americans.

Just calories in and calories out. My step count in Japan ranged from 10k-26k. Of course Im traveling so skewed higher. Sure Japanese food is probably healthier and smaller portions, but if u didnt move, then u'd be obese regardless. I Think the most important variable is still exercise/activity lvl.

@CacheThatCheque Americans loves to say the same of Italy whereas we are reasonably overweight.

@CacheThatCheque The disappearing jawline is global

@CacheThatCheque There's one thing wrong with your comment. There aren't that many overweight people in Japan compared to the US. The level of obesity is different. There are a lot of people in your country who are so overweight that they can fit small flower pots on either side of their waist.

@CacheThatCheque I was about to say that, most of the food people eat on a daily basis is packed with sodium, fat, sugar and other carbs in general. 😂

@CacheThatCheque By the standard international definition of obesity, less than 5% of Japan is obese. Even by the stricter Japanese definition, 25 bmi and up, Japan has half the obesity rate of the US.

@CacheThatCheque Japan DOES have low obesity rates though, like staggeringly so. Anecdotes you have about urban Japan mean nothing. In fact, it just makes me not want to believe what you have to say about Japanese pedestrianism and food

@CacheThatCheque Ingredients have less chemicals compared to america. Yes japan has fat ppl but even fat ppl in japan arent even in the same leagues

@CacheThatCheque This is such hilarious American cope 😂 Fat fucks lmao

@CacheThatCheque Maybe carbs and sodium aren't that bad if an entire nation of carb and sodium eaters live long and relatively healthy.

@CacheThatCheque No its not idiot

@CacheThatCheque Japan seems like a lovely place, but I think many Westerners see the high social trust and think that must mean the country has zero issues but of course, Japan has its own social issues.

@CacheThatCheque Basically, fatty American men wanna fuck skinny child like Japanese girls.

@CacheThatCheque There is nothing inherently unhealthy about carbs and sodium...