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Originally Posted by anime36
I acully heard eastern's are heathyer then us espesily the Japanese and the French with all resept
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I don't know, traditional French cooking uses an ~awful~ lot of butter and cream. On the flip side, the vegetables tend to be better for some reason. I always prefer French tomatoes to British.
Japanese food is pretty healthy, if you eat fairly traditionally; portions are smaller, there's more of a variety of things, foods are more seasonal, less meat and dairy and less sugar. Meat tends to be fresher and firmer; especially chicken. You don't get those awful watery bits of chicken like you do here.
However, the diet is high in salt, which isn't good for you, and like everywhere, there's plenty of junk food to catch you out. If you go to Japan and cram yourself with sugary fizzy drinks, milk coffee and cheap processed food, you're not going to do that much better than you do back home. Honestly it doesn't matter where you live; learn to cook and eat healthily and thats all you'll ever need. The only benefit Japan has is better access to fresh fish, tofu and seaweed, which some places in the west don't have.