How to acquire 'food literacy' to survive healthily in Japan, a 'processed food superpower'? Part 2

I keep rewatching the videos by Tsukasa Abe, a former top salesman for additives.

Tsukasa Abe's webinar (limited release until February 5th)
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This is a continuation of the previous article.

The title of the book published in 2005, 'The Backside of Food,' contains...

'Let's look at the backside of food!'

'This is what the backside of the industry is like'

It seems he included these two meanings.

Additivesinclude some that are carcinogenic, and they also mess up your sense of taste, so it is certainly better to avoid them as much as possible💦

A 500ml carbonated drink contains 50g of sugar—that's half a cup of sugar!😱

Processed foods like cup ramen contain 8.9g of salt (refined salt) and 24.6g of fat, and the fact that they can be eaten in a flash is also a problem...

Something that takes only about 10 minutes to eat takes a mother about an hour to make by hand.

This inefficient production leads to the feeling of gratitude where 'children say thank you to their mothers.'

The three problems with additives are...

'Health damage such as carcinogenicity'
'Overconsumption due to sensory paralysis'
'Devaluation of food'

The thoughts of Mr. Abe, who established the Processed Food Diagnostician Association

'What we must protect is children's health, sense of taste, values, family bonds, and Japanese culture'

Adults can choose their food, but children cannot😓

Having seen various nursery schools, Mr. Abe has witnessed firsthand how children change through their diet.

He says that if you make them properly say 'itadakimasu' and 'gochisousama,' their manners improve and they become able to listen quietly to adults🍀

Takatori Nursery School in my hometown of Fukuoka, based on the philosophy that 'food is life,' has been incorporating traditional Japanese meals centered on miso soup, natto, brown rice, and seasonal vegetables since it opened in 1968, raising many children to be healthy.

Children running barefoot in the schoolyard, riding around on stilts, and shining brightly 👦

Their story was even made into a film called 'Itadakimasu' in 2017.

Actually, I watched this film at an event called 'Omusubi Marche' in Fukuoka during my temporary return to Japan in 2020 📹

The organizer of this marche was 'Omusubi Nursery School' 🍙

They provide safe and secure, additive-free, natural-food-centered meals cooked on-site 👏

It is a wonderful nursery school that aims for children to be able to make rice balls by themselves by the time they graduate, while learning about the environment where food grows, growing and cooking vegetables, and engaging in traditional Japanese seasonal activities like making miso and pickled plums ✨

I would have loved to work at a nursery school like this once 🤣 (I am a former nursery teacher)

For lunch, I bought Hatsume Sato's rice balls and a hearty bowl of miso soup 🍙

Hatsume Sato is someone I admire ✨

In the end, she passed away to the other side before I could ever meet her 😭

And at this venue, I met Fujiko-san of 'Fujiko Bacon' 🥓

The additive-free bacon made by Fujiko-san, a mother of five, is exquisite 👏

Once you eat it, you'll be hooked 🤭

To be continued...

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