Here’s how you can eat your way to a healthy old age

The traditional diet of the Japanese is known to promote good health and longevity. Photo: Filepic

In his youth, he drank lots of beer. In his 40s, he decided to give it up. That was perhaps one of the biggest lifestyle changes made by Prof Takuji Shirasawa, 58, one of Japan’s top specialists in preventive medicine for ageing.

“When I was a doctor doing research work in the laboratory, I drank plenty of beer when writing scientific papers,” says Prof Shirasawa. “I did not smoke then because I was a pulmonary physician.”