Why 4% Of Japan Is Obese Compared to America’s 42%….

[Piff Perkins]

Really boils down to how much they exercise (walk) vs Americans who go out their way not to walk. You can eat unhealthy food and be fine as long as you are active. Europeans eat carbs all day, consume a lot of wine and cheese...and they're still much healthier than us because they walk everywhere. And their portion sizes are smaller, just like Japan.

I also agree that shaming obesity is important. Doesn't mean laughing at fat people as they walk by. But there has to be a societal understanding that being fat is unhealthy and costly. Whereas over the last decade so much nonsense (often aimed at black women...) is focused on convincing us that being fat is normal and healthy. It has to be treated like smoking. A bad health risk.

 

["It Was Always Jerry"]

It comes down to calories. Calories in, calories out.

 

[IsThatBrothaMouzone?]

Big thing is that people overseas can be healthy just eating normally.

Go to the UK and eat an apple or some bread. Apple tastes better and the bread tastes less sweet but just as good if not better.

Our healthcare system sucks but we have the best doctors in the world, easily. If we didn't have all the preservatives and could live like Japanese people, we'd all live to 100+ years old.

Most of it is just greed......but I wouldn't be shocked if there was an element of "planned" obsolescence to this. That is, the gubmint doesn't want 330M+ people living to 90, 100 or 110 years old.

Japan got their own issues with the high stress salaryman corporate dynamic. They healthy as hell but that shyt is high stress if you look at the young/middle age adults and not just the elders.

All G7 countries exceed 80 years for life expectancy. America is around 79.5 years.....we also have a lot more violent crime and higher mortality for babies, small kids etc. Again....if we had the lifestyle of other countries combined with our medicine, the average age would probably be around 90.