In Japan, it’s illegal to be fat. Sort of.

Japan’s government seem to be taking obesity even more seriously that ours.

Thanks to an anti-obesity law passed last year, Japanese salary men across the nation are pulling up their shirts to have their guts measured… and if they’re overweight, they face consequences.
If you’re male and your waist is over 33.5 inches, you’re considered fat. If you’re female, the limit is 35.4 inches. Thanks to those burgers, you now have to attend mandatory counselling with a physician. For every grotesquely obese employee like yourself, your company gets hit by a fine; ergo, they strongly encourage you to lose weight with gifts of gym memberships and pedometers.

I’m no dietitian, (or even a nutritionist*), but it seems to me that merely going on waist size is a bad move. Surely there’s some fancy methodology for this which is more accurate? Percentage of body fat divided by amount of sweetcorn in your stools, or something.

*That is to say, a fraud with an internet degree: “In jurisdictions such as the UK and most US states the term "nutritionist" is not legally protected. As a result, people who refer to themselves as "nutritionists" may have no officially recognized credentials.”  The only internet degree I have is my ordination certificate for the Church of the Latter-day Dude.