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Originally posted by m477
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Dangerously skinny people are actually more likely to develop serious health problems than overweight people. You see overweight people that are healthy and living to ripe old ages much more than you see among skinny people.
When you only eat one meal a day, or limit yourself to eating only foods with no fat or calories, you aren't getting all the vitamins, minerals and fat content that your body needs. This can have negative results that can lead to anything from bad skin, to heart conditions, to compromised brain function. Not worth it, if you ask me...but apparently to some people it is.
I don't know what the big obsession is with being thin anyways. Who wants to hold a skeleton?
I'm considered thin over here but over in Japan I'd be considered fat at 5' 7", 135 lb (I wont get into booty and bust size, let's just say I get them both from the black side of my family ) However, to reach the Japanese level of thin I would have to probably lose 10-15 pounds, making me not only a bag of bones but unhealthy to boot, plus I would lose my butt and my chest (both of which I love ).
So, in the end, I think I'd rather be fat in Japan than emaciated in N. America.
....I just don't understand the butt issue though in Japan. How could anyone possibly consider having a big butt to be a negative....and here I am wishing my rear would magically get bigger over night while women in Japan are trying to lose their already non-existent bums. It's a crazy world we live in
Do you think Japanese girls are skinny?
It is almost 10 years since Japanese girls get keen on diet.
It seems that being slim and skinny are the vatue for the Japanese female. Skinny girls are considered to have great figure.
I am a Japanese female, height 165cm (5'5 tall), weight 60kg ( 132lb).
I am always told by my family and friends that I am fat and should lose my weight.
For the Japanese, I am not slim.
But in Europe, USA and Australia, I was told I was slim.
While I am in Japan, I have difficulty to find my size (of clothes),
and I feel I am too fat.
I am always frustrated and I feel like I am ugry.
What do you think about Japanese female's figure?
I think the Japanese push to be slim is healthy to a certain degree, at the very least it encourages moderation and probably prevents a lot of females (and males) from becoming overweight, an increasingly problematic health issue in the West.
At the end of the day i think someone being anorexic is just as bad as someone being morbidly obese; they're both eating disorders which often stem from the same emotional issues, like insecurity- one persons insecurity makes them use food as a comfort, the other persons insecurity makes them despise food. Often there is a lot of self-hate or lack of self-worth felt by both extremes.
I think japanese women just having a different physique to us western women regardless at the end of the day, what is slim for a japanese women is always gonna be too skinny for us if we tried to copy them- japanese women just don't grow as big a boobs or hips etc as us on average at the end of the day etc.
Do you think Japanese girls are skinny?
This is another issue which I think is both right and wrong.
Yes, being on the thinner side is better for your health plus many Japanese people are just naturally smaller than the average N. American and have better diets. There isn't much of an overweight issue for them.
On the other hand, as you said, the push to be slim. Let's face it, even in Japan not everyone was meant to be a size zero and yet there is an undeniable pressure to be super skinny to the point of unhealthiness.
I used to look at the jrocker guys, grown men that were my height but half my size, looking like prepubescent boys and fainting all over the place.
It's a sad thing when that becomes a role model for the youth of any country.
Agreed, I was more leaning towards the idea that those who deprive themselves of food are more likely to do harm to themselves than someone who eats healthy but in lager portions than they should and puts on extra weight.
Being overweight doesn't necessarily mean anythings wrong or your unhealthy but being underweight is usually a sign serious of problems.
I think a lot of Japanese are skinny because they might eat healthier.
I've heard that is changing though, obesity levels are apparently now rising in japan alongside the increase in popularity of western foods like burgers, hot dogs, dough nuts, chips, pizza's etc.
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Anyhow, might not really the best thing to refer to, but girls in , shounen, ecchi and hentai stuff tend to be "western looking". So, I think we can assume that Japanese men kinda like that, right? Why are Japanese girls so hellishly thin if thats the case?
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Obese young women has gradually decreased (BMI>25)
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Skinny young women have not changed. (BMI<18.5)
I do not know what would happen if the same definition of obesity should apply to the one in the US (BMI>30).