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Japanese Diet	Feb 21st, 2008 12:43:47 pm - Subscribe
Does this sound familiar? You sincerely try to follow a diet plan, but you are constantly hungry? The type and amount of food is just not enough to keep you satisfied and your mind off of food? The plans you've tried require exercises that you just aren't coordinated or in shape enough to do despite your best efforts? Other plans never let you eat any of your favorite foods ever and leave you feeling deprived? You don't know how to stay motivated or deal with the psychological issues of dieting and the plans you tried before didn't help you with that? It's so frustrating, isn't it? You are trying so hard and yet not having any success. You want to succeed, you're putting forth the effort, but just don't have the right tools to do it. Why are Japanese women slender and youthful? The secret is the Japanese diet. High in healthy foods like fish, vegetables, and rice, it is lower than the American diet in processed and refined foods. Japanese eat fresher foods and smaller portions as compared to typical Americans. The Japanese diet is lower in saturated fats because Japanese eat far less red meat and dairy products like cheese. By remaking your kitchen into a Tokyo kitchen, you can transform your eating habits and reap the health benefits. Some important principles about this eating lifestyle are: eat until you are 80% full, serve small portions on eye-pleasing serving dishes, walk whenever you can, and eat foods slowly to savor the flavor.This low in saturated fat diet focuses on whole foods and traditional Japanese staples, such as rice, fish, soy, fruits, and vegetables. Choose different cooking styles and a diverse selection of traditional Japanese condiments to increase the variety in your foods. This is not a diet in the strictest sense, but rather a lesson in how to eat healthier at home. The diet concentrates on eating healthy foods more frequently and eating foods like bread, rolls, cookies, and cakes less often. The seven pillars of Japanese home cooking are as follows: Fish - it is high in healthy omega-3 fatty acids. Japanese eat fish with lunch, dinner and even breakfast. Vegetables - the Japanese eat a large variety of the freshest vegetables. These include daikon, nori, and other sea vegetables, as well as vegetables more familiar to Americans (such as onions and eggplants). Rice - Japanese women eat a bowl of plain white rice at almost every meal. Choosing brown rice is even healthier. The Samurai diet consisted mainly of brown rice. Soy - have this in moderation. It is commonly eaten in the form of tofu or edamame. Noodles - many dishes are served over soba (buckwheat and wheat-flour noodles) or udon noodles (white noodles made of wheat-flour). Tea - many Japanese women drink green tea with breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and also as an after-dinner refreshment. Fruit - Persimmons, tangerines, and Fuji apples are among the variety of fruit eaten in Japan. They are often served as dessert. This diet plan focuses on eating whole foods rather than taking supplements.
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