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"A rice foundation. The Japanese diet includes huge amounts of rice -- six times more per person than the average American's diet, Moriyama tells WebMD. A small bowl is served with almost every meal, including breakfast. A low-fat, complex carbohydrate, rice helps fill you up on fewer calories, leaving less room in your belly for fattening foods like packaged cookies and pastries, which can contain heart-damaging trans fats. For extra health benefits, serve rice the Japanese way, cooked and eaten with no butter or oil."
https://www.webmd.com/diet/features/diets-of-world-japanese-diet#1
"Delicious desserts. A typical Japanese dessert is an assortment of seasonal fruits, peeled, sliced, and arranged on a pretty plate, Moriyama says. People do enjoy Western desserts like ice cream and cakes, but they're usually offered in smaller portions and subtler flavors compared to the West. A cup of Japanese green tea is the perfect end to any meal."
It isn't the carbs, it's the total calorie intake. Japanese are much thinner and live much healthier lives than westerners. They don't omit fruit and rice. They simply eat low-calorie foods. They eat 25% fewer calories than us on average. They have smaller helpings of food.
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Healthy eating built into the culture.
05 Jun 18 by member: abbadabba
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Also in Japan they’re taught about cooking/portions etc. in school, as mandatory I think, because it’s a part of their culture. So in that regard, they’re all growing up understanding nutrition better than majority of us in Merica’! lol. Imagine if we had mandatory nutritional education (not crappy home economics) which taught us all about diet/portions/health etc. it would greatly change much of the weight/health/dietary issues in the USA.
05 Jun 18 by member: DEADPOOL12345
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Do they still have government mandated waist circumference requirements?
05 Jun 18 by member: Terrapin12
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It's sad how little people know about nutrition in other countries including the U.S. Something that is so important. Cardiovascular disease is the number 1 killer in the U.S by far yet people are worried about terrorists instead of learning how nutrition works.
05 Jun 18 by member: -Diablo
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Yes I totally agree with what your saying..we have a very good example of western obesity on FS.
05 Jun 18 by member: murphthesurf
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Yesterday the local paper had a brief article on childhood obesity and tools to mitigate it relative to diet and exercise. Tools: regular physical activity ( at least 30 minutes of effort-filled time), 7 to 9 servings of vegetables and fruits, and only 100 percent whole grains. Last, avoid red and processed meats. If kids avoid becoming obese, or can reverse it by age 25, they can cut the Type 2 diabetics in their generation by 64%. Interesting when we do not demonize certain food types and recognize moderation, folks could actually change their lives early and often. Not sure if this is conventional wisdom or old school nutrition but I think these changes would make positive impacts on kiddos.
05 Jun 18 by member: Terrapin12
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It's not a lack of education, and it's definitely not a lack of available information. It's the availability and relatively cheap cost of food designed to be fattening. And quit saying it's not the carbs, it makes you sound like you're saying carbs have no calories.
05 Jun 18 by member: @philrmcknight
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You're going to argue that the average household is versed in nutrition? The only thing parents know around here is to tell their children to clean their plate despite them being obese. And yes carbs contribute but so do fats and proteins, Phil. Just tired of seeing the BS on this forum about needing to reduce carbs and that's it. No, you need to reduce calorie dense foods which usually contain all three macros or at least fat and carbs. Low calorie filling foods are key.
05 Jun 18 by member: -Diablo
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And I never said there was a lack of available info. There is plenty. The problem is noone can be bothered to read it. They just latch on to easy to watch YouTube videos and fad diets.
05 Jun 18 by member: -Diablo
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If we had such classes Deadpool (welcome back) there would be less people like me that wished they knew about calories sooner.
05 Jun 18 by member: rosio19
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Actually Phil I buy McDonald’s for lunch (it can’t get any cheaper) n I’m maintaining with no problem it’s not the carbs it’s the overeating.
As long as I know what I eat n I calculate my calories I keep maintaining. It’s the calories PERIOD
05 Jun 18 by member: rosio19
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I don't know about where you live, but in Texas public education mandates Health classes in all public schools. Repeatedly. Of course you have to pay attention when you're in school, or you have to fill in the gaps after you're out. I'm not arguing that the average household is versed in nutrition, but the information is available, at school, at public libraries, and online. Reducing carbs results in reducing calories, so what, really, do you have to argue against? Carbs aren't calorie-free.
05 Jun 18 by member: @philrmcknight
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Ok Phil, you're right I concede to your wisdom. There is no problem with most of the world's knowledge on nutrition. If only I had retained what I was never taught. Silly me. As for calories, reducing fats does the same thing. You're not educating me or anyone else who has posted here.
05 Jun 18 by member: -Diablo
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I actually attended an elementary school, high school n university here in California. I never heard the word calories. I heard the BS phrase eat healthy.
05 Jun 18 by member: rosio19
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U r totally right the info is out there, but when u are in denial u don’t look for information
05 Jun 18 by member: rosio19
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Every package in the grocery store has a nutrition label for a reason.
05 Jun 18 by member: @philrmcknight
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The info is out there, My own fault 👌🏼 U are right about that.
I never wanted to HEAR or SEE it....u don’t understand.
05 Jun 18 by member: rosio19
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Oh, no, it reinforces that people will do what they're going to do, human nature and seeking the most pleasure and the least amount of pain. High carbs, high fat, high calorie, everything in excess. Each person has to have that ah-ha moment. Knowledge is never useful until the person assimilating it seeks it out on their own.
05 Jun 18 by member: @philrmcknight
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Phil, l see your catching on with your last statement you agreed in excess high carbs,fat and protein=high calories..the same in reverse=low calories..it's not what you eat..its called eating in moderation..counting your calories and creating a defecit..Your correct knowledge is useful when people have that ah-ha moment like yourself..read your bio.you went from 450lbs to 200 congratulations job well done..you may not have to use the keto plan if you had believed in moderation in the beginning..unlike yourself l enjoy in my WOE all food groups with great success the key is moderation with a defecit..Again Congratulations for your WOE it works for you.
05 Jun 18 by member: murphthesurf
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My posts must really irritate you, Murph, thanks for the letting me know.
05 Jun 18 by member: @philrmcknight
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