Japanese Women Don't Get Old or Fat - by Naomi Moriyama

Secrets of My Mother's Tokyo Kitchen

It's well known that Japanese women have the highest life expectancy (85 years) and the lowest obesity rate in the developed world (3%). Japanese women in their forties still look like they are in their twenties. Wouldn't you want to know their extraordinary secret?

Japanese-born Naomi Moriyama reveals the secret to her own high-energy, successful lifestyle–and the key to the enduring beauty and health of Japanese women–in this exciting new book aptly titled "Japanese Women Don't Get Old or Fat". As a young girl living in Tokyo, Naomi Moriyama grew up in the food utopia of the world, where fresh, simple, wholesome fare is prized as one of the greatest joys of life. She also spent much time basking in that other great center of Japanese food culture: her mother Chizuko's Tokyo kitchen. Now she brings the traditional secrets of her mother's kitchen to you in a book that embodies the perfect marriage of nature and culinary wisdom –Japanese home-style cooking. Naomi Moriyama explains the eye revealing secrets of the kitchen of her mother, Chizuko, in this well-organized, persuasive introduction to a non-Western everyday cooking plan.

So the secret of health and beauty lies in Japanese home cooking. Exquisite and easily prepared home cooked dishes (not complicated sushi or restaurant food), promises an approach to eating that is about celebrating and savouring the experience!

Moriyama reconstructed Chizuko's cooking practices detailing its pantry ingredients, including bonito (fish) flakes and daikon (radish) and tools such as a rice cooker and wok. Most recipes are based on at least one of the "seven pillars"—rice, fish, vegetables, soy, noodles, tea, fruit—and are familiar and easy to make (Shrimp and Vegetable Tempura, Teriyaki Fish, etc.). Cooking tips abound, but what adds a French Women Don't Get Fat angle is the useful eating advice, such as "Eat until you are 80 percent full"(Hara hachi bunme).

If you think you've eaten Japanese food, you haven't tasted anything yet. Japanese home-style cooking isn't just about sushi and raw fish but good, old-fashioned everyday-Japanese-mom's cooking that has stood the test of time–and waistlines–for decades. Reflected in this unique way of cooking are the age-old traditional values of family and the abiding Japanese love of simplicity, nature, and good health. It's the kind of food that millions of Japanese girls like Naomi eat every day to stay healthy, slim, and youthful while pursuing an healthy, energetic, successful, on-the-go lifestyle. Even better, it's fast, it's easy, and you can start with something as simple as introducing brown rice to your diet. You'll begin feeling the benefits that keep Japanese women among the youngest looking in the world after your very next meal.

If you're tired of counting calories, counting carbs, and counting on being disappointed with diets that don't work and don't satisfy, it's time to discover one of the best-kept and most delicious secrets for a healthier, slimmer, and long-living lifestyle. It's time to discover the Japanese fountain of youth by staying slim and healthy like Japanese girls.

JAPANESE WOMEN DON'T GET OLD OR FAT reveals:

How Japanese women maintain a healthy weight
The health and longevity secrets of Japanese women
How Japanese women eat so differently to Western women
How Japanese women are the princesses of the power breakfast
The 7 pillars of Japanese home cooking
How easy it is to start your own Tokyo kitchen; step-by-step
34 easy and fun recipes from Naomi's Mother's Tokyo kitchen
The Samurai Diet, including the brown rice challenge

Japanese society is breaking away from traditional Japanese diet and the result is clearly seen in obese school children who love hamburgers, pizzas and other western fast food items. This is a good evidence that genetics does not play much role in controlling the obesity. So if one follows the principles of Japanese traditional diet, one can live a slim and healthy lifestyle.