My Japanese girlfriend tells me that Asians have longer intestines than white people, which causes a higher frequency of constipation (a subject Japanese will publicly discuss unabashedly!) and high rates of cancer when western diets are adopted.
Is this true? Has this been documented, or is it an urban legend?
Well, in this neck of the woods, “honky” refers to people from Hong Kong. And people from Hong Kong are generally Chinese, although you’ve got a fair amount of Philippino’s, people from the sub-continent and a few American style “honkies”.
This is pure unadulterated bullshit that really surfaced in 1991 when the Japanese were being forced to open up their rice market. Funny how this whole long intestine thing went out the window following a typhoon in IIRC 1993 that wiped out a huge chunk of the rice crop that year.
This won’t advance the OP, which as previously noted is almost certainly UL, but. . .
On Dr. Dean Edell’s radio program some years ago he made note of a study that found that in Japan, stomach cancer is relatively high and breast cancer is relatively low compared to the US. For Japanese born in the US, though, the rates are comparable to the US rates.
I’ve done a lot of research into intestines and intestinal problems and I’ve never come across any reference to a special length for Asian intestines in any medical textbook or journal article.
I had a Californian friend ask me what a “Cracker Barrel” was when she visited us in the Deep South. I informed her that it’s called that because only white people eat there and that it used to be called “Honky Barrel” but some people found it offensive.
While these comments were made 13 years ago, this is just a reminder that they would not be acceptable in GQ now. I’m instructing that people should not respond to them as if they were current.