We all know that from ancient times to the present, longevity has been a topic that our people talked about. Shoubi Nanshan, long-lived one hundred years old, these congratulatory messages we often use during festivals, I believe every friend will often hear them during festivals.
No comment, longevity is also the common pursuit of all mankind. Governments, scientists, medical experts, scholars, etc. of all countries are committed to improving their own medical conditions and health management policies to ensure the health of their nationals and realize their longer lives. The beautiful long-cherished wish.
There is such a miraculous country by our side. It has won the reputation of the world's longest-lived country for more than 20 consecutive years. Its longevity secret has been tracked and analyzed in detail by the world's multinational health organizations. Different from other sparsely populated longevity countries, it is a small land. The land area is only one-fifth of our country, equivalent to the size of my country's Yunnan Province, but its population has reached 130 million. Much.
Yes, it is Japan, the longest-lived country on this planet.
Only need a few simple sets of figures to compare, we can discover Japan's proud achievements in the field of "longevity". The average life expectancy of Japanese citizens has reached 83.7 years, which is 1-2 years higher than that of European countries, and 5-10 years higher than my country’s. As of 2019, Japanese centenarians have exceeded 70,000. Our country has only 60,000. The other set of statistics is more worthy of all the friends in our group. Japan is also a country with a very high survival rate of underlying diseases. For example, the 5-year survival rate of Japanese cancer population is as high as 66.4%. After years of hard work, my country has only reached 40.5%. The 10-year survival rate of Japanese cancer population is still as high as 57.2%, far exceeding the 5-year survival rate of Chinese cancer population.
This is indeed worthy of our thinking and reflection. What is the secret of longevity in Japan, and which ones apply to us Chinese, to us patients with chronic diseases and cancer patients?
Food is the heaven for the people, and the same is true for the Japanese. Like Mediterranean food culture, Japanese food culture has long been a role model for various countries. Even if it is a country composed of islands, the native natural resources are extremely scarce, and many resources depend on large amounts of imports, but they are extremely particular about the trivial matter of eating. If we only talk about the degree of deliciousness, it will naturally not be able to compare with our Yangyang Huaxia, but when it comes to reasonable diet, we are willing to bow down.
Japanese people have the following characteristics in diet: ①Eat 80% full; ②Eat more than 30 kinds of ingredients every day; ③Chew slowly to reduce the burden on the stomach; ④Eat light and low-calorie, respect the original taste of the ingredients; ⑤More Eat vegetables, fruits and grains; ⑥ Eat less red meat, and eat more deep-sea fish; ⑦ Eat more seasonal ingredients; ⑧ Enjoy delicious food, not tired of food; ⑨ Indelible edible fungus complex.
Excluding some commonplace topics, let's talk about a few key points in detail.
1. Eat more than 30 kinds of ingredients every day
The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan formulated the "Guidelines for a Healthy Diet" in 1985, advocating people to eat 30 kinds of ingredients (including cooking oil and condiments) as much as possible a day to maintain a very good nutritional balance. Regarding the comprehensiveness of daily intake of basic nutrition, our country has also designed the "Pagoda of Balanced Diet for Chinese Residents", which converts the principle of balanced diet into the weight of various foods, which is convenient for us to implement in daily life, but few people do it.
2. Eat more seasonal ingredients
The Japanese love to eat seasonal ingredients, and we often hear them say "it is the time to eat a certain ingredient" in Japanese film and television works. The Japanese usually choose the ingredients according to the season. They think that only in this way can they taste the purest and most natural taste.
3. The indelible edible fungus complex
The Japanese mushroom is called きのこ, and when Japanese people talk about きのこ, they can immediately cheer up their spirits, especially for Matsutake and Maitake mushrooms. Japanese national media have been reporting on edible fungi, which is a very good health food, called the diamond of the forest. As the world’s largest producer of fungi, my country’s industrialized production of 3.4368 million tons of edible fungi products in 2019, most of which are exported to Japan, South Korea, and European and American countries, all indicate that edible fungi occupy a very important position in the Japanese diet.
In addition to daily eating habits, let’s take a look at Japan’s attitude towards middle-aged and elderly chronic diseases. Through investigations, it is found that Japan has four major policies to protect national health, namely, early screening of chronic diseases, health file management, community doctor services, and reasonable health intervention measures. In this way, they reduce the risk of disease on the one hand, and do When it came time to intervene, we truly insisted on being managed and controlled by someone. With government intervention and advocacy, Japanese people are naturally very keen on the prevention and control of chronic diseases. They love health care products. Like the edible fungi mentioned earlier, their extracts are the health care products that many Japanese people trust.
Another point we cannot ignore is that the vast majority of Japanese people are forced to exercise, and exercise can improve physical function and enhance immunity. There are relatively few open spaces in Japan, so the price of parking spaces is very expensive, which causes most people who go to school or work to choose to walk or ride a bicycle. Because the elevators in subway stations are marked with priority for the disabled, everyone uses the stairs.
Based on the above factors, it is not difficult to find that the secret of longevity of the Japanese is actually to fundamentally solve the basic problem of "how to keep the human body healthy for a long time", that is, "how to make our body face aging Maintain a high level of immunity for a long time"?
We might as well look back,
1. The Japanese attach importance to the comprehensiveness of basic nutritional intake, which provides reasonable and comprehensive nutrients for the synthesis of immune factors. Our Chinese people’s current dietary concepts have generally improved, but they are limited to eating more fruits and vegetables. Control oil and less salt;
2. They attach importance to edible fungi. Long-term consumption of fungal beta glucan improves the expression level and biological activity of the immune system. Although my country is the world's largest producer of mushrooms, we ourselves have ignored the pharmacological effects of mushrooms;
3. Japanese citizens are very attentive to the prevention and control of chronic diseases, and constantly monitor the level of immune activity of their bodies.
4. Although the Japanese are not a country that loves sports, they are forced to walk to ensure the amount of exercise and maintain a high level of immunity.
Obviously, compared with Japan, we still have obvious shortcomings in many aspects, especially in terms of precise and special nutrition intake. The vast majority of Chinese people have not formed consciousness, have not formed a habit, and lacked edible fungi that promote the level of immune system activity. Food Culture. Both belong to East Asia and belong to the yellow race. These high-quality and healthy life concepts are more worthy of reference for our people.
So here, I also hope that our series of courses will allow more friends to develop a balanced diet and good living habits, so as to maintain a high level of autoimmune system activity.
In the next issue, I will focus on the level of immune activity to analyze and explain in detail what is the level of immune activity and what impact it has on our health, so that we can truly know the roots and know ourselves and the enemy.
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