Comments by "CuteCatFaith" (@CuteCatFaith) on "The 10,000 Calorie Sumo Wrestler Diet" video.

  1. Your fault.
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  2. They are supposed to be that way.  Study sumo.  Its history.
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  3. ***** In the sumo lifestyle you have to get up to eat during the night, even.  Required.  This old art was done as a way for lords to show off and have competitions for entertainment.  Their sponsorship of the hefty sumo wrestlers was a sign of prestige.
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  4. PhuckHue2 You can't be serious.  You know nothing about the sumo diet and lifestyle, obviously.
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  5. adam torres Probably, today.  I was born in '57 and had to cook for my brother of 4, alone, when I was 8.  I always had to cook, clean, know how to iron, sew, fix things, garden, this was in a city, yet in Ohio.  I had to keep highest marks in school.  I was shown the door at 18 and said, go succeed.
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  6. Tyler H Sumo wrestlers were status symbols for lords of old Japan.  Being able to keep them and have them compete was akin to owning racehorces and such.  A heavy diet was a sign of luxury and opulence in starving times. 
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  7. Salpeteroxid A lot of "health info" is lobbied stuff.  Milk actually leaches calcium OUT of us, and so on!
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  8. King Z True, and I'm glad you saw a documentary.  While bulking up initially, they may be required to get up and eat rice during the night, then go back to sleep.  Many cultures do not actually count calories.  France tends to be like that.  Hey, many people think chicken has less fat.  It has more than veal!  The luxury of being sponsored, showing status for the lord patrons, being fed a lot, learning agility and discipline, must have been quite enviable in the old days.  Overall, it does not seem great to be so bulky, but my French spouse and I took the time to learn and were happy to watch some Sumo competitions we could see.  We could see how fast, hard and ritualized it is.  I recommend a Japanese movie called, I think, FACES.  It is not very old, really.  About the young guy who becomes a ritual funeral man, and how he is stigmatized and his wife has problems with it when she finds out, and yet, he does it beautifully and it brings great peace to the bereaved and dignity to the deceased, no matter their station in life.  Fantastic, powerful movie.  We were just about knocked flat by that one!  eeek  Best regards.
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  9. Tobias Zimmermann Also because of the complex tradition of sumos and their patrons. 
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  10. Tobias Zimmermann Just don't have alcohol, ever, or aspirin substitute, or you'll get pancreatitis.  Smart to ease in.  A sudden change ... hard for the body to take.
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  11. Mark P Not so ... there is a substance in saliva, genetically passed on, which causes problems digesting rice, carbs, et c.  These families have a history of obesity, no matter what.  This is fact, published in France.  They should eat darn little of what they cannot process, as it doesn't pass quickly and they aren't even getting much nutrition from it.
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  12. ***** Many people lack a saliva element which enables them to process and gain nutrients from "slow carbohydrates," such as rice.  These tend to fail diets and be from overweight families.  It's a genetic factor.  The "slow carbohydrates" aren't even really nourishing them much.  I live in a country where being overweight is frowned upon.  The origins of sumo are a bit unclear and undocumented, but primarily, prize fighters had the luxury of excessive food and weight and were prizes for lords to game and compete with.  Status symbols, and entertainment.  Not all necessarily bad, like what's known as the "geisha" (or geiko) culture.  It just is what it is.
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  13. Daniel W That's a point.  Gout is bloody heck.
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  14. I saw a documentary in France about a young man whose strict Japanese father orders him to complete sumo school (2 years of incredible physical tests) and he quits right at the end, although he did well, and the father had said never come back if you don't finish and succeed, so he was outcast.  It teaches about the history, the practice, and why it is the way it is.  I recommend you look for it.
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