Meal-specific dietary patterns and their contribution to overall dietary patterns in the Japanese context: findings from the 2012 National Health and Nutrition Survey, Japan

Japanese dietary habits have long attracted interest from other countries, primarily due to their possible contribution to a low prevalence of coronary artery disease and long life expectancy [1, 2]. Typical characteristics of the Japanese diet include high consumption of refined grains, soybean products, seaweeds, vegetables, fish, and green tea and low consumption of whole grains, nuts, processed meat, and soft drinks [3, 4]. Nevertheless, studying single nutrients or foods in isolation may be inappropriate because such a study cannot inherently take account of the complicated interactions and cumulative effects which occur among individual dietary components [5].
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