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Traditional foods or methods of cooking are not necessarily healthy. If eaten in excess cassava is high glycemic index like other Western starches, and stuff li
by bobthepanda 3y ago
Traditional foods or methods of cooking are not necessarily healthy. If eaten in excess cassava is high glycemic index like other Western starches, and stuff like cooking in animal fats is very unhealthy.
A lot of obesity in developing economies comes from people who have experienced food scarcity overcompensating and overfeeding themselves and their children.
- wyclif 3y ago>A lot of obesity in developing economies comes from people who have experienced food scarcity overcompensating and overfeeding themselves and their children. This is true and easily observable everywhere, even in advertising. I'm in the Philippines at the moment, and there's a trope in Filipino television advertising that includes the "cute, chubby/fat kid." Having a chubby kid signifies to other Filipinos that you are middle class and have enough money and resources to overfeed your child.
- nradov 3y agoThere's nothing necessarily unhealthy about cooking in animal fats.
- bobthepanda 3y agoIn moderation, sure. That being said, to give an example, an excess of lard is linked to increased obesity in Mexico.