1. Popularization of non-calorie drinks

What people who travel in Japan for a short time may not notice is that the popularity of non-calorie drinks in Japan is much higher than that in China. In supermarkets and convenience stores, you can easily buy a variety of non-calorie tea drinks, cola, coffee and non-alcoholic beer-flavored drinks.

Students who have a certain understanding of the causes of obesity will know that sugary drinks and junk food (high trans fatty acids) are the two major culprits leading to obesity. In China, in most supermarkets and convenience stores, the option of sugar-free drinks will hardly enter everyone's field of vision. However, a bottle of 5 ml sugary beverage that is portable in retail often contains about 25 calories, and it hardly affects the subsequent dietary intake, resulting in excessive calorie intake.

2. Control of primary school students' meals

In Japan, primary schools and even some middle schools implement lunch rationing. The menu for lunch is matched by specially certified nutritionists. And for the diet that leaves school, the school will also educate and guide parents to prevent students from eating too much calories, sugar and oil. This has led to a very low obesity rate among Japanese children. And more importantly, it helps most children develop good eating habits in their teens. You know, obesity in adolescence will greatly affect obesity later.

3. Table culture different from that of China

When it comes to dinner, the Japanese also love dinner. However, it is different from the culture in some parts of China where the dishes on the table can't be bottomed out in order to show the enthusiasm of the host. When the bottom is bottomed out, the host doesn't treat them well and keeps urging them to eat (well-known "Why don't you eat? Eat more delicious food"). In Japan, dinner is often served according to the head count (Japanese name: コース cuisine), and everyone chats at dinner. This has led to the fact that there are very few cases of overeating in Japanese dinners, and virtually a lot of calories are consumed less.

4. The culture of eating less

is different from the culture of "eating more is a blessing" and "children should be fat in vain to be cute", which may be formed by China, which has a vast territory and abundant resources. Perhaps poverty and lack of resources since ancient times have made Japanese people eat less. Eat less and eat more not because you don't want to eat, but because you can't eat. According to hearsay, a strong local leader in Japan during the Warring States period made a big wish to eat tofu every day after unifying Japan. From this legend, we can see how scarce the resources in Japan are.

However, the culture of eating less formed after the habit of eating less is undoubtedly one of the reasons for the low obesity rate in Japan. Some China girls studying in Japan often lament why some Japanese brothers in the canteen can put their lunches into lunch boxes that are not much bigger than chopsticks boxes, and only eat so much at noon, which makes women who cry for losing weight every day feel embarrassed.

5. Low-oil diet

Under this question, there is an answer that Japanese people admire the part with the highest fat content on A-5 beef and tuna with high fat content, and it is inferred from this that the Japanese diet is actually not low in fat.

in fact, the opposite is true. Obesity is a habitual disease. A girl of 8 kg went to eat Kobe beef today, and she won't change 18 kg tomorrow. As for A-5 beef priced at 5, yen (equivalent to 3 RMB) per 1 grams, it is obviously impossible to eat it every day. If there are local tyrants or rich women who eat every day, let's be friends.

Therefore, discussing the causes of obesity depends on the daily eating habits, and the recommended eating style is often the opposite of the daily eating habits. It is precisely because you can't eat it at ordinary times that it will be rare when you rarely eat it.

Japanese people usually eat rice balls, fish, chicken, beef, vegetables, bean products, udon noodles and buckwheat noodles. Although there are fried pork chops, tempura and other fried foods, the main tone of food is light food with less oil.

Of course, on the other hand, most Japanese people's enthusiasm for carbohydrates is really unimaginable in China. For example, the fried noodles bread, the combination of carbohydrate and carbohydrate in Lamian Noodles and Baja jiaozi is estimated that only Japanese can do it in the world. This is one of the reasons why diabetes has become a national disease in Japan.

6. Inertia caused by the body shape of the people around you

This sounds a bit metaphysical, but it is real.

Imagine that most people around you of the same age are skinny. In such an environment, it is highly probable that you and your friends will think that this thin figure is "normal". Then you will unconsciously move closer to that body shape.

If your peers or elders around you are instilling in you the concepts that "middle-aged fatness is the embodiment of happiness", "children should be fat in vain", "boys should not be too thin and unmanly" and "girls should be blessed with a little meat on their faces", and you will naturally feel that what they are saying is "normal". Take a bite of potato chips and chips. Your figure will be closer to them.

7. An environment suitable for exercise

This is my personal experience when I successfully lost weight in Japan.

In most cities in Japan, good air quality, reasonable residential planning and clean streets give ordinary people a good running and fitness environment. During my years in Japan, the roads I have traveled include, but are not limited to, two kilometers of hydrophilic platforms by the river, five kilometers of ports by the sea, and eight kilometers of sidewalks around the Imperial Palace. And there will always be other morning runners on these roads.