Imagine, if you will, a conversation in your Pilattes studio or gym locker room, or even on the train in any city in Japan, between two slender women, whom nobody would ever guess to be worried about their weight. These women could be any age, married, single, with or without children, the point being that they are slender.
“I’m getting fat! I really have to watch what I eat!”
“Me too! My weakness is snacks I can’t help eating snacks!”
“Oh, guess what? I found an article on RocketNews 24 about ‘diet snack food’! It introduces 20 of them, I’m pretty sure it says they are no more than 100 calories each!”
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[Deleted] Article written for April Fool’s Day 2018
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