Other changes.
More Japanese women are also taking up aerobics,
playing recreational sports like golf and strength sports
like tennis, increasing their physique and musculature. More
are training harder and earlier and Japanese educational
sports programs are known to be rigorous and strict. In most
other East Asian nations, women cannot afford the leisurely
time to play such sports and have less time to exercise than
Japanese women, especially in Asian countries which are
barely surviving on their food supplies like India,
Indonesia which are seeing a large part of their populations
starving.
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Some in the West wondered how Japanese women who are
constrained to small spaces in Japan can grow big and tall
suddenly. Wealth has also overcome Japanese space
constraints as more and more Japanese women go to
ultra-modern gyms and sports clubs to train their muscles.
Taut, veined athletic muscles are no longer frowned upon in
the Japanese fashion world thanks to fitness trends in the
US, a source of Japanese emulation.
There are other more minor theories like Japanese
moves from sitting on the floor to sitting on chairs, have
improved their postures and musculatures accounting for the
height and weight increase. Removal of infectious diseases,
wealth and better quality of living as well as Japanese
infatuation with disinfectant may also be promoting Japanese
growth, size and longevity. Other less scientific assertions
include more sleep for Japanese improving their
metabolism
rates. Others have attributed the growth to the many
calorie-, vitamins- and minerals-enhanced food and drinks
available from vending machines which youngsters drink on
their way to night prep schools in place of dinner due to
time constraints.
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 Besides diet, some Japanese researchers and
scientists say
increase may also be due to Japanese industrial economy
producing large amounts of chemical byproducts that are
artificially increasing the sizes of women. Dioxins and
polystyrenes have been identified by some as chemical
substances that may enlarge and extend Japanese female body
sizes. They are hormone effectors that have been found in
Japanese soil, river and seas. These substances in Japan
have been blamed for low sperm counts and making
men develop
feminine characteristics. Synthetic estrogens have already
caused changes in fish and frogs in the rivers.
Finally, some of these changes in Japanese female
physique may also be due to Japan’s state intervention.
Some schools for example have their kids or encourage their
kids to taking vitamins pills in specially prescribed boxes
during lunchtime or have arranged volumes of milk or dairy
products to promote growth. Others have prescribed rest time
to manage youngsters’ metabolic rates. Schools strictly
monitor young children’s diet (Weight
loss surgery for children) with regular school
inspections of what mothers put in their bento or lunch
boxes. They regularly prescribe diets with calorie intakes
provided for the parents. Parents also have been educated
more through the media and during parent-teacher meetings
diets are often discussed to standardize growth promoter
diet for Japanese children.
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Psychological Factors.
Psychologically, Japanese who are afraid that they will
stick out because of their height or find it difficult to
marry no longer feel like that. Tall women are increasingly
envied. In fact, they are so admired that at one time, many
Japanese women wear high heel or platform shoes to make
themselves look taller, even to the extent of towering over
their boyfriends who now have to live with such fashion.
Another psychological factor studied by some social
science and psychology researchers in Japan is the growing
assertiveness of Japanese women. They are becoming more
aggressive and independent compared to their traditional
demure image. It is not known if this is due to biological
factors. But women are seen as stronger in careers and
personalities. Could chemical compounds be responsible for
this change?
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