Why are these Asians so skinny?

[jennifer_bloom]

Today I was at an East Asian Buffet and I saw a crowd of tall Korean guys at the buffet. They were so tall and thin, they looked like extremely thin k-pop fashion models, and they ate twice as much as all the fat people at the buffet.

I used to know a 90 pound woman who ate 5000 calories for every meal.

How do they do it?

[purplepoppy]

It's to do with the number of fat storage cells in your body and that's genetic and fixed. The more fat storage cells you have the easier it is to put on weight and the harder to lose. If you've a low number then you'll stuggle to get fat no matter how much you eat.

Unfortunately it's common among Asians to store fat internally around organs instead, so being skinny doesn't always mean healthy

[beenherebefore]

Genetics and metabolism play a big part. Also just because they ate all that at a gathering doesn't mean they eat like that every single day, people tend to eat a bit more than they usually would when they go out. Perhaps they also train hard in the gym, some work out plans allow you to eat bigger portions so you can burn all those calories later at the gym.

[BonzoInBitburg]

My wife is Asian and weighs half of what I weigh even though she probably eats 4 times what I eat in a day. When we visit family in her country, I eat as much as I want of the local food and I lose about a pound a week so I think it's mostly the food.

[Xawyx-2]

East Asians? Well, they have much healthier cuisine, and they are usually more active, some of them practice martial arts, or some sort of meditation combined with exercise.

[Xawyx-2]

Thank you for MHO