Devi Sridhar
👤 PersonAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Yeah.
So, you know, talking about like, you know, people who study, people who make it to 100 and they were saying, oh, they have nothing in common.
And I'm like, but they seem to be a lot of them in Japan.
It's like there's nothing going on there.
And so they're looking at places like Okinawa and I should say it's changing now.
Actually, they are going backwards.
Yeah.
You do see that they follow this dietary rule of eating to 80% full, meaning you don't have to eat.
Think of like Thanksgiving in the States or Christmas here where you just eat to like you feel sick.
Like there it's learning the opposite.
It's learning actually I could eat a bit more, but I'm going to stop because I've had enough.
I'm not hungry, but I'm not like stuffed.
I've tried instituting it since reading about it.
Let's see if you could try it.
And it's hard.
It's really hard to stop.
Because we're so conditioned to finishing your plate, eating till you're like absolutely full to be like, I'm okay.
But also even things like they use sweet potato as a main source of carb.
Which is such a healthy, a healthy aspect, but also the idea of like your body is a temple and that what you eat actually is nutritious and should be like feeding that.
And it's not kind of a garbage dispenser.