Why do people fall for the "Japanese food is healthy" meme?

Why do people fall for the "Japanese food is healthy" meme?

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Do they?

>mfw japanese gf

Because Yanks's food is terrible

citation needed

>Americans calling other countries' food unhealthy

>le america is le world
I have literally never heard of this meme on this side of the Atlantic

wtf is that

Sushi is pretty healthy though, good balance of macros, nice fats.

Because it is healthy

They literally only eat fish, rice and vegetables.

>Sushi
>Japanese food
Its Norwegian food

Fish and vegetables are healthy
The rice may be unhealthy, though. Potatoes are healthier.
But eating more fish is a good thing to learn from Japan. And less meat.

Japanese cuisine is pretty mediocre to be honest. Sushi is just raw fish on rice. The fact that sushi has become the epitome of Japanese cuisine and is considered haute cuisine is laughable because it was just a cheap street food 100 years ago. Sushi doesn't even have a long history. Ancient sushi was just rotten fish. Modern sushi started in Osaka in the 19th century. And salmon sushi was concocted by the Norwegians in the 70s. Tuna sushi wasn't even a thing until the 1960s.

chicken, a pig, a cow eat well, too.
but a basic arrangement of a Japanese meal, consisting of one kind of soup and three side dishes

It's because they don't stuff themselves and their portions are tiny

It doesn't mean it's full of every nutrients you can think of or something like that

Moderation is what japanese food means

>good balance of macros

It's mostly rice.

I eat all you can eat sushi a lot though and I eat a lot when I do

>He's never eaten ramen

A bowl of ramen has more sodium and cholesterol than 5 big macs

ramen is the feel good food and i have had it, a chinese import to japan no less
ever been to a korean restaurant where you get this meal with small bowls on a tray, it's like that
buffet is a swedish invention

i got the quotes backwards, w.e

>german
>cuisine

Nobody thinks this at all. Don't be ridiculous.

Healthier than american food.

The composition of 'ichiju-sansai' that has three dishes (one main dish + two side dishes) is also well known.

this looks almost identical to korean food, except swap out the two testicles on the bottom left with kimchi

Koreans also make miso soup?

>well known

Never heard of it till now.

there's a soup that looks identical to that but tastes different, called denjang or something

because it is healthy

which country's food would you call healthy then OP?

A school meal is a meal consisting of soup, three side dishes and rice in Japan, too.
It is education to be called food education.

Why is that a big deal? What's the big fucking deal about getting the same number of side dishes with every meal?

>Dictates how you eat
Weird japs

nutritional balance

Why is everything on bowls? Are plates banned there?

Please don't look at me suspiciously.

>he thinks we eat this

Balance my fucking ass. How is it balanced when one day the main dish might be a fat slab of Tonkatsu (unhealthy), and on another day it might be broiled fish (healthier).

>ramen is the feel good food
it's the only food i can afford
doesnt feel good man

There is not the rule in particular.

>Why is everything on bowls?
Something about Ancient Tradition and something about Japanese Philosophy and something about how it represents Nature.

bowls are easier to make and spill less

It will be that there should be vegetables and soup there

Lol the amerifats arguing about food.

So?

It is always the diet pepsi that gets me when I see a fat on a diet.

It means that burger and cola are enough(・∀・)

obesity rate

List by the World Health Organization
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy

Actually japanese food is not the healthiest. The biggest health issue with Japanese cuisine may be that it's centered around refined carbohydates, in the form of white rice, noodles made white flour, and bread - most of the bread consumed in Japan is as white as snow. Some people think soba noodles are healthier than other types of noodles, and while buckwheat (soba) may have some beneficial qualities, most of the soba you can get, especially the dried kind, contains a lot of white wheat flour (buckwheat on its own is pretty hard to form into thin noodles).

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I copied this from a forum and found the original link for it OP. Everything you want to know is here. The reasons you want to here are too many and too complex to just write into a single post. justhungry.com/whats-so-healthy-about-japanese-food

Japanese food doesn't avoid getting fat, but most japanese know how to eat reasonably and their food isn't contaminated with addictive substances.

What?

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I think it means you got butchered in association to his arguments.

I gained weight in Japan when I stayed there a month , even with like 10kg walking a day
it was really easy too
I ate out a lot

Why is this a thread?
You can find lean meals there if you try