Why Are The Japanese So Thin? {Easy Tips You Can Learn!}
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- Опубликовано: 11 июл 2024
- When I first moved to Japan, one of the most striking things was how thin everyone was. I kept saying to my family, “There are no fat Japanese people!” So in this video I want to share with you the secrets to how the Japanese stay so damn skinny, and especially outline what habits that you could adapt immediately into your life after watching this video to live a healthier life.
To be honest compared to the US almost every country is full of slim people...
I wish that was true, though the US is pretty bad in this regard, in this day and age (i really hate that expression by the way lol) more people die from obesity than poverty or a lack of food.
That should tell you its a "world wide" problem in general.
This video convinced me to go mostly with japanese dishes i can make at home.
As i do have overweight issues, not super bad by the way and im looking at you ladies, but i still feel i need to decrease it due to not being able to work out like a regular person. (some handicaps, long story, im no longer looking at you ladies ;( )
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@Turner Rex she already messaged me way before that happened ( 🍩😜👌
Nope, The only places that have slim people are poor countries that can't afford food and the Asian countries. Any place that has the money seems to be on a size rise.
@@everythingisfine9988 True. The UK for instance is another country where if you're not overweight, you're a minority
Yes, as a fellow american i can say healthcare outside the USA is fabulous!!
100%!!!
As a tourist I can walk 10 to 15 km every day and be entertained by their shopping malls and not feel tired. I was also surprised to find out that their definition of “walking distance from hotel/air bnb” is 15 to 20 minutes walk lol! It’s easy to eat healthy and cheap there like you mentioned about the convenience stores. The Japanese and Koreans also eat a lot of fermented food which are good for gut and digestion. Lastly, Asians generally don’t believe in the western ideology of accepting your body weight even if it’s an unhealthy weight, we are image-conscious and quite pressured to maintain a healthy BMI.
That last part I think is very important, if an overweight I before had a BMI of 24 and every time I go to the doctor, they said I need to lose weight even I am not in Japan but maintain a healthy height is not a question of image is a question of health and life quality,
I really appreciate how well written and comprehensive this video was. So informational! Thank you for sharing :)
they're thin, fit, healthy, and normal, not because they do anything that's unusual. They're normal and have bodies nature intended. I think the real question is, why are certain other countries getting unnaturally fat.
Excellent, thorough analysis. Thank you.
Another aspect not covered here is the pressure and social stigma on being overweight. Even magazines for teenagers feature (unless now banned) spreads for diet supplements and family members will comment about your weight when they see you. My friends used to avoid eating too much rice in case they got fat.
Asians aunties during family gathering :
- when are you going to marry?
- when will you have kids? Your parents are not young anymore.
- Why are you so skinny? You should eat more
- You've gotten fatter. You should diet.
... so...
I delayed going again because of weight and because missionaries to Japan told me I won't have a voice there because of it. I curbed that by putting others at ease by mocking myself at the beginning.
That's really bad. Also skin whitening too and being as pale as possible.
yea, why are not the Japanese fat and unhealthy and short of breath ? Weird, that should be the standard .
Hey Connor, great video man! I enjoyed all your rich content, research & personal insight. What you shared here fit my lesson so well I'm sharing it with all my Physical Education class (Year 5 - 11) under the topic of Nutrition. All the best in your new adventures. Stay safe where ever you are. Lotsa Love from Malaysia!
Thanks so much Coach Allen!! Really happy you are enjoying the content 💪
I’m half Japanese and considered slim. My mom is the Japanese one but she is honestly considered “fat” by Japanese standard. But my dad who is African American is very slim, I believe I got the slim genes from him, rather then my own Japanese mother. Lol
Honestly, Japanese people eat a lot of animal foods to. We also eat a lot of vegetables, root vegetables, fermented foods, seaweed, fish, and obviously a butt load of rice. At least my family did.
Ew mixed race 🤢
@@Nocturne33 gr8 b8
Great thorough explanation
I worked in Relocations, and one of the services was city orientation tours, which often included lunch. A standard complaint about lunch (at the beginning of the meal) was that the portion size was small, "stingy"... and at the meal end, there was no food left on the plate but the clients felt pleasantly full and satisfied. It was an eye-opening experience.
The standard thing that friends who moved back overseas complained about was the volume of food served in restaurants, particularly in the US - almost as if it were a contest to be generous, with no consideration of how much the customer could actually healthily consume! It seems that it is routine in the US to ask for take-home containers - putting at least half of their meal into to take home. (doing this is prohibited in Japan, due to liability for food poisoning due to improper storage remaining with the restaurant, not the hapless customer who took something home to leave in the sun all afternoon as they "forgot" to refrigerate it.. )
In Japan, they walk a lot more compared to the USA. Where in the USA, most commute by cars. So together with their healthier diet and walking, you can see why they're thinner.
I love this video. Very informative. I actually just started drinking green tea at the start of the new year; I bought the box that they sell at Costco (I think it's their Kirkland brand), but once I finish that box, I will definitely check out the Yogi brand.
Glad it was helpful!
It would be great to do a video on Japanese crockery plus sample dishes that are served for a meal.
I am a Japanese student. I am using an interpreter, so the text may be strange.
Everyone around me is thin. The standard is obesity over 50 kg. I was told that my legs were thick and I went on an excessive diet and became thin so that I weighed 32 kg. Menstruation is gone and hair comes off. Now it has I think Japanese people are particular about beauty and often compare it with the people around them. Students are also very worried about the eyes of the opposite sex. As I get older, I lose confidence in myself ...
I am very sorry to hear that せらを. I hope you find a good balance that makes you healthy & happy.
So Japanese people see kendall Jenner for example as obese? 😯
@@Name-gc4fs I think Japanese people think that Kendall Jenner is very beautiful and has a good style.
@@user-nj9op2ms6n I thought 60 kg was the idol weight for men as most of the k pop idols have weight like 60-65kg and Japanese people like k pop.....
I like this vid. Good insight.
Thanks so much! 🙌
loved your video. Thanks so much for this (L)
I remember when I stayed in Japan for six months in 2008 that I wrote home that I had eventually seen 20 fat Japanese people after five months there. I started keeping a little record after the first week.
I love your channel, Connor-san! Glad it randomly appeared on my YT recommendations. You have some of the best content and you deserve much more subscribers! 🙏🏻😊 Btw, do you think the Ofuro (hot bath) culture of Japan is also one of the reasons why they’re slim and healthy? 😊 Thank you so much, stay safe and more power! 👍🏻🙂
This is a really good youtube channel. I'm excited to see it inevitably grow to be very popular. Good vibes and happiness to everyone
全然聞き取れないけれど映像で何となくわかりました。
I couldn't hear anything at all, but I could understand something from the video.
なるほど、緑茶がアメリカの人にとっては健康的な飲み物ということに驚きました。
ただ、我々日本人としてはどちらかとういうと、家では「麦茶」のほうが圧倒的に多く飲まれています（安いため）。
外出中に飲み物を買う時は緑茶を買います。
Well, I was surprised to learn that green tea is a healthy drink for people in the US.
However, for us Japanese, "barley tea" is drunk more often at home (because it is cheaper).
When we buy drinks while out, we buy green tea.
そして、日本食は確かに健康的な食事には違いありませんが、実は、「お砂糖」がかなり沢山入っています。
「コク」を出すために砂糖、「味付け」のためにみりん、「柔らかくする」ために料理酒が沢山入っています。
だから甘い飲み物は避けられるのかもしれません。
And while Japanese food is certainly a healthy diet, it actually contains quite a lot of "sugar".
There is a lot of sugar for richness, mirin for seasoning, and cooking sake for softening.
Maybe that's why sweet drinks are avoided.
ではなぜ日本食が健康的かというと…それは大豆由来の食品が多いからです。
So why is Japanese food so healthy? Well, it's because it is full of foods derived from soybeans.
Yes
Awesome 👍
Great comparison with hard data. In addition, the quality of the good also play a role. In the US, we consume too much fast food and frozen food. Not every 1 lb of meat is equal
i also recommend eating dark chocolate...that stuff also has a lot of anti oxidants
Thanks for the suggestion!
Japanese use plenty of sugar (but real sugar not corn syrup like the USA), and Okinawa looovvvveees pork.
Yes they use sugar as usual in many culinary...
There sugar intake is still half that of usa-50 vs 100 gm.
@@john0094 yes, it's far less than the usa (like almost every country) but its far from zero
They use sugar but both people in the US and a few other counties like India doesn't considers the sugar they intake from their processed foods, its too goddamn high.
Also no omega 3s to balance it out
Yeah your right.
This is great thank you ! What about fruit? No fruit?
Living at high density and using crowded public transport is also very good for people's immune systems as they are regularly exposed to germs, viruses, etc. so build resistance.
There are a lot of chemicals in the US diet which are not allowed in Europe or Japan. Most of these chemicals significantly affect metabolism and increase estrogen levels. Plus there are many who inhibit insulin which leads to obesity and a feeling of never being full.
WOW!
I went to Japan and thought the portion sizes were actually large. Maybe I went expecting much smaller portions because this is what I heard, but I felt they were the same. In my opinion it seems more like American will eat a larger portion of one food with few smaller sides, while japanese rest smaller portions of more things. I struggled to finish meals there but felt I had to for politeness. That's just my perspective on the portions though. Maybe it's just me though, as while I eat frequently I struggle to eat a lot at once. I tend to eat 5 or six smaller "meals", while I know most people world wide eat three meals a day.
I think the way Japanese aren't very sedentary is the ultimate factor. Japanese nutrition might not be as questionable as SAD, but far from optimal with many Japanese drinking almost daily and an alarming number of smokers. What separates Japanese and other developed countries with low obesity even more from American nutrition that I can tell is that they spend far less time sitting or lying down. Even sumo wrestlers aren't that fat; many are 30% or under in terms of body fat and have surprisingly low levels of visceral fat. It's probably why few ever suffer heart disease or type-2 diabetes during their careers, although some can die soon after they retire and drop all the physical activity. Being a couch potato seems like among the worst possible things for health, and I also think that changes someone's eating habits a lot.
Thanks for sharing your feedback! I'd agree that the Japanese level of activity is certainly the main or one of the main factors.
@@LiveYourBestLife14 My thinking is that it kind of interacts with all the others. For example, since Japanese are so used to walking or cycling a couple hours/day and because the roads and infrastructure are designed to be very accomodating to pedestrians and cyclists, Japanese tend to shop for groceries on a daily basis. Meanwhile in a car culture like the US, what I see many Americans do is hop in their car, drive a distance to a large grocery store like a K-Mart or Walmart or Kroger or Costco, and stock up on preserved/frozen food that doesn't perish quickly for an entire week or even two weeks to save time and gas money.
Who qualified that information on green tea? Which I would be happy to believe.
Can you make a video about your thoughts on North Africa or the Middle East or Latin America?
Thanks for the suggestion! I will try!
Supermarkets sales a ton of fried foods everyday...like karaage..koroke..
Really informative and well structured video
He should come to Nagoya - there are quite a few overweight Japanese people here (not just sumo wrestlers!).
I’ve been to Nagoya a couple times, but just for work meetings, so I never stayed that long. I didn’t notice a higher percentage of overweight Japanese, but maybe I just didn’t notice 🤷♂️
確かに名古屋の食べ物は「こってり」していますね。
I gained weight backpacking in Japan because of their delicious foods 😅
1,146 views in 2 months.
Criminally underviewed.
The U.S spend so much time making different diets, it's just best to follow a traditional diet of your country.
On the contrary, I've heard there is a particularly high amount of food additives in Japanese food; and Asian people in general are more prone to developing diabetes - they may remain skinny, yet be diabetic.
Okinawa has a tradition of eating PORK which was killed during war, after which research of its diet has been done. Oinawan were eating a lot more pork than that research said.
"Japanese eat little animal products" Seconds later "Japanese people eat 4 times as much fish as Americans" Fish is an animal product.
Believe it or not, Americans don't think of fish as "animal" there are "vegetarians" who think eating fish is .... some kind of vegetable or something.
@@alexcarter8807 they dont think its a vegetable they just see fish as an exception.
Too bad there is so much sugar and sodium in their food. Diabetes & High Blood Pressure is a problem. Soy Sauce, MSG, white rice, Sushi Vinegar, (tempura, tonkatsu, karaage) fried, noodles unless buckwheat). They treat fat women as second class. They mock those women. Its ok for men to be overweight.
@@PokeyJr12 There's really not that much sugar in their food compared to the standard American diet. They use sugar almost as a seasoning, and a lot of that fried stuff you're describing is not everyday/homecooked fare, it's Japanese fast food. I did find many foods too salty for my palate when I was there. I don't know whether it's more ok for men to be fat than women, I'm sure it's applied unequally like most beauty standards. Though I saw so few fat ppl of either sex that I have to conclude it's not great for men to be fat either.
@@clobberelladoesntreadcomme9920 sugar is hidden and not so obvious so is sodium.
doesn't take a genius to figure this one out - It's the portion size ! Same with the French, they eat their butter and pastries but they eat it in moderation.
Very true 👏👏👏
Heavily processed food in the US than any other places.
There are still sugary drinks available there but again they are in SMALL bottles.
when I was a poor child I got 600 calories a day for five years and was dangerously underfed BMI
My diet is supposed to be 1800 that's funny I did a fitness genetic plan even though I walk 10 miles a day and lift weights causualy minimalistic and still says i need 1800
If you're a pro at chopsticks you can easily inhale food
The US would be better if the restaurants and stores offer mineral and antioxidant water and tea.
funny enough my when my Japanese friends visit me here in Europe they eat way more than me while being about two feet shorter. i really dont know where they put the food :)
They prob don't eat as often.
I tend to shock people when I travel abroad (from Japan) with how much I eat especially for dinner (like 2 large Domino's pizzas to myself or 20oz porterhouse steak with several sides). One thing is that while we tend to eat very small dishes, we tend to eat a lot of them. The total volume of food might be more than many Western people are used to eating in one day but usually, it is less like pizza and more like noodles, rice, veggies, and fruits making up most of that volume (foods that aren't so calorie-dense). So our stomachs are often trained to put away 1kg or sometimes even 2+kg of food in one sitting, but the total number of calories still might be under 1500kcal.
We're also a culture that loves eating contests. I used to win a number when I was younger and usually the people who win those are counter-intuitively small and slim, not large. It is also quite normal for the Japanese party style to involve heavy drinking and eating for several hours straight (see nomihoudai -- all you can drink -- at Izakaya). Sometimes when I meet new Western friend who comes to Japan and they try to eat and drink for hours straight in the same way, they tend to get sick (not from heavy drinking but the combination of heavy drinking and heavy eating).
No wonder I don't each as much any more when I use chopsticks.
Everytime I go to my local sushi restaurant I can't eat all of it like I used to.
I guess I'm on my way.....
For get the vegan and vegetarian diet.....
I though is cause asian DNA..not only in Japan but all Asians countries they are skin..The most crownded space at dpt Stores is the food and sweets...
as we say in Brazil, people in the U.S. eat as if they had free healthcare
But why don't they eat more? You put small portions in front of me, fish, rice, or whatever, and I just treat it as a la carte and keep ordering until I'm stuffed. Can't just be because of the inefficiency of chopsticks, that's never stopped me before. (I'm a little overweight but not terrible.)
i figure they skip meals more over there. or something.
Also with chopsticks
Japanese people are healthier people, they always eat healty foods. They are thin coz, they eat less.( fact)😊
but different food too. In the US, it is processed food and processed differently than Japanese.
That’s easy, the last time there was a fat man in Japan an entire city disappeared.
POV: you're looking for jokes about fat man
I'm here because I have ALWAYS wondered how the Japanese people stay so thin💖...In movies and anime l see such a huge selection of snacks and soft drinks,and since I know that Japanese people tend to do a lot of commuting I have always wondered how for example being away from home 9am-9pm they don't snack on junk food available by the bunch ??? TAKE CARE PEOPLE😍💖😍
Those percentages are the obesity rates, not bmi....
New generation of japanese woman are gain some extra weights...
I’m trying to see where anyone asked
Fish are animals though.
He's good looking!.!.
In the first few seconds of this video I had to switch to something else, because Connor is just incorrect. I personally knew many overweight Japanese, and the Japanese are not healthy. Sure, fish and rice are the majority of their diets for typical meals in rural areas, but city dwellers mainly eat deep fried fast foods just as often as any foreigner. It's true that they get a fair amount of exercise, you walk just about everywhere when off the trains, but they binge drink alcohol like there's no tomorrow, almost everyone smokes cigarettes, and anyone that's lived there knows that there are no healthy foods in an Izakaya. The truth is the overweight Japanese are mainly shut ins, they're ridiculed so badly that they rarely leave their homes. There are groups of Japanese referred to as "hikikomori", not all of them are overweight, and the Japanese government says there are only around 500,000 of them, but other outside privately funded studies say it's more like 15 million, that's almost 12% of their population, the entire population of Japan is only 126 million, but you'll never read those statistics from the Japanese government, because they suppress everyone and everything other than what they publish. Also, regardless of your age, you can be "taxed" more if you're overweight, so there are literal penalties for being fat, look it up if Connor doesn't cover that.
Hi Dave, thanks so much for watching you giving your feedback! Overall, I would have to respectfully disagree with your main points. Of course there are overweight Japan, but a quick google of obesity rates & BMI index shows Japan at the very bottom, those are facts. Also, Japan is quite low on the alcohol consumption per capital, according to the WHO. I would also say that in most Izakayas definitely have healthy options. (Sashimi, yakitori, edamame, salads, pickled veggies etc.). As for the "hikikomori" phenomena, I understood those was mostly people who, as the definition confirms, people with extreme social anxiety, not for being overweight.
I would agree that the Japanese smoke more than the average OECD country though, a quick Google search confirmed this. Also, as you suggest, the Japanese definitely eat unhealthy food as well, but the portion control is probably the biggest reason this unhealthy food doesn't make them obese, on average.
@@LiveYourBestLife14 Japanese people smoke a lot?
More fish & less animal products?
I get what u mean but a fish is definitely an animal lol
Happy you understood! I agree, a bit confusing 😂😂
A lot of them don't eat breakfast.
México literally has worst health habita than the U.S. ://
$200 medical bill?? Insane..
That looks like at least 10K to me.
F... That
Fish are animals.
lol. I didn't catch it at first, but I think he meant red meat later on.
@@jglee6721 definitely meant red meat
all good but fish is an animal product
Tip #1- don't eat
What are you talking about? There are fat Japanese. Haven't you been to a sumo match?
He literally said “except sumo people”
Lmaooooo
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