Wow.

Jun 13, 2008 12:32

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/13/world/asia/13fat.html?_r=2&no_interstitial&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

Now I know I am not at the slimmest I've been in the last 5 years (which pretty much equates to ever in my life), but I would be kicked off the island of Japanese men.  I better stay in here in America and scrape by as a woman.

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the_doctor June 13 2008, 20:47:01 UTC
The women's guideline in Japan is higher than the men's and higher than the US guideline for women.

That /is/ strange--they're talking waist, not hips, right? I mean, it's kind of cool the women are getting a break on that kind of standard, but since women are, on average, smaller than men (and Japanese are smaller than Americans, on average, AFAIK), the guidelines seem seriously skewed.

And allow me to just say that the island of Japan doesn't deserve you. ;)

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