Sometimes you have to stop and look at the current state of things in the west, especially in regards to America, and wonder why such a large percent of our population are obscenely rotund. There are thousands of reasons that people point to but one of the easiest ways to fix the problem remains unchanged. When you compare the average Japanese student to that of their American counterpart the difference is astounding. I can hear people back home muttering, “ohhh, it’s because they just eat rice, raw fish, and all of that”. And, yes, I’m sure this does help. However, most of the students I know here eat bread for breakfast, they drink milk at least once a day and they like pasta and pizza next to the rest of us. And a lot of their
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