Japanese women have actually become thinner over the last ten years

At Ukmedix News we have much research showing that the Japanese race are among the healthiest people in the world and this is largely due to their diet. America and Europe can learn lessons from the Japanese when it comes to healthy eating and beating obesity.

According to the Japanese representative of the World Health Organisation young Japanese women have actually become thinner over the last ten years whereas the rest of the world appears to have become fatter. He attributed this partly because the Japanese were extremely fashion conscious and tended to rate physical appearance extremely highly. The Japanese people have an advantage in that their diet is high in protein and vegetables and low in refined carbohydrates which makes it easy for them to avoid unhealthy foods.

The Japanese diet is also healthy because portions tend to be extremely small and there is a great ceremony attached to eating which means that a meal tends to take much longer than the average European or American meal. Some nutritionists recommend that one way of making certain that you do not eat too much is to make sure that you take a long time over eating.

However while Japanese females have got thinner over the last ten years Japanese men have got considerably bigger and so overall the Japanese people are in fact more overweight on average than they were before.

Sushi and other Japanese meals are becoming increasingly popular in the West and one of their attractions is that they are much more healthy than other oriental cuisines. For example Chinese food tends to be high in fat and very greasy and everyone always says that they overeat in Chinese restaurants.

Chinese food all arrives at the same time in restaurants and thus everyone is tempted to try everything and overeat. Japanese food tends to come in small portions over a longer time period which means that you do not eat so quickly and you eat a smaller quantity.