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Not only was the book in fabulous condition, but it was wrapped with care and arrived in a timely fashion. I highly recommend this book seller! Japans Dietary Transition and Its Impacts (Food, Health, and the Environment) Despite being a little dry I found this reading captivating. Incredible how Japanese government has been gathering Food consumption information since the 1800s. Most amazingly, they completed the survey soon after the Hiroshima bombing.

It’s fascinating to see how the health, weight, height and overall well being of the Japanese people has changed as they migrated from a agrarian society eating primarily grains, To the impact immigration hard on their food and their health in the early 1900s and ending in the late 1900s with the advent of fast food and beef.

An examination of the transformation of the Japanese diet from subsistence to abundance and an assessment of the consequences for health, longevity, and the environment.In a little than a century, the Japanese diet has undergone a dramatic transformation. In 1900, a plant based, near subsistence diet was prevalent, with virtually no consumption of animal protein. By the beginning of the twenty first century, Japans consumption of meat, fish, and dairy had increased markedly (although it remained below that of high income Western countries). This dietary transition was a key aspect of the modernization that made Japan the worlds second largest economic power by the end of the twentieth century, and it has helped Japan achieve an enviable demographic primacy, with the worlds highest life expectancy and a population that is generally healthier (and thinner) than that of other modern affluent countries. In this book, Vaclav Smil and Kazuhiko Kobayashi examine Japans gradual but profound dietary change and investigate its consequences for health, longevity, and the environment.Smil and Kobayashi point out that the gains in the quality of Japans diet have exacted a price in terms of land use changes, water requirements, and marine resource depletion; and because Japan imports so much of its food, this price is paid globally as well as domestically. The books systematic analysis of these diverse consequences offers the most detailed account of Japans dietary transition available in English. Japans Dietary Transition and Its Impacts (Food, Health, and the Environment)