Better not try this over here
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I am sure it will happen here sooner that you think ,when the socialzed medicine gets going the fat police will be on us like flies on poop.
They will have to build plenty of extra jails. It takes every thing I've got to stay in a 38 waist. Must be a lot of small boned boys in Japan and big boned girls.
Once I got out of high school I got super overweight... Its taken 2 years to go from a 40 waist pant size to having to buckle up for a 36 waist. I know for a fact my middrift is not 36 inches. It would take a lot to get down that far.
What else is the Government going to force for us? Oh wait... wrong forum.
What else is the Government going to force for us? Oh wait... wrong forum.
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The ministry also says that curbing widening waistlines will rein in a rapidly aging society’s ballooning health care costs, one of the most serious and politically delicate problems facing Japan today.
Says it all.
The ministry also says that curbing widening waistlines will rein in a rapidly aging society’s ballooning health care costs, one of the most serious and politically delicate problems facing Japan today.
Says it all.
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Do you think that a thin America would have lower health care costs? I don't. I think it will just distribute the money differently among the health care community.
We did have a national campaign at one time that kept America healthy. It was a widely publicized President's Council on Physical Fitness. It was a national scholastic goal to excel at it. Now, although it surely still exists, I haven't EVER seen a public service announcement about it in over 30 years.
Someone doesn't care enough about it to promote the idea. It's better, I guess, to merely point out the liabilities of its absence
We did have a national campaign at one time that kept America healthy. It was a widely publicized President's Council on Physical Fitness. It was a national scholastic goal to excel at it. Now, although it surely still exists, I haven't EVER seen a public service announcement about it in over 30 years.
Someone doesn't care enough about it to promote the idea. It's better, I guess, to merely point out the liabilities of its absence
There is a large difference in promoting healthy living and mandating it.
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Originally Posted By: Tempest
There is a large difference in promoting healthy living and mandating it.
Surely so. But we've done little to promote it under any banner other than pointing out what it costs in terms of health care ..yet the precursors are surely well seated in the formative years.
There is a large difference in promoting healthy living and mandating it.
Surely so. But we've done little to promote it under any banner other than pointing out what it costs in terms of health care ..yet the precursors are surely well seated in the formative years.
I like ice cream
Originally Posted By: Tempest
There is a large difference in promoting healthy living and mandating it.
Not with todays government.
There is a large difference in promoting healthy living and mandating it.
Not with todays government.
Originally Posted By: GROUCHO MARX
I like ice cream
My man!
I like ice cream
My man!
Next thing, they'll be measuring skin colour and hair colour, and any non-Japanese looking people will be fined under some obscure medical justification.
Skin too dark? That puts you under risk of vitamin D deficiency, and increased health care cost.
Skin too dark? That puts you under risk of vitamin D deficiency, and increased health care cost.
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Originally Posted By: Tempest
There is a large difference in promoting healthy living and mandating it.
Not with todays government.
Yes, sadly true.
Originally Posted By: Tempest
There is a large difference in promoting healthy living and mandating it.
Not with todays government.
Yes, sadly true.
Some guy managed to prove that smokers and fat people actually reduce the tax burden. Since they drop dead 10 years early, that can be up to 120 social security payments not sent out.
I still like ice cream!
Got to get me some of those roundbellied Japanese girls.
Ice Cream? Where???
Ice Cream? Where???
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Originally Posted By: artificialist
Some guy managed to prove that smokers and fat people actually reduce the tax burden. Since they drop dead 10 years early, that can be up to 120 social security payments not sent out.
Let us look at this in terms of "future avoided costs".
Some guy managed to prove that smokers and fat people actually reduce the tax burden. Since they drop dead 10 years early, that can be up to 120 social security payments not sent out.
Let us look at this in terms of "future avoided costs".
I heard that the fat Japanese girls like to go to anime and manga conventions.
Lesson for today: Debu means fat in Japanese.
Lesson for today: Debu means fat in Japanese.
I don't remember seeing very many, if any fat people when I was in Japan. Certainly not fat like over here.
Of course, most of the time I was staring at the hot women, so I may not have noticed any fatties....
Of course, most of the time I was staring at the hot women, so I may not have noticed any fatties....
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Today, the average Japanese woman's hips, at 35 inches, are around an inch wider than those of women a generation older. Women in their 20s wear a bra at least two sizes larger than that of their mothers, according to Wacoal. Waist size, meanwhile, has gotten slightly smaller, accentuating many young women's curves.
The average 20-year-old is also nearly three inches taller than she was in 1950, according to government statistics, and the average foot has grown by nearly a quarter of an inch.
The physical changes are largely the result of an increasingly Westernized diet, say nutritionists. Meals that used to consist of mostly fish, vegetables and tofu now lean heavily toward an American-style menu of red meat, dairy and indulgences such as Krispy Kreme doughnuts and Cold Stone Creamery ice cream.
Ah-ha! The West conquers again!!!
The average 20-year-old is also nearly three inches taller than she was in 1950, according to government statistics, and the average foot has grown by nearly a quarter of an inch.
The physical changes are largely the result of an increasingly Westernized diet, say nutritionists. Meals that used to consist of mostly fish, vegetables and tofu now lean heavily toward an American-style menu of red meat, dairy and indulgences such as Krispy Kreme doughnuts and Cold Stone Creamery ice cream.
Ah-ha! The West conquers again!!!
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