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> Chinese are actually eating. Considering how popular street vendors are and crappy restaurants, who have been caught using gutter oil, well, China may not be

> Chinese are actually eating. Considering how popular street vendors are and crappy restaurants, who have been caught using gutter oil, well, China may not be the miraculous country of healthy eaters you think it is. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/10/28/you-may-never-eat-street-food-in-china-again-after-watching-this-video/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/10/28... Fried foods and obesity are huge concerns in China right now: http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2015/feb/12/chinas-body-mass-time-bomb-policymakers-tackling-rising-obesity http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-... Chinese kids are almost as fat as American kids: http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2014/05/29/as-obesity-rises-chinese-kids-are-almost-as-fat-as-americans/ http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2014/05/29/as-obesity-ris... "The country is now No. 2 for obesity, with its number of obese residents outstripped only by the U.S. Its obesity rate has skyrocketed over the last three decades, resulting in 46 million obese Chinese adults and 300 million who are overweight" They have more overweight people than the US has people! >Modern processed food managed to increase our daily calories intake while decreasing the essential nutrients that we need. This sounds like bullshit that falls into the nostalgia of the past fallacy.

giardini 11y ago
"Chinese kids are almost as fat as American kids:" Likely because for centuries Chinese believed that "a fat child is a healthy child". Some children are almost force-fed from infancy to early teens. Often only then does the _child_ realize there is a problem. Encouragement to eat is ubiquitous in the Chinese culture. A "hearty appetite" is always considered a good thing, regardless of age or obesity. It may require two generations to nullify this Chinese traditional belief.

giardini 11y ago

"Chinese kids are almost as fat as American kids:" Likely because for centuries Chinese believed that "a fat child is a healthy child". Some children are almost force-fed from infancy to early teens. Often only then does the _child_ realize there is a problem. Encouragement to eat is ubiquitous in the Chinese culture. A "hearty appetite" is always considered a good thing, regardless of age or obesity. It may require two generations to nullify this Chinese traditional belief.