Why are there so many delicious things in Japan and so few obese people?

1, the popularity of non-calorie drinks

What people who travel in Japan for a short time may not notice is that the popularity of non-calorie drinks in Japan is much higher than that in China. In supermarkets and convenience stores, you can easily buy all kinds of calorie-free tea drinks, cola, coffee and non-alcoholic beer-flavored drinks.

Students who have a certain understanding of the causes of obesity will know that the two major culprits leading to obesity are sugary drinks and junk food (high trans fatty acids). In China, in most supermarkets and convenience stores, the option of sugar-free drinks will hardly enter everyone's field of vision. However, a bottle of 500 ml sugary drinks often carries about 250 calories in retail, and it hardly affects the subsequent dietary intake, resulting in excessive calorie intake.

2. The control of students' diet

In Japan, primary schools and even some middle schools implement the lunch ration system. The lunch menu is matched by a specially certified nutritionist. Moreover, the school will also educate and guide parents about the diet they leave school to prevent students from eating too much calories, sugar and oil. This leads to a very low obesity rate among Japanese children. More importantly, it helps most children develop good eating habits in their teens. You know, obesity in adolescence will greatly affect obesity in the future.

3. Different from China's dining table culture.

Speaking of dinner, the Japanese also love dinner. However, it is different from the culture in some parts of China where the dishes on the table can't be bottomed out in order to show the enthusiasm of the host. At the bottom, the host didn't treat them well and kept urging them to eat (as everyone knows, "Why don't you eat?" Eat more delicious food "). In Japan, dinner is often served according to the head (Japanese name: コース cuisine), and everyone talks while eating. This has led to the fact that Japanese people rarely overeat at dinner, and virtually consume a lot of calories.

4. Eat less culture

Different from the culture of "eating more is a blessing" and "children need to be fat in vain to be cute", this may be due to China's vast territory and rich resources, but there have been frequent famines in history. Perhaps poverty and lack of resources since ancient times have made Japanese people eat less. Eat less and eat more not because you don't want to eat, but because you can't eat. According to hearsay, a strong local leader in Japan during the Warring States period made a big wish to eat tofu every day after unifying Japan. From this legend, we can see how scarce resources are in Japan.

But the Japanese culture of eating less is formed after the habit of eating less is formed, which is undoubtedly one of the reasons for the low obesity rate in Japan. Some China girls studying in Japan often lament why some Japanese brothers in the canteen can put their lunch boxes into lunch boxes that are not much bigger than chopsticks boxes and eat so much at noon, which makes women who cry every day to lose weight feel embarrassed.

5, less oil diet

One answer to this question is that the Japanese highly admire the fat-rich A-5 beef and tuna, which infers that the Japanese diet is actually not low in fat.

In fact, the opposite is true. Obesity is a habitual disease. A girl of 80 kg goes to eat Kobe beef today, but she won't change it to 180 kg tomorrow. As for A-5 beef, which costs 5,000 yen (equivalent to 300 RMB) per100g, it is obviously impossible to eat it every day. If there are local tyrants or rich women who eat every day, let's be friends.

Therefore, discussing the causes of obesity depends on the daily eating habits, and the recommended eating methods are often contrary to the daily eating habits. It is precisely because you can't eat it at ordinary times that you seldom eat it.

Japanese usually eat dumplings, fish, chicken, beef, vegetables, bean products, udon noodles and buckwheat noodles. Although there are fried foods such as fried pork chops and tempura, the main theme of the food is light and oily food.

On the other hand, of course, the enthusiasm of most Japanese for carbohydrates is really unimaginable in China. For example, fried noodles bread, carbohydrate and carbohydrate combination in Lamian Noodles and Bajia jiaozi, it is estimated that only Japanese can do it in the world. This is also one of the reasons why diabetes has become a national disease in Japan.

6. Inertia caused by the body shape of the people around you

It sounds a bit metaphysical, but it's true.

Imagine that most people around you are thin people of the same age. In such an environment, there is a high probability that you and your friends will think that this thin figure is "normal". Then you will unconsciously move closer to that figure.

And if your peers or elders are instilling in you the concepts that "middle-aged obesity is the embodiment of happiness", "children should be fat in vain", "boys should not be too thin and unmanly" and "girls are blessed with a little meat on their faces", you will naturally feel that what they say is "normal". Have a bite of potato chips, French fries, a hamburger or a bite. Your figure will be closer to them.

7, suitable for sports environment

This is my personal experience of losing weight successfully in Japan.

In most cities in Japan, good air quality, reasonable housing planning and clean streets give ordinary people a good running and fitness environment. During my years in Japan, the roads I have traveled include, but are not limited to, two kilometers of hydrophilic platforms by the river, five kilometers of ports by the sea, and eight kilometers of sidewalks around the palace. There will always be other morning runners on these roads.