“Japanese Women Don’t Get Old or Fat” by Naomi Moriyama

Click here to see Why Japanese Women Don’t Get Old or Fat,  a video with Katie Couric interviewing Naomi Moriyama, the author of the book, “Japanese Women Don’t Get Old or Fat”

Statistics show that Japan’s obesity rate in women is only 3% (and that’s the same for Japanese men also) and they have the longest life expectancy, and they look younger longer too.   America’s obesity rate is 34% for women and 28% for men.

When the author comes to America to live she eats our fast food, and supersized portions and gains 25 pounds in two months.  She concludes then,  that it’s not something in the genes that keeps Japanese women slim and healthy.  It must be their diet and portions, and presentation!  When she went back to Japan, she lost the 25 pounds naturally by eating from her mother’s “Tokyo kitchen”.

Here is a link to the book on Amazon, Japanese Women Don’t Get Old or Fat: Secrets of My Mother’s Tokyo Kitchen

“It’s well known that Japanese women have the lowest obesity rate in the industrialized world (3%) and the highest life expectancy (85 years), and that their cuisine is based on simplicity. Tokyo native Moriyama puts a human face on this phenomenon, that of her mother, Chizuko, in this well-organized, persuasive introduction to a non-Western everyday cooking plan. Just as Moriyama reconstructed Chizuko’s cooking practices for herself and her coauthor husband, Doyle (Inside the Oval Office), she shows readers the elements of Chizuko’s 6′×12′ Tokyo kitchen. She details its pantry ingredients, including bonito (fish) flakes and daikon (radish) and tools such as a rice cooker and wok. Most recipes are based on at least one of the “seven pillars”–fish, vegetables, rice, soy, noodles, tea, fruit–and are familiar and easy to make (Shrimp and Vegetable Tempura, Teriyaki Fish, etc.). Cooking tips abound, but what adds a French Women Don’t Get Fat angle is the useful eating advice, such as “Hara hachi bunme,” or “Eat until you are 80 percent full.” It’s a call for moderation that occurs throughout other cultures, and if it’s the Japanese version that speaks to readers, good for Moriyama.”  Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. –This text refers to the Hardcover edition. — Publishers Weekly

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