Comments on: How to gain 5-8 Pounds of Healthy “Stay There” Fat /blog/2004/04/how-to-gain-5-8-pounds-of-healthy-stay-there-fat/ But I fear more for Muninn... Thu, 16 May 2013 14:30:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.2 By: mukesh /blog/2004/04/how-to-gain-5-8-pounds-of-healthy-stay-there-fat/comment-page-1/#comment-265628 Thu, 10 May 2012 09:07:23 +0000 http://muninn.net/blog/2004/04/how-to-gain-5-8-pounds-of-healthy-stay-there-fat.html#comment-265628 please let me know if Sargol tablet is available in Delhi (INDIA)

]]> By: Joel /blog/2004/04/how-to-gain-5-8-pounds-of-healthy-stay-there-fat/comment-page-1/#comment-10111 Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:28:57 +0000 http://muninn.net/blog/2004/04/how-to-gain-5-8-pounds-of-healthy-stay-there-fat.html#comment-10111 Sorry, I just stumbled across this old blog entry while looking for information on Sargol. No, I was not looking to put on pounds and pounds of healthy stay-there fat. Actually, I found this same advertisement in a newspaper in the Vancouver Sun from 1915 and I was curious to see if the suppliment still existed.

So evidently, it was not targeted to a Japanese market specifically. I guess the Victorian ideal of beauty as “pleasingly plump” was still going strong in the second decade of the 20th century. Depending on the readership of the Japan Gazette (was it British expatriots? or English-speaking Japanese?), the appearance of this advertisement there might indicate, in the first case, a process of standardisation of culture in English communities scattered abroad, or in the second case, an assumption that English ideals of beauty should be universal.

As far as studies on the subject go, I’m sure you’re right that they exist. The only one I can think of offhand is Naomi Woolfe’s The Beauty Myth. It is a good book, but polemical and more political than academic.

]]> By: Derek /blog/2004/04/how-to-gain-5-8-pounds-of-healthy-stay-there-fat/comment-page-1/#comment-106 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://muninn.net/blog/2004/04/how-to-gain-5-8-pounds-of-healthy-stay-there-fat.html#comment-106 What the?!!! This is just so…. bizarre. Was the ideal body figure in Japan at this time like the Renaissance era plumpiness? Also Mitch, will you be putting the original Japanese up on your sight somewhere? It would be interesting, and I’d like to show it to Ryoko.

]]> By: duckling /blog/2004/04/how-to-gain-5-8-pounds-of-healthy-stay-there-fat/comment-page-1/#comment-107 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://muninn.net/blog/2004/04/how-to-gain-5-8-pounds-of-healthy-stay-there-fat.html#comment-107 You could write about these adverts on my blog. I’ve got lots of funny 17th-century ones. My friend tells me that plump women were prized in old time China. Do you know anything about that?

]]> By: Kmlawson /blog/2004/04/how-to-gain-5-8-pounds-of-healthy-stay-there-fat/comment-page-1/#comment-108 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://muninn.net/blog/2004/04/how-to-gain-5-8-pounds-of-healthy-stay-there-fat.html#comment-108 Hey Derek, this was published in The Japan Gazette which was an English-language newspaper in Japan. No original Japanese that I know of. I suspect it is a British or American product marketed for foreigners in Japan. Google doesn’t turn up anything though.

Duckling, I don’t know much about how plumpness was viewed, except having been told that plump women were valued in Europe’s history more than they are by our contemporaries. I am almost sure there must be studies out there on this. This is 20th century, but I’ll post a little something on your 17th cent. page…

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