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0 pointsbrabel3y ago0 comments

Food. Just see what they eat (and how much). It really is simple as that.

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Don't forget that Japanese actively shame fat people! This is very much frown upon in Western societies but it works for them I guess.

NaturalPhallacy3y ago

They don't feel even slightly bad about it. It's as prevalent as obesity isn't.

astrange3y ago

There’s fat Japanese people. They drink so much it’d be a surprise if there weren’t.

They’re also getting strangely more common in porn, maybe because their society is getting so old.

hollywood_court3y ago

Shame should be a powerful motivator. It doesn’t seem to work too well in the west though.

naikrovek3y ago

shame is just as unhealthy as obesity. the west recognizes that, somehow.

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bergenty3y ago

It does except we don’t shame people completely as a society, we have a lot of niches and self assuring peer groups that negates the shame coming from some segment of the population.

swyx3y ago

we eat a lot of noodles and rice though. speaking as a fat asian i feel like that factors a lot into it (that i'm actively working on now)

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