Japanese diet of ramen, tobacco & beer is ‘unhealthy’
Japanese developing unhealthy dietary patterns
Japan Today / Kyodo News, Friday, November 24, 2006; TOKYO — The white paper on diet and life warned Friday an increasing number of Japanese people do not have what it calls “desirable healthy dietary habits” such as eating regular, balanced meals. The government report was issued for the first time in line with the basic law on dietary habits that entered into force in July last year…more…
That Japanese “basic law on dietary habits” sounds rather overbearing, but I suspect that it just poor translation of the government’s ‘basic guidelines for dietary health.’ However, the Japanese government is to blame for incorrectly stating that, “Japanese developing unhealthy dietary patterns” when in fact the ‘Japanese have unhealthy dietary patterns’ and has had a poor diet for decades. The average salaryman only consumes a poisonous brew of rancid coffee, cigarettes, alcohol and greasy MSG-laced ramen. It’s no wonder that Japan has the highest rate of stomach cancer in the world. Japanese home-cooked meals made from scratch are fine dietary-wise. However, most Japanese people eat out or take home pre-made meals which are fairly poisonous concoctions of faux-foods that are swimming with salt and grease.
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