Japanese diet vs American diet
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I also watched a youtube video about a baby (8 months old) brought here from japan and put on american food- DIED because of the additives and preservatives we put in our food. SOoooooo its not just about the "diet". And they also walk everywhere and use public transportation where the elderly, invalid and pregnant are the first seated and everyone else stands.
Are you somehow under the assumption that Japan, being a densely populated island produces all the food needed to sustain the Japanese people, and that we here in the US only eat food originating in the US? Our food comes from the same place Japan get's theirs. The fact is that the American diet has become oversized, we have huge portions. Additionally, the Japanese people by and large walk most places, while Americans pretty much drive everywhere. We get less exercise in our daily lives on average, and have all become accustomed to huge portions.
In Summary, I would seriously question what that child actually died of, and I'd want to see the coroners report, because the idea that it was food additives is a bit far fetched.
Rigger
Very well said! Thanks Rigger!0 -
That's it. I'm going on a Japanese diet. Sushi, pocky and sake only. Doing it for reals0
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That's it. I'm going on a Japanese diet. Sushi, pocky and sake only. Doing it for reals
Yes. Can I do it with you if I help? Bonus: I can actually make sushi.0 -
Hmmm... Guam is pretty gosh darn comparable to the US. http://kff.org/other/state-indicator/adult-overweightobesity-rate/I agree, friends of mine from Guam eat smaller amounts and no junk they are small people. Life style is very important. When I move more and eat healthy I lose no matter where I am. Keeping my Head in that mode is the problem!
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Adult Overweight/Obesity Rate
United States 63.4%
Guam 61.5%0 -
That's it. I'm going on a Japanese diet. Sushi, pocky and sake only. Doing it for reals
It must include those little chocolate filled pandas or I'm out!0 -
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Yeah!! Those!!! They are koalas!! Filled with chocolate! And strawberry chocolate!!0 -
Yeah!! Those!!! They are koalas!! Filled with chocolate! And strawberry chocolate!!
And they are a perfect snack to put in your purse to take to the movie theater. ... Not that I would know personally.0 -
That's it. I'm going on a Japanese diet. Sushi, pocky and sake only. Doing it for reals
Yes. Can I do it with you if I help? Bonus: I can actually make sushi.
Yes, you are a must! I suck at making my own sushi. Perhaps we can learn sushi art and make them into cute little cats and stuff.0 -
Not "all" of them are skinny, but I would say it is true that "most" of them are, have you been? I have. As for the food, yeah, but it is very expensive to eat sashimi all the time in a midwest state like mine, but yes we love the stuff. One more thing, they also walk, a lot, busses are really big in Japan, cars not so much.It's a fact that America is a big country. And it's easier to get overweight here than in most other countries. I've been wondering..what if Americans went on a Japanese diet? Japan is one of the healthiest countries in the world. They eat a lo of fish veggies and rice and all maintain healthy weight. I'm subscribed to a couple on youtube who live in Japan and the wife is American and when she moved to Japan she lost 20 pounds without trying! so..yeah I would love to eat a Japanese diet. Would you?0 -
That's it. I'm going on a Japanese diet. Sushi, pocky and sake only. Doing it for reals
Yes. Can I do it with you if I help? Bonus: I can actually make sushi.
Yes, you are a must! I suck at making my own sushi. Perhaps we can learn sushi art and make them into cute little cats and stuff.
Sushi is easy to make. It just takes forever.0 -
Huh? They eat TONS of sugar in Japan. They just eat very small portions.I have lived in Japan. It all boils down to calories in and calories out. People in Japan don't eat huge servings of food and are pretty active. The cities are fairly congested and people walk and bike a lot. It isn't necessarily the foods they eat that makes them have a healthy weight, it is the fact that they don't eat huge servings of food and don't sit around all day doing nothing while consuming huge portions of food.
Very true! Japanese people do much more activity and have different habits than Americans. I did research on refined sugar and in Japan they don't really have much processed junk. What I noticed is the portion size in all their food seems smaller than Americans portion as well.0 -
That's it. I'm going on a Japanese diet. Sushi, pocky and sake only. Doing it for reals
It must include those little chocolate filled pandas or I'm out!
Our cheat meals could be noodles and ramune XD0 -
That's it. I'm going on a Japanese diet. Sushi, pocky and sake only. Doing it for reals
It must include those little chocolate filled pandas or I'm out!
Our cheat meals could be noodles and ramune XD
And cheese gyozas. I am totally confident I have mucked the spelling of that too.0 -
That's it. I'm going on a Japanese diet. Sushi, pocky and sake only. Doing it for reals
It must include those little chocolate filled pandas or I'm out!
Our cheat meals could be noodles and ramune XD
And for the morning, before the sake. ..
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i could so live on a japanese diet for the rest of my life,
like if i had to chose
hands down japan
other than this i don't have any valuable input for this thread0 -
Except for the ones that succumb to all the fast food places that moved there, or Spam. Speaking of fast food places, the one thing I went and had on purpose when I was in Japan was french fries at McDonald's. I am sorry, but they make them the way you used to get them in the US in the 70s with suet, and boy are they good. You can't get a decent french fry in the US anymore, which I guess is good as I am not even tempted.I agree, friends of mine from Guam eat smaller amounts and no junk they are small people. Life style is very important. When I move more and eat healthy I lose no matter where I am. Keeping my Head in that mode is the problem!0 -
That's it. I'm going on a Japanese diet. Sushi, pocky and sake only. Doing it for reals
Yes. Can I do it with you if I help? Bonus: I can actually make sushi.
Yes, you are a must! I suck at making my own sushi. Perhaps we can learn sushi art and make them into cute little cats and stuff.
Sushi is easy to make. It just takes forever.
Patience is not a virtue I have for food. It would end with me stabbing the attempted roll with chop sticks and using my face as a vacuum.0 -
That was boggling my mind too. Don't they have konbinis and vending machines every 7 feet so that you can get your sugar and junk food fix? :laugh:
Huh? They eat TONS of sugar in Japan. They just eat very small portions.I have lived in Japan. It all boils down to calories in and calories out. People in Japan don't eat huge servings of food and are pretty active. The cities are fairly congested and people walk and bike a lot. It isn't necessarily the foods they eat that makes them have a healthy weight, it is the fact that they don't eat huge servings of food and don't sit around all day doing nothing while consuming huge portions of food.
Very true! Japanese people do much more activity and have different habits than Americans. I did research on refined sugar and in Japan they don't really have much processed junk. What I noticed is the portion size in all their food seems smaller than Americans portion as well.
I often wonder about the lean body mass of the tiny people from these places. They may have a lower BMI, but with the small amount of protein they consume generally, they can't have all that much muscle. They just can't.0 -
It's a fact that America is a big country. And it's easier to get overweight here than in most other countries. I've been wondering..what if Americans went on a Japanese diet? Japan is one of the healthiest countries in the world. They eat a lo of fish veggies and rice and all maintain healthy weight. I'm subscribed to a couple on youtube who live in Japan and the wife is American and when she moved to Japan she lost 20 pounds without trying! so..yeah I would love to eat a Japanese diet. Would you?
I eat lots of veggies and rice already! I would eat more shrimp if I had the money.0 -
They have some pretty strange drinks in Japan, with things floating in them and stuff. I had one white thing with pink things floating in it, don't know what it was but it tasted ok.And for the morning, before the sake. ..0 -
Wow what responses. A lot of them a bit mocking.0
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The other thing I have to bring up is the seafood is much fresher in Japan (obviously). I have never liked uni in the US, it always tasted like mold (well, I guess what mold would taste like if you tried it) to me, but I loved it in Japan, totally different experience.0
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I favor Okonomiyaki, Oyakodon, and Melon Pan. Pocky and Koala cookies are great, but fresh melon pan is amazing
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Wow what responses. A lot of them a bit mocking.
It's hard to do anything but mock when you have people saying that a "Japanese baby" literally died when fed "American food" because they saw it on Youtube.0 -
Wow what responses. A lot of them a bit mocking.
I am stuck at home cause ice and Atlanta do not mix well. Sorry for having a bit of fun in your post *hugs*0 -
I love eating shellfish on my diet as you get double portions of that. Makes me wish I lived on the east coast, would be great to live in Maine on this diet.I eat lots of veggies and rice already! I would eat more shrimp if I had the money.
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I've lived in Japan. Of the many things I have noticed is that their sweets aren't as sweet as they are in the U.S. Mochi is one example of a sweet that I think is just sweet enough. Also people over in Japan eat white rice. I never heard of brown rice until I came back to America. Nutritionists in U.S. seem to love demonizing white rice.0
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In for ramune, pocky, and sake! Nigori sake please!That's it. I'm going on a Japanese diet. Sushi, pocky and sake only. Doing it for reals
It must include those little chocolate filled pandas or I'm out!
Our cheat meals could be noodles and ramune XD
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If America actually ate smaller portions and relied less on vehicles we probably would be a lot healthier.0
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