On Sunday, July 18, 2004, at 05:17 AM, mark wilson wrote:

> COMPONENTS OF A JAPANESE DIET
>
> The Japanese diet has always contained rice as its
> primary source of
> calories and carbohydrate. In 1950, the average
> Japanese diet was very low
> in fat (9%), high in carbohydrate (79%), and moderate
> in protein (13%), with
> an average caloric intake of 2,098 Calories (Kagawa).
> A

Another point to remember is that the japanese were considered a very
short-lived people prior to the war. It was only after the war, and
with the introduction of western foods such as milk and wheat!! that
life spans reached western levels.

I read a lot of BS about the Japanese diet. To me, it looks high fat,
high protein, lots of meat and fish.