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Breakthrough Dieting Technology Puts Virtual Nutritionist In Your Smartphone
You’re on a diet, and you’re watching calories like a hawk. You check every label at the supermarket and stay away from fast food, but what do you do at restaurants that don’t offer detailed...
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Japanese Netizens are Disgusted by American School Lunches: “I’m glad I was...
“School lunch” and “healthy”; these two things don’t always go together. Despite numerous doctors and scientists stressing the importance of properly fueling the growing bodies of young children,...
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Japanese Woman Claims to Have Cured Husband’s Cancer through His Diet
Tomoko Wakasugi (Grandma Wakasugi) is a prolific writer on the shokuyo style of eating. Shokuyo is a lifestyle similar to a macrobiotic diet in which only all natural grains and plants are prepared...
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Manga encourages kids to eat healthy
Study shows that manga can be used to promote good eating habits. There’s an unwritten rule that seeing food in anime makes seem even more appealing than it would in real life. Now it seems that there...
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“Let them eat furikake!” says Mayor Hashimoto as Osaka school lunch saga...
He’s known for his outspoken and often controversial opinions, from saying that civil servants who have tattoos should resign, to denying the forcible recruitment of South Korean “comfort women”...
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A lemon has infinite vitamin C: unofficial joint study of Soft Drink...
For some reason Japanese people love them some excessive amounts of vitamin C. Go to any convenience store or supermarket and your sure to find competing brands of drinks all loaded with the...
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Don’t forget to eat your special sports fish sausage if you’re exercising in...
Why settle for protein bar flavors like chocolate or peanut butter when you can enjoy the performance-boosting nutritional goodness of compacted fish paste? Nutrition and exercise are both pillars of...
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Japanese man invented an app that visualizes how much sugar is in a drink,...
The app isn’t even available yet, but people are clamoring to get it! These days there are all kinds of information about how to stay healthy out there, but one thing that people seem to agree about,...
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Cup Noodle’s Nissin releases ultra-nutritious instant ramen with “all...
Instant ramen for breakfast, lunch, and dinner will take care of all your vitamin, mineral, and protein requirements, company says. Over the years, Cup Noodle maker Nissin has gotten very, very good...
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It’s OK to eat ramen every day, says Japanese doctor…as long as it’s not one...
Doctor gives opinion on how to slot a daily bowl of ramen into a healthy diet. Flavorful and filling, ramen seems like the perfect example of an edible guilty pleasure. It’s the sort of thing we want...
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New Japanese rice cooker cuts carbohydrates at the push of a button
Now you can lose weight just by eating rice. There are many ways to cook rice, but here in Japan, most households rely on the ease and convenience of a rice cooker to prepare the everyday staple with...
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McDonald’s Japan updates children’s Happy Meals to be more inspiring and...
January 8 heralds a new era of health-conscious menu options and educational freebies. While McDonald’s has never been especially associated with healthy eating, the restaurant chain is famous for...
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You need this instant Japanese curry rice if you hate cooking but want to eat...
This instant cup curry rice is blessed by the gods! Sometimes when we’re busy, broke, or just plain tired, getting enough nutrition is challenging. It’s hard to find healthy, ready-made or easy-cook...
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Super sweet office romance manga produced by Japan Agriculture about the...
Business woman Toko and her subordinate Sato-kun are getting sweet with each other. This month, shojo manga artist Tony Hashime debuted a new series, Tekitou na Koi. It stars Toko, a young...
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Study of blood tests in Tokyo finds 98% as having vitamin D deficiencies
D up, everyone! One of the great things about living in Japan is enjoying the country’s traditional cuisine, rich in nutritional foods. However, the other day as I was walking out of Starbucks I...
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McDonald’s Japan reminds everyone that French fries are vegetables to...
Well, they’re not wrong. Japan has a lot of quasi-holidays, and one of them is Vegetable Day. It’s observed on August 31, or 8-31, because the numbers 8, 3, and 1 can be read in Japanese as ya, sa,...
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