How do Japanese live this long?

  • If it’s being close to nature, then many countries have beautiful isolated area from modern life.
  • If it’s about diet, then what’s so special? African countries have simple and natural diet too, why doesn’t that work?
  • tiredofsametab@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    Historically, a lot of walking and eating home-cooked meals that were high in veggies and fermented foods and probably eating lots of seafood and seaweed with other proteins being less frequent.

    Milk wasn’t even a part of school lunches until after the war, so people still kicking from the pre-war times mostly grew up without it.

    I suspect, though, that life expediencies here are going to drop. Lots of fried food and such these days and I see more and more obese people.