Wednesday, March 28, 2007

It Must Be the Genes


Goddamn it!

They're thin. I've seen maybe five overweight people in Tokyo. One grossly overweight. Yeah, I know they have us beaten with their sushi diet and their smaller portions, but they aren't angels when it comes to food consumption. There are so MANY pastry and cake shops throughout Tokyo and always busy. I've seen slender little old ladies polish off three or four cakes in one sitting and wash it down with a frappacino. And their fat-marbled meats I almost find inedible. And while people do drink tea, sugar drinks (such as Calpis) and beer are gulped down. They don't seem to exercise too much, so it must be the genes.

We must find these genes, extract and duplicate them and make them available in pill form now!

Or maybe it's the fish in the fish tank theory. No matter how much you feed it, the fish will only grow as large as the tank allows. Tokyo is a very spatially-challenged city ... Not sure how this excuses the fat people in New York.

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