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DietsAroundTheWorld.com is your essential guide to popular diets from around the world. Right this second you can take advantage of different tastes that are guaranteed to keep you healthy and satisfy your taste buds.
Our dedicated research team has been busy scouring the globe for the world's healthiest, tastiest and wackiest dishes. You can benefit from learning about cuisine from other countries for the following ways:
- Say goodbye to dieting books! You will learn the benefits of a healthy diet simply by better understanding different approaches to cook and use ingredients;
- Spice things up! Many foreign dishes use much less salt and additives than Western cuisine; expand your palette by discovering delicious herbs and spices;
- Impress your friends! Almost everyone loves eating food and talking about food, so imagine how interesting your eating experiences will be once you have tried culinary delights across five continents?
Be honest: how healthy is your lifestyle? Does your traditional diet consist of microwave meals, fried food and sugary snacks? When was the last time you ate a salad?
If the answers to these questions is 'no', then you're certainly not alone.
It's an accepted fact that the developed world, in which people enjoy a higher standard of living where food is cheap and plentiful, is going through an obesity crisis. The statistics do not lie: one in four American adults is obese whilst two in three people are either overweight or obese! The problem is only slightly less serious in the UK where around one in five adults is obese.
But please don't assume that we are larger purely because we are richer - the problem is as much cultural as it is economic!
For example, Japan is the second richest country in the world, yet only a tiny amount (3%) of its population are obese. Mexico is a relatively poor nation, yet its rate of obesity is only just less than the USA at 24%!
Perhaps we could improve our diets by looking at other countries traditional diets that help to keep their people slim, and altering ours accordingly.
This website looks at some traditional diets from around the world, and their health benefits.