The Diet Of The Japanese

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This section is from the book "Food In Health And Disease", by Nathan S. Davis. See also: Food Is Your Best Medicine.

The Diet Of The Japanese

The diet of the Japanese has been carefully-studied by competent men of that country. Beef, mutton, pork and their products are scarcely eaten and were not at all until very recently, but fish is eaten by all who can afford it. The laborers in the country, however, do not average a meal of fish oftener than twice a month. They are vegetarians because they cannot afford meat and fish. They derive the protein which they need from cereals, beans and vegetables. Rice, barley and soy-beans are the staple articles of food of all classes. Wheat, millet, buckwheat and vegetables are also eaten but in smaller quantities. Fish is the staple meat, though poultry and eggs are eaten in small amounts and other meats in insignificant quantities.

The quantity of food elements eaten by different classes corresponds closely with the ideal standard advocated by Chittenden.

	Protein	Calories
Miscellaneous classes...	59 grams	2,190
Rural laborer...	59 grams	2,700
Average of 24 studies....	62 grams	2,445

These figures do not make plain all the peculiarities of the diet of the Japanese for as compared with our own and that of Europeans it is deficient in fat. The dietary studies show that on the average 20 grams of fat are eaten daily by those on a mixed diet and about 10 grams by those on a vegetable diet, which is from a sixth to a thirteenth of the amount consumed by Americans and Europeans. Moreover, the carbohydrates in the diet of the Japanese are derived in very large part from cereals, on the average 87 per cent., and in the diet of Americans only about 55 per cent, have the same origin.

A digest of the Japanese Investigations on the nutrition of man by Kintamo Oshima has been published by the United States Department of Agriculture in which the peculiar foods of this people, their composition and nutritive value, are fully described.

Illustrative Dietaries (Numbers From Atwater)

Dietaries.	Proteins.						(Quantities
NEGROES NEAR TUSKEGEE	20	40	60	80	100	120	140	160
NEGROES NEAR TUSKEGEE
No. 137, fanner	31
No. 132, farmer..	26
No. 141, farmer	33
No. 100, farmer, summer	44
No. 130, farmer, winter	35
No. 105, farm manager	49
No. 136, farmer	49
No. 102, sawmill laborer, summer	59
No. 131, sawmill laborer, winter	58
No. 135, farmer.	54
No. 101, farmer	71
No. 140, plantation hand.	52
No. 138, farmer	52
No. 99, farmer	92
No. 98, farmer.	97
No. 133, farmer - woman	77
No. 134, farmer	86
No,139,farmer	80
No. 104,cotton plantation laborer.	99
No. 103, cotton plantation laborer	93
Average of all	62
POOR PEOPLE, UNITED STATES.
25 families in poorest part of Philadelphia:
Smallest dietary, negro ..............................	66
Largest dietary, German.................................	202
Average	109
26 families in poorest part of Chicago:
Smallest dietary...............................	86
Largest dietary............................	168
Average . .. .	119
PEOPLE IN MORE COMFORTABLE CIRCUMSTANCES,UNITED STATES.
PEOPLE IN MORE COMFORTABLE CIRCUMSTANCES,UNITED STATES.
Farmer, Connecticut ....................	79
Farmer, Connecticut .....................	104
Average 5 dietaries, farmers in Connecticut....................	92
Carpenters, Connecticut....................	105
Tinner, Indiana.......................	90
Boarding house,well-paid machinists,etc.,Connecticut.	103
Mechanic, Tennessee .......................	110
Average 9 dietaries of mechanics, etc ......................	105

In Actual Use. And Wood And Others.)

in Grams.)		Fats.	Carbo-hydrates	Calories
180	200			450	900	1350	1800	2250	2700	3150	3600	4050	4500	4950	5400

		27	304	1625
		83	225	1800
		99	214	1935
		57	372	2240
		60	389	2295
		138	255	2535
		119	362	2790
		85	429	2790
		11s	390	2932
		S5	458	2890
		126	432	3230
		182	324	3235
		120	467	3245
		124	425	3270
		148	558	4060
		131	649	4195
		141	627	4235
		269	518	4955
		252	666	5400
		283	649	5400
		132	436	3270


		68	181	1630
		206	608	5235
		108	435	3235

		100	213	2195
		204	626	4950
		141	398	3425


		117	354	2865
		156	494	3900
		114	483	3420
		136	362	31S5
		134	408	32S5
		152	401	3490
		210	412	4090
		152	420	3570

Illustrative Dietaries

Dietaries.	Proteins.						(Quantities
PEOPLE IN MORE COMFORTABLE CIRCUMSTANCES, united states - continued.	20	40	60	80	100	120	140	160

Boarding house, Lowell, Mass., boarders operatives in cotton mills
	132
Average 20 dietaries of people at active exercise, mechanics, etc., in Massachusetts and Connecticut
	154
professional men.
Average of 9 dietaries	104
COLLEGE STUDENTS' BOARDING CLUBS, UNITED STATES.
Average of 15 dietaries	108
POOR PEOPLE 8CANTILT NOURISHED. EUROPEAN.
Working people, Saxony, average 13 dietaries	69
Mechanics, laborers, beggars, etc.,-
Naples, Italy, average 5 dietaries	76
Farm laborer, Saxony, food mainly vegetable	80
Farm laborer, Prussia, food mainly vegetable	83
PEOPLE IN MORE COMFORTABLE CIRCUMSTANCES. AT MODERATE WORK. EUROPEAN.
Bavaria, average 11 dietaries of carpenters, coopers, and locksmiths
	122
Peasants near Moscow	129
Average 5 dietaries of farm laborers, Bavaria	137
Average 6 dietaries of mechanics,etc.,soutkern Sweden	134
Peasant farm laborer, Italy	118
PEOPLE AT ACTIVE EXERCISE, EUROPEAN.
Average 5 dietaries of machinists,etc,southern Sweden.	189
Farm laborers, Austria, diet, corn meal and beans	159
Javanese in Java village World's Fair, Chicago	66
United States Army rations	120
DIETARY STANDARDS.
European:
Woman at moderate work	92
Man at moderate work..	118
Man at hard work	145
American:
"Woman with light muscular exercise	90
Woman with moderate muscular work	100
Man without muscular work	100
Man with light muscular work	112
Man with moderate muscular work	125
Man with hard muscular work	150	■

(Continued).

in Grams.)		Fats.	Carbo-hydrates	Calories.
180	200			450	900	1350	1800	2250	2700	3150	3000	4050	4500	4950	5400


		200	594	4650

		227	626	5275

		122	428	3315

		148	460	3700

		45	384	2275

		38	396	2290
		37	504	2740
		17	373	2845


		34	570	3150
		33	589	3250
		55	542	3295
		79	523	3435
		65	628	3665

		110	714	4725
		62	977	5235
		19	254	1490
		161	454	3S50

		44	400	2425
		56	500	3055
		100	450	3370
				2400
				2700
				2700
				3000
				3500
				4500

Dietaries	Proteins
WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE	20	40	60	80	100	120	140	160
WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE
Patients,old,quiet	88
Acute,disturbed	84
Negroes, non-workers	90
Bedridden	97
Curable	104
Employees	92
NEW YORK HOSPITAL FOR INSANE
Chronic infirm	72
Light workers	73
Disturbed	9.3
Workers	105
Acute	65
Employees and officers	95
BOSTON
Teacher and students-	93
Women-	94
Women	79
Women	118
Women	94
Harvard students	75
PHILADELPHIA
Colored	107
Italian	114
Jews, German.Russian, Roumanian	120
Germans	130
Americans	83
Irish	135
CHICAGO
American	117
Germnn descent	109
Irish descent	161
German	125
Irish	131
English	189
Hungarian	146
Bohemian	106
Scotch	112
CHINESE AND OTHER ASIATICS IN U.S.
Professional man and family	115
Laundry Association	135
Employees on Truck Farm.	144
Malay professional man	73
Java village, World's Fair	66

Dietaries

		Fats.	Carbo-hydrates	Calories
180	200			450	900	1350	1800	2250	2700	3150	3600	4050	4500	4950	5400

		105	370	2767
		97	350	2599
		73	348	2402
		106	297	2519
		125	347	2917
		106	368	2783

		65	348	2259
		65	346	2255
		81	391	2685
		93	415	2908
		86	363	2477
		146	376	3186

		156	349	3156
		131	289	2700
		91	259	2183
		115	390	3057
		127	317	2776
		78	312	2243

		121	374	3001
		116	368	2968
		69	496	3086
		101	565	3676
		71	474	2861
		129	537	3S36

		151	452	3623
		119	393	3070
		153	910	5647
		161	405	3552
		154	441	3660
		198	454	1335
		201	622	4860
		89	394	2792
		127	325	2878

		113	289	2705
		76	566	3580
		95	640	4100
		30	472	2512
		19	254	1490

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