Japanese Government Attacks Metabo.
June 17, 2008 by Liz Lewis
Filed under Diets and Dieting, Extreme, Health, Media, Misc., Morning News, Obesity, Politics
Japanese people may smoke too much and work too much. But on the whole they really can’t be accused of being overweight or metabo as the Japanese prefer to call it.
The Japanese goverment, however, thinks otherwise and has embarked on a mandatory campaign to slim it’s nation down. Two months ago they passed a national law that requires all companies and local governments to measure the waists of their employees (including family members) aged 40 to 74 as part of their annual checkups. With almost half the Japanese population fitting into this category, that makes an awful lot of waists …read more
