How come the chinese never get as fat as us english who eat their food??

Question

Theres nearly 500 calories in a little bowl of noodles alone, there food is full of salt and MG, how come the ones i see are always skinny?? So unfair..

Answer 1

Since I am Chinese..I can answer this question quite confidently. The food served in restaurants (whether you're in China, Hong Kong or the U.S.) is COMPLETELY different from what Chinese people eat at home. Home cooking is much lighter, stir-fried only with a small amount of oil with some broth added for moisture to avoid burning. Home cooking is more rustic, light and healthy. We almost NEVER eat what is served in restaurants. Eating out is more of a treat. If I were to serve you "traditional home cooking"...I think you'd be really surprised at how different it is. If we were to eat out like that all the time...we'd be over weight as well!

Answer 2

It's possible eating chinese food will make you fat. The meal you're describing has anywhere from 800 to 1000 calories! Most of the calories come from the friend rice and Mongolian beef. Salad bars are good choices. So is sushi (NOT mayo-crab, because mayo has a lot of fat) and anything you can get steamed, broiled, boiled, or grilled. Avoid anything fried, deep fried, etc. Avoid french and blue cheese dressings, mayonnaise, and, for that matter, any type of cheese. Even though you work out, 800-1000 calories is way too much for one meal. Cut out the friend rice and Mongolian beef and you'll do great. (Sushi has rice in it, anyway.) Hope you find some tasty alternatives!

Answer 3

Not all people of the chinese culture are in fact skinny, however when they eat traditional chinese food they eat very small portions compared to the servings found in the US and Canada. Also much of what you find at a chinese restraunt is not in fact traditional food they eat everyday, they don't eat fried rice, more likely plain rice with no soya sauce and they don't deep fry their food like the stuff you see in restraunts.

Food from China is processed differently than in other countries, Chinese people use less oils in their foods and don't coat things in fatty sauces or grease, the process of the food is totally different in China.

Answer 4

The UK's version of the Chinese traditional meal, has somewhat been played with. The adding of salt, additives, makes them "tastier". But are extremely filling

If you go to china, or any similar countries, like Singapore, you'll find the meal really light, healthy and far more tastier than the UK's version.

It could be also something to do with that maybe Chinese people have a fast metabolism and small bone structure.
You don't see really small people get fat... its not common.

Answer 5

Chinese folks don't eat the stuff they serve us English tribes. Standard Chinese food you find in American and European areas are 'fixed up' for the tastes of those customers. The Chinese themselves traditionally eat a lot less meat and more vegetables and Plain rice. You won't find all the sweet-n-sour saucy **** on a Chinese plate eaten by a Chinese person that you would find on your own. I know that because I've been to China, and I know what they serve, in China, to Chinese customers. Even in American Chinese restaurants, the Chinese owners and worker eat real Chinese fixins. And that's why they stay so thin and healthy.

Answer 6

Chinese Takeaway, use recipes developed by Chinese immigrants to the USA in the early 1880's. Unable to get the ingredients they used at home, they adapted Western foods.

Most of the sauces are made with sugar here, and are thick and gloppy, where as the Original dishes are made with watery sauces.

Also, the amount of processing a food has, means that it is absorbed fast or slowly into t he system. In the UK, most take-away meals have lots of added and processed ingredients, where as the average Chinese diner, eats a lot less meat, smaller portions, and no added sugars.

We also stuff our faces on lots of high protein foods, in-between take-away meals.

Answer 7

Good Chinese food, is prepared and cooked with poly-unsaturated oils. Authentic Chinese food does not require the use of milk-fat ingredients such as cream, butter or cheese. Meat is used, but not in abundance, which makes it easy for those who love authentic Chinese food to avoid high levels of animal fat. Many believe that authentic Chinese food is really the ideal diet.

Answer 8

depends on how much they eat it. if americans eat it all the time, they would not be as fat, but they only eat it occasionally and more mcdonalds. chinese food has alot of veggies and spices in it, which are both really healthy, so it creates a really healthy meal. there is a lot of white rice in it, but white rice isn't as unhealthy as people make it out to be.

you may see alot of calories and msg in the food HERE, but actual chinese food cooked at home or in china is more healthy because there is nothing artificial added to it. so people eating packaged chinese food really don't get the health benifits from homecooked chinese food.

if you really want to eat healthy chinese food, find a recipe in a book or online and make it at home. most chinese resturants also have healthy food. try going to these websites:

http://chinesefood.about.com/
http://www.chinesefood-recipes.com/
http://www.chinesefooddiy.com/

Answer 9

1- Obesity is actualy on the rise in China.

2- The Chinese food we have here is usualy a variation of the traditional Chinese food (ours usualy hase more heavy sauces and faty ingredients)

3- They don't eat that kind of food at every meal. The meals are usuealy much simpler.

Answer 10

Major difference between what you 'think' is Chinese food and what really is Chinese food. Many dishes are made for Westerners taste - High in taste, salt, MSG and fat...

Their food varies from region to region. (Canton, Shandong, Fujian, Sichuan) Some are very healthy, some are not...