<--J-girl, 23 kgMore Japanese are too fat or thin, eat fewer veggies
Agence France-Presse / Tokyo, October 19Japanese people are increasingly too fat or too thin, eat fewer vegetables and skip breakfast, as modern living takes its toll on the nation's health, official data showed...
Some 29 percent of men aged 20 to 60 were overweight in 2002, compared with 24 percent five years earlier... Nearly 27 percent of women in their 20s were underweight compared with 23 percent five years ago...
....Among healthy indices that worsened in the report, adults ate an average of 285 grams (10 ounces) of vegetable matter a day, down from 292 grams five years earlier and short of the 350 gram goal....
