Why do Japanese people have a strong slaughter? Experts analyze three major dietary features to make them healthier

 9:13am, 30 August 2025

Japan's health expects to rank among the top in the world for a long time. Earlier this year, the Ministry of Health and Health of Japan issued a report that Japan's average life expectancy in 2018 was 87.32 years old and men were 81.25 years old, ranking second and third in the world. The reason is that in addition to the excellent natural environment, reasonable diet has a heavy effect in it. Japan is therefore praised by the World Health Organization (WHO) as the most reasonable dietary country. The characteristics and advantages of Japanese long-lasting diet are mainly as follows:

The Doctrine of the Mean is the World

If the Japanese talks the most about the Confucian Doctrine of the Mean, then there are more in the diet, and the word "balance" is derived from it. Japan strongly advocates the combination of rice and rice for three meals a day, and supplement each other and should not be used in a thin air.

Since the last century, Japanese adolescents have grown rapidly, and it is not unrelated to the promotion of plant proteins and animal proteins at that time. Although some fruits are even more nutritious than vegetables, they emphasize that they cannot replace them. In order to obtain various nutrients according to human needs, the Japanese Ministry of Health and Health proposed that restaurants must use charts to indicate the heat, protein, fat, sugar and salt content to prevent excessive consumption. When Japanese people eat three meals, they rarely lose their appetite, especially when they eat binge-eating; pay attention to maintaining a certain temperature during their diet, but it is not too cold or hot. Regarding the way of eating wolf-drinking tigers that accompany modern fast rhythm life, Japan has rebelled on the advantages of fine chewing slow chewing, and vigorously promoted the idea of ​​preventing too much, insufficient, and taking nutrients balanced and reasonable. It is different in Japanese diet life, and it is always easy to wear. It is factually proved that the diet of "impartial" is of great benefit to health.

Eat 80% of the meal

Eat 80% of the meal has always been a traditional Japanese training, and it is even printed on a medicine bag as a doctor to avoid forgetting. The Japanese have very small food volume. Compared with Westerners, the latter can be as high as three for the former. Although Japan is a relative homeland, it is the country with the fewest fat people in the world today. It is generally a kind of culture. Regardless of animal experiments or a large number of epidemiological research studies, they have told people that eating less or eating less is an important factor in long-term poverty, so obesity is the source of thousands of diseases. Japanese people eat lighter, they have the habit of "fresh" and rarely fry food. Now Japan is trying to promote a weight loss plan called “ Vegetables are preferred ” (eat vegetables first) in China, so that children can think of tender green vegetables when they eat, so as to maintain a suitable weight.

It is particularly worth mentioning that in recent years, Japan has also been invaded by a high-fat and high-sugar diet culture in Europe and the United States, especially among young people, and they have strong resistance to this. At present, all sectors of Japan are calling for rejuvenating and style diet from top to bottom. They use various channels to promote the superiority of Japanese ancient food, and guide and tell the younger generation that they must not blindly follow the trend. They must persist in the precious diet experience of their ancestors and spread it from generation to generation, otherwise it will be difficult to continue to protect their lives. They were always strongly resisting the younger generation changing the "eat eight cents" to "eat ten cents" to "eat ten cents"".

Food diversity

A study from the Institute of Health and Nutrition at Nagoya University in Japan shows that the more food types are consumed, the longer the health expects to be alive. In this regard, the National Cancer Research Center of Japan also conducted a special discussion to confirm that food variety can reduce the risk of death by more than 20%. The study, which took about 80,000 Japanese residents as objects, conducted a 14.9-year follow-up survey using a diet survey questionnaire, including 133 foods and drinks except alcohol, studied the correlation between food diversity and death risks (all deaths, cancer deaths, circulatory disease deaths, other deaths).

The researchers divided the research objects into 5 groups based on the amount of food taken on the 1st day. The results showed that compared with the group with the least food types taken every day, the group with the most foods taken by women decreased by 19%, the risk of death from circulating system diseases decreased by 34%, and other deaths decreased by 24%. Researchers stress that taking a variety of different foods, even if you do not have special knowledge related to food and nutrition, everyone can do it, thereby reducing premature death and prolonging life.

Just when the United States raised doubts about the variety of food it promoted last year and did not know how to favor many nutritious foods, many people turned their eyes to Japan. Unlike European and American countries, first of all, the types of food in Japan are different, such as seafood, beans and their products, potato and taro food, fermented food, and a wide variety of vegetables, fruits and green tea, etc., which have a rich oriental characteristic. Second and most importantly, Japanese food is a variety of food under the control of 80% of the total amount of food. For example, a typical Japanese boxed food is rich in nutrients and a wide variety, but the amount of each food is very small, so it can ensure that it does not exceed the amount and gain weight.

Finally, it needs to be supplemented. After entering Japan, Japan not only advocates that it should adhere to the national "healthy" diet, but also improves the "European and American" diet.. A survey conducted by the National Medical Research Center of Japan and the National Cancer Research Center Research Group showed that the death risk of people who eat not only "healthy" diet has a considerable decrease, but even those who eat "European and American" diet have a certain decrease. The main reason is that the Japanese have reduced the amount of meat consumed by European beauty, and have chosen dairy products such as buttermilk and cheese and coffee; the amount of salt intake has also been relatively reduced, thus reducing the risk of death. It can also be called a model of organic integration of East and West food cultures.