It seems that living anywhere today can cost an arm and a leg–especially if you rent. Besides rent prices getting higher, our weight is also going up and this does not sit well with an all-women's building in Osaka, Japan. The Lady Share House B&D has created a new policy in which it charges tenants according to their weight loss or gain. To put it simply, gain weight and pay more, lose weight and pay less.
This comes as a surprise as reports have shown that 30 percent of Japanese women in their 20s are underweight. But the building is taking it many steps further to ensure that the ladies at their establishment maintain a healthy weight. So, what is UP with this place?
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The U.K. Daily Mail reveals that the way the policy works is that for every 2.2 pounds lost or gained, the rent is lowered or raised by $1,000 yen ($10 U.S. dollars).The average cost per apartment floor price is $38,000 yen (about $385 dollars), and now that additional $1,000 yen fee which is multiplied by the tenant's weight. Women are expected to be weighed in every three months to determine whether they are going to be charged more or less during that period.
The Associated Press spoke to Mari Kataoka, the enterprise administrator, who said that this idea was created in order to help overweight women lose weight. The building even contains a gym, has discounted beauty products, healthy snacks and seminars on weight management. In fact, instead of just attracting overweight women, it has attracted women of all sizes to stay in shape.
But as any plan that seems too good to be true, it looks like the building also provides free junk food and beverages that can easily veer off anyone on a diet plan. Kataoka told the Huffington Post that this is necessary in order to teach the women about will power and resisting temptation. Hmm, sounds like a scam to me…
This isn't looking out for your tenants' health, in fact it's sabotaging it. If a woman is already fit, this policy only encourages her to lose even more weight, adding to the underweight unhealthy problem in Japan. And the whole concept of payment according to your weight just seems crazy and unfair. How much would each of US have to pay if we lived there? I don't even want to think about it.
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