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Mid shot of young crowd taking photos of Gal Sone with...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eTokyo - April 2008\u003cbr/\u003e1. \"Gal\" Sone makes her entrance at a food eating competition at a shopping centre in Kawasaki\u003cbr/\u003e2. \"Gal\" Sone speaking on stage saying that she likes eating rice\u003cbr/\u003e3. Mid shot of young crowd taking photos of Gal Sone with their phones\u003cbr/\u003e4. Gal Sone starts beginning to eat\u003cbr/\u003e5. Close up shot of Gal Sone eating curry\u003cbr/\u003e6. Mid shot from the side of Gal Sone eating\u003cbr/\u003e7. Mid shot of three people competing against Gal Sone\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE :(Japanese) (two girls in the shot) Aikawa Onyu, Vox Pop \u003cbr/\u003e\"She (Gal Sone) is so thin. She has a pretty face. How can she eat that much? That's why people started becoming interested in her and caring about her\".\u003cbr/\u003e9. Mid shot then closing in on Gal Sone eating at a rapid pace\u003cbr/\u003e10. Set up shot Yoshiko Ikoma  Editor in Chief, Marie Claire\u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE :(Japanese) Yoshiko Ikoma, Editor in Chief, Marie Claire\u003cbr/\u003e\"When I have a chance to ask young people in their teens whether they like Gal Sone they all say 'She eats so much and she doesn't put on weight. That's so cool!' That's her (Gal Sone's) charm - you can call it a mystery or a miracle. She could be almost a cartoon character that eats as much as it likes but never gets fat\"\u003cbr/\u003e12. Wide of crowd with girls crossing the popular Hachiko crossing in Shibuya, Tokyo\u003cbr/\u003e13.  SOUNDBITE :(Japanese) Yoshiko Ikoma, Editor in Chief, Marie Claire\u003cbr/\u003e\"I think that just like girls in other countries, teenagers and girls in their twenties all have a desire deep down to want to be thin. One reason is that they want to be able to enjoy being fashionable. They want to wear tight T-shirts and tight jeans and they want to look cool and become beautiful women. That's why they want to keep slim. This also coincides with the whole idea of being healthy as well. Obviously if you don't control what you eat your body gets bigger so to keep slim you need to have a bit of integrity and resist temptations and watch what you eat. This is what has been happening nowadays.\"\u003cbr/\u003e14. Wide shot from above of food eating competition\u003cbr/\u003e15. Mid shot of girl eating noodles\u003cbr/\u003e16. Mid shot of another girl eating noodles during the competition\u003cbr/\u003e17. Pan from bottom up of Gal Sone sitting in front row as a kind of judge to the ongoing competition\u003cbr/\u003eTokyo - 12 May 2008\u003cbr/\u003e18. Set up shot Asako Tohata, Nutritionist and Board Member of Kagawa Nutrition University \u003cbr/\u003e19. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Asako Tohata, Nutritionist and Board Member of Kagawa Nutrition University \u003cbr/\u003e\"There is an old saying in Japanese \"A idiot with a big appetite\" so such people actually exist.  It is envious to some people that some can eat plenty and not get fat; and there are the opposites.  Ones that gain weight even when consuming just water.  So skinny people with huge appetite do exist, but when it goes to the extreme, it is abnormal and unhealthy.\"\u003cbr/\u003eTokyo - April 2008\u003cbr/\u003e20. Mid shot of Gal Sone posing for a photo with a fan\u003cbr/\u003e21. SOUNDBITE :(Japanese) Yoshiko Ikoma, Editor in Chief, Marie Claire\u003cbr/\u003e\"The tendency nowadays is to exercise and aim to have a glamorous look and body. The trend is to accentuate what needs accentuating and tuck in what needs tucking in. Recently just being skin and bones is no longer seen as fashionable. Food has become more important in terms of what we eat and exercise too. Not eating as a way of dieting is not done much anymore.\u003cbr/\u003e21. Pan left to right of magazine ad for losing weight.\u003cbr/\u003e22. Pan left to right from a \"Discharge\" pills to picture of young slim girl\u003cbr/\u003e23. SOUNDBITE :(Japanese)  Madoyama Junko, Vox Pop\u003cbr/\u003e\"I lost weight at first (after taking slimming pills) but I put the weight back on as soon as I stopped. Kind of a rebound. And I regained more than I had lost\"\u003cbr/\u003e24. Wide pan from bottom right to top left of magazines advertisements offering unhealthy ways to diet\u003cbr/\u003e25.SOUNDBITE :(Japanese) Yamazaki Uraga, Vox Pop\u003cbr/\u003e\"I think there are a lot of medicines and pills on sale these days but I think they are not good for you. I therefore prefer doing sports and being careful about what I eat. I think that's what's most important.\"\u003cbr/\u003e26. Wide shot of crowd inside a subway station with some women walking down the steps.\u003cbr/\u003e27. Shot of four women waiting as a train pulls into a subway station in Tokyo.\u003cbr/\u003e28. SOUNDBITE :(Japanese)  Usui Miho\u003cbr/\u003e\"I want to be thinner but I have trouble controlling what I eat.\"\u003cbr/\u003e29. Mid shot of a lesson given by a food coordinator to a class of mainly housewives\u003cbr/\u003eTokyo - 12 May 2008\u003cbr/\u003e30. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Asako Tohata,  Nutritionist and Board Member of Kagawa Nutrition University \u003cbr/\u003e\"Looking at the health situation in world, during the 1970's and 80's, there was a trend to eat healthy in the United States and Europe, just like it was in Japan.  This trend was favourable but trends change.  Things are looking bizarre starting the 21st century.  Perhaps the reason is that today's world is an age of gluttony, and the health balance has become obscure.\"\u003cbr/\u003eTokyo - April 2008\u003cbr/\u003e31. Shot of Gal Sone finishing her plate and winning the contest\u003cbr/\u003e32. Wide of crowd cheering Gal Sone\u003cbr/\u003eFood eating contests have recently gained popularity on Japanese television largely thanks to a slim pretty girl whose ability to seemingly devour huge amounts of food has made her a celebrity. \u003cbr/\u003e\"Gal\" Sone's dietary habits however are not to be recommended for those wanting to maintain a healthy body.  \u003cbr/\u003eJapanese teenage style is heavily influenced by school girl fashions and cartoon like cuteness. \u003cbr/\u003e\"Gal\" Sone is a poster girl for Japanese 'cute'. \u003cbr/\u003eA petite pretty slim girl, \"Gal\" has become a celebrity thanks to her ability to consume huge amounts of food without gaining any excess weight.\u003cbr/\u003eHer fans are amazed by her beauty and gluttony (greed). \u003cbr/\u003eBeing able to eat a lot was what first attracted the media's attention, but it is her \"Gal\" style and cute mannerism which has brought her popularity among the public. \u003cbr/\u003eLarge crowds turned out to see her eat, for example, at this competition organised in a shopping centre in the residential area of Kawasaki, near Tokyo. \u003cbr/\u003eEditor in Chief of Marie Claire in Japan, Yoshiko Ikoma, says that teens love her because she has the capacity to eat so much and never put on weight. It's a kind of mystery or miracle she adds, but her almost cartoon-like quality of eating a lot, but never getting fat, is what fascinates audiences.\u003cbr/\u003eAsako Tohata is a nutritionist and Board Member of Kagawa Nutrition University. \u003cbr/\u003eShe says that people with the capacity to eat a lot without putting on weight can exist, but when taken to extremes, it becomes unhealthy. \u003cbr/\u003eYoshiko says the underlying desire of Japanese women is to be, or remain, thin. \u003cbr/\u003eYoshiko says one reason for this is that girls want to be able to enjoy being fashionable, wear tight T-shirts and jeans, and they want to do this by being healthy, controlling what they eat even if that means resisting their favourite food. \u003cbr/\u003eShe says the trend among young women to exercise and eat carefully to obtain a glamorous body.\u003cbr/\u003eRapid weight loss pills are promoted to young girls and large full page advertisements can be seen in the back of popular fashion magazines.\u003cbr/\u003eMadoyama Junko says she has tried these pills before and says she lost weight but gained even more weight back after she stopped taking the pills. \u003cbr/\u003eYamazaki Uraga is aware that there are a lot of medicines and pills on sale these days but she prefers doing sports and being careful about what she eats. \u003cbr/\u003eBeing able to control what you eat is not an easy thing to do though according to Usui Miho who says she tries to eat in moderation. \u003cbr/\u003eIt's not only teens and girls in their twenties who think a lot about dieting and their weight. \u003cbr/\u003eSome older women take lessons from a food coordinator to learn more about healthy eating. \u003cbr/\u003eAsako says that food and diet trends come and ago, and that we are now experiencing a global trend in gluttony. \u003cbr/\u003ePlease note - AP Television found is no evidence in the research of this story that \"Gal\" Sone suffers from 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