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If you've ever been to Japan, you may have noticed that it's really hard to find an obese Japanese person.

In the United States, it's quite a different story.

The rate of obesity among adults in America is on average around 30%, whereas the Japan obesity rate is only 3 .5%.

But what makes the weight of people in these two countries so different?

Why Japanese people?

At first, I was thinking about things like Japanese people drink a lot of green tea,

and they get a decent amount of fermented foods like kimchi or natto, which is great for the gut microbiome.

But in this video, I want to focus on a very simple yet key point about Japan.

The food environment is drastically different from the U .S.

As of 2017, there's over 243 ,000 fast food establishments in America.

There's only 6 ,169 establishments in Japan, meaning per person, there's about 15 times more fast food restaurants in America.

Then again, in Japan, fast food, fried food, chips, chocolate, candy, soda, and not -so -healthy things are still available wherever you go.

But there's a huge variety of equally convenient, reasonably healthy food.

Let's say I'm the average busy person in the States who would like to be healthy, but doesn't have time to cook at home.

What's for breakfast?

Most people's options are limited to things like a McGriddle with hash browns and coffee,

or maybe an egg and processed cheese sandwich with tater tots at Dunkin' Donuts, or some pancakes at Denny's if you have more time.

Surely some people will have healthier options than that, but I'm trying to think of what most people are going to have access to.

So what's a quick breakfast in Japan?

While there's more than 6 ,000 fast food establishments in Japan, there's also 5 ,000 rice bowl establishments.

The big ones are Yoshinoya, Sukiya, and Matsuya.

And for $4 at Sukiya, for breakfast you can get plain rice, miso soup with seaweed, an egg,

baked fish, and a small potato salad comes with it.

If I'm extra hungry, maybe I'll add some kimchi, fermented soybeans, and stewed beef for $4.

Or you can put together a reasonably healthy meal from a convenience store.

At a Japanese convenience store, I can get a rice ball, which is just rice, salmon, and salt, a small salad, or a package of sushi,

or a thing of fish with miso, or some soup.

I was pretty impressed with how little junk is in this.

It's basically just vegetables, pork, and fish broth.

And there's a bunch of foods like this.

Here's what I can get for under $10 USD.

Compare this to what's available in American convenience stores.

They're usually limited to fried foods sitting under heat lamps, or foods loaded with trans fats, sugar, preservatives, and unhealthy additives.

If you're lucky, you might be able to get a package of plain nuts with nothing added.

So the items in Japanese convenience stores are not top quality health foods, but they're not bad.

This is big because practically everyone has access to these places.

Convenience stores like these are everywhere.

Japan has about 55 ,000 convenience stores, meaning there's about 10 times more convenience stores per square kilometer better in Japan compared to America.

For most, these places are in walking distance.

I understand that of course there are healthy restaurants here

and there in America and you can make a really healthy meal with ingredients from the supermarket.

But when it comes to cheap, convenient and quick food, it's almost always quite unhealthy.

In Japan, for a quick lunch I can go to Burger King or right next door I can get some sushi.

I can get a hamburger and some popcorn at Vandalism Cafe,

or I can go next door to Matsuya and get a bowl of spicy tofu soup with a bit of beef,

green onion and cabbage, some pork, a soft boiled egg, some mustard spinach, rice, and there's free pickled ginger to go with it.

And of course, there are many healthier non -chain places that offer many different types of cuisine.

And this variety is important.

It's going to be much easier to stick to healthier options

if you aren't getting bored of having to eat the same things at the same places over and over.

Even if you're going out to drink with friends at dinner time, there's still a variety of good food choices.

The standard place to drink at is an izakaya.

At 10 ,000 establishments, there's almost twice as many izakayas as there are fast food places in Japan.

Replacing fast food for alcohol is not a good strategy, but let's see what the common izakaya chains have to offer in the way of food.

Let me point out one more time that there's of course much better quality food than what you get at convenience stores,

rice bowl chains, or izakayas, and this is not what most Japanese people eat on a daily basis.

I'm not really recommending these places either, most Japanese people wouldn't think of these places as healthy.

But This isn't about optimal health, I just mean to point out

that even someone who puts minimal effort into being healthy can get some reasonable quality meals out of these very convenient places.

By the way, what's everyone drinking with and between meals?

In America, more often than not, it's soda, considering a survey of 80 countries found

that America comes in at rank number 1 for soda consumption at 170 liters purchased per person in 2011.

7 -Eleven Japan came in at rank 56, at 32 liters per person.

In Japan, most places serve tea with your meal for free, and in general it's harder to purchase massive quantities of soda.

There's no comically large big gulps at 7 -Eleven, I haven't seen these packs of soda here,

and Japan has the smallest large cup size at McDonald's.

An American medium -sized drink is bigger than a Japanese large charge.

Another factor to thank for keeping people's soda intake low is again, variety.

What's interesting is despite

Japan drinking 5 times less soda than America, soda is available in vending machines everywhere in Japan.

There's 5 .52 million vending machines, meaning there's a vending machine for every 23 people in Japan.

That's the highest vending machine per capita on the planet.

So what's in these vending machines?

Why don't we take a look at this vending machine

I came across on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere in Hakone.

Among other things, they have black coffee, six different types of unsweetened tea, and water.

A typical American vending machine offers 13 varieties of drink, the only non -sweet one being water.

So, convenience and variety.

Simple, but it makes a difference.

It's easier to pick the healthy choices when they are just as easy and convenient as the unhealthier choices.

Now, this is by no means the full story on Japan and health, but I think these are two key factors.

I'll be doing another video on some of the many other things that contribute to health in Japan,

so if there's a particular point you want to hear discussed, leave a comment below.

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Этот урок разговорной практики построен на видео «Why is it so Easy to be Thin in Japan?». Чаще всего повторяются слова: Japan, healthy, convenience, soda, Japanese. В этом видео 59 предложений и 1188 слов для шедоуинга. Речь длится 6:55. Говорящий говорит в естественном темпе, около 172 слов в минуту, близком к повседневной речи. Только 80% слов входят в 3000 самых частых слов английского языка, поэтому лексика сложная.

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15 слов из видео, которые стоит выучить, с произношением и значением:

Слово	Произношение	Значение
convenience существительное	/kənˈvinjəns/	удо́бство, приго́дность
soda существительное	/ˈsoʊdə/	со́да, карбона́т на́трия
meal существительное	/ˈmiːl/	еда́, пи́ща
establishment существительное	/ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ.mənt/	основа́ние, установле́ние
convenient прилагательное	/kənˈviː.niənt/	удо́бный
soup существительное	/sup/	суп, похлёбка
unhealthy прилагательное	/ʌnˈhɛl.θi/	вре́дный, нездоро́вый
package существительное	/ˈpæk.ɪd͡ʒ/	паке́т, посы́лка
compare глагол	/kəmˈpɛɚ/	сра́внивать, сравни́ть
rank существительное	/ˈɹæŋk/	ряд, шере́нга
plain существительное	/pleɪn/	равни́на
salad существительное	/ˈsæl.əd/	сала́т
reasonably наречие	/ˈɹiː.zən.ə.bli/	разу́мно
fry глагол	/fɹaɪ/	жа́рить, поджа́рить
obesity существительное	/ə(ʊ)ˈbiːsɪti/	ожире́ние, ту́чность

Фразовые глаголы, которые вы услышите

Слово	Значение
point out глагол	ука́зывать, указа́ть
put together глагол	собрать, составить

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Конструкции, которые говорящий использует чаще всего, с точными словами из видео:

Конструкция	В видео
Придаточные определительные who / which + предложение — уточнение о человеке или предмете	natto, which is · ball, which is · someone who puts
Present Perfect have/has + причастие прошедшего времени — прошлое действие, важное сейчас	you've ever been · haven't seen

Произношение, на которое стоит обратить внимание

Говорящий использует 17 сокращённых и редуцированных форм, например I'm, I'll, they're. Произносите их коротко, так, как слышите.

Звуки «th»: unhealthy /ʌnˈhɛl.θi/, broth /bɹɔθ/
Звуки «sh» и «zh»: establishment /ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ.mənt/, sushi /ˈsuːʃi/, translation /tɹænzˈleɪʃən/, consumption /kənˈsʌmp.ʃən/
Длинные слова — следите за ударением: establishment /ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ.mənt/, reasonably /ˈɹiː.zən.ə.bli/, obesity /ə(ʊ)ˈbiːsɪti/, practically /ˈpɹæk.tɪ.k(ə.)li/, supermarket /ˌsupɚˈmɑɹkət/

Звуки, трудные для русскоязычных:

/w/ — губы округлены, это не /v/: whereas /(h)wɛɹˈæz/, nowhere /ˈnoʊ.(h)wɛɹ/, equally /ˈiːkwəli/, wherever /(h)wɛɹˈɛvɚ/, sandwich /ˈsæn(d).wɪd͡ʒ/
/h/ — лёгкий выдох, а не русское «х»: unhealthy /ʌnˈhɛl.θi/, hungry /ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi/, whereas /(h)wɛɹˈæz/, nowhere /ˈnoʊ.(h)wɛɹ/, wherever /(h)wɛɹˈɛvɚ/
Звонкие согласные в конце слова — не оглушайте их: package /ˈpæk.ɪd͡ʒ/, salad /ˈsæl.əd/, whereas /(h)wɛɹˈæz/, sandwich /ˈsæn(d).wɪd͡ʒ/, mustard /ˈmʌstəɹd/

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