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Government Study Reveals: Japanese Men Getting FatterDate Posted: 2000-03-05 The Yomiuri newspaper, which published the details of the survey, stated that men between the ages of 15 and 39 accounted most for the expansion of waistlines. Today, one out of every four Japanese men is overweight, though the women seem to be getting thinner and thinner, the study revealed. The report also suggested that most Japanese men are getting fatter because of junk food consumption, eating at irregular hours and because of more and more desk jobs than in the “old days.” “Japanese men care less about staying fit and eating the right foods than women, who typically see themselves as being fatter than they are,” the Ministry’s report stated. An estimated 13 million men and 10 million women in Japan's population of 123 million are now documented as being overweight. Meanwhile, the number of overweight women remained almost unchanged over the same period of time. The same report attributed the phenomenon of rising underweight women to the “slim-is-beautiful-and-fashionable” consciousness that is presently consuming most of the industrialized world. |
   
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