“For those who think Japan is all fish and tofu, consider 10-year-old Sayaka Oyama’s former diet: spaghetti and meat sauce for lunch, chocolates and cookies for a snack, rice balls for dinner and sandwiches at nighttime classes. Late at night, she would slurp down some quick noodles before going to bed.”

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beti adds > Very interesting article. I remember not too long ago when I visited Hong Kong I was astounded at how slim people where. I only saw 1 overweight local person, yes, just one. Another interesting thing I saw was that there were slimming ads EVERYWHERE! And what was even more interesting was that the ‘before’ pic in the ad was not a fat person! Just of an average, healthy individual, well, they looked healthy to me :)

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