The fats you deal with and this ham in Japan share the same common origins. They're both fat for the same central reasons: access to high taste/high caloric density food, a propensity for laziness, suboptimal environments and a culture that encourages blaming the system instead of taking initiative. The end stage of this house of horrors is the eventual cultural acceptance of all this excess. Obesity is an extreme global issue and it's only going to get worse. 300 million fat Americans are one thing, but what about a billion Asians?