Lose Weight with Okinawa Diet

If you follow the Okinawa Diet, you are bound to lose weight.

The Okinawa Diet comprises of eating lots of vegetables, and is basically a nutrient rich low calories diet.

Many commerical vendors have followed the diet of this people and structured diet programmes that replicate the Okinawan's diet closely.

If one follows the lifestyle of these people, you are bound to lose some weight.

Chasoba

Okay, this might or might not be a diet of the Okinawans but I guess they must eat it since it is so popular in so many Japanese restaurants.

This is Chasoba or green tea flavored soba. It is one of my favorite food of all time. It is meant to be eaten cold and dipped into some Japanese soy sauce (with a dash of wasabi). In fact, one can pick up a packet of this chasoba in supermarkets and cook it just the way you cook spaghetti. Except that you have to run it through ice cold water to make it cold and nice. Lovely!

7 Servings of Vegetables

From what I have read, the Japanese in Okinawa eat up to 7 servings of vegetables a day. How is that for a healthy diet? No wonder the older generation of Okinawans have such long lives. Imagine eating 7 servings of vegetables a day. That would roughly be 3 servings for lunch and 4 servings for dinner.

Carrots, cabbage and beansprouts are some of the staple vegetables. And they do not eat it raw like salads. The vegetables are cooked together with other dishes or put in soups.

There are also some vegetables which are not commonly found or eaten in mainland Japan. An example is the Goya (bitter melon):