New Initiative To Downsize Government Officials

[Mulboyne]

Scotsman: Japan's top health officials to start belly blog
Two top officials at Japan's Health Ministry are to start a blog about their efforts to lose weight, including pictures of their bellies, as part of a campaign to encourage healthy lifestyles. Tubby vice ministers Keizo Takemi and Noritoshi Ishida, both 55, have vowed to lose five and six kilograms respectively...Starting on Monday, the blog will reveal their weight and waist measurement each week, as well as the number of paces they walk, the number of stairs they climb and the amount of alcohol they consume..."Come take a look at my belly and fight metabolic syndrome yourself," Ishida told reporters.

Details will appear on the Ministry's website.

[Mulboyne]

Let the games begin...

[GomiGirl]

Time for GUT-BUSTERS

[Charles]

It can be done, with persistent effort. I quit smoking and gained some weight, so I started dieting and walking. I lost 50 pounds in the last 6 months.

[IkemenTommy]

Simple. Quit going out every night dining on tax-payers' money.

[baka tono]

metabolic syndrome

A more PC term for when people eat too much and wont get off their lazy ass and exercise?

[Mulboyne]

[floatl][/floatl]Washington Post: Japan's New Public Health Problem Is Getting Big
When he arrives home late from work, Keizo Takemi says, he often furtively opens the refrigerator and searches for something to quiet his growling stomach. He is about to pounce when he hears his daughter's voice. "Daaaaad," she snaps, and he guiltily closes the fridge and slinks off to bed chastened, his stomach grumbling in vain. Takemi is 55 years old and Japan's vice minister for health, welfare and labor, so he is not used to being told what he can and cannot eat, certainly not by his daughter. But Takemi is no ordinary politician. In a bid to foster awareness of a growing problem with obesity in Japan, he put himself on a six-month diet and turned himself into a national guinea pig. On a daily blog he lists what he eats, how much exercise he does, how much his waistline fluctuates. There are even photos of his belly, the source of his woes, before and after. At a recent public weigh-in, Takemi said dieting in the spotlight hadn't been easy. "The toughest thing was having to cut down on the things I really want to eat," said Takemi, who admits to loving meat and deserts. But the hardship has paid off. Since December, Takemi has lost 16.4 pounds, and his waist has shrunk three inches...more...

[Greji]

I had a major weight loss when I got circumcised!

[IkemenTommy]

I had a major weight loss when I got circumcised!

It must've been enough to feed the entire needy population

[Greji]

:eeh:
It must've been enough to feed the entire needy population

That's what she said!