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Japanese guidelines highlight the benefits of following the local dietary culture, avoiding food waste, and adopting suitable culinary practices and storage methods.

Back in the 1950s, the Seven Countries Study, led by Ancel Keys, aiming to chart the incidence of CHD among seven countries (US, Japan, Italy, Greece, the Netherlands, Finland, Yugoslavia), underlined the effectiveness of the traditional Japanese diet in reducing CHD risk, as the Asian cohort demonstrated the lowest CHD incidence. The researchers from the Seven Countries Study concluded that the Asian diet was most effective in lowering CHD rates, although compared to the Greek cohort, Japanese showed more strokes due to the high sodium intake in Japan and higher stomach cancer rates due to traditional food preservation methods. Nevertheless, several studies have documented the beneficial role of specific dietary components of the Asian diet on various health outcomes.