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[quote=Anonymous]LOL, as someone who lived in Japan and is married to a Vietnamese man, so many people think Japanese people eat only sushi and Vietnamese people eat only pho.  :lol:

Vietnamese = LOTS of added sugar, salt, MSG, white rice, rice noodles, and fatty meats (like pork). Extremely poor people in Vietnam are very lean thanks to poverty requiring them to eat a lot of low-quality veggies and taro, etc, but many, many Vietnamese people now suffer from type II diabetes because of their diet. Person who said that Vietnamese people eat a lot of raw veggies...WHAAAAT? Vn people add lots of raw herbs to stuff, but veggies are ALWAYS COOKED -- you don't mess around with raw veggies in a developing country (and the culture is such that cooked food is considered wholesome, raw or cold food, not so good).

Japanese = Japanese people do not eat sushi often. It's a party food, you guys. The traditional meal is white rice, miso, protein (fish, etc) and pickles (which is still high in sodium and too many fast carbs), but lots of people eat ramen, packaged foods and convenience foods (a huge scourge in Japan) as well as fried food for many meals. Not a lot of veggies most of the time besides the required pickles. Snacks for kids are just horrendous (think dried fried ramen and chemical-laden tummies). Just because there are currently 100-year-old Japanese people doesn't mean the current generation with their current eating habits will live that long.

My vote is for the Mediterranean Diet. Lots of scientific evidence that it's the healthiest diet by far. Seems like there's a new report out on it every day, for example: http://health.usnews.com/health-news/health-wellness/articles/2014/05/21/the-secret-to-the-mediterranean-diets-benefits[/quote]

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