SuperOutland wrote:
> "The idea that you are what you eat has been enthusiastically promoted
> for years by Den Fujita, the eccentric billionaire who brought
> McDonald's to Japan three decades ago. 'If we eat McDonald's
> hamburgers and potatoes for a thousand years,' Fujita once promised
> his countrymen, 'we will become taller, our skin will become white,
> and our hair will be blonde.'"
> 
> source: Vidal, John. McLibel: Burger Culture on Trial. New York: New
> Press, 1997, p. 42.
> 
> Part of the reason japan had such a high life exptectancy rate was a
> healthier diet than americans.  This however shows that japs would
> cowardly shorten the lives of their own countrymen just to copy white
> americans.  I hope this answers your questions.

Not all Japanese are like that but it's true that more people are having
heart attacks
than ever before. Too much meat I guess. I always wondered about people
flocking to places like Yoshinoya that served beef don(gyuudon). It's
like waxing your
own arteries. Maybe the taste and the cheap price was irresistible.