Wednesday, November 22, 2006

The Japan Diet

There seems to be more and more diets coming out these days, although this is the first time that I've ever heard this one before, so thought it was worth a mention, this way of eating revolves around a 30 day plan. From what they say in this article they say that 20% percent of adults, are obese in the UK.

Which when you compare it to Japan there statistic is very much lower than ours in fact there is 17% in it, there obesity is only 3% which is a big difference to say the least also what is surprising is they tend to live longer and have healthier lifestyles compared with anywhere else in the world.

The Japanese diet doesn't always necessarily mean that you have to eat like that all the time what you do is apply the rules to the way that you eat already more supplementing what you're already doing, after all if you think about it if you get the part of the best parts of every diet you can think of you will have quite a winning formula to say the very least.

The Japan diet in a nutshell revolves around the following;
  • Eating plenty of fish, mainly oily ones such as salmon, sardines and any other oily fish of your own choice
  • Eat plenty of fruit and vegetables, in a wide variety
  • Eat consciously, relax when you're eating your food and eat at a slow pace and also in moderation
  • Eat foods low in fat, sugar and salt
  • Have rice namely the wholegrain variety such as brown, have wholegrain types of breads or the next best thing wholemeal.
  • Don't drink fizzy drinks, have low-fat milk unsweetened herbal teas instead of normal run-of-the-mill tea
  • Have breakfast and don't skip meals either
  • Don't say you're on a diet, say your going on a healthy eating plan, think about your food also, think of it more as a pleasurable experience rather than just something you just do,make food a more important part of your life because good food equals good health.
Via http://www.easier.com

1 Comments:

Blogger Mark said...

More fish, wholefoods, fruit & veg and less processed crap - sounds sensible to me. By the way this 'diet' (Japan Diet) was the only one to get a 5/5 rating in this Guardian article last week:
http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/wellbeing/story/0,,2048908,00.html

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