We have a difference of opinion on just what these people eat.

Before we throw up our hands and decide that no conclusions can be made
about diet and health in China, let us turn our attention to the mixed
peoples of Okinawa, situated equidistant from Hong Kong and Tokyo. The
average lifespan for women in Okinawa is 84 (compared to 79 in American),
and the island boasts a disproportionately large number of centenarians.
Okinawans have low levels of chronic illness–osteoporosis, cancer,
diabetes, atherosclerosis and stroke–compared to America, China and Japan,
which allows them to continue to work, even in advanced years. In spite of
Okinawa’s horrific role in World War II, as the site of one of the
bloodiest battles of the Pacific, Okinawa is a breezy, pleasant place,
neither crowded nor polluted, with a strong sense of family and community
and where the local people produce much of what they consume.

And what do Okinawans eat? The main meat of the diet is pork, and not the
lean cuts only. Okinawan cuisine, according to gerontologist Kazuhiko
Taira, “is very healthy–and very, very greasy,” in a 1996 article that
appeared in Health Magazine.19 And the whole pig is eaten–everything from
“tails to nails.” Local menus offer boiled pigs feet, entrail soup and
shredded ears. Pork is cooked in a mixture of soy sauce, ginger, kelp and
small amounts of sugar, then sliced and chopped up for stir fry dishes.
Okinawans eat about 100 grams of meat per day–compared to 70 in Japan and
just over 20 in China–and at least an equal amount of fish, for a total of
about 200 grams per day, compared to 280 grams per person per day of meat
and fish in America. Lard–not vegetable oil–is used in cooking.

Okinawans also eat plenty of fibrous root crops such as taro and sweet
potatoes. They consume rice and noodles, but not as the main component of
the diet. They eat a variety of vegetables such as carrots, white radish,
cabbage and greens, both fresh and pickled. Bland tofu is part of the diet,
consumed in traditional ways, but on the whole Okinawan cuisine is spicy.
Pork dishes are flavored with a mixture of ginger and brown sugar, with
chili oil and with “the wicked bite of bitter melon.”

Weston Price did not study the peoples of Okinawa, but had he done so, he
would have found one more example to support his conclusions–that whole
foods, including sufficient animal foods with their fat–are needed for
good health and long life, even in the Orient. In fact, the Okinawan
example demonstrates the fallacy of today’s politically correct
message–that we should emulate the peoples of China by reducing animal
products and eating more grains; rather, the Chinese would benefit by
adding more strengthening animal foods to their daily fare.

19. Deborah Franklyn, “Take a Lesson from the People of Okinawa,” Health,
September 1996, pp 57-63

The diet of Man today is much different than that of ancient Man.
As a whole, we eat much more meat than did ancient Man, and we eat
different parts of the animal.

Virtually all meat we eat is striated muscle tissue, the type of
muscle in the arms or legs which does the running and heavy lifting.
But there are three types of muscle: striated, smooth, and cardiac.
Most people eat _no_ smooth or cardiac muscle in their diet.

Ancient Man ate not only all three types of muscle, but organ meats and
skin as well. Eating only striated muscle might make sense for an
athelete like a runner or weight lifter, but for the average person
this is a diet far different from that of your ancient ancestors.

In addition to eating whole animal meat, it is also important to
eat mature animal meat. Virtually all meat sold in supermarkets is
from young animals, only a year or two old. It costs too much money
to keep the animals alive until maturity. The flesh of these young
animals is packed with the hormones and enzymes of young growing
animals, which is great if you’re going to feed it to children,
but can be highly stressful to feed to an adult. Too many people
continue the eating habits they learned as children into adulthood,
where it causes many of the problems associated with middle-age.

But there is one meat which combines all three types of muscle tissue
plus various organs and is made from mature animals, retired dairy
cattle which have already given birth and produced life-giving milk.
This meat is bologna (pronounced ba-LO-ney), and is widely available
at fine delicatessens and meat markets.

Unfortunately, there is a conspiracy among the big drug companies
to suppress this information. They know they would be put out of
business tomorrow if everybody were eating bologna for health.

Just in posting this to the net, I’m taking a chance that they might
send out a hit man to kill me. So you’d better save a copy of this
file because you might never see it again!