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IKIGAI DIET: The Secret of Japanese Diet to Health and Longevity Kindle Edition
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Are you interested in natural food, organic lifestyle, or the macrobiotic diet? If so, this is a book for you. It has the most recent information on traditional Japanese dietary culture.
Japan is considered to be the country with the longest life expectancy, and it is featured in many books, including The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest and Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life. It is also famous for the macrobiotic diet, and Washoku, which has been registered as a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, partly for being a well-balanced diet. The Japanese diet is also known as a gut-friendly-diet, and current studies suggest that the gut is the key to our wellbeing.
Japanese people can be role models of wellness.
However, not all Japanese people are healthy.
The young generation has lost in touch with the traditional Japanese diet so they can’t be the role model. The old generation can be the one since they follow the traditional diet and many of the centenarians who appear in the longevity books belong to this category. And yet, can they really be our role model? They lived in a different era, and their methodology may not be applicable in the present period: They don’t necessarily lead a healthy lifestyle anymore since our way of food production has changed. Nonetheless, they haven’t adapted to the current agricultural situation.
In that case, who could we learn from?
The Ikigai Diet Sachiaki Takamiya is introducing in this book is the diet of the healthiest Japanese people he discovered. You will learn what to eat, what not to eat, and how to eat, based on the secret of the traditional Japanese natural living which is central to most Japanese martial arts; healing arts; Zen; and the macrobiotic diet.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Who Are the Healthiest People in the Country with the Longest Life Expectancy?
Satoyama Living
Chapter 2 Ikigai and Sanpo-Yoshi
What is Sanpo-Yoshi?
Chapter 3 What is the Difference Between Organically Grown Vegetables and Naturally Grown Vegetables?
What are Naturally Grown Ingredients?
Chapter 4 The Secret of the Traditional Japanese Diet Part 1 Why Is Fermented Food Good For You?
Chapter 5 The Secret of the Traditional Japanese Diet Part 2 What Is the Ideal Menue for Health?
Ichibutsu Zentai Shoku
Ma Go Wa Ya Sa Shi I
Dietary Fiber
Ichiju Sansai: One Soup Three Dishes
Shindofuji
Chapter 6 Did You Know There Was Something Better Than Brown Rice Which Was Considered To Be the Most Balanced Food?
Chapter 7 Kyodo Ryori Is the Authentic Washoku
Chapter 8 What Not to Eat
Chapter 9 The Secret of Japanese Longevity Was Not in What We Ate, But How We Ate
Hara Hachibunme
How Many Times Should You Chew?
Is It Bad to Munch Between Meals?
Occasional fasting
Drinking water
Chapter 10 By Adding Hygge to Ikigai Diet, It Will Become More Sustainable
Placebo Effect
Don’t Become Too Dogmatic
Hare and Ke
Bringing Hygge into Ikigai Diet
Vegetarian Gourmet
Zen and the Art of Miso Soup Eating
Contemplation and Appreciation
Conclusion
About the Author
Sachiaki Takamiya is a writer and the founder of the Ikigai Diet. As a writer, he has written many books. His best-known work is a spiritual adventure novel called Tenjo-no-Symphony which was published in Japanese from Kodansha in 2006. In English, he has written books called Zen and a Way of Sustainable Prosperity and IKIGAI BUSINESS.
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateApril 10, 2018
- File size194 KB
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Product details
- ASIN : B07CC3Y9QN
- Publisher : Zen Quest; 1st edition (April 10, 2018)
- Publication date : April 10, 2018
- Language : English
- File size : 194 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 40 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #782,726 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #82 in Macrobiotics
- #172 in Macrobiotic Nutrition
- #484 in One-Hour Health, Fitness & Dieting Short Reads
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About the author

Sachiaki Takamiya is the founder of the Ikigai Diet and Ikigai Bio-Hacking. He developed these two health methods based on centenarians in Japanese blue zones and Shizenha people, Japanese naturalists who live in the countryside leading organic lifestyles. He won the outstanding performance award of the Next Publishing Award in March 2022 with the book, The Ikigai Diet.
In his early 20s, he lived in England, where he studied Shiatsu and macrobiotics at the British School of Shiatsu, studied different kinds of psychotherapies at the Center for Counselling and Psychotherapy Education, and at the School of Hypnosis and Advanced Psychotherapy.
After returning to Japan, he gave workshops on holistic transformation based on his studies of both physical and psychological approaches.
He now lives in a small rural town called Hino town in Shiga Prefecture, one of Japan's longest-lived prefectures. He practices a Satoyama lifestyle there, growing vegetables and making fermented foods. Although he is 60 years old, he has had no problems at medical check-ups so far, and he was diagnosed that his vascular age was 21 years younger.
Newsletter: The Ikigai Diet and Bio-Hacking
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Blog: Ikigai Diet
https://ikigaidiet.com/
Ikigai Bio-Hacking
https://ikigaibiohacking.com
YouTube: the Ikigai Diet channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCITxFTF4x1lgdh0vLKXCCAw
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Sachiaki's advice on taking traditional Japanese concepts and applying them to diet and lifestyle is gold. I hope this book is expanded upon and published.
