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Although metabo is probably the biggest personal health topic in Japan, this recent survey from MyVoice into health awareness didn’t really touch on it, although it covered other interesting areas.
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This remarkable result could ring alarm bells for people overeager to tighten their belts by a few notches and avoid being labeled "metabo," a Japanese term used to describe people with metabolic syndrome.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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With the recent introduction of mandatory screening for MetS (to use the official abbreviation), goo Research in conjunction with the Mainichi Shimbun decided to investigate what people think of these metabo examinations.
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The big health buzzword last year and this has been metabolic syndrome, or metabo as it is abbreviated in Japan.
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Men were much more likely to think they were metabo; nearly two-thirds of middle-aged men thought they were there already or on the borderline versus less than half of women of a similar age.
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Following on from recent western press coverage on the topic, I was wondering if metabo, the Japanese abbreviation for the English metabolic syndrome might get re-imported back into English.
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Read more on: health, metabo, nippon research council
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Companies are starting to implement "anti-metabo" cafeteria menus and computer systems for workers to track their health.
Financial Frontiers: Why Only Obscure Markets Are Thriving In The Crunch 2008
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Workers who demonstrate a high risk for diabetes and heart disease must seek further treatment — all in an effort to reduce ballooning costs for preventable "lifestyle ailments" and "metabo" (short for "metabolic syndrome," a combination of high blood pressure, waistline fat and high cholesterol), which afflicts 9 million Japanese.
Financial Frontiers: Why Only Obscure Markets Are Thriving In The Crunch 2008
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Is it somehow more motivating to identify as "anti-metabo" rather than anti-obesity?
Charlotte Hilton Andersen: Does Fat By Any Other Name Still Look Bad In Lycra? 2008
john commented on the word metabo
"Summoned by the city of Amagasaki one recent morning, Minoru Nogiri, 45, a flower shop owner, found himself lining up to have his waistline measured. With no visible paunch, he seemed to run little risk of being classified as overweight, or metabo, the preferred word in Japan these days."
The New York Times, Japan, Seeking Trim Waists, Measures Millions by Norimitsu Onishi, June 13, 2008
June 13, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word metabo
I guess it's just derived from haipometaborisumu.
June 13, 2008