Why is the thinnest person in the world Japanese?

It is a unique habit of daily life and a special national condition.

Dietary pattern

Low calorie, more collocation.

Japanese food is light and low in calories, so we often see raw food in Japanese cuisine. In their daily cooking, they rarely use greasy and spicy condiments. In the practice of Japanese cuisine, Takahashi Takahashi, a fourth-generation descendant of Japanese fourth-rate, said: "There is a principle in Japanese cuisine that its delicacy cannot conceal the original flavor of ingredients."

Japanese traditional culture advocates "freshness first", so Japanese women usually like to buy more fish, vegetables and fruits, while high-calorie processed foods such as red meat, candy and biscuits are bought less.

Eating 30 kinds of ingredients a day is the dietary goal advocated by the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare in the 1985 guide to healthy eating and living. Since then, the concept of 30 kinds of ingredients has spread widely in Japan, and many housewives have adopted it as a guideline for arranging their daily diet.

Usually the diet of Japanese families is sashimi or grilled fish, boiled fish, cold tofu and boiled vegetables. Soy sauce is highly valued. The general collocation method is rice with miso soup and pickles, plus side dishes. Japanese cuisine is full of algae and vegetables, and perilla and laver are their most common foods. These foods are rich in various nutrients, with more protein and less fat.

You might say that they also like to eat fried food, such as the most representative "tempura". But the Japanese frying method is to pay attention to the fact that the noodles should not be thin and the noodles should not leak oil. Suck it with a piece of facial tissue, and you can't leave a trace of oil on the paper. This frying method is different from many American fast food.

The small plate is full.

Japanese traditional cuisine, represented by Shi Huai cuisine, prefers to use small plates as containers, and the weight of food is very small. Even pickles or sauces are divided into many parts, and each person has a small bowl. Although there are many kinds of food, the amount of each dish is really small. When eating, people feel that they have eaten a lot, but they don't. Over time, they will form the habit of eating less.

Kaiseki

Japan also advocates "eight points full". They will use beautiful tableware to hold food, and they won't gobble it when they eat, but they won't eat it until they are eight points full.

Pay more attention to breakfast and eat less outside.

In Japanese culture, breakfast is the most important of the three meals, so Japanese women have long prepared rich and healthy breakfasts for their families every morning. At present, science has proved that breakfast is not only the most important for health, but also the most difficult meal to gain weight.

Many families let their children go out after breakfast and bring their mothers' lunch at noon.

Students and office workers choose a nutritious lunch provided by the Japanese government. It is worth mentioning that these lunches have been designed by professional nutritionists and the quality is guaranteed.

Travel habits

Compared with westerners, Japanese prefer walking or cycling.

In terms of the average number of bicycles per1000 people, Japan is in the forefront of the world, having surpassed China.

Taking a taxi is a very extravagant behavior in Japan. In the Japanese concept, walking is a cost-effective and convenient mode of transportation, even if it takes much longer. Taxis in Japan are divided into different classes. According to your own needs, you can call them to the level you want to take. It can be said that the quality of user experience is very high, and it will be available when you need to take a taxi. However, the cost of all this is too expensive, and the low cost performance makes passengers reluctant to choose to call a taxi.

This is also an important reason why taxi software is difficult to enter this market. It takes 8 minutes to get to a place by taxi and half an hour to walk, so the Japanese will resolutely choose to walk.

Children in the United States basically go to school by school bus now, and some parents will pick them up directly. Some middle school students and college students drive directly to school by themselves. But in Japan, children are basically from walking to school. People who drive to school are rarely seen in universities.

In addition, bicycles are a means of transportation that everyone in Japan is used to. Bicycles are the first choice for students who go to school, office workers who catch trains and subways, and housewives who take their children to kindergarten and buy daily necessities at home.

Being in the country with the highest population density in the world, various facilities in Japanese communities are concentrated. Within five to ten minutes, you can find supermarkets, kindergartens, schools at all levels and dentists to solve your daily needs. Bicycle is a convenient and practical travel tool.

Commuting time

For Japanese office workers, they commute for a long time every day, but with the development of public transportation, they spend an average of one or two hours on foot, by tram and by bike every day. In the past, a survey in Japan found that the longer the average commuting time, the lower the probability of people suffering from intervertebral disc problems. The reason is that in order to keep balance on the swaying tram, the body exercises invisibly, which accelerates the consumption of calories.

Commuter population mobility

In addition, Japan is a mountainous and hilly country, and some roads need to go uphill and downhill. So for the Japanese, commuting is not simply walking, but climbing up and down, which invisibly increases the difficulty of sports.

In addition, Japanese people focus on work in their lives. They are under great pressure and busy at ordinary times. The average sleep time of office workers in Tokyo is only five and a half hours, and they are often too busy to eat, so it is reasonable to be thin.

Government legislation and company regulations

As early as April 2008, the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare officially presided over the "National Waist Slimming Plan" and promulgated regulations: local governments and enterprises must strictly check the waist circumference of employees aged 40-75 every year: the waist circumference of men should not exceed 33.5 inches (85 cm) and that of women should not exceed 35.4 inches (90 cm). This figure is the same as the upper waist circumference limit issued by the International Diabetes Federation in 2005 to identify whether there is a health risk.

The Japanese government not only legislates to regulate the waistlines of office workers, but also sets the goal of a nationwide "waist reduction" campaign: reducing the overweight population by 10% in four years and14 in seven years, which is completed by the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. In order to promote the realization of the goal, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare first started with educating the people and popularizing the word "metabolic syndrome" so that more people can know the harm of "metabo" (the pronunciation of "metabolic syndrome" in Japanese).

"Losing weight is not a personal matter, but an important matter related to the company's life and death"-this is an advertising slogan of the Japanese economic and industrial sector to promote the health of employees. In March last year, the Japanese authorities, together with Tokyo Securities Company, selected 22 "healthy listed companies".

Japanese magazine published an article introducing several companies on the list, all of which are willing to invest in employee health. And many companies have made various efforts and come up with some strange tricks.

There is a Japanese company that sells office supplies. In order to let employees consume calories at work, some high desks are set up to let employees stand for two hours every day. It is understood that this "penalty station" office method has been implemented for six weeks, and the waist circumference of employees has decreased by an average of 0.8 cm.

As early as 2004, Ruote, a century-old pharmaceutical factory, made its own employee health plan. Now, it not only has a canteen for employees, but also promotes a health care plan called "Healthy Hundred Days". It is reported that under this plan, employees have successfully lost weight, and 80% of their waistlines have been reduced by one centimeter.

Another game company stipulates that employees can get a gift certificate of 5,000 yen for every kilogram they are overweight. As a result, a 3 1 year-old software engineer lost 13 kg after accepting the challenge and won a bonus of 65,000 yen.

The boss of the company said, "employees are the biggest assets of the company, and whether the company can develop and grow depends entirely on their efforts." Design software works in front of the computer all day. If the company doesn't have a set of health care laws to urge employees to do more exercise, I'm afraid it will be a group of sick people in the future. "