Why are people so Healthy in Japan?
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This is a sequel to my other video on the food environment in Japan titled "Why is it so easy to be thin in Japan?"
Having lived in America and now living in Japan, it's interesting to see how very different these two food environments are. I've seen comments on another one of my videos about low carb saying something like "Oh sure, you can lose weight on low carb, which is why all the rice eating Japanese people are so thin, right?"
So with this video (and maybe the last one), I'm hoping to show that the diet over here is more complex than just "high carb"
0:00 - Intro: America & Japan
0:42 - People walk more in Japan
1:35 - Portion sizes are smaller
2:30 - America and Soda
2:40 - Rice vs. Wheat
3:50 - Fermented foods keeping the gut healthy
5:14 - Meat consumption is balanced with Fish consumption
5:54 - Muscle meat and organ meat balance
7:57 - Green Tea
8:43 - School Lunches in Japan
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Big thanks to Greg from "Life Where I'm From" for letting me use some shots from his video "Tokyo by Train" ! - goo.gl/8EvfNU (They're the professional shots near the start of people walking in Kamakura / around the train station)
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“People in Japan eat a lot more food, rather than food-like products.” This might be a quote worth saving for the future.
Jiang Jian Guo I do not eat chicken feet or SKIN or pigs ears or puffer fish .....that is all garbage.......
@@karla.karlaabbott3254 chokes down ANYTHING from General Mills.
@@karla.karlaabbott3254 rich in collagen
@@karla.karlaabbott3254 Garbage to you because you're too inept to actually turn them into something delicious and not be wasteful.
@@karla.karlaabbott3254 white people aged so badly because they only eat lean meat. No skins, cartledge and connective tissue which helps generates collagen in your face.
They eat less, eat better, and move more.
Just saw a video of a german girl in america explaining that she doesn't walk anymore and the most american thing she did is to take the car for 0.1 mile ride to the store to get snacks:)
Basically
@@slavko321 hold on 0.1 mile? thats insane
@@josefienp2704 it really is :( but it just feels weird to walk. Ig America judges more and is you’re seen walking you just look homeless idk maybe it’s just my state
but they consume too much salt
Imagine actually eating food instead of food flavored sugar.
Still something everyone forgets, me included
Cheers who would eat BBQ skin and pigs ears yuck.....
@@karla.karlaabbott3254 if you eat burgers or sausages then you already do
For real tho
Apt description.
I'm Swedish, and when I've visited the US the food culture has been SHOCKING! Portion sizes are comically large. Sweet breakfasts seem quite common - pancakes of course, but even having DONUTS for breakfast isn't too out of the ordinary! Lots of, as you say, food-like items rather than just food. One smaller observation is that "juice" in the US is rarely actually juice (as in, the liquids you get from fruits) but more like squash/cordial/whatever you call sweet uncarbonated soft drinks. A few times I tried ordering orange juice with my breakfast to be a bit healthier, and let me tell you, they definitely did NOT just press some oranges into that glass, it was SO sweet! Everything has so, so much sugar and grease. And eating out or ordering takeaway seems so common, I literally heard home cooked meals being talked about as a luxury while for me that's the norm!
Lots of cultures eat sweet breakfast and the US has a weird leftover culture where you're given more so that companies can charge you more. Then the next day you don't want leftover and the cycle continues.
As an American I don't like sweet breakfasts very much, too much sugar too "dessert" like for my tastes.
I hate those sweet breakfasts, every once in a while I get a taste for one but I always feel like crap afterwards.
Home cooked meals are a luxury for many in the US because they require time a lot of people don’t have. Stopping to eat isn’t really viewed as a necessary break in the US the way it is elsewhere. Other countries have country-wide breaks at certain times to allow for lunch and schools account for the fact that kids need to eat dinner, here that’s not the case. Eating is less about sitting down and eating a nice meal and more about fitting some food in somewhere so you can continue being “productive.”
Especially with people in poverty who are sometimes working two or even three jobs, they don’t have the time to stand in the kitchen and make a home cooked meal and even if they do it’s the *last* thing on their priority list because they’re tired.
I also went to school with kids whose parents worked demanding jobs (like doctors) and they never had a meal as a family, their parents would leave leftovers for them in the fridge for after school and that was it.
Takeout or fast food is simply the easiest option for a lot of people because it can be very cheap and it’s easy. I think it’s largely cultural because like I said, food is viewed more as fuel in the US, you just have to fit in eating time in between other tasks (so lots of snacking or meals that are thrown together) because it’s really not seen as important.
@@Hannah-zw9ow You also have to take into account that the tipping culture promotes servers to flip tables instead of actually letting people enjoy a couple bottles of wine.
I had the same experience coming from Denmark and going to the US. My parents ordered pasta at a restaurant and they served them A GIANT BOWL OF PASTA. I mean we literally joked and compared it to their head size and it was larger than their heads. They didn't even finish half of it, and then the waiter asked us if we wanted to take it home..
Also the fact that they have popcorn... with sugar??? Wth is that
this video called me fat in 47 languages and 23 fonts.
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carmelle lol sammmme
Lucky you.
I'd rather have healthier, more expensive foods rather than spending money on healthcare due to my diet.
You can buy healthy foods everywhere for a price
Healthcare is free....
Emil Westrum Not everywhere
@@EmilWestrum Not in America LMAOOO
That's America's goal. Make that money from careless diets (more so, all the American processed food).
Me looking at the portions: “Wow, that’s a lot of food!”
Him: “The portions are smaller”
Me: ?.?
Anna M. I have no clue but I feel like if I ate an american portion of food I would be full for at least 3 days
It really depends on where ur getting the food from. Some places give a gargantuan load and some places give normal portions.
Bruh, depending on the food I probably couldn't even finish some of the stuff
AWpicLegend That is true but just makes me wonder what the usual portion for the average people is in each place
I went to Japan last year and ate in a resto. I ordered chicken karaage and I thought it has a small portion but I was surprised that I didn't finish everything. My stomach got full quickly.
Schools in America serve pizza, nuggets, fries etc as lunch to kids.
Eat the nuggets. Screw the pizza and fries.
Axe M. Yeah, anything resembling healthy will promptly be thrown into the garbage.
At school in Britain I used to frequently eat a mini pizza with chips (fries) and baked beans in tomato sauce... not super healthy...
I hate American food in the school cafeteria too.
orlando098 Ikr. In Italy I used to get a meal (usually pasta, rice or chicken) , a second lighter meal (usually two meat slices and lots of vegetables) and dessert twice a week with water and some bread. I was super thin and healthy. Then i moved to the Uk (london) and schools here have cakes, pizza, cupcakes, donuts and custard. One small cake is £1 and a small slice of pizza is £2.30. I’ve gained a lot of weight and I’m really self conscious now.
"It seems that people in Japan eat a lot more food rather than food like products."
Profound. Well-said.
I didn't understand that... Could you please explain to me?
@@TedEhioghae What he's implying is that the people in Japan eat real organic foods rather than fake fast foods.
akarea gomez Ohhh, so there are fake organic food and real fast food?
@@TedEhioghae yes
James Franko I am a Nigerian and I came to Spain when I was 8 and I am 17... Obviously I would "forget" English... Since it is Spanish and Catalan/Mallorquin they speak here in Spain...
Yes I live in Italy and when I eat a fruit everyone ask “are u on diet?” Just whyyy? Can I eat healthy?
lol . That is sad but funny
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I hate it too when that happens. I try to eat vegetables and fruits for lunch and my classmates would be like,"woah, someone's on a diet here!" I mean yeah, technically, I'm on a diet but I hate being teased for it.
Lmao im italian but no one i know acts this way, guess im lucky
lol really
after being on a strict diet (very strict), my tastes changes a lot. The candy i used to eat, can’t even look at it. It grosses me out thinking how sweet it is etc. Im glad i’m able to see how unhealthy stuff is.
True! Some unhealty food is just too sweet to be eaten.
Same
@@mxya707 what? If you can't find healthy food enjoyable you have a serious issue
Same here. It gets out of habit
true, it is all a matter of what you are used to. i used to drink a lot of soda as a teen but i dont really like it anymore after getting used to only drinking unsugared tea and water, its just too sweet for me now.
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Man, I wish our American cafeterias were a little more similar to Japanese cafeterias.
But I love getting fries, hamburgers, and milk everyday. I love the cardboard flavoured milk, the pre-made burger on stale bread, and the fries that seem more like mashed potatoes than any type of fries. Also I would like to add that this one of the best tasting lunches at my school, gotta love this pre-made frozen food right?
I live in a hella conservative part of the country, and our local news likes to stir up drama on Facebook. Everytime they post an article about the state of school lunches, the locals lose their minds. Their argument is: I provide lunch for my own child, and therefore I couldn't care less about the nutrition of others. They freak out about the prospect of an extra couple dollars in taxes that could provide decent food to ALL children. Personally, as a childless American, I think that's disgusting.
Japan doesn’t have a cafeteria... you eat in classrooms
You could always travel hunny, appreciate and be greteful :)
Make your meals at home.
When I was in Japan, one thing I noticed is that most locals eat lots of fish.
Your Neighbor Amos not gonna lie fish is healthy the best part its fresh thats why I love japan!
NO! Korea 💩👋💩
Sounds like dream country.
Does me eating crawfish and gator tails in Louisiana count?
Love fish but i find it is expensive here in UK
I live in Tokyo, and in my opinion its because we WALK everywhere in here. And train & subway stations are mostly have a LOT of stairs.
I agree that all the walking in Japan is a major calorie burner that we don’t have in the American lifestyle.
I wish my country provide many sidewalks just like Japan. Unfortunately, we only have those kind of side walks in the big city (our capital city). Other than that, ugh, we'd rather choose to ride or we'll be honked by the cars and motorcycles 'behind us'
I’m American and (black at that) and my community tends to be more obese. We definitely eat out way more then we should but at this point, Americans are becoming bigger and more obese period. Some of my greatest friends are my Japanese friends I met in college and my roommate kanako cooked for me like every dang day. And I loved Japanese food since cuz of her. Now I’m honestly trying to adopt the Japanese food and culture. Cook Japanese food at my house. I watch kimono mom and cook some her recipes and they are delicious. And even adopting waking up at 5am, which has been struggle to do. But to be more productive and get more steps in my day. So hopefully soon I can see my friends again in person.
Don’t get up at 5 am because you may not get enough sleep. Wake up when you wake up naturally without an alarm clock on non working days. The more you sleep, the more your body gets a chance to get rid of toxins and when you’re sleeping, you’re not hungry and eating.
@@heythavewow I didn't know that
I need a gut microbe transplant from a confident person.
same lol
do we need a testicular transplant from brave people too?
Lmao
You know how they do it?...WIL has another video about it. It is fecal implantation!
Gotta get that spice melange.
Quick real quick facts:
America - Processed food
Asia - Real food
No, only Japanese in Asia eats real food. Actually Japan is kind of unique. Healthy food are a lot cheaper than most of Asia. Like fish, meat, egg, yogurt, veggies... Normally at least two times cheaper sometimes up to five.
Most of the places in Asia eats unhealthy, where I grow up child obesity rate is higher than the US on stats. Reason that Asian aren't that fat right now is because they were poor and the food industry isn't that advanced.
People used to eat brown rice and sweet potato, nowadays it is considered food for caveman.
Asia is basically 50 years behind western society.
scrappy coco Seriously? My family eats brown and black rice. It’s expensive that’s why people can’t afford it. White bleached GMO rice is cheaper which the poor eat and they could be thin or obese. But in my country, the middle class is growing and people are spending way too much of it on fast food. I live in Philippines by the way.
@@user-dx5bn4yk4f
Brown rice and white rice can both be GMO or not GMO. White rice need to be peeled so it should be more expensive.
And is there any white bleached rice ? My family used to own a rice processing factory and after peeling the brown rice becomes white rice.
Well, you have a healthy family. Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand etc (sorry haven't been to Philippine), there's no brown rice in restaurant or take out.
I'm in Taiwan now ( traveling most of the time ).
Not in the country I lived in Asia. There is so much processed food here in metro city. I live side by side with preserve substance. Everything is instant produced not through the process
Dennis Vu Not true. Japan yes, rest of Asia has a lot of horrible processed food cheap and readily availBle.
I lived in Japan for two years. The restaurants were excellent and I frequently purchased fresh fish and seafood from our local open air market nearly every day on Sagami Bay in Akia. Even vender food was fresh and superior. I loved fresh stir fried squid and really miss abalone and snails that I used to eat frequently. The Kobi steak was the best I ever have had. Everyone drank fermented coconut milk drink that was 3% alcohol. I rarely ever consumed processed foods there. Once living back in the USA after several decades I gained weight ended up with pre diabetes, and ended up with quadruple by pass surgery. Soon after I started the Keto life style, lost 70 pounds, stopped eating sugar and processed food and have never felt better. No more processed food or sugar for me.
So why do you stopped living there?
@@vimalcurio I was deployed by the military to another country. After what's going on now in the USA I just may.
@@davidletasi3322 oh I see
Congratulations on your new and healthier lifestyle David. Dumping processed foods and sugar is a major step.
@りゅう you would enjoy to study the amounts of carbs and natural sugar found in normal fruit and green vegetables. Also keto allows for 50 grams of carbohydrates if they are clean keto products. Look into keto and you will understand. I also limit my calorie intake to 1200 to 1500 per day and modest exercise each week. Sugar such as fructose found in natural fruit not the issue but refined sugar added to most commercial product is leading to diabetes. Also refined flour and rice is high in carbohydrates (starch) and leads to excess caloric intake. This coupled with a sedentary lifestyle leads to weight gain. You would be surprised what a varied diet you may have under keto. Also our medical community is still loading refined sugar products in our hospitals diets and then compensate sugar blood levels in their patients with massive use of insulin. Even now the blood sugar levels are consider normal at 100 to 140 glucose level but considers level below 200 to 150 as pre diabetic. They are pushing these numbers between 200 and 150 as diabetic because pharmaceutical companies are developing dozens of medications for individuals in that range yet this range of glucose in humans have not proven that these lower levels produce diabetes. However the levels of glucose produce by refined sugar and high refined flour and refined rice pushes the levels of higher glucose in humans. We are systematically being overwhelmed with refined food additives that exacerbate glucose levels, we are enticed by food companies to consume high caloric foods and then wonder why diabetes and obesity is rampent in our society. For years I have been trying to get our physicians to look into ketosis and to promote maintained lower caloric intake. They always agree, knowing I've lost massive weight on Keto life change ( not diet, they do not work) and believe it works but the never advance it as a way to a healthy life style. Ask your self why? Could it be that their greatest profits are pharmaceuticals and medical procedures versus common sense? Profits first idelogy is destroying our society and we are becoming dependent more and more on big pharma.
The Japanese *'' MISO ''* alone has incredible benefits for health and anti-aging.
Yes!
So basically they have made healthy convenient ....
na' ah mean? no. what they are eating is unhealthy. take the time to study what goes into your body i mean EVERYTHING. dont follow the media
The Eyebrow Please stop posting disinformation, I see you.
I agree with OP,
They made health convenient, it's a smart thing to do for a government and population that wants to stay healthy.
NikoxD93 actually. i dont even care what u got to say because i dont want to deal with brainwashed fucks like u. the truth is gonna be out there.
The Eyebrow I washed my brain myself to get rid of brainwashing, I made a lot of progress :)
NikoxD93 lol. continue eating heart disease. i wouldnt be surprised if u are prediabetic.
Great video. As a Japanese guy who studied in U.S. college, I think the biggest difference is sugar consumption. Snacks in U.S. are way too sweet. Cookies and muffins are acceptable, but cupcakes? I can't believe they eat them.
No Ding Dongs for you right Kenzo. Ha ha ha.
Same here. As an indian, i have my brother who often visits US for work and is always mesmerized by the amount of sugar in everything
Yeh here in UK too. Everything sweets are overkill, and fried foods are much more greasier than Japanese food
@@kaushikthirthappa3350 as an Indian consider your brother lucky to even enter USA 😂😂
seeker ecstacy lol yeah I guess
8:43 Hold up, other schools ACTUALLY COOK the lunch food!?
Yeah, I'm pretty sure most asian countries do.
We use to in America... Remember thr lunch lady.
I think in most Europe, too (I’m from small Estonia and here schools cook very rich and healthy meals).
Here in Australia, we pack our own kids lunches every single day.
in my school all the economy classes cook once a week so the food is done by us or atleast us who are doing economy its not always tasty but its not unhealthy
I lost 6 kilos in my 14 days stay in Japan. I loved it! I walked everyday, and that is why I still lost weight considering that I was there to try almost every food. I miss eat! I would consider retiring in Japan.
The food the Japanese eat look so much more delicious than something one could buy in any other store😋
Yeah, munchy.
Yea you got unlucky westerners
100th like i just came hear to say
Ayeetsha you’re welcome for me not liking the comment
@@drawn6927 woah man thanks!
My best friend is Japanese American. His parents ate a traditional Japanese diet.
I remember seeing rice and seaweed on their table everyday, lots of fish too. No processed foods. His Mom lived to 92, his Dad to 98.
Damn
I'm Canadian, but my parents are from Japan and I grew up in a very Japanese household. I remember going over to my friend's house for a sleepover and being very surprised by how different they lived. I had a lot of green tea, rice, and fish in the house and I was surprised that my friend had barely any of that.
Not everyone lives where they grow tea leaves and rice and near a river, lake, or ocean where they have fish.
Groceries stores in Canada sell green tea, rice and fish, however not everyone buys those.
During my time in Japan, I noticed the modest portions, high quality, low sugar, and the importance placed upon mealtime. That is to say, one focuses on eating while eating. No TV or other distractions from the meal. It makes for a much more healthier person. My wife is originally from Japan and I am blessed by this healthy diet.
America is just a giant cheeseburger at this point.
lelwut are you sure about that
lelwut hmm... interesting🤔
chief tp don’t forget that large cup of soda
True
The sea is soda and the grass is fries
The way children eat in Japan... so envious of that system. The US needs a serious overhaul of its health and education.
That's an overhaul of capitalism. Money drives the death of Americans. Food science in North America is driven by profits. Americans know this of course, but that's second to making the bucks.
I think you are misunderstanding things. Japan still has preserved crap available... it is just that less people there make the choice to buy said crap in place of home prep and cooking.
In the US, we all have the option to purchase ingredients that are fresh (or at least fresh enough in some cheaper store's cases) and completely safe to consume when washed/cooked.... how many people do you know from this generation who can actually cook and are willing to completely do it from scratch? THAT is the difference.. law has little to do with it. And quite frankly, the US allows people to live the way they want... why should the government get involved with what we eat?
If you want to start barking about government regulations, then you should probably look at states like California that are purposely not building dams/aqueducts so that they can tax the ever living crap out of the many, MANY farmers that grow produce for the entire nation. If our produce wasn't so bloody expensive, then people wouldn't be so inclined to eat the prepackaged stuff as much.
Please.. no more greasy rectangular pizza. I can't take it any more.
Most of the countries that are first world and not America also have universal healthcare.. where as Japan has a unified health insurance policy, most others have single payer system. So, when you throw all that into the mix, getting kids to eat healthy at the start becomes a national endeavor because healthy kids = healthier adults = less taxes spent healthcare = everyone wins. But it is that very idea of everyone winning that triggers Americans because how can you have freedom if everyone wins?
Japanese care a lot about not being a burden on society. If you are unhealthy, more taxes are spent on healthcare, burdening society. The thing is in America, people are more independent minded and either don't care or aren't aware of how their actions affect others. If America gets universal healthcare, it would be expensive if people sought treatment for diseases that are easily preventable from having a healthy diet and lifestyle. They would live "the way they want" not realizing they are making people pay when they need help for their own mistakes. I think a change in the American mindset (and health culture) has to come first before universal healthcare can work effectively in America.
I guess if universal healthcare was to be implemented first in order to change society, it would have to make a dent on peoples' wallets so they will think twice about drinking that soda knowing that they, and even worse, others will have to pay for them to go to the hospital.
“Proportions are smaller”
Me: drools over how much food there is 🥴😍
Yae,
Just average meal in America is a lot larger.
I have been to Japan. Food portions are not smaller. They are the same as the US
@@grod805 because of the western influence
@@grod805I think the composition is different more vegetables and variety in Japan where in America lots of beige carbs and meat and cheese
*me* gets fat
*mum* why are you gaining so much weight
*me* take me to japan
Haha yes we need to promote a "Japan Health Scout" field trip for students or younger ages!
Also I found that when you eat "healthy" food you're viewed as someone that is dieting and just wanting to be skinny which makes me really self conscious. Like no, can't I just eat food without being slapped with a stereotype?
Whatever dude. Grow some balls
Yeah man grow a pair of balls
@@horseliver338 lmao I feel attacked wtf
Hammy Trey sadly it’s true
best you can do is say you prefer to eat healthy when you can because its tastier
The United States desperately needs a school meal overhaul
Michelle Obama tried that and made it worse
That's just un-american.
The U.S. government lied when they made the food pyramid to save money on the amount of food stamps they give. The scientist they hired even told the government it would make people diabetic, and the government did not care. They cared more about spending less money.
@@alicedenise5722 it’s always about money. The bigger people don’t care about us.
Yeah man the only edible things at my school were the things they didnt make. Everyone looked forward to a chicken nugget day and LOATHED the shitty "homeade" meals. They were so hung up on making them healthy the meals became unedible. I swear this one time they gave us mushy pasta with white sauce "alfredo" and it literally had more resemblance to semen than any food ive ever seen. Not even to mention the fruits and vegetables they gave us! People ask why so much fruit gets thrown away when everything tasted like styrofoam (and i suspect had the nutritional value of it too). The restrictions on portion size wouldnt even let kids take extra vegetables.
they don't put chemicals and random ingredient compounds. they eat real food from real sources
Honestly, the Japanese food presentation is an art in itself. With the food served up and looking so delicious, I would likely eat it first then ask what it was after just based on the appearance.
Are you re...tarded?
What I also noticed when out in Asia is that they generally price their healthy options way cheaper than in Europe. In the UK for example eating healthily is really expensive.
fairydust yeah true
Thats how it should be
In Canada, salads are very expensive especially in fast food places, and are often made with iceburg lettuce 😣
Plus, home cooked food adds into the healthiness factor, when I grew up fast food was rare compared to the home cooked food I'd normally receive. Though, I also have a high metabolism so that adds to it.
I honestly wish healthy foods weren't priced higher in America, it sucks even for the Asian style restaurants here, they are not true Asian food most of the time: for example, Japanese people call American sushi as a _California Roll_ because it doesn't taste like Japanese sushi, many don't think of it as sushi.
Yeah they make healthy food (non processed) more expensive, so they can profit on the unhealthy food. So fucked up!
I have been to Japan many times. As simple an explanation as possible....Better quality food and people walks so MUCH more. I have counted the people where I work (over 400 people). Over 75% are fat and WELL over 50% are obese. It is pitiful. When I go to Japan the people I interact with are SO MUCH thinner!!! One month there and I lost 13 pounds. It is just a better culture for healthier living.
Food overseas is just better quality. My friend is from Burma and she said that when she cooked her favorite chicken recipe here, it didn't taste like chicken. My mom's friend brought her peanuts from Mexico. Dang, the peanuts I buy here don't taste like the ones from Mexico. And they are the same kind...
I lost 10 pounds there just by sweating alone.
This video makes me want to move to Japan just so I can live a healthier lifestyle
@@m.t.443 isnt being healthy there expensive?
I'd say people in Japan walk more because of how crowded it is and how close buildings are to one another. Plus it's safer since there are more people walking the chances of getting mug drop. I'm from Mexico, I use to walk everywhere I wanted to there, so when I came to the US. Damn was I disappointed... Like let's say you just wanna buy milk, you have to drive all the way to the convenience store. I'm guessing the reason I see less American children playing or hanging out outside: is because there just isn't anything interesting to do outside, you'll need a car to get anywhere. In Mexico there are plazas and soccer fields all over the place. Still I wouldn't glorify Mexico as a safety place everyone knows how much kidnapping and gun violence there is there.
I lived for two years in Japan and never felt healthier except in one other country... Poland. In both countries, people eat fresh not processed, meals not snacks, in moderate portions, and sugar isn't added to everything. My last trip home to the USA I saw sugar among the ingredients in toothpaste in the guest bathroom!
Sugar as ingredient in toothpaste? I don't believe you.
@@Boycott_for_Occupied_Palestine It's true!
@@cherylverdon3077 what was the brand of the toothpaste?
I don't remember. But it claimed it was bubblegum flavored so it must have been aimed at children. @@Boycott_for_Occupied_Palestine
Poland? One of the healthiest foods here as well? can you elaborate please?
The amount of effort put in this video and research done is mind-blowing! ❤️
Not gonna lie, a lot of the Japanese food on here was quite mouth watering.
I don't eat seafood but what is there in Japan that's not seafood?
Edit: still they make the seafood look yummy
Naaaaniii?!!!??
@@Darlvua soy
Except pig ears. Yess!
seafood is awesome
It’s simple, Food in japan is often promoted with how healthy they are, and America promote their food with gluttony
😂
In while Europe and some of Asia:
so true, gluttony is rampant in US
This those not make sense. fyi
@@darkmode7455 some
@@luftmagier11 makes more sense than your sentence.
I live in Namba, Osaka, and when I go to Sushiro and Kura Sushi, which are conveyor-belt sushi restaurants, there are many foreign customers and they are very popular. A plate of fresh sushi can be had for only one dollar, and there is no need to tip. The Japanese are having a hard time because of the weak yen, but for foreigners, it's heaven.
Love when he says "It looks like people from Japan eat a lot of food instead of food-like products," that's a quote from In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan. Thank you for creating good content on nutrition, we need more of this on UA-cam.
Japanese have a lot of self-discipline and deep-rooted ideas about the proper way to eat and live. In addition, mothers consider it their job to provide healthy meals for their family. They even make their college-age children healthy box lunches to take to university. And, as a Japanese person commented below, they are very concerned about being presentable and acceptable - being obese would be very shameful and would show a lack of self-control and self-respect.
Great comment about self control and respect
what's the typical japanese persons view of existential nihilism?
if obese is shameful, how do you explain Sumo Wrestlers?
danpt2000 Sumo wrestlers gain weight to perform well in matches (under different weight groups). They control their weight under a straight diet, like any responsible sportsman in other fields. They train hard to improve their sumo skills, and fight honorably in competitions. After ending their sumo career, their weight drop back to a more normal level.
@@TarunoNafs but a lot of their weight is fat.
"food rather than food like products"... 😂😂😁😁😀😆😆😆
This very statement is as profound as "I never let my schooling to come in the way of my education..."
Plz let me know who said that🙂
EXACTLY!! 👍🏼
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Too many of these products you need a friggin lab to produce
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Mind blowing concept. 😂😂😂 Its really amazingly simple. Never thought of it this way. Just cause it's edible doesn't make it food.
Wow! I have never seen a very thorough explanation and educational video like this about food and health. This is very informative. You are an inspiration.
I’m so impressed of this video. It’s so accurate and educational. Great work.
Japan has strong food regulations like Europe. America's regulations are hampered by corporate lobbying (legalized bribery).
No... you can buy all the same kind of preserved crap in Japan like you can in the US. The difference is that there are far more people who still value home cooking/preparation in Japan. In the US it is very common for people to pick up some food from a drive through on the way back from work, and most people from this generation don't even have a clue about cooking.
Definitely corrupt especially by Monsanto and it's GMO Corn pushing that poison "CORN SYRUP" in all our foods!
*@Someone667* I mean...you don't find that to be a gross generalization? I've moved across the US a couple of times now and I find once I actually get out of the city/suburbia, local cooking (especially southern/soulfood style, game meats, or islander cooking in Hawaii or the Virgin Islands that's been brought over to mainland US) to be VERY heavy in organ meat and extremely delicious.
Considering over 30% of the country is obese and heart disease is the worst it has ever been... no... no I do not find it to be an over generalization. There is a reason bowl of noodle products are so frickin popular right now.
And honestly, considering the majority of the US population comes from cities, I don't think that point really matters in the slightest. 62%~ to be close to exact.
its also the lazed culture in US. People are too lazy to cook their own food .. hence they choose mcdonalds.
So much work goes into this 11 minute video, thank you so much for creating such awesome content
Also i think you didn't mention that in japan you get served a variety on foods per meal. In japan you will see that the table is full with bowls of different food. That is also a contributor to health.
In my experience and from what I hear from others, being fit is mostly about diet. Exercise is important of course, but if you don't eat too many calories to begin with, then you don't have so many that you need to burn off ...
100% true! Just going for walks and eating less is enough to get in decent shape.
I burn 1400 calories a day at work so I have to eat a lot of extra calories so I think it also depends on what you do for a living.
It's to keep your muscles from getting weak duh!!
@@AvengedSevenfold1337 what do you do for work?
All of the Japanese food looks so appealing, delicious and healthy. It makes you want it, although most of us in the western countries (I'm German) are used to (highly) processed food.
So, that all the healthy food still appeals to me more than the processed stuff shows me again that we humans are originally programmed to want healthy, nutritious food!
Our brains have simply been "washed" by the food industry, which is kind of a crime in my opinion...
That's 100% true, I also live in germany ;)
SaborMetallico Yup! And can such processed food even be considered “food”?
SaborMetallico I’ve started eating healthy diet when I was 14 near 15. I cook whole foods everyday and only eats junkfood once in 1 or 2 weeks.
@@menace2societies lucky, I wish I started that age. I'm only 16 but still would have like to start way earlier
Megan Rivera Go avoid sugar consumption it will help your appetite to stick on fresh foods.
what frustrates me is that in america, real food is more expensive than food-like "food". why is that? is it because the food-like products are cheaper to make? genuinely curious
Government agricultural subsidies usually go to corn, making it more profitable for farmers to grow corn, and cheaper for mega corporations to buy corn and make corn products. It can then be sold very cheaply. Same goes for wheat and I think Soy. This is why so much food-like things are made from wheat, contain high fructose corn syrup, and if there's an added oil it's soy oil
from my point of view is a little bit simpler, food that is 10% food and 90% crap is cheaper than food that is 100% food
At this point just start your own little kitchen garden.
a lot of veggies are actually cheaper in the states
Pre made frozen foods in a box are definitely more expensive than things like rice , beans, ground beef , chicken , pork , fish , pasta , fruits and veggies , etc etc. Seems to be kind of a myth that they're not -- it's crazy expensive to eat nothing but things like pizza rolls , frozen burritos, frozen meals and pop tarts.
"Real food " only becomes extremely expensive when it's organic versions , grass fed meats , vegetarian meat substitutes, etc.
Some people feel these things are necessary to be truly healthy, but they're really not
I'm actually amazed at how well researched this is
"People in Japan eat alot more *food* , rather than *food-like products* " that hit hard
More on tea consumption- do you know how hard it is to find bottled unsweetened iced tea in the US at a convenience store? You can sometimes find it- and it's usually a Japanese brand like ito-en or Teas' Tea that makes it! I find this so frustrating!
Yeah, I guess it's not something many people would buy in the US unfortunately.
Even if you do it’s so processed to the point that it’s not worth it
Chrissy Does Stuff that is why i hate american fast food „culture” so much. And they infested with that crap entire world. Here in Poland we have commercials teaching ppl to drink coca-cola with dinner. It was always unaceptable for us before.... was. I think thet is one of reasons why food lovers - French are hating USA.
So what? Get a bottle that you can put in the dishwasher and cook your tea before leaving the house!
Do your own?
Eating healthy is a culture, nurtured since small kids, school and parents teach students and their youngs the importance of self respect...it is a way of life.. a healthy collaboration
Great vid, really. Since the early 1990's I've been a fan of Japanese food & culture. Recently learned to make Dashi broth.
Man this is a real eye opener, great channel man
*Because they bite on the piece of toast running to the subway every morning.*
dammit, i knew there was gonna be a comment like this XD
You know youve read too many mangas and watched too much anime when lol
Lol
Hahahaha
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They're healthy in Japan because they don't live in America, duh.
You must be a liberal.
James Smith America is a shitty place. That's just a fact. Worst first world country other than maybe Sweden.
Doctor Acanthamoeba there's nothing genetic here. If that was true studies would show so but they dont. Correlation is not causation their high IQ is because of their culture values and history.
Keisuke Masuzawa are you kidding me? Have you seen what they eat?
Keisuke Masuzawa they put pickled herring on everything. Its disgusting.
そんなことより日本の地図に沖縄と北方領土が含まれてないのが気になった
Great video! I loved the studies you included as I am bio uni student and loved to read them
Real food VS Food Like products
Great observation
Japanese: Nah Japan is full of carbs and salty foods. Learn from Italy!
Italian: Nah Italian foods are too greasy. Learn from Japan!
Taro Japan: some carbs but all in all in general their diet is excellent!
Italy: carb galore and every Atkins, Paleo, Keto, and Caveman dieter’s nightmare!
@@andrewguerra9343 so if so sham studying ff so dd a data sheets
Italy's obesity rate is like 5x higher than Japan's
I appreciate how well-researched this video is! Thank u, I enjoyed the whole thing :)
the healthier & fit you're the happier you become.
You forgot to mention the seaweeds that they consume regularly and that have many benefits, including speeding up the metabolism.
i love seaweed. I buy from a local asian super market. I also buy their tofu and soymilks
@@MichaelTheophilus906 Not if you buy organic. I love seeweed.
So true. I was very small when I was eating miso soup everyday. I need to start doing that a lot. I gained 10 lbs since I stopped. I need to buy more wakame.
@DudeofGwinnett People there put it in miso soup, they have some sort of seaweed paste thing that they put on their rice (Nori), sushi wraps, rice ball wraps, dried pickled seaweed for snacking, etc etc
and the taste? 😭
Flying from Tokyo, my family had a layover in Texas. We got to our hotel really late. but they told us there was a Chinese restaurant that would deliver. We ordered two chicken with vegetables. planning to share between the three of us. We opened one container - my wife ate, our two year old ate and I ate and there was still food left over. The second container we didn't even open.
Edric Dayne i visited a friend in chicago for 4 night. Every freaking time, i couldn’t finish the food i ordered nor the small soft drinks i ordered. (small means half a liter or something!).
Same in the UK with takeaways, for two people they send enough for 5
Everything’s bigger in Texas lmfao
The US likes leftovers, but a lot of people don't have leftovers for some reason.
I live in the uk and idk abt the rest of British people but when I get Chinese food I get like a curry or something and rice or noodles. I only end up eating like half of each and then have the leftovers for lunch the next day. For me personally it's pretty standard to have leftovers
Thanks you for making this video!
I find your discussion of the consumption of organ meats and cartilage, from 6:00 to 8:00, to be fascinating. Personally, whenever I eat chicken, I love to chomp on the ligaments and suck on the bone marrow! 😋 As a U.S. citizen, I've always wondered why organ meats are rarely consumed in my country. Could you please do a video on this topic in the future?
Make a video "why are people unhealthy in the U.S
No need bcoz everyone knows
We always eating
So many fast food places
USA =use sugar all time
Random Otaku 🤣
Omg Yas
Random Otaku nobody cooks home cooked meals anymore everyone goes to get fast food because it’s faster and requires no work , plus people eat a lot of carbs and sugar
america seriously needs help :(
Nah America is beyond saving
Jesus can help, Love you. Repent of your sins and trust Jesus' finished work on the cross. Jesus died for you, he rose from the dead on the third day. If you trust him you will see changes and repentance when he comes into your heart. Trust and obey Jesus. It's faith alone, faith has evidence and fruits to it.
@@ReyBanYAHUAHJesus will definitely fix your diet.
I'm a little shocked by the fact American really does eat A LOT OF fastfoods.. In my country, fast food is sth that you eat once in a month or week
American have choices 🌷 organics healthy n more learning 2 follow 👌 🌷 population's America larger than Japan 👌 🌷 we have alot 2 learn from the Japanese 👍 eat moderation's! We get the message 👌 thumbs ☝ Japan 👏 thank you 4 sharing 💕
I came to Japan 3 months ago and have already lost 10kg. And I have always been eating healthy food at home, but now i eat more seafood and smaller portions. Matcha is my favourite tea and drink it almost everday.
Over quarantine I've started cooking a lot more and I loooove asian cuisine. I've been making really healthy stir fries (napa cabbage and baby bok choy are vegetables that are now a staple in my cooking) and ramen soups (I use udon instead of ramen though). I feel very lucky that my partner will eat anything I cook and he loves healthy, tasty food as much as I. ^_^
I've lived in Japan for almost 13 years now and I approve this message^^
How is life in Japan?
In which part? Tokyo?
I was in Japan once, only for two days but it was a fantastic experience. The people were friendly, the city was remarkably clean and had many parks and gardens, the vending machines were plentiful and even though there were almost never any trash cans near the machines there was also no strewn around bottles and cans everywhere because people have respect and patience. I saw small children that looked no more than 6 years old taking the subway by themselves with no issues because the crime rates even in the city seem surprisingly low. I would definitely like to go back some day but give myself an actual week or more to explore the country proper.
many parks and gardens?? what city was that?
I would visit......but I’m black so.....don’t think it’d be fun being stared at like a side show. Not saying they’re necessarily racist, but just don’t see black people often there so from what I’ve seen they seen almost amazed when they see one in person.
nah i was there for a week and I think Japanese people are polite enough to know not to do things like that, and trust me its an extremely fun experience
Your comment made me laugh thinking about the first time I visited my Caucasian friend in her remote hometown. Wherever we went, people were staring at me...first, I felt uncomfortable, then, I got used to the stares and later I even felt a little like a celebrity that day! It's their first time seeing an Asian! hahaha
When I visited Japan a few years back, I went with a group tour and there was one African American family. Wherever we went, people would stare at the father, not the whole family just the father, we later found out that the Japanese people (mostly women) who stared at him told our guide that the father looked like Denzel Washington! needless to say that for the rest of the tour that day, he couldn't stop smiling...hehehe
So, my suggestion to you is don't let that little thing prevent you from visiting one of the nicest and most beautiful countries in the world! Have a safe trip there and enjoy! ^_^
I know people at 60 who would not take the subway in the U.S>
Hi ya, Thanks for this! I've learnt some stuff and it was really nice and easy to watch and listen to thanks!
When I was a student in Japan my host mom would make onion soup for breakfast, a small portioned lunch (after a while I found myself not eating all of my portion) and for dinner my host mom would make a “regular sized” meal but made it from scratch.
I'm from Spain, and I eat a pescatarian, mostly vegetarian Mediterranean diet. I've been on exchange to Canada for a year and I couldn't agree more. People don't eat food here! It's so weird. They're so unhealthy, everything is packaged or fried, and people don't know how to cook. It's been really hard on my health, but I've lost weight by basically not eating because I find everything disgusting lmao. Also, I live on University campus and don't have kitchen access, so I have to eat at the cafeteria every day and it's horrible, there is no fish, barely any vegetables and legumes are nowhere to be seen, I get by by eating mostly soup
Then shop for food?
Then go back to your own country and stop complaining about lifestyle in other countries
@@Kasumi10074 she doesn't have kitchen access..
I wonder where you are in Canada. There's a ton of healthy places to eat (a lot with fish too!).
Buy a hot plate, they are amazing for college life.
The more I learn about this stuff, the more I feel resentment towards my parents. I can't help it.They didn't know any better, but growing up in the 90s as a kid, I ate mostly toast, cereal, and poptarts. 90% of what I ate was a shelf stable processed food. All through highschool I had chips and Dr.Pepper for lunch. I have so much resentment for that lifestyle, and I feel so powerless that there was just no life line back then. I'm almost 30 now, and now I'm in a well informed place. I feel desperate to undo a lifetime of damage.
You can do it. The body is something very adaptable. So while you can't undo what it's already done, any future changes will improve your health drastically.
Give it up. Just eat what is healthy and you'll reverse the damage in months. Ya big baby.
@@tomjones2157 wow. Edgy.
@@Jessicanana89 you're the one being edgy here. 'wah my parents didn't feed me a japanese diet when i was growing up and even though i'm 30 i've still not taken charge of my own life style and health'
like, just eat properly and go to the gym and then you'll be fine. stop blaming others for your mess
@@phoenixwright7802 why are edgy people so sensitive? You guys are just spicy sjws.
Thank you for these videos ❤️ very informative
this is really interesting. Nice content!
Ok, we need to adopt the Japanese model on school lunch. That's loads better than what we do here.
vonkäuen Theforbidden murricans parents would be ranting if their kids have to clean up their own class rooms, serve their own lunch and clean it, and some have to even plan them in school garden.
me: drinks milk from an anxious cow once
my body: das it mane, we sad forever now
LMAOOOOOOOO
Me: drinks milk
My mom: aren't you too old for this?
Did it put you in a sad mooooo-od
You're illiterate, and not very funny. Sorry. It fell flat.
Amazing bro, make more video like this
Japan eats more food; instead of food-like products
Well said!
This was a great watch :)
Funny seeing you here man👀
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Danm your everywhere jax btw I love your vid
Hey, dude.
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We can learn alot from Japan 🇯🇵🇯🇵
@John Sholl which they don't do anymore
DIO IKR. That dude is probably still living around 1940s. Pathetic. Just move on. This video is about being healthy, nothing about those.
@bitter asparagus but you will
@Milan Chan I wish you could get the joke.
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This helps me out a lot with understanding this
gosh I love your videos!
I feel like a major reason for Japan making the top 50 cancer rate list i simply because they don't die of other causes such as heart disease which leads to them living longer and eventually getting cancer.
It's due to high carbohydrate intake. Cancer thrives off of sugar and carbs.
I don't believe the Japanese eat more carbs than other nations on that list though.
@Ethan Noel Where are you getting your information? If cancer thrives off sugar and carbs Japan should be in the top 10 because carbs are served at almost every meal. The US is number 5 compared to Japan at number 43.
I'm quite sure carbs are served at pretty much every meal in every country there is lol. In western countries it's bread, potato, rice, sweet potato, oats and what have you. The Japanese eat more rice but potato for example is less common. I bet Americans eat more carbs than the Japanese do because they eat more calories in general.
Another HUGE cause for the cancer rate is the high intake of fermented foods. While fermented foods are very beneficial to the body's microflora and microbacteria in the gi tract, it can also lead to damage within the gi tract itself. This damage often leads to cancer. I guess its a win lose scenario.
In some part of Asia, being slim doesn't mean the person is healthy. Sometimes those people does not have enough food to eat.
That's not the point of the video though. He's talking about Japan, which isn't the whole of Asia.
@TomG Gabin It's more likely than not that if the person looks skinny they are most likely not obese, so it's a pretty pointless point to make.
@TomG Gabin *body fat percentage in the obese range
Not BMI
Excuse me but Japan slim is healthy 😂
@happy face It's almost like different societies have different problems.
Phenomenal video. Well done.
Narrator: People eat healthy stuff in Japan
Also narrator: 1:53 shows a bowl of Tendon and deep frying Kushikatsu
You pretty much nailed it at 9:25. in most countries its much rarer to eat organic food with all its nutritious value.
According to their anime. Japanese are thin because of their overly exaggerated movements. It takes more energy.
Lmao true say
It's true that they talk with hands too.
they all smoke. THAT'S why they're thin
What are you talking about, Mr. Sputnik?
Nani?
Great video with great information. Im from South America, Peru and I grew up eating fresh organic food bought from the market daily. Lots of organ meats, seafood, fish, lamb and lots of fresh vegetables and fruits. Today, living in North America, there is way too much fast fry food, junk food, hormones in the meat, pesticides in the vegetables and fruit. Everything has been altered and not healthy. Unfortunately, people has been conditioned to this life style and the consequences are so horrid. It is time to wake up and take more seriously our nutrition and more important, teach children to eat healthy. They are our future. Blessings and be safe. BTW, I lost my mother on 2018, she was 98 yrs old and had no illnesses. Her body just gave up. Thought to share this to let you know if you eat healthy you can live longer.
I was in shock when I visited a restaurant with such small portions and that was pretty much a meal, their diet is amazing, fish , veggies, soups, loads of tea