One of healthiest and longest living cultures on the planet are Okinawans.
Where do they get the bulk of their calories?
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79% is coming from complex carbs!
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Only 2% from animal products!
If we are after healing and optimal health, we can draw our own conclusions from that.
Breakdown of their daily foods:
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67% of all calories came from sweet potatoes (including young leaves)!
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12% from soaked brown rice
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9% from other vegetables. The most common were bitter melon, okra, daikon, hechima, and konjac
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6% from legumes. Soybeans were the favorite obviously
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3% from other grains. Barley was one of them
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only 2% from fish, meat, eggs and milk! Pork was highly valued for some reason, go figure why
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1% from other foods. Like shiitake mushrooms, burdock, turmeric and green papaya. Plus seaweeds such as kombu, mozuku, wakame (all three are sources of fucoidan, more on it later)
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