Japan has the most centenarians – those 100 years old or more – of any country in the world. Forty-eight in every 100,000 people in the country make it to their century. Nowhere else on Earth really comes close. Numbers like that can cause people in other parts of the world to sit up and pay attention. What is they have that we don’t? Is it something they’re eating?
It’s buzzes like this that gave us such things as the Mediterranean diet. Its popularity outside of the Mediterranean can be traced back to American nutritionist Ancel Keys and his interest in the centenarians of Italy, whose diet was low in animal fat, back in the 1970s. In the 1990s, another nutrition researcher, Walter Willett, mentioned Japan’s unusually long-lived population in a paper, along with its low number of deaths from heart disease.
Since then, numerous research papers have asked whether this longevity be linked to food. And if so, what foods might the rest of us, in hopes of garnering similar lifespans, start adding to our shopping lists?
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The Japanese diet is a fairly broad concept, points out epidemiology researcher Shu Zhang of Japan’s National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology, and it is not and has never been an all-you-can-eat sushi buffet. Still, one recent review of 39 studies probing the connection between Japanese diet and health found a few commonalities emphasised by many papers: seafood, vegetables, soybeans and related productions, like soy sauce, rice, and miso soup.
Indeed, on the whole, the consumption of this kind of diet is linked to fewer deaths from heart problems, Zhang says, although not specific diseases like cancer. Interestingly, it also appears connected to lower rates of mortality overall.
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