so can too much salt, which can retain water
And oil. Which can literally lead to excess calorie consumption
Why 4% Of Japan Is Obese Compared to America’s 42%….
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so can too much salt, which can retain water
And oil. Which can literally lead to excess calorie consumption
Before watching the video and as a dude who lives there:
1. Their portion sizes are waaay smaller than ours in America. A medium pizza from Pizza Hut is the size of a small stateside, and that shyt has a thin crust.
2. They prioritize serving healthy food over junk food / sweets.
3. Their convenience stores are loaded with semi-healthy or healthy items. They have sweets and junk food, but their sweets are... less sweet. It tastes more "natural", if you want to call it that.
4. They use more natural ingredients, and they really don't season their food nearly as much as we do.
5. Them níggas walk everywhere. It's deadass at least 3 convenience stores located within a quarter-mile from EVERY residential area (you know, the ones that serve healthy shít.) If the train station is 25 minutes away, they'll walk it without a care in the world. If you take a trip to Tokyo, you'll deadass forget how much you've been walking. I went last weekend and I cleared 15,000 steps before my feet started to hurt.
6. Fat people get shamed over here. To be fat is to be unattractive pretty much universally in Japan, so when they actually hit the gym, 90% of people will just do cardio.
7. They eat a ton rice with every meal. Rice is low in calories, but high in carbs, so you'll have the energy to walk everywhere while feeling full on a low-calorie diet. Matter of fact, Japanese cuisine is generally low in calories. Ramen expands in your stomach, so you'll get full quickly, and it's a low-calorie dish, which leads me to my last point.
8. The good food is cheap. A big ass bowl of Ramen is usually ¥800-¥1000, which is $6-7... add some Gyoza (pot stickers) and that shoots your total price up to a whopping ¥1200, which is $8
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1. Their portion sizes are waaay smaller than ours in America. A medium pizza from Pizza Hut is the size of a small stateside, and that shyt has a thin crust.
2. They prioritize serving healthy food over junk food / sweets.
3. Their convenience stores are loaded with semi-healthy or healthy items. They have sweets and junk food, but their sweets are... less sweet. It tastes more "natural", if you want to call it that.
4. They use more natural ingredients, and they really don't season their food nearly as much as we do.
5. Them níggas walk everywhere. It's deadass at least 3 convenience stores located within a quarter-mile from EVERY residential area (you know, the ones that serve healthy shít.) If the train station is 25 minutes away, they'll walk it without a care in the world. If you take a trip to Tokyo, you'll deadass forget how much you've been walking. I went last weekend and I cleared 15,000 steps before my feet started to hurt.
6. Fat people get shamed over here. To be fat is to be unattractive pretty much universally in Japan, so when they actually hit the gym, 90% of people will just do cardio.
7. They eat a ton rice with every meal. Rice is low in calories, but high in carbs, so you'll have the energy to walk everywhere while feeling full on a low-calorie diet. Matter of fact, Japanese cuisine is generally low in calories. Ramen expands in your stomach, so you'll get full quickly, and it's a low-calorie dish, which leads me to my last point.
8. The good food is cheap. A big ass bowl of Ramen is usually ¥800-¥1000, which is $6-7... add some Gyoza (pot stickers) and that shoots your total price up to a whopping ¥1200, which is $8
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CreepyMcCreeperson
Veteran
Their food is mostly meats, fish, rice, vegetables, and noodles. Their food doesn’t have all the chemicals we have. Look at most American events. The food is usually ziti, pizza, wings, burgers, soda. We feed this to our kids, and they get used to it.
I used to watch Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution, and he was trying to get an American school district to serve healthy school lunches. The kids didn’t want the fresh healthy food. All they wanted was pizza and nuggets. A few kids in high school ate fresh chicken and veggies, but most of them didn’t. The lunch ladies complained about the extra work to prepare the food, because they were used to putting frozen food in ovens. The school district didn’t want to pay for the fresh food either. And this was a middle class white neighborhood.
I used to watch Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution, and he was trying to get an American school district to serve healthy school lunches. The kids didn’t want the fresh healthy food. All they wanted was pizza and nuggets. A few kids in high school ate fresh chicken and veggies, but most of them didn’t. The lunch ladies complained about the extra work to prepare the food, because they were used to putting frozen food in ovens. The school district didn’t want to pay for the fresh food either. And this was a middle class white neighborhood.
Devilinurear
Veteran
I think it's the suger Japanese food has tons of sodium and they don't have our fat problems.
I see what you mean. Sugar is definitely a huge issue since it's in a lot of foods you don't expect. And a lot of people don't look at the back of the label, or don't even understand what they're reading in the front of the label
Mister Terrific
It’s in the name
I came back to America in September and I told my peoples I was gonna walk to the store. It was 30 minutes away. They looked at me like I said I was going to the moon. Cars at intersections were stopping at looking at me like I was crazy.
That said Asians don’t process carbs like we do. They will always be naturally skinny and sleight of frame. If you eat like a Japanese in Japan you will get skinny fat as the food is 90% carbs.
That said Asians don’t process carbs like we do. They will always be naturally skinny and sleight of frame. If you eat like a Japanese in Japan you will get skinny fat as the food is 90% carbs.
They walk almost everywhere, I think that's the main factor.
Sadly in the US that's impossible for most people even if they're willing. Our public transportation sucks and it's too cold in much of the country. I'd love to walk everywhere but it's 13 degrees outside so that's not happening.
Sadly in the US that's impossible for most people even if they're willing. Our public transportation sucks and it's too cold in much of the country. I'd love to walk everywhere but it's 13 degrees outside so that's not happening.
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The BasedFather
Task Force
I’m bulking 
Before watching the video and as a dude who lives there:
1. Their portion sizes are waaay smaller than ours in America. A medium pizza from Pizza Hut is the size of a small stateside, and that shyt has a thin crust.
2. They prioritize serving healthy food over junk food / sweets.
3. Their convenience stores are loaded with semi-healthy or healthy items. They have sweets and junk food, but their sweets are... less sweet. It tastes more "natural", if you want to call it that.
4. They use more natural ingredients, and they really don't season their food nearly as much as we do.
5. Them níggas walk everywhere. It's deadass at least 3 convenience stores located within a quarter-mile from EVERY residential area (you know, the ones that serve healthy shít.) If the train station is 25 minutes away, they'll walk it without a care in the world. If you take a trip to Tokyo, you'll deadass forget how much you've been walking. I went last weekend and I cleared 15,000 steps before my feet started to hurt.
6. Fat people get shamed over here. To be fat is to be unattractive pretty much universally in Japan, so when they actually hit the gym, 90% of people will just do cardio.
7. They eat a ton rice with every meal. Rice is low in calories, but high in carbs, so you'll have the energy to walk everywhere while feeling full on a low-calorie diet. Matter of fact, Japanese cuisine is generally low in calories. Ramen expands in your stomach, so you'll get full quickly, and it's a low-calorie dish, which leads me to my last point.
8. The good food is cheap. A big ass bowl of Ramen is usually ¥800-¥1000, which is $6-7... add some Gyoza (pot stickers) and that shoots your total price up to a whopping ¥1200, which is $8
That dude in OP video is a hack that don't know what he's talking about. This post here is the real answer for not just Japan, but East Asia as a whole.
Every time I've vacationed in Asia, I've lost weight after the trip. You walk everywhere, restaurant portions are much smaller so you don't overeat, foods are lower in calories, deserts/sweets have way less sugar. The food in the US is killing us and we drive everywhere.
richaveli83
Veteran
Obesity is largely an North American thing. Combination of all the crap in our food and lack of physical activity.
Yeah..the body can't process it well so converts it to fat for storage while trying to figure it out..
But those saturated fats are your hearts worst enemy.
Bumblebreh
Collecting honey and money
Common sense regulations. I read somewhere that in Japan even the picture of the food on the package has to be accurate to the size and appearance of the actual food or they can be fined. Here in the U.S. many questionable additives and preservatives that we know are bad never get banned or get banned decades after it was determined to be bad. The big money lobbying is a hell of a force here.
As a side note RFK would have been a much better pick as an agriculture sec than hhs given his views on food here.
As a side note RFK would have been a much better pick as an agriculture sec than hhs given his views on food here.