The food in those areas is also insanely sugar and fat oriented. It made sense back when people were doing hard farming work 15 hours a day and needed the calor

The food in those areas is also insanely sugar and fat oriented. It made sense back when people were doing hard farming work 15 hours a day and needed the calories. But the cuisine didn't change, if anything it got sweeter. When I'm traveling, I run into difficulty finding low calorie dishes when passing through rural areas and now basically simply don't eat there. It's infectious: the asian cuisines found in rural areas has nothing to do with actual asian food. Expect deep fried chicken drenched in actual sugar syrup in most dishes. Because nothing else will sell so the restaurant owners adapt. It's not surprising to look around and see so many people that are waddling around, driving around stores little electric cart things, with pasty acne riddled skin, thin hair falling out in clumps, and generally looking like they are at death's door despite being under 40.