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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]First it was "Europe," but alas -- UK, AND Spain, AND Italy didn't play along with the preconception. Neither did Kuwait, on the other thread.

But I think you've got a winner with Japan! Can we agree to do what Japan does for children, and what has been shown in the research on their success to be key?

You all are up for higher taxes so we can get *good* meals into the schools with healthy ingredients for every kid? (Spoiler alert: Japan has had this model since the 1800s.)[/quote]

Yes, totally agree on Japanese food. It's real food and they make it there and traditionally the kids serve and clean up.

But for those who said Japanese women eat small portions, not in my experience of living there for several years, including with two host families. They ate a lot. But it was all fresh, extremely seafood-centric, and usually included soup and vegetables at each meal. And they ate virtually no sugar outside of a small amount in sauces. No dessert. They'd drink tea after dinner and maybe have some fruit. Occasionally they might have dessert but it was Japanese-style, which are not super-sweet and typically made from special bean pastes or glutinous rice, not sugar, chocolate, etc. Even more rarely they might buy a Western-style dessert or eat one at a special cafe, but even those were far less sweet than we have here, and usually included some kind of jello so they were really voluminous but light. I hated them actually, they tasted totally wrong to me. I absolutely loved Japanese cuisine though, and between my host mothers' excellent and fresh cooking and all the biking I did to get around, I ate amazing food in large portions and lost weight. [/quote]

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