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Japanese EDSers what does Tamaji look like?
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Thu Jul 13, 2006 8:54 am      Reply with quote
I was just over on another board reading a discussion about HA and they were talking about this famous Japanese village, Yuzurihara where the 80+ natives don't have wrinkles, don't need glasses and have healthy joints. I never heard of this before, though I understand it's well known in the US.

So I've been off on the web reading. It's put down to the total diet containing many elements, but there's this particular vegetable which they eat instead of rice called Tamaji which is said to play a major part in maintaining younger levels of HA in their bodies.

Of course I want to immediately eat heaps of Tamaji and I reckon there's a chance they'd have this here in China. Maybe I've seen it, but I don't know what it looks like and I can't find a photo of it.

Can anyone locate an online photo for me or tell me the Chinese name, if there is one?

Help me! I need Tamaji now Laughing
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Thu Jul 13, 2006 10:22 am      Reply with quote
Ah, Yuzurihara that is on the way to my Dh hometown (oh how nice to live in this little town). Another nearby village famous for its oldies is Uenohara

Anyway, tamaji is a small kind of sweet potato..

Um, on the second last row of photos on this page, Tamaji is the most right dish (little round potato) http://www.muji.net/new/select/set.html

in this one, it is the round things in the top-left bowl. http://www.city.uenohara.yamanashi.jp/kanko/leisure/cyojyu.cfm

You can read more about Yuzurihara here http://www.knowledgeofhealth.com/pdfs/yuzurihara.pdf

You might also want to read up on Dr. Weil's studies on Okinawa (he has written a diet book as well on the subject)

http://www.drweilselfhealing.com/print_friendly.asp?iDocumentID=404&iBDC=4848

http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/courses/psych527ageless/student2005/amn34/results.htm

Late edit to add another link for you, Molly:
http://www.wonder-okinawa.jp/026/e/long.html

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Thu Jul 13, 2006 11:46 am      Reply with quote
very good to know, i need to get me some then, but i don't know about giving up rice entirely.
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Fri Jul 14, 2006 12:05 am      Reply with quote
Tiger_Tim...you are truely fantastic! Is there anything you don't know / can't find out??? Very Happy

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Fri Jul 14, 2006 6:41 am      Reply with quote
Thanks for all the info Tiger Tim, I'm still digesting it.

I think I might have cooked some of these little critters before. If so they're damn difficult to deal with. I wonder if I can find some pre-peeled, frozen Tamaji in the supermarket. Smile
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Fri Jul 14, 2006 6:51 am      Reply with quote
Embarassed thanks, Ruth.

Molly, I tried to find an English or Chinese name, but couldn't (it wasn't in my Dictionary of Japanese Food ). I also asked DH if he knew what Tamaji were and he was like "huh?". Laughing

I hear though that they are hard to find even in Japan.

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Fri Jul 14, 2006 6:56 am      Reply with quote
Thanks TT. To be honest I think you'd have to eat an awful lot of roots to get the HA effect and it's not that appealing. Interesting thought though.
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