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Traditional Japanese meal with several small dishes arranged on a serving tray

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Why Did Traditional Japanese Diets Emphasize Variety and Small Portions?

Traditional Japanese diets combined rice with vegetables, fish, soy foods, seaweeds, fermented products and many small side dishes. Cohort evidence links Japanese-style dietary patterns with lower cardiovascular mortality, but high…

Traditional Greek Mediterranean dishes including legumes, bread, tomato salad and cheese

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Why Did Mediterranean Communities Eat the Way They Did?

The Mediterranean diet emerged from ecology, agriculture, scarcity, religion and cuisine—not from a single ancient health prescription. Modern evidence, including the reanalysed PREDIMED trial and prospective cohorts, supports cardiovascular benefits…

Assorted dried grains, lentils and pulses arranged in containers

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Why Did Traditional Diets Depend on Staple-and-Pulse Combinations?

Grain–pulse pairings such as rice and dal, maize and beans, or bread and lentils recur because they combine affordable staple energy with protein, fibre and complementary amino-acid profiles. The nutritional…