Diets of the World: The Japanese Diet WebMD Feature by Jenny Stamos Kovacs Reviewed by Charlotte E. Grayson Mathis, MD The Japanese diet is the iPod of food, says Naomi Moriyama, co-author of Japanese Women Dont Get Old or Fat: Secrets of My Mothers Tokyo Kitchen, it concentrates the magnificent energy of food into a compact and pleasurable size. And you dont have to cook Japanese-style to enjoy the diets healthy foundations -- just eat more fish, vegetables, and fruit; serve smaller portions; eat mindfully and slowly; and add some healthy options like tofu and rice, she says. Heres how to get started. First, the benefits. Thanks to the relatively healthier Japanese diet and lifestyle, Japanese women and men live longer and healthier than everyone else on Earth, Moriyama tells WebMD. Not only can they expect to live 86 and 79 years respectively (compared to 80 and 75 years for Americans), but they can also anticipate an average of 75 years lived healthy and disability-free, the World Health Organization reports. On top of that, Japanese people enjoy the No. 1 lowest obesity rate in the developed world -- 3% -- versus 11% for the French and 32% for Americans, according to the International Obesity TaskForce. You might think its all in our genes, Moriyama says. But when Japanese people adopt a Western-style diet, they put on weight quickly.
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