Archive for the ‘Japanese Diet’ Category

The traditional Japanese diet is based on the consumption of rice, vegetables, fish, green tea, seaweed, soy and its derivatives. But reality is much more varied than this: you can eat up to 30 foods daily nutritional groups combined and in small quantities.

One thing that distinguishes the Japanese diet of Western diets is the food pyramid is that it is upside down (for us, of course). The food is placed on one level or another depending on the number of servings per day to take, regardless of amount.

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