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[Information on boosting immunity] Why traditional Japanese food suits Japanese people ②
[Immune power up information] Recently, the new coronavirus has taken the world by storm. In this corner, you can find information on how to build a body that can withstand corona, We will introduce excerpts from past musubi magazines and books published by Seishoku Publishing. The second installment is from the September XNUMX issue of Musubi magazine, with the theme of "why traditional Japanese food suits Japanese people." This is an interview article with Masako Okuda. (XNUMX times in total)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ―On the other hand, what are the disadvantages of the Japanese constitution?
Cons Men tend to have visceral fat around their stomach This is only for men, but there are times when fat around the stomach (visceral fat) tends to accumulate. Belly fat not only looks bad, but it secretes very bad substances and causes lifestyle-related diseases. Blood pressure rises, blood sugar levels rise, arteriosclerosis progresses, and it has the effect of causing blood to clot in the blood vessels, so if clots form in the blood vessels of the brain, it will lead to cerebral infarction. Surprisingly, however, Caucasians in the United States have a hard time gaining visceral fat. At first glance, Americans tend to notice that they have a very good physique, but if you take a CT scan and look at the body in slices, there is some visceral fat, but a considerable portion is subcutaneous fat. Subcutaneous fat secretes only a small amount of bad substances, so it is less likely to lead to lifestyle-related diseases and is relatively safe. In recent health checkups, we measure the circumference of the abdomen to see how much visceral fat has accumulated. In Japan, the waist circumference standard is85It's centimeters, but in America it's about XNUMX centimeters. waist circumference85The amount of visceral fat on a centimeter Japanese person is the same as that of a XNUMX centimeter American person.Japanese men tend to accumulate visceral fat.
Difficult to break down alcohol, lactose, and caffeine It also has the characteristic of being weak against alcohol. Alcohol is a poison for the body.Alcohol is broken down in the liver, but about half of the people in East Asia, including the Japanese, have a low ability to break down alcohol. On the other hand, there are basically no Caucasian or African people with weak decomposing ability.You can easily disassemble it. Japanese people can drink more and more when they drink in company relationships, but the extent to which they can drink and the damage caused by alcohol are different. Even if the person intends to enjoy drinking, the poison of alcohol spreads throughout the body, not only damaging the liver but also increasing the number of cancers. In particular, the risk of colorectal cancer, liver cancer, and esophageal cancer increases, but data shows that drinking alcohol increases the incidence of all cancers that occur anywhere in the body. On the other hand, Caucasians can decompose alcohol quickly, so alcohol-related cancers are said to account for only XNUMX% of all cancers.People in Europe and the United States believe that alcohol is unlikely to cause cancer.
Dairy products can cause allergies ―In addition to alcohol, many Japanese people are lactose intolerant, unable to break down the lactose contained in milk, etc., and I hear that their ability to break down caffeine is low.
Yes, that too. I think it's because I haven't taken it much until now, but there are a lot of people who are sensitive to caffeine and can't break down lactose. If you drink it to some extent, you will gradually be able to drink it, but it is probably a burden on your intestines.
- Some people say that dairy products are one of the causes of allergies.
It is possible. I think that some people find that dairy products such as milk and yogurt are suitable for them, but not all of them are like that. It means that there are some people who take the product.
XNUMXrd highest rate of stomach cancer in the world The third is that East Asia, including Japan, has the highest number of gastric cancers in the world.In terms of incidence rate, South Korea ranks first, Mongolia ranks second, Japan ranks third, and China ranks fifth.East Asia is said to have a seven-fold higher incidence than North America. In addition to the problem of Helicobacter pylori, many people seem to have a gene that makes them prone to stomach cancer.In addition, it is thought that the fact that salt intake tended to increase in the past also has an effect.
These are the good points and bad points of the Japanese constitution.
Why does traditional Japanese food suit Japanese people to ③? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Masako Okuda Physician, medical examiner.medical doctor.He graduated from Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine.Over the past XNUMX years, he has provided medical checkups and medical examinations for XNUMX people at a large-scale health checkup center, and has also translated medical literature and books.His books include “Japanese constitution so different from Westerners” (Kodansha Bluebacks), “It is scary to miss the “B judgment” of health check” (Seishun Shinsho Intelligence).
