The Independent, once a fine publication but now reduced to quoting other papers, wrote:Japanese women's healthy diet is the key to a long life, study suggests
Forget fad diets and Hollywood celebrity endorsements: Japanese women could hold the dietary key to a long and healthy life.
A new study has indicated the benefits of a diet rich in raw fish, vegetables and green tea, with Japanese females having the highest life expectancy of women in selected countries, living for an average of 86.4 years.
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Crag Wilcox, a leading gerontologist, told The Times that the Japanese diet is full of disease-fighting foods.
He said: “They eat threes servings of fish a week, on average. Plenty of whole grains, vegetables and soy products too, more tofu and more konbu seaweed than anyone else in the world, as well as squid and octopus, which are rich in taurine – that could lower cholesterol and blood pressure.”
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