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They aren't waisting time tackling obesity.
Neither did I, but they have for 2 months now:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/0..._n_106949.html
Japan Enforces Legal Limit On Waistlines
Japan, a country not known for its overweight people, has undertaken one of the most ambitious campaigns ever by a nation to slim down its citizenry.
Summoned by the city of Amagasaki one recent morning, Minoru Nogiri, 45, a flower shop owner, found himself lining up to have his waistline measured. With no visible paunch, he seemed to run little risk of being classified as overweight, or metabo, the preferred word in Japan these days.
But because the new state-prescribed limit for male waistlines is a strict 33.5 inches, he had anxiously measured himself at home a couple of days earlier. "I'm on the border," he said.
Under a national law that came into effect two months ago, companies and local governments must now measure the waistlines of Japanese people between the ages of 40 and 74 as part of their annual checkups. That represents more than 56 million waistlines, or about 44 percent of the entire population.
Those exceeding government limits -- 33.5 inches for men and 35.4 inches for women, which are identical to thresholds established in 2005 for Japan by the International Diabetes Federation as an easy guideline for identifying health risks -- and having a weight-related ailment will be given dieting guidance if after three months they do not lose weight. If necessary, those people will be steered toward further re-education after six more months.
Read the whole story here.
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"steered toward further re-education" Hey, maybe in a few years fat Americans will be doing jumping-jacks in Guantanimo.
They aren't waisting time tackling obesity.
I couldn't stomach the thought of having those restrictions placed on me.
I don't think I'd measure up.
They should have weighted before taking such a drastic measure.
I'm guessing there's a sumo exemption...
ST should have a minimum-IQ law, or big- bag law. That would clean out about 50% of the posters.
Why do I read that headline as
Maxim has a waistline law? Perhaps because that makes more sense.
Enforcing that law should be a cinch.
It takes a lot of guts to pass a law like that.
They're beating weight-related diseases to the paunch.
You gotta love it when people get a handle on obesity.
the U.S. needs this sons. there are way too many fat s walking around here in Louisiana and there are even more enchilada eating blimps walking around in Texas too.
So the government should further intrude on people's lives?
Wonderfull
In Japan, the program means like 5% of the population needs diet counseling. In the United States, a threshold of 33.5 inches for men would mean basically we have to deny 95% of the population the ability to eat anything but celery and rice for 5 years.
Yeah.....................on the puns.
id say a 38 or a 40 might get the job done here.
Yeah.....................
Yours were the worst.
Sorry, but I don't find puns at all to be funny.
Last edited by E20; 06-20-2008 at 07:02 PM.
son you are obviously overweightSo the government should further intrude on people's lives?
Wonderfull
And I'm working fixing it myself.
The government has no right to interfere in people's lives like that.
Wake up, son.
Lmao
Oh shut up and go change your light bulbs.
Sincerely,
Uncle Sugar
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