IThinkImTurningJapanese
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By using multiple types of sweetener, a manufacturer can have sugar as the majority ingredient even though it isn't listed first on the label.
I've read that even though Japan is a country with a well developed tradition of confectionery, it generally has a lower sugar content than what is found in western sweetened foods and is eaten in moderation.
Bread is a particular pet peave of mine in the US where it is extremely difficult to find good bread. You can walk through tens of meters of aisles in a supermarket and find not one loaf that is good. Just the smell alone is to my nose chemically and disgusting compared with a real old-school bakery. Try to find one loaf that uses organic whole grain (i.e. with wheat germ and bran that contain the nutrients and fiber), no sugar or preservatives of any kind, and less than 5 ingredients. Proper bread should not last longer than one to two days before going stale.
Try to find one loaf that uses organic whole grain
The bread here sucks too.
Ive always read that Japan is one of the longest living and in many ways very healthy.
Like other Petasites species, fuki contains pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PAs) which have been associated with cumulative damage to the liver and tumor formation.[3][4] It also contains the carcinogenic PA petasitenine.[4] The concentration of hepatotoxic PAs can be reduced to a concentration below detection limits with a proper extraction process.[5] Since many alkaloids are bitter, traditional methods of preparation may have evolved to remove them.
But they also are one of the country with most me/ cfs?
I think it may also be a deeper sense of connection than we have over here (except in parts of what's left of the Midwest) to family, to history, to the continuation of ancestor's traditions in one form or another, to a greater understanding of the concept that everything is connected, including that rock, that cloud, this bamboo, this stream, that woman, this butterfly, that man, this mountain, and the ability that can give something inside of us to feel more Oneness and less Self-ness, which is always freeing.
That can't be bad for your health, even if it's just one brief fleeting moment out of all the many other moments of our day.
Don' think I could handle the tsunami's of people and transportation thingys ..... maybe on a little outlying island somewhere ? Somewhere that didn't start relentlessly modernizing in 1945?You should come to Japan.
Somewhere that didn't start relentlessly modernizing in 1945?
Located in a mountainous region that was cut off from the rest of the world for a long period of time, these villages with their Gassho-style houses subsisted on the cultivation of mulberry trees and the rearing of silkworms. The large houses with their steeply pitched thatched roofs are the only examples of their kind in Japan. Despite economic upheavals, the villages of Ogimachi, Ainokura and Suganuma are outstanding examples of a traditional way of life perfectly adapted to the environment and people's social and economic circumstances.
Will you share them with me? Becasue except for those few lacks, this place looks like heaven to me !!!Wow!
Im coming as well !
(As long as I can keep my shower, water toilet, wifi and other necessities )
What a superlative link for an armchair traveler like me ..... I can visit all the places that seem to call to me, and still have running water and a functioning toilet!!