Obesity Issue
Obesity Issues of U.S. and Japan
Mako Watanabe
The American’s rate of the obesity has been a serious problem in the United States for centuries. On the other hand, Japanese people are famous for being skinny. So I would like to figure out why and what makes those differences. I think there are two main reasons for them, one is about difference of their diet, and the other is the difference of the amount of exercise. I am going to find out according to these two ideas from now.
First of all, I am going to talk about the difference of the diet between Americans and Japanese. What do you imagine if you hear of American food? Most of you will think of something really unhealthy and high calorie such as hamburgers or potato chips or like hotdogs and so on. A whole pizza is about 1000 kcal, a bag of potato chips is about 550 kcal, and a hotdog is about 300 kcal. In contrast, Japanese people eat healthy and low calorie food. Most typical Japanese dishes are only around 200 kcal. Even other countries are trying to mimic Japanese diet since Japanese food are very healthy. It is proven that there is a huge gap of the calorie intake per day between Americans and Japanese. Furthermore, in the childhood, we Japanese have lunch provided from school, they are always very healthy because professional nutritionist make all the recipes carefully thinking about children’s health. However, in the United State, kids are provided with high calorie food such as pizza, hamburgers, pasta, and even soda which is pretty bad for our body.
Here is the data. About 73000 million American people are said to be fat which accounts for 34% of all population in the United States, and about 30 million people die for overweight each year. The half of the adults and 2/3 of the kids are too fat. Next, I am going to talk about the different amount of the exercise in a day.
The biggest difference is the transportation. Japanese people tend to walk if the destination is pretty close, such as stations, grocery stores, and school. On the other hand, American people use their own car all the time. What made me so surprised while I was in the United States was that that a lot of students come to high school by their own cars every single day, or their parents drive them to school. This doesn’t normally happen in japan. We walk or take a train and buses to go to school or work. Probably that is because United States is not safe enough to walk around, but I think this situation makes different amount of the exercise of a day.
Mako Watanabe
The American’s rate of the obesity has been a serious problem in the United States for centuries. On the other hand, Japanese people are famous for being skinny. So I would like to figure out why and what makes those differences. I think there are two main reasons for them, one is about difference of their diet, and the other is the difference of the amount of exercise. I am going to find out according to these two ideas from now.
First of all, I am going to talk about the difference of the diet between Americans and Japanese. What do you imagine if you hear of American food? Most of you will think of something really unhealthy and high calorie such as hamburgers or potato chips or like hotdogs and so on. A whole pizza is about 1000 kcal, a bag of potato chips is about 550 kcal, and a hotdog is about 300 kcal. In contrast, Japanese people eat healthy and low calorie food. Most typical Japanese dishes are only around 200 kcal. Even other countries are trying to mimic Japanese diet since Japanese food are very healthy. It is proven that there is a huge gap of the calorie intake per day between Americans and Japanese. Furthermore, in the childhood, we Japanese have lunch provided from school, they are always very healthy because professional nutritionist make all the recipes carefully thinking about children’s health. However, in the United State, kids are provided with high calorie food such as pizza, hamburgers, pasta, and even soda which is pretty bad for our body.
Here is the data. About 73000 million American people are said to be fat which accounts for 34% of all population in the United States, and about 30 million people die for overweight each year. The half of the adults and 2/3 of the kids are too fat. Next, I am going to talk about the different amount of the exercise in a day.
The biggest difference is the transportation. Japanese people tend to walk if the destination is pretty close, such as stations, grocery stores, and school. On the other hand, American people use their own car all the time. What made me so surprised while I was in the United States was that that a lot of students come to high school by their own cars every single day, or their parents drive them to school. This doesn’t normally happen in japan. We walk or take a train and buses to go to school or work. Probably that is because United States is not safe enough to walk around, but I think this situation makes different amount of the exercise of a day.
作品名：Obesity Issue 作家名：わたなべま