What are the 5 foods Japanese people think are used to live a long and healthy life. 1. Rice 2. Soybeans. ?
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1. green tea\n\n2. sushi\n\n3.  sea weed (what sushi is rolled in)\n\n4.  ginseng\n\n5.  vitamin drink (big think in Japan, can't buy here)
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If you want to live a healthy life eat food that is more on fiber, more fruits and vegetables, more on fish and avoid fatty foods and moderate intake of carbohydrates. Drink 8 glasses or more of water and also a lot of fruit juice. With regard to vitamins you must take multivitamins and vitamin C daily to prevent you from stress and viruses.
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It because of fast food culture in the US. Consumer may have more choices but sadly it not healthily food. While other countries may have less food their diet has less fat and less sugar. For example in certain parts of the world they don’t have heart diseases. In Japan a study was done where by Japanese women who didn’t eat fast food breast cancer was unheard of. But those who live in Tokyo and ate a western diet had a risk of breast cancer. The result was that the local Japanese women living in the local countryside ate more fish and ate the traditional Japanese diet had low blood pressure. Example in Africa bowel cancer in unheard of yet, it quite common in the west. The French seems to be slim and healthy compare to the US.
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be a vegetarian and fruitarian and exercise 15 minutes a day, drink water only not soft drinks or full cream milk. if you want milk, take the soy milk. don't eat any meat
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the rice. \n\npersonally i really don't know. it depends on the both of you and the environment around you.
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Wheat, rice, and corn.  Many people depend on exports of wheat from the US (Egypt, for example), while rice is the primary form of food for most of Asia.  If one were to *suddenly* disappear, especially rice, there would likely be severe food shortages until an alternative could be found-most countries have only a few months of food in storage, and some much less.  If it were a slow disappearance, there would likely be time to replace it. The US alone could feed most of the world, if farmland were used at maximum efficiency, and China and the rest of Asia would be able to switch to another grain product.
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The Asian diet does not include a lot of dairy products (it is estimated that some 90% of Asians have some degree of lactose intolerance) and protein.  It traditionally includes mainly vegetables and starches.  So, although Asians are height-challenged, they enjoy a longer lifespan than an average Caucasian.  (The Japanese have one of the world's longest life expectancies (number 4 in the world) as opposed to Americans (who are #29).
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Hi! I found this at the site linked below. Hope it helps. =)\n\nMost people associate seaweed with the crispy, salty appetisers served at Chinese restaurants, yet there is a strong tradition of seaweed consumption in Celtic areas such as Scotland, Ireland and Brittany.\nJapanese nori, the small red seaweed Porphyra umbilicalis, which is used in many sushi dishes, also grows in this country, where it used to be known as sloke.\nResearchers have started to investigate seaweed's nutritional qualities and have discovered that it is a rich source of antioxidants, such as beta-carotene, and the vitamins B1 (thiamine, which keeps nerves and muscle tissue healthy), B2 (riboflavin, which helps the body to absorb iron and is therefore good for anaemics) and vitamin B12.\nIt also contains trace elements, such as chromium, which affects the way insulin behaves in the body, and zinc, which helps with healing.\nLegend has it in Brittany that the earliest seaweed farmers never worried about the cuts they sustained while handling the knotted tangles of seaweed and kelp they were harvesting to make pain d'algues --- seaweed bread --- because they knew that the wounds healed with little or no treatment.\nA US study out in February indicated that a diet containing kelp lowers levels of the sex hormone oestradiol (a form of oestrogen) in rats and bringing hope that it might also decrease the risk of oestrogen-dependent diseases such as breast cancer in human beings.\n"The most profound discovery was that women with endometriosis and severe menstrual irregularities experienced significant improvement in their symptoms after three months of taking 700mg of seaweed capsules a day, " says Dr Chris Skibola, an assistant research toxicologist at the School of Public Health at the University of California.\nFor 20 years Japanese scientists have run more than 500 clinical trials to discover whether there are elements in seaweed that could suppress the growth of tumour cells.
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Soy: The Next Asbestos?\n"Against the backdrop of widespread praise. . . there is growing suspicion that soy—despite its undisputed benefits—may pose some health hazards," writes Marian Burros, a leading food writer for the New York Times.\n\n Vegetarians who consume tofu and bean curd as a substitute for meat and dairy products risk severe mineral deficiencies. The results of calcium, magnesium and iron deficiency are well known, those of zinc are less so. Zinc is called the intelligence mineral because it is needed for optimal development and functioning of the brain and nervous system. It plays a role in protein synthesis and collagen formation; it is involved in the blood sugar control mechanism and thus protects against diabetes; it is needed for a healthy reproductive system. Zinc is a key component in numerous vital enzymes and plays a role in the immune system. Phytates found in soy products interfere with zinc absorption more completely than with other minerals.19 Zinc deficiency can cause a "spacy" feeling that some vegetarians may mistake for the "high" of spiritual enlightenment.\n\nProduction takes place in industrial factories where a slurry of soy beans is first mixed with an alkaline solution to remove fiber, then precipitated and separated using an acid wash and finally neutralized in an alkaline solution. Acid washing in aluminum tanks leaches high levels of aluminum into the final product. The resultant curds are spray dried at high temperatures to produce a high protein powder. A final indignity to the original soy bean is high-temperature, high-pressure extrusion processing of soy protein isolate to produce textured vegetable protein (TVP).\nMuch of the trypsin inhibitor content can be removed through high-temperature processing, but not all. Trypsin inhibitor content of soy protein isolate can vary as much as fivefold.21 (In rats, even low-level-trypsin-inhibitor SPI feeding results in reduced weight gain compared to controls.22) But high-temperature processing has the unfortunate side effect of so denaturing the other proteins in soy that they are rendered largely ineffective.23 That's why animals on soy feed need lysine supplements for normal growth.\nNitrites, which are potent carcinogens, are formed during spray drying, and a toxin called lysinoalanine is formed during alkaline processing.24 Numerous artificial flavorings, particularly MSG, are added to soy protein isolate and textured vegetable protein products to mask their strong "beany" taste, and impart the flavor of meat.25\nIn feeding experiments, use of SPI increased requirements for vitamins E, K, D and B12 and created deficiency symptoms of calcium, magnesium, manganese, molybdenum, copper, iron and zinc.26 Phytic acid remaining in these soy products greatly inhibits zinc and iron absorption; test animals fed SPI develop enlarged organs, particularly the pancreas and thyroid gland, and increased deposition of fatty acids in the liver.27 Yet soy protein isolate and textured vegetable protein are used extensively in school lunch programs, commercial baked goods, diet beverages and fast food products. They are heavily promoted in Third World countries and form the basis of many food giveaway programs. \n\nSource:
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This is a very interesting question.  I went to Wikipedia and looked up Hashimoto's disease.  One person said that it has to do with Soy consumption.  Just wondering if you or your family eats a lot of soy.\nThere was a treatment mentioned but it wasn't about loosing weight.  I'm wondering if a gastric by-pass would help.  Good luck with this.
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If you have checked out Noni juice, you can compare it to these Goji facts.  Goji tastes great too!\n* Contains 19 Amino acids-the building blocks of protein-including all eight that are essential for life.\n* Contains 21 trace minerals, including germanium, an anti-cancer trace mineral rarely found in foods.\n* Contains more protein than whole wheat ( 13%)\n* Contains a complete spectrum of antioxidant carotenoids, including  betacarotene ( a better source even than carrots!) and zeaxanthin (protects the eyes).  Goji berries are the richest source of carotenoids of all known foods.\n* Contains Vitamin C at higher levels than even those found in oranges.\n* Contains B-complex vitamins, necessary for converting food into energy.\n* Contains Vitamin E (very rarely found in fruits, only in grains and seeds).\n*  Contains Beta-Sitosterrol, an anti-inflammatory agent.  Beta-Sitosterol also lowers cholesterol and has been used to treat sexual impotence and prostate enlargement.\n* Contains essential fatty acids, which are required for the body's production of hormones and for the smooth functioning of the brain and nervous system.\n* Contains Cyperone, a sesquiterpene that benefits the heart and blood pressure, alleviates menstrual discomfort, and has been used in the treatment of cervical cancer.\n* Contains Solavetivone, a powerful anti-fungal and anti-bacterial compound.\n* Contains Physalin, a natural compound that is active against all major types of leukemia.  It has been shown to increase splenic natural killer cell activity in normal and tumor bearing mice, with broad spectrum anti-cancer effect. It has also been used as treatment for hepatitis B.\n* Contains Betaine, which is used by the liver to produce choline, a compound that calms nervousness, enhances memory, promotes muscle growth, and protects against fatty liver disease.  Betaine also provides methyl groups in the body's energy reactions and can help reduce levels of homocysteine, a prime risk factor in heart disease.  It also protects DNA.
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This source link is great. Check out the heading "What You Should Eat & Why". Good luck!
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I am Chinese and I eat white rice almost everyday.\n\nI am 5 foot 10 inches and weight 135 pounds, so I don't have a big stomach.\n\nU be the judge.
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For vegans, tofu and other soy derivatives remain the best sources for protein as far as I know. Legumes and pulses are also high in protein. But make sure you're somehow supplementing your diet with essential amino acids not found in a plant-based diet. \n\nCheck out this site on nutrition analysis: http://www.nutritiondata.com/index.html
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fruit is always a good solution. and whole grain stuff is good too. \nhere's a website to help: <www.onthetable.net/news.html>
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avoid cabbage and soy. natural whole foods are best, especially ones that contain iodine.
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try this link\n\nhttp://www.healthyeatingclub.org/info/books-phds/books/foodfacts/html/data/data5f.html