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Are you interested in natural food, organic lifestyle, or macrobiotic diet? If so, this is a book for you. It has the most recent information on traditional Japanese dietary culture.If you want to be healthy, the optimal way is to model the best of the best in the field. Who are the healthiest people on the planet then? Well, Japan is considered to be the country with the longest life expectancy, and it is featured in many books including The Blue Zones and Ikigai. It is also famous for macrobiotic diet.Who are the healthiest people in Japan then?The young generation has lost in touch with the traditional Japanese diet so they can’t be the one. The old generation can be the one since they follow the traditional diet and many of the centenarians who appear in the longevity books belong to this category. And yet, can they really be our role model? They lived in a different era, and their methodology may not be applicable in the present period: They don’t necessarily lead a healthy lifestyle anymore since our way of food production has changed. Nonetheless, they haven’t adapted themselves to the current agricultural situation. In that case, who could we learn from?What if there is a group of people who have inherited the nohow in the traditional lifestyle and adapted themselves to practice it in the present environment? There is a growing population of people who are conscious of their health in Japan. They eat radiation free organic food, macrobiotic food, fermented food, and many of them live in the countryside to lead sustainable ways of living. They grow rice and vegetables using organic farming, natural farming, and permaculture. They are the people who practice the Japanese natural way of living in the present circumstance and, therefore, are the healthiest people in Japan, according to the author. Ikigai Diet he is introducing in this book is the diet of these natura