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RE: chanko etc

> 	I also heard that in addition to the reason discussed before, the
> reason chanko gets you BIG is the large amounts of rice eaten with it.
> Laura Sharnoff, in her Grand Sumo book says something to this effect, I
> think.

Well, I didn't take up eating rice until  lived in Japan (I had always been a potatoes man).  I ended up gaining 26 pounds in 27 months!

> 	Is this right?  More or less?

In my case, yes.  Of course, the yaki-imo men had a big hand in my weight gain, too. :-)

Best regards,
Jeffrey Anderson
Gaijingai...just making kachi-koshi in the hoshitori contest at M16 - whew!
jeffand@regent.edu

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