Okinawan Diet: 30% green and yellow vegetables; smaller quantities of rice; the staple was the sweet potato; only 30% of the sugar and 15% of the grains of the average Japanese dietary intake; a relatively small amount of fish (less than half a serving per day) and more in the way of soy and other legumes (6% of total caloric intake); Pork, every part of the pig was eaten, including internal organs (pork was primarily eaten at monthly festivals[4] and the daily diet was mainly plant based); intakes of calcium, Iron and vitamins A, B1, B2, C, and the proportion of energy from proteins and fats were significantly higher in Okinawa; intakes of carbohydrates and salt were lower in Okinawa; the quantity of pork consumption per person a year in Okinawa in 1979 was 7.9 kg (17 lb); Okinawans consumed: less total calories (1785 vs 2068), less polyunsaturated fat (4.8% of calories vs. 8%), less rice (154 grams vs 328g), significantly less wheat, barley and other grains (38 g vs. 153g), less sugars (3g vs. 8g), more legumes (71g vs 55g), significantly less fish (15g vs 62g), significantly less meat and poultry (3g vs 11g), less eggs (1g vs 7 g), less dairy (1g vs 8 g), much much more sweet potatoes (849g vs 66g), less other potatoes (2g vs 47), less fruit (1g vs 44g), and no pickled vegetables (0g vs 42). [4] In short, the Okinawan circa 1950 ate sweet potatoes for 849 grams of the 1262 grams of food that they consumed, which constituted 69% of their total calories.
An Okinawan reaching 100 years of age has typically had a diet consistently averaging about one calorie per gram of food and has a BMI of 20.4 in early adulthood and middle age.
Okinawa Life Supplement: Soy isoflavone (Soy Isoflavones found in high quantities of traditional tofu of Okinawa, called Shima-Tofu, promotes an antioxidant effect that fights free radical damage at the cellular level on the human body.); Zedoary (Zedoary is an herb similar to turmeric. Zedoary in Okinawa Life™ is grown in Miyako island which is one of the beautiful islands of Okinawa.); Goya (Goya is a bitter melon is grown in Okinawa. Goya is also known as bitter melon or momordica charntia.) are key ingredients.
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