Diet methods Japanese want to try
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Feeling all bloated after New Year and looking to shed a few kilos? This recent ranking survey from goo Ranking looked at what food-related diets people wanted to try.
Demographics
On the 19th of November 2009 1,166 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 59.9% of the sample were female, 13.4% in their teens, 20.6% in their twenties, 28.2% in their thirties, 23.2% in their forties, 8.3% in their fifties, and 6.3% aged sixty or older.
I’ve not heard of the vast majority of the ones below! Kanten has been popular for a few years, as it has zero calories but a lot of texture, so works well for padding out the volume of food. The morning banana diet has also been big the last couple of years, especially after a rather large opera singer lost a good bit of weight on it – eat one or two or three bananas first thing with warm water, wait half an hour and then have a normal breakfast. Eat your usual food, but if you get peckish during the day, have another banana.
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Ranking result
Q: What food-related diet methods do you want to try? (Sample size=1,166)
Rank Score 1 Kanten (agar-agar) diet 100 2 Yoghurt diet 92.5 3 Morning banana diet 90.6 4 Vinegar, black vinegar diet 71.7 5 Konnyaku (solidified jelly made from the rhizome of devil’s tongue) diet 68.5 6 Cocoa diet 67.7 7 Apple diet 61.0 8 Sprouted brown rice diet 57.9 9= Green tea diet 56.3 9= Food-combining diet 56.3 11 Soy milk cookies diet 54.7 12 Diet foods-based (Slimfast, etc) diet 53.9 13 Soup diet 50.0 14 Grapefruit diet 46.5 15 Ginger tea diet 44.1 16 Evening cabbage diet 43.3 17= Meat diet 42.5 17= Mushroom diet 42.5 19 Kimuchi natto diet 39.0 20 Tomato diet 37.8 21 Protein diet 36.2 22 Morning kiwi fruit diet 34.3 23 Carbonated water diet 33.9 24 Olive oil diet 33.5 25 Low insulin diet 33.1 26 Shredded kombu seaweed (Kjellmaniella gyrata) diet 31.9 27 Black beans diet 31.1 28= Boiled egg diet 26.0 28= Chilli pepper diet 26.0 28= Wakame seaweed (Undaria pinnatifida) diet 26.0
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Meh. I’ve lost 12 kilos simply by eating as much as I want, but mostly washoku, always at set times, and never fast food.
Eating a typical Japanese diet is a great way to stay thin, as anyone can see just by walking around Tokyo. Of course, many traditional diets–those of the Mediterranean or Scandinavian countries for example–are very healthy because they are well-balanced. The only thing someone concerned about their health/weight might want to change about washoku is opting for brown rice instead of white.
Haha, I love fad diets. Or you can also simply calculate how many calories a day you should be eating (these sorts of calculators abound on the net), and simply cut 200-300 calories off the top of that. You can even lose weight eating McD’s and Popeye’s if you like, although it is definitely better for your overall health if you eat lower fat foods.