The diet of people in Japan's longest-lived village

In Okinawa, Japan, there is a world-famous longevity village - Daiyi Village. Among its 3,500 residents, 930 are over 65, 150 over 85 and 46 over 90, making the ratio of the elderly to the long-lived the highest in the world. As we all know, The average life expectancy of Japanese people is the highest in the world, and the average life expectancy of Oi-ami people is the highest in Japan, including 86.1 years for women. In addition to the beautiful environment, pleasant climate, people's love of sports, harmonious interpersonal relationship and spiritual happiness, the most important factor is the reasonable and scientific diet structure.

Eating tofu

People in Dayi Village love to eat tofu, which accounts for more than 40 percent of vegetables in their daily diet. Tofu is made from soy bean, and contains protein, fat, sugar, minerals and vitamins. The protein contains eight essential amino acids that cannot be synthesized by the human body and contains almost no cholesterol.

Diet: Tofu can lower cholesterol and prevent hardening of blood vessels. Tofu is rich in calcium, often eat tofu can effectively supplement calcium, for the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis is very beneficial. Tofu or alkaline food, to maintain the body's acid-base balance is also helpful.

Eat more fruit

Okinawa is rich in fruit. People in Daiyi Village like to eat fruit. Almost every family has fruit, and fruit has become the daily food of people here. Fruit is rich in vitamins, organic acids, sugars, minerals, nutrition is very rich. Potassium salts contained in fruits can prevent hypertension. Some fruit, the organic acid that contains in the place like strawberry, pineapple can prevent the generation of the material such as inferior nitrosamine inside human body, be helpful for preventing cancer. Terpenes, found in citrus fruits, and ellagic acid, found in berries, activate protein molecules in cells, which also help prevent cancer. Often eat fresh pollution-free fruit, greatly beneficial to human health.

Eat more vegetables

Vegetables account for a large proportion in the diet of people in Dayi Village. The island's climate is good enough for many vegetables to grow, and the people of Dayi Can eat fresh organic vegetables almost all year round.

Eating more vegetables is very good for human health. A vegetable is rich in vitamins, inorganic salts and organic acids, but also contains crude fiber and cellulose, can not only meet a variety of nutritional needs of the human body, but also promote the digestion and absorption of food, but also conducive to moistening bowel laxation; Secondly, vegetables are alkaline food, which can be mixed with acidic food such as grain and meat to maintain the acid-base balance of human blood. This is why people should eat more vegetables after eating meat.

Seldom in salt

Table salt does two things for people. It tastes good and it provides two important nutrients, sodium and chlorine. Sodium and chlorine mainly play the role of maintaining acid-base balance and regulating osmotic pressure in human body, chlorine is the main raw material of synthesizing gastric acid. If you eat too little salt for a long time, it will cause hypotension and fatigue, weakness, loss of appetite and other physiological reactions. But eat salt too much is harmful, can cause oedema, hypertension, arteriosclerosis and other diseases. Dayi Village people adhere to a proper low-salt diet for a long time, which has played a positive role in promoting health and longevity.

Hun vegetable collocation

"Vegetarian health" seems to have become a consensus of modern people, but long-term pure vegetarian, will make the human body in charge of food digestion enzyme system function gradually destroyed, resulting in disease. In addition, the human body needs fat, protein, vitamin B12 and cobalt, manganese, iron, copper and other trace elements, vegetarian can not be fully supplied.

Modern dietetics thinks, will plant sex food and animal sex food undertake reasonable collocation, ability satisfies human body in the round to the need of all sorts of nutrition material. Dayi village people pay attention to meat and vegetable collocation, they do not waste meat, and attach great importance to the intake of all kinds of meat (fish) food, which fully ensure the nutritional needs of the body.