Japan To Measure Waistlines!

Hey guys and gals,

I found this very amazing.  In order to keep the spread of diabetes and stroke to a minimum, Japan is going to measure the waistlines of 56 million people between the ages of 40 and 74, that’s 44% of the entire population!  The Japanese government is hoping it will also curb the increasingly rising cost of healthcare for the nation.

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Now I’m amazed at this!  Why can’t America do this?  Japan has beaten us in manufacturing, technology, and education…now they’re going to beat us in healthcare.  This country’s healthcare is also astronomical, but people don’t care, they care more about their quarter pounders with cheese, deep-fried hotdogs, and Red Bullshits with 8 spoonfuls of sugar.  America: WAKE UP!! Put the Big Mac down and pick up a carrot and get on a treadmill!  All the politicians and doctors are screaming that this country has a weight problem, only the politicians and doctors are also morbidly obese AND nobody does anything about it except complain….the amount of hypocrisy in this nation is mesmerizing!  America’s gone soft – figuratively and literally.

“To reach its goals of shrinking the overweight population by 10 percent over the next four years and 25 percent over the next seven years, the government will impose financial penalties on companies and local governments that fail to meet specific targets.”  (NY Times) This is perfect!  That’s why America isn’t doing it….Do you want to know another reason why America won’t do it?  Because the nation would go bankrupt.  Japan realized that there’s too many McDonald’s franchises in their country and they decided to do something about it.  Why can’t we do the same?