I am from Nagoya, Japan and I could say the food in Japan is much expensive in price in little amount of food. That is one of the reason I think the obesity rate here is very low.
Japanese men and women ranked second in the world in average life expectancy in 2016 after setting new longevity records for a fifth year straight, according to the welfare ministry data.
According to the data released Thursday by the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry, Japan’s men climbed to second from fourth with an average life expectancy of 80.98 years, up 0.23 year, while Japan’s women retained second place with a life expectancy of 87.14 years, up 0.15 year from 2015.
There is a lot of super cheap high carbohydrate foods available in the United States, easy for people to fill up on.