Hey guys/girls!
This is my first post here and I've just started reading about the RP diet but I'll cut to the chase. What strikes me the most in almost all modern diets is their hate towards grains - are they really that bad? I mean go and look at life expectancies: Japan, a country in which you eat rice *all* the time, sometimes 3-4 times a day, has the highest life expectancy! Furthermore soy and products made out of soy (natto - fermented soy beans) and beans are at the core of their diet. So are fish, all sorts of fish! Salmon, mackerel you name it they eat it all the time! Dairy? Most Japanese people are lactose intolerant - dairy consumption is one of the lowest in the world (don't quote me on this, I'm just saying this based on my 2 years of living there) and hasn't been wide spread since maybe a few decades ago.
What I'm getting at is - are there any materials trying to analyze such diets against RP diet? Why might they work etc.? I mean the Japanese diet (I mean the more traditional one, not the post WW2/current one) seems like a direct opposite to RP's diet (maybe excluding seafood) yet they have both an extremely high LE *and* they are in really good shape (damn I wish I was in as good condition as many 50-70yo here).
This is my first post here and I've just started reading about the RP diet but I'll cut to the chase. What strikes me the most in almost all modern diets is their hate towards grains - are they really that bad? I mean go and look at life expectancies: Japan, a country in which you eat rice *all* the time, sometimes 3-4 times a day, has the highest life expectancy! Furthermore soy and products made out of soy (natto - fermented soy beans) and beans are at the core of their diet. So are fish, all sorts of fish! Salmon, mackerel you name it they eat it all the time! Dairy? Most Japanese people are lactose intolerant - dairy consumption is one of the lowest in the world (don't quote me on this, I'm just saying this based on my 2 years of living there) and hasn't been wide spread since maybe a few decades ago.
What I'm getting at is - are there any materials trying to analyze such diets against RP diet? Why might they work etc.? I mean the Japanese diet (I mean the more traditional one, not the post WW2/current one) seems like a direct opposite to RP's diet (maybe excluding seafood) yet they have both an extremely high LE *and* they are in really good shape (damn I wish I was in as good condition as many 50-70yo here).