Why Nobody in Japan Is Overweight
4.9K views · Jul 26, 2026 · People & Blogs
Comments · 9
@jeffrobbins3061 · 1 month ago
Having lived in Japan for 40 years, I was impressed by the range and depth of this video -- although sometimes it generalizes. However, despite the excellent nutritional information, it ignores the one food and the one mineral that gives the Japanese their long lives: the food seaweed and the mineral iodine. Japanese supermarkets have many, many forms of the four major Japanese seaweeds -- nori, wakame, hijiki, and kombu -- and each of these has enormous quantities of iodine. Fish and shellfish have much less iodine, while all land foods contain none of this mineral. Nutritional labels, even in Japan, do not list iodine, and most people have no idea at all of what iodine does in the body. So the following information is extremely valuable. Iodine is the essential ingredient for thyroid hormone; without iodine, there can be no thyroid hormone. Here is a sample of what Wikipedia says about thyoid hormone:<br> "Thyroid hormones act on nearly every cell in the body. They act to increase the basal metabolic rate, affect protein synthesis, help regulate long bone growth (synergy with growth hormone) and neural maturation, Thyroid hormones are essential to proper development and differentiation of all cells of the human body. These hormones also regulate protein, fat, and carbohydrate metabolism, affecting how human cells use energetic compounds. They also stimulate vitamin metabolism."<br> If you can read these words without going out to buy some seaweed, I think you should read them again.
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@MannyEspinola-z3w · 1 month ago
At <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVYB7HzR6PQ&t=378">6:18</a>, a lady (left of screen) can be seen getting on a down-going escalator. WTF?
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@yashdeepsingh9785 · 1 month ago
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@noname-xq6tp · 1 month ago
Western health systems don't give a damn. There the problem.
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@hoss7752 · 1 month ago
Japanese foods are salty !
@barbaraaspengen9810 · 1 month ago
Japan food is more healthy for you don't go American because you will get FAT
@jacquewaiariki-rn4ze · 1 month ago
Why grow old into poverty❓️❓️❓️
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