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Tilted Cat Head
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Originally Posted by Ratman
So what about professional football players? Are they nonconformist in American culture? This is a ridiculous threadjack that has nothing to do with the question at hand.
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Yes. They are in the same manner that I have spoken to. In fact, it's very widely touted how much food they eat and how many calories they intake. It does not conform to anything within the realm of normal food intake.
Q&A with Bengals dietitian Michele Macedonio
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Q. On any given day, what is the calorie intake for a player?
A. For a professional football player, depending on the position and the individual, intakes can range from around 5,000 calories to over 10,000 calories a day.
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The FDA recommended daily allowance of calories:
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The General Guide to Calories provides a general reference for calories when you look at a Nutrition Facts label. This guide is based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
Eating too many calories per day is linked to overweight and obesity.
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You simply cannot compare Japan and the US in these terms. The very reasons this will work in Japan are the reasons why it wouldn't work in the US. If you are determined to be fat, a drug addict, a scofflaw, or anything else outside the norm of Japanese society, please do not move here. Stay in the US where you have the "right" to do whatever you want, including scream about how "wronged" you are by this law or that law, and you can probably win a "fat" settlement against your heatlthcare provider because they didn't "make" you lose weight.
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I'm not interested in moving to Japan. I've not said it either. I'm not even concerned about how it affects the Japanese culture because it's so radically different and articles I have read state it's something unique to them. My only application to the discussion has been toward how the same rules could not apply to here, not just because of the lack of universal healthcare, but because of the freedom to be who you want to be, regardless of societal norms.
The only interjection for Japanese culture was me asking how Sumo wrestlers fit within the realm of this law.
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