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It’s come to light that Jimon Teramon (63) of Dachou Club developed urinary tract (kidney) stones, revealed by Yohei Hibara, the junior member of the comedy duo Mama Tart. According to Hibara, who made a surprise appearance on “Shimofuri Myojo’s All Night Nippon” in the early hours of October 9, the cause was the 5 liters of green juice (aojiru, a leafy-vegetable health drink) Teramon drank without fail every single day. That works out to roughly four truckloads’ worth of vegetables a day. On 5ch, this sparked discussion split between skepticism that the amount was exaggerated and nutritional points noting that even excessive vegetable intake can cause kidney stones.
Tue, Oct 13, 10:37 AM
Yohei Hibara (35) of the comedy duo Mama Tart — finalists in the “M-1 Grand Prix” for two years running — made an emergency surprise appearance on Nippon Broadcasting’s “Shimofuri Myojo’s All Night Nippon” (Fridays, 1 a.m.), which aired late on the 9th. He told a legendary tale about Dachou Club’s Jimon Teramon (63).
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Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
vegetables actually aren't that necessary
No way lol
Don't ignore basic nutritional science
There's gotta be a limit though
Meat's for work — day to day he's mostly into Japanese cuisine
If anything that'd wreck his kidneys lol
I've never had one in my life and figured I never would, but…
Nature Boy Jimon, always ahead of his time
vegetables contain trace amounts of toxins too,
which is exactly why a lot of them are too bitter to eat on their own
Got hooked on it, grew and ate tons of it every year, and three years later I got a stone and went through absolute hell.
Too much oxalic acid, huh
According to Ken Watabe of An Jash, Jimon is "without question the person who eats the best food in all of showbiz."
Watabe had originally figured, "Sure, Jimon's a foodie, but that's probably just about meat — the rest can't be that impressive." But then he noticed that no matter what famous restaurant he visited — Italian, French, sushi, anything — "Jimon-san had always already been there," and "no matter which route you take to a top restaurant, you always run into Jimon-san."
Whenever he finds a delicious sweet, he'll track down the factory using the address printed on the box and go ask them directly how it's made. He's boarded fishing boats to learn about tuna, and traveled to Yunnan, China to study rice cultivation. Every November he spends three weeks in Italy just to eat white truffles.
He's particular about rice too. When he's out in mountain villages in Niigata or the Tohoku region hunting for giant stag beetles, he'll check out the terraced rice paddies, and if he spots a field that looks like it's growing great rice, he'll wait around for the farmer and negotiate to buy some directly.
The suffering was on another level.
In the end he actually passed out from the pain —
I thought he'd died lol
To judge the flavor of rice that hasn't even ripened yet, he doesn't just check the rice ears and the layout of sunlight and irrigation channels — he actually tastes the soil itself.
The rice he picked out this way turned out, by coincidence, to be the same rice used by a top-tier restaurant he regularly frequents, and it had also taken first place at a certain rice competition. He's deeply versed in sushi too — he's been saving his New Year's money since elementary school to visit famous Ginza sushi restaurants.[10]
It hurt so bad I seriously thought, "just cut my back open and operate, forget the anesthesia"
Background and Key Points of the Debate
One of the main causes of urinary tract (kidney) stones is oxalic acid, and it’s medically well established that continuing to consume large amounts of green juice made from leafy greens like spinach can make stones more likely to form. The thread split between suspicion that the “5 liters” figure was an exaggerated “uso-matsu”-style tall tale, and debate over the legitimate nutritional point that even excessive vegetable intake can cause stones — with back-and-forth between posters who prioritize salt and protein and those defending green juice. Jimon Teramon is a comedian well known for his obsessive devotion to food on gourmet TV shows, and this revelation has largely been taken as “a very Jimon-like story.” This article omits posts that are purely insulting or that mock Jimon’s character without relating to the main topic.
※This article is compiled as an excerpt and summary of the 5ch (Geisuno Sokuhou+) thread “Jimon Teramon, 63, Has Kidney Stones — Cause: 5 Liters of Green Juice Daily → Equivalent to 4 Truckloads of Vegetables a Day, Junior Comedian Reveals.”
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