Every time I come home from Japan, I feel sad to see so many Canadians overweight. The situation is worse in the U.S. They say that the most serious health problem in Canada and the U.S. is obesity. In two countries of North Americs 6% of population is classified as obese wjicj is the worst in the worldf. In Korea and Japan it’s only 3.6%. Why is that? Most of information I found on the subject in social media point to the difference in diet in those two Asian countries from. I do not agree. They completely ignore the one most important factor. It’s clear that their intention is to sell a nutrition supplement and neglect to mention other factors. In short what makes us fat is the excess use of cars not eating too much food.

Japanese people spend awful lot of money for food more than we do in Canada, but few of them are overweight. I found it’s the same in France and Switzerland. In those countries you find food with good quality and expensive. Therefore serving is smaller. I heard many North American complain about the small serving and high cost. Many Japanese visitors we entertained in Canada and the U.S. complain cheaper quality of food and big quantity of serving they can not finish. The fact is Japanese people live much longer than any other country in the world. It’s clear we need to walk more and to drive less.”

Japanese people take public transport more often and walk a lot more to make connections, to bus stops and change destinations. Japan and other countries like Britain, France, Germany and Switzerland have the best public transport system in the world. It’s clear to me driving makes us fat more than food intake. Number of deaths as the result of overweight have overtaken cancer and cardiovascular conditions. But we try to avoid the subject because we have to give up a few pleasures of life like car. We rather drive to the gym and take Ozempic. That’s how we stopped running, walking, and taking public transport. Now we can eat as much as we want without moving our bodies. So many of us become overweight and die of heart attack.