Japan's high life expectancy linked to diet, study finds

Question 1

a.     False. “The population of the island nation, which has one of the lowest mortality rates in the world, eat diets high in certain carbohydrates, vegetables, fruits as well as fish and meat”

b.    True. “researchers at the National Centre for Global Health and Medicine in Tokyo investigated how following the food guide …….. Such participants were less likely to have cerebrovascular vascular disease: a term used to describe conditions caused by problem with blood supply to the brain. “

c.     True. “The team analysed food and lifestyle questionnaires completed by 36,624 men and 42,920 women.”

d.    False. “Our findings suggest that balanced consumption of energy, grains, vegetables, fruits, meat, fish, eggs, soy products, dairy products, confectionaries, and alcoholic beverages can contribute to longevity by decreasing the risk of death, predominantly from cardiovascular disease, in the Japanese population.” 

Question 2

a.  In 2005 the government in Japan designed a guide for people to follow in order to lead a healthy life. Ten years later they asked the people who had followed the guide lines and found out that they lived longer.

b. According to the text, you can consume all sorts of things provided they are real food, not processed and with a very low percentage of saturated fats.

Question 3

a. Processed / to process

b.  Term

c. Chronic

d. Confectionaries

e.Decreasing / to decrease

Question 4

a. James Dinicolantonio said that we could learn a lot about how to be healthy from the Japanese, and it really came down to “eat real food” and “exercise”.

b.  If your consumption of alcohol were balanced, your risk of death wouldn’t be so high.

c.  Japanese people enjoy a high life expectancy because they have a healthy diet.