Okinawa is a Japanese island with a very interesting peculiarity: its population is the longest in the world .
And it is the longest-lived because the most widespread pathologies (cancer, heart problems, osteoporosis ...) have a prevalence much lower than the international average.
People get very little sick, so they get older and live longer. The overweight in Okinawa is so rare that it is "a curiosity", the authors write.
What is the secret of this magic? The answer seems to be hidden in the dishes of the inhabitants of Okinawa, in their habits, in their way of facing life.
The Okinawa diet, why read it
Reading " The Okinawa Diet. To be fit, to live longer " comes the desire to leave immediately for Okinawa, described as an immensely happy island inhabited by people bursting with health. But above all, you want to pay more attention to what you bring to the table . In fact, we often eat badly simply because we do not know enough about the foods we choose and perhaps we do not even ask ourselves the problem.
In Okinawa they are all thin and look younger than they are; this is probably because they are, if we believe that the biological age can be different from the age.
The Okinawa diet is a useful book because it provides a lot of information on diet and healthy life, exposed in a simple and affordable way; it makes us reflect on the importance of a correct lifestyle, on the need to control our own body weight and above all on the food errors that we commonly commit; nutrition is an important fact to think about, even if too often, unfortunately, we eat what happens without thinking much about it.
Food is the best medicine, we all know it, don't we? So why don't we take care of it enough and prefer to bite a sandwich in front of the PC?
The Okinawa diet
The Okinawa model is not one of the many bizarre diets that arise like mushrooms. It is a healthy food style, from which we could all take inspiration to improve nutrition, perhaps adapting it to the seasonal products offered by our land or simply to our tastes.
There is no need to take it literally, but it is useful to grasp its profound meaning and apply it to one's everyday life.
Weight loss by eating is possible and the Okinawa diet gives us some useful information on how to do it.
The book offers many practical tips and information on the nutritional characteristics of a whole range of foods and the preferred cooking methods.
Read this book and you will find that eating well and being fit is above all a question of good habits and common sense .
The Okinawa diet also contains fifty recipes for eating like the longest and healthiest men in the world . To prepare some, you will have to look for ingredients that are not exactly common in Italy, but for others it will be sufficient to go to the shops that you usually visit.
Okinawa is not that far away; a healthy and balanced diet is also possible using local and seasonal products, varying and learning to get to know them well, to integrate them in their diet in an optimal manner.
