Japan's 4.5% obesity rate vs America's 40%: What's their secret?
America's obesity rate has gone from 12% to over 40% since 1960. Japan's remains at just 4.5%. Why? The latest episode of Joseph Everett's "What I've Learned" YouTube series examines why the Japanese population, as a whole, has remained significantly thinner than the American population.
The difference stems fr…
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