Name: What's overweight in Japan? 日本人のぽっちゃり基準【日・英字幕】
Uploaded: 2016-09-10T10:45:26.000Z
Duration: 6 min 46 s
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Hey everyone! You voted so today I'm going to talk about Japanese standards for what's

considered skinny or overweight. From the first place, MEDICALLY Japan has different

standards for what they consider overweight. Most of the world uses the same BMI, or Body

Mass Index, scale. This scale compares your height to your weight and places you in categories

of either underweight, normal, overweight, or three different classes of obesity.

For most of the world class 1 obesity begins at a BMI of 30. However, in Japan, class 1

obesity starts at 25 rather than 30. This is because Asians tend to face more weight-related

disease issues at lower BMIs than the rest of the world. For example, at the same BMI

as other races, Japanese people face more than twice the risk of type 2 diabetes. They

also have higher risks of hypertension and cardiovascular disease, and they also face

a risk of dying earlier from those causes. So there's a good reason that Japanese people

need to be skinnier than the rest of the world. But let's go ahead and compare average BMIs.

I chose to get the data for the 10 countries that watch our channel the most. As you can

see, the average Japanese BMI is pretty significantly lower than most other countries. Women alone

have an average BMI of 20 and that is pretty freaking skinny, BUT for the vast majority

of people that is not going to be anywhere near the size 0 that a lot of foreigners assume

is the average in Japan. So this is all statistical data, but what

do Japanese people actually think? I actually have a chart that I'm going to show you that

someone, somewhere created to rate women on a scale of what they consider skinny and chubby.

But of course since that's just one person's opinion, instead of using their standard,

I'm going to be translating comments for you by Japanese people so you can see what a lot

of different Japanese people think. And since the Japanese viewers on our channel tend to

be really polite and respectful when I ask them questions, instead of getting their opinions,

I took opinions from other parts of the internet where people were less likely to hold anything

back, so of course, some of the comments are really offensive. So I just want to let you

guys know ahead of time. Additionally, the chart is full of half naked women in underwear,

so it's not safe for work! But let's get started.

On this chart, the Japanese says "Pocha do." "Pocchari" means "chubby," and "do" means

"degree," so they're measuring the degree of chubiness.

No more than 60%. One of my female friends is like -60 and I'm worried about her!

I'm less than -30. It seems like guys would like 40% the best. She's definitely the cutest.

I like 80-100%. To me, under 60% are not chubby.

I thought the examples of chubby girls would be fatter. To me these would all be categorized

40-60 look healthy. I worry about the women under that.

I used to be 40, but now when I sit I have a stomach fold. Damnit.

My wife is about 140... But her thighs are voluptuous and feel great so I'm happy.

I'm good up to 100!! Someone please date me!!

Under 40 are skin and bones. They're not attractive at all. I can't even believe 0.

Seeing them makes me think they're living in abject poverty or something.

To me 60 is 0 percent chubby. 80 is the best, and 100 is finally kind of chubby.

I thought I liked chubby women but I guess I really like fat women, then.

-30 and -20 can't be sexy to me... please eat some meat.

-30 and -20 look scary to me even though I'm a woman. Around 60 look great and I'm jealous!

100 is totally fine. It depends on the face, though.

-30-10 look like they were carved to perfection. More than 40 is fat...

I'm a woman and I'm jealous of these girls because they're all well-balanced.

My chest is 20, my ribs are -20, my stomach is 80, my waist is 0, and my thighs are 10. So how chubby am I?

Sorry, but I'm not dating those skin and bones girls.

Girls magazines make girls go crazy thinking they need to diet, diet, diet all

Before you tell a woman she's too fat or skinny

why don't you take off your clothes and stand in front of a mirror first!

The ones above 40 are definitely fat. 20 is just over the line for being chubby.

No less than 60%. Other than 100, the rest aren't chubby at all.

Of course 60 and below are no good. 80 to 100 are my tastes. A little above 100 is perfectly fine, too.

None of the girls here are fat. The minus ones are too thin.

My level would be from -10 to 60. 60 is chubby but that's okay.

I could go for all of them, but I like the bottom row better.

I'm a chubby woman. To me, everyone up to 60 is slim.

80% is normal and 100% is a little chubby. I think a lot of guys would think

that 100% is totally normal, and they like girls chubbier than that.

80% should be 0% chubby. Isn't this chart more what women think about themselves?

I'd go for -10 to 40. If she was 60 I'd feel like I was having sex with a pig.

I like all of the ones above 10. If there was a 200% I think I'd still like her.

If you want to read more comments, all of the comments we translated you can find on

our blog. So as you can see, Japanese people have a very wide range of opinions on what

they consider to be skinny or chubby, just like anywhere else in the world. There were

a number of people who did view people we would think of as skinny as being chubby or

even fat, but there were plenty of people who preferred people who were chubbier. So

I don't want you guys to get the impression that Japan is a country only for size 0 people,

because that is not true. I believe that people of any size can get along in Japan and as

I mentioned in my last video, I think it's pretty easy to lose weight in Japan if you

go in with the right mindset, so I don't want anyone to feel bad about going to Japan. So

anyway, I hope this video was helpful. Thanks for watching, guys!