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The way to keep slim is to use chopsticks and small bowl for eating, which is the little secret for Japanese women to maintain slender figure.
Why only can Japanese women keep slim among Asian races? The answer can be found in their diet.
Have you noticed that all the 54 beautiful lawmakers in the new session of the House of Representatives, which hits the record high in the House of Representatives, have slender figure, in addition to bright smile and self-confident performance.
The Survey shows that Japan is one of the worldwide nations with the lowest obesity rates as Japanese women's obesity rate is far lower than that of women in other countries. A year ago, the study, conducted by Doctor Barry Popkin, a nutrition professor from University of North, has pointed out that in China, 25 percent of adults are overweight or obese. The same for the Asian race, why do Japanese women can keep slim who are the same Asian races as Chinese? Look at their daily habit of diet, and then you will find the answer.
Carbohydrates good for weight loss
First, from the point of view of food, Japanese cuisine makes great contribution to the slender figure of Japanese women.
Japanese cuisine contains high percent of carbohydrates. However, in the Western diet, carbohydrates are often seen as the enemy of weight loss. The difference between them lies in the quality of carbohydrates. Japanese cuisine contains high-quality carbohydrates. As less Japanese food is less processed, carbohydrate still retains its natural morphology and nutrient-rich, containing high dietary fiber, which can provide energy for the body needed, promote gastrointestinal motility, and easily make people satiety. Refined rice and flour, sugar and sweet drinks in western diet contains low fiber, so the carbohydrate is easily absorbed, which leads to excess heat and high blood lipids.
In addition, foods with high levels of dietary fiber can also help the body to reduce the intake of calorie and it is an excellent antidote. Traditional Japanese cuisine contains a high proportion of carbohydrates, such as fresh vegetables, buckwheat flour and beans. And Japanese do not use dairy products and add extra fat when cooking carbohydrate foods.
Soybean helps weight loss
Because soybean contains vegetable protein, less cholesterol, rich in soy isoflavones and dietary fiber, which make the skin delicate and figure elegant, while soybean is still a healthy food with low glycemic index as it provides a longer sense of satiety and reduce the fat in the body.
Soybean has been popular in Japan for a long time. In 2006, Japan's new generation of health food – SoyJoy, made by Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. was popular among the Japanese women. Only from 2007 to 2008, SOYJOY has been sold in a total of 120 million sticks in Japan. In this spring, SOYJOY with strawberry flavor became the most favorable snack among young Japanese ladies as it combines the pollution-free natural strawberry and non-genetically modified soybeans.
In the miso soup a kind of unique Japanese cuisine, soybean is a kind of essential ingredient. Soybean is rich in protein which converts into digestible amino acids, and it is a diet food with the role of reducing the intake of calorie, lowering blood pressure and preventing arteriosclerosis. In addition the miso soup contains large amounts of vitamin E, calcium and minerals, of course, such make it become a magic weapon for Japanese women to keep shape.
Small chopsticks are the secret weapon.
In addition to food, the use of chopsticks and small bowls is another secret to help Japanese women keep slim.
"A few years ago, in order to write two books on Japanese cuisine, I began to use chopsticks, and tried all the Japanese dishes by myself mentioned in the books, which is unexpected, my weight get loss of 10 kg and my clothes dropped two sizes." Kichihiko a Japanese writer, who wrote the book of Chopsticks for Diet, said the surprising results at the new book announcement conference.
Traditional Japanese dishes are mainly made from rice, vegetables, fruits, seafood and other raw materials, and eating with chopsticks after cooking. Chopsticks fully embody the two essence of Japanese cuisine as following: What to eat, and how to eat. The use of chopsticks, can slow down our speed of eating, thus will decrease your food intake before you notice. Because in the eating process, even if the stomach has been filled with food, the sense of full will be generated in our brain in 20 minutes; if you eat too fast, we will take excessive food as there is no full felling. Therefore, slow eating has great benefits.
Meanwhile, Japanese cuisine contains foods which are all light in weight. In accordance with the Japanese habit of eating, they will take food for 80% full. Small food intake is not only good for the health, but also in line with the tendency of contemporary global downturn economic situation.
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