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“The Japanese must be doing something right in the way they eat, given that they live longer on average than people form any other nation.”

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“In Japan, food filters into every aspect of the culture.”

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“Almost the only places in the world that have lower obesity averages than Japan are countries such as Ethiopia or North Korea where there is widespread hunger and food itself is scarce.”

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“There are signs that the Japanese themselves consider their excellent cuisine as an essential part of what it means to be Japanese.”

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“With our own personal diets, we often convince ourselves that there is something vital within us that prevents us from ever eating differently.”

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“There is a deep resistance to the idea of dietary change, at both a cultural and an individual level. And yet, you accept the premise that eating is a learned behaviour, it follows that changing eating habits must be - if not likely and certainly not easy - at least possible.”

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“Umami is the savoury meatiness in seaweed and miso and soy sauce. It is, to a large extent, the concept that enables Japanese cuisine to be healthy and attractive at the same time.”

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“The concept of “delicious” was born in Japan in 1908 when a chemist called Ikeda discovered a “fifth taste” called umami that was neither bitter nor salty nor sweet nor sour but something more wonderful and compelling than any of these.”

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“Soldiers, like footballers, are famously resistant to new foods.”

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“Japan shows the extent to which food habits evolve.”

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“Flavour principles change. Diets change. And the people eating these diets also change.”

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