{"id":100188,"date":"2019-12-26T15:56:59","date_gmt":"2019-12-26T23:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/7-healthy-foods-japanese-centenarians-eat-each-day-for-longevity"},"modified":"2019-12-26T15:56:59","modified_gmt":"2019-12-26T23:56:59","slug":"7-healthy-foods-japanese-centenarians-eat-each-day-for-longevity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/7-healthy-foods-japanese-centenarians-eat-each-day-for-longevity","title":{"rendered":"7 healthy foods Japanese centenarians eat each day for longevity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OzFL6rA7aGU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Healthy Japanese foods make it easy to create a vibrant plate that resembles a nutritional masterpiece. The residents of Okinawa, a Japanese prefecture comprising more than 150 islands in the East China Sea, enjoy the longest life expectancy in the world, according to <a data-vars-event=\"body text\" data-vars-click-url=\"https:\/\/www.bluezones.com\/2016\/10\/japans-longest-lived-women-hold-key-better-health\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bluezones.com\/2016\/10\/japans-longest-lived-women-hold-key-better-health\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blue Zones<\/a>. On the islands, with a population said to include the largest proportion of people over 100, women and men can expect to live 84 and 90 years, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s no secret that diet plays a major role in longevity. The healthy Japanese foods centenarians in Okinawa reach for each day include a variety of riches from the ocean and the earth.<\/p>\n<p>In Okinawa, bitter melons are called \u201cgoya\u201d and they\u2019re often found in vegetable dishes. \u201cBitter melons have an <a data-vars-event=\"body text\" data-vars-click-url=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC4027280\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC4027280\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018anti-diabetic\u2019 property<\/a> where they actually assist in <a data-vars-event=\"body text\" data-vars-click-url=\"https:\/\/www.wellandgood.com\/good-food\/glycemic-index-foods\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wellandgood.com\/good-food\/glycemic-index-foods\/\">lowering blood glucose levels<\/a>,\u201d says registered dietitian <a data-vars-event=\"body text\" data-vars-click-url=\"https:\/\/melissarifkinnutrition.com\/about\/\" href=\"https:\/\/melissarifkinnutrition.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Melissa Rifkin<\/a>, RD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Healthy Japanese foods make it easy to create a vibrant plate that resembles a nutritional masterpiece. The residents of Okinawa, a Japanese prefecture comprising more than 150 islands in the East China Sea, enjoy the longest life expectancy in the world, according to Blue Zones. On the islands, with a population said to include the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}