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Re:Japanese people may have gained longevity by balancing th... by astrange on Monday January 18, 2021 @01:10AM (#25818727)
Do all Japanese actually eat that healthy? I can believe it of some of them, but there’s little fruit and many salarymen seem to live on a diet of fried chicken, hard liquor and cigarettes.
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Re:Japanese people may have gained longevity by balancing th... by carlmr on Monday January 18, 2021 @02:03AM (#25819052)
>many salarymen seem to live on a diet of fried chicken, hard liquor and cigarettes.

That's what surprised me the most visiting Japan. All the skinny people in Japan eating fried chicken, fried mashed potatoes, fried everything.

The only thing I could make out for why they were skinny was insane levels of portion control. Since they definitely didn't have time to do sports.

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Re:Japanese people may have gained longevity by balancing th... by HungSu on Monday January 18, 2021 @04:08AM (#25819769)
Also a tremendous amount of walking. Japanese urban planning is much more pedestrian friendly than say, almost anywhere in the US.
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Re:Japanese people may have gained longevity by balancing th... by stefap2 on Monday January 18, 2021 @09:16AM (#25821978)
US has a problem with activity. No sidewalks, go everywhere by car except in a few big cities.
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Re:Japanese people may have gained longevity by balancing th... by carlmr on Monday January 18, 2021 @04:14AM (#25819805)
Europe has that, too but we're not that skinny.
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Re:Japanese people may have gained longevity by balancing th... by joachim4 on Monday January 18, 2021 @08:10AM (#25821438)
But Western European diet "americanized" itself a lot recently. For example in France, some of the staple meals are burgers, tacos[0] and kebab.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_tacos

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Re:Japanese people may have gained longevity by balancing th... by solidsnack9000 on Monday January 18, 2021 @10:48PM (#25829785)
They are eating a lot of other food, actually; and that's why it works.
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Re:Japanese people may have gained longevity by balancing th... by solidsnack9000 on Monday January 18, 2021 @10:48PM (#25829782)
This does not really comport with the restaurant menus that I saw.

When you say they seem to live off this diet, what are you basing that on?

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