Re: Still more about the life expectancy of the retired rikishi

[Doreen Simmons <jz8d-smmn@asahi-net.or.jp>]

At 8:08 +0900 12/10/00, TAKAYAMA Kazuhisa wrote:
>[Quoted from]
>Date:Tue, 10 Oct 2000 09:33:04 +0900
>Subject:Re: Still more about the life expectancy of the retired
>rikishi
>
>>Prewar, too, the sumo diet used to be seasoned with sugar rather than
>>salt,
>Really? I think "with salt rather than sugar". If there was the fact
>you wrote, rikisi wouldn't be able to eat rice very much. I think we
>can't eat sweet food very much.

When sugar is used as a seasoning, the taste is not sweet. If you check 
recipes, you will find that sukiyaki traditionally uses sugar to start off. 
It gives the typical caramel brown.

  >which led to a high incidence of diabetes.

>Mostly the cause of diabetes is Calories more than consumption by
>excercise rather than much sugar, isn't it?

No, it isn't.  The result is obesity, not diabetes.



 
~Doreen in sumoland~

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