In recent years, the Japanese diet has undergone substantial changes, so much so that obesity has become a problem even in the Rising Sun.
The reason is the new Western eating habits that have reduced the longevity of the Japanese, increasing not only their waistline, but also the cardiovascular risk.

THE JAPANESE DIET 1975: THOSE WHO HAVE DONE IT ARE AGED LESS AND LOSE MORE

To test the effects of the diet on longevity and overweight, a group of researchers put the Japanese on a diet according to the diets of 4 different decades: the diet as it was in 1975, the diet of 1960, that of 1990 and that of 2005. .

The Japanese involved in the study followed the menus for 28 days: those following the 1975 Japanese diet not only lost weight, but their cholesterol levels dropped, inflammation decreased, they lost more fat mass and they reduced. blood sugar. After 24 and 48 months, those who followed the 1975 Japanese diet showed sharper longevity parameters, showing that they aged less, as if the biological clock had stopped.
Scientists did something more: they published the menu that the participants followed.
D as a diet translates it into a preview.
On this first page you will see the menu used by the researchers, on page two there are tips to adapt it to our needs without betraying both the choice of foods and the quality.

THE JAPANESE DIET 1975: THE MENU DEVELOPED BY SCIENTISTS.

Rules.

1. Food is not fried. Everything is steamed, boiled or stewed. Some foods can be barely grilled. Other foods are eaten raw.
2. Each main meal consists of three or four small plates. Snacks are not consumed.
3. As you will see, the diet is very different from ours. However, there are some things we can take inspiration from, and which I will point out to you on page two.
   So if even at first glance you will certainly turn up your nose and think that it is not really a suitable diet for us, on page two you will discover how some indications are very easy to translate into a diet more within our reach.

Japanese Diet Menu 1975.
Monday.

• Breakfast . Rice with seared salmon. Natto, miso soup with Chinese cabbage and bean sprouts.
• Lunch. Rice noodles with slices of tofu, fruit.
• Dinner. Rice, meat and potato stew, canned seaweed, cabbage soup with an egg.

Tuesday

• Breakfast. Raisin bread, omelette, sautéed cabbage with bits of sausage, fruit.
• Lunch. Stir-fried rice, wakame seaweed soup.
• Dinner. Rice, chicken and root stew. Miso soup with spinach and sliced ​​fried tofu. 

Wednesday

• Breakfast. Rice, herring, mustard leaf soup with clams and beans, miso soup with eggplant.
• Lunch. Stir-fried noodles, jelly with fruit.
• Dinner. Rice, cream stew, Chinese cabbage stew with shrimp, cucumber salad. 

Thursday

• Breakfast. Toast, two slices of bacon with an egg, fruit and yogurt.
• Lunch. Steamed rice with sweet potatoes, tofu, miso soup with pork and vegetables.
• Dinner. Rice, fermented herring, vegetables with soy, Chinese cabbage soup and wakame. 

Friday

• Breakfast. Rice, Japanese omelette with natto, miso soup with cabbage and sliced ​​tofu, fruit.
• Lunch. Chicken and egg stew, canned roots, vegetables stewed in mirin sauce.
• Dinner. Rice, herring, miso soup with tofu and vegetables, pumpkin and spinach soup. 

Saturday

• Breakfast. Toast, fruit, milk, broccoli and tuna platter.
• Lunch. Rice, sautéed aubergines with free-range chicken, seaweed garnish.
• Dinner. Rice, baked plaice, okra, rooted miso soup. 

Sunday

• Breakfast. Rice, clam and cauliflower soup, natto, miso soup.
• Lunch. Broth, a sandwich, fruit.
• Dinner. Rice, sashimi, coleslaw with fermented fish, white soup with tofu.
  On page two, the useful indications of the 1975 Japanese diet that we can use too, and an example plan that can be very useful for losing weight