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Tattooedjen reports of a strange and personal new health requirement in Japan. In a country we would hardly deem at risk for obesity due to their healthy diets, the government is working on a required method that will reduce obesity, or "metabo" by 25% in 7 years. Citizens of Japan are being called upon to have their waistlines measured. The new prescribed limit for a male's waistline is 33.5 inches. For women, it is 35.4. The targeted group for measuring are those of ages 40 to 74, which is a little less than half of their population. If after 3 months they are unable to lose the inches, they will be given dietary guidance. For those who cannot lose the inches in 6 months, they will be given "further re-education."
In America, the average waistline for men is 39 inches, and for women it is 36.5. How would you feel if such a law were enforced in your country? Is the government overstepping its boundaries? Do you think this will have a positive or negative effect on body image in the Asian country?
How's this for interesting?
Japan is instituting a program where its citizens of a certain age are now being measured for obesity. If they are above a specified size, they will be forced to diet and lose weight, after a period of 3-6 months, if they still are too big, they will be penalized financially. This was an article I stumbled across in the New York Times. It is very intricate, talking about why they are doing this.
Wow.
It is kind of stunning. Apparently, the Japanese government has more control over its citizenry than they do here in America. Can you just imagine the press conference of GW Bush announcing that all Americans are to be measured for a specific body size and those who don't meet the criteria will be given time to fix it and eventually punished?
One glaring problem I see with this would be that so many Americans don't have health care, how could you possibly get them all to go to a doctor to be measured in the first place? Not so much a problem in Japan, I guess.
I am envisioning the screaming hordes of people in this country who would be railing about civil rights and inherent freedoms. Dammit...we can be fat it we want to!
Besides, if we force everyone to lose weight, won't that put all the junk food companies out of business? Poor Little Debbie, sad Frito Lay, all those workers without jobs. But hey, at least they'd be healthy, right?
Is there anyone else out there who ever weighed herself/himself and got a twenty pound difference in two days? I still can't figure it. I do take a water pill, but I've never heard of weighing oneself and thinking you've lost ten pounds and then rechecking the weight the same day, and everything is fine. Then the next day on the same scale at the physical therapy site, I weighed twenty pounds more! Something is wrong. It's like climbing up Mount Whitney (see picture) for me to walk, improve my diet and lose weight. Oh well, I'll have to go to Dr Fitzpatrick's office to weigh myself because he said I could stop by weekly and use his scale.
This morning Tim and I walked about three miles in Prospect Park. We've been taking daily walks and buying fresh in-season produce like watermelon, cherries, peaches, tomatoes and bananas as well as escarole, salad fixings. We're hoping that by the end of the summer we've gotten some of the excess weight off. All I can do is hang in there; I've only got one body and it has a slightly underactive tyroid too. Have a good day.
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