While many children in China are obsessed with foreign fast food, other parts of the world are studying the traditional diets in China and Japan, and come to the conclusion that the traditional diets in the East are scientific and healthy. The habit of eating a lot of animal foods and eating less whole grains and beans in Europe and America is actually a wrong dietary orientation, which has harmed generations.
Why is the traditional oriental diet more in line with nutrition? Although China's traditional diet has different local flavors, many basic features are the same. For example, there are staple food and non-staple food in a meal, prepared meat, hot and cold food, soup and vegetables, especially a dish with various ingredients. Besides, there is no dessert after dinner. These characteristics of oriental diet determine that it has incomparable advantages over western food.
One of the most prominent differences between oriental diet and western diet is the difference between staple food and non-staple food. Orientals give priority to staple food and put grain above all other foods, which not only ensures that grain and other foods can complement each other in nutrition, but also ensures that the proportion of rice and vegetables is appropriate. Although western food tastes not salty, Chinese food tastes a little salty, but after a bland staple food? Dilution? The situation has greatly eased. Western food, on the other hand, is not. It is normal not to eat any staple food.
Another advantage of China's diet is to eat all kinds of dishes while eating. It's always the same to eat western food again, and often you have to wait until the rest of the dishes are served before you have a full stomach. No matter how many dishes there are on the table, Chinese food always takes a bite of rice first and then a bite of food. Even if your appetite is small, you can eat all the dishes and ensure a rich and varied diet.
One of the great advantages of Chinese food in traditional families is that the diet is mainly vegetarian, and the amount of meat is not large, but there are many rich foods. There are a lot of vegetables in protein, such as bean products, peanuts, eggs and so on. Most vegetables in China are cooked, and the heating time will not be too long; Westerners mainly eat meat, although they also eat vegetables, but they are either raw or cooked. A large number of vitamins in boiled vegetables are lost. In contrast, frying in oil or blanching in water is much more advanced, which can better preserve nutrients. What about eating vegetables raw? Although the problem of nutrient loss is solved, the number of vegetables eaten cannot be increased.
Westerners are often nutritionists? Too little vegetable intake? Tired of being evaluated. Someone asked a nutrition expert that I eat a vegetable salad every day. Why do you say there are not enough vegetables? The expert didn't say anything after listening, but asked him to make the vegetable salad on the plate. When he put it on again, he found only a handful. The expert said slowly: What you want to eat is vegetables that can still be put on the plate after cooking. ? People in China may lose a small amount of vitamin C when cooking, but they can make enough vegetables to ensure the supply of nutrition. Eating 100 grams of vegetables to get 50 milligrams of vitamin C is obviously more cost-effective than eating 500 grams of fried dishes that lose half of vitamin C.
Another advantage of the traditional family diet in China is that there is not much fat and refined sugar. The staple food is extremely light. Although oil must be used in cooking, most of the fat remains in the soup. The condiments of cold salad and soup contain less oil. European dishes are either stewed with cream or fried, or eat a lot of barbecues.
What if we watch it? McDonald's? The recipe, you will find its shortcomings: the staple food is not clear, and the actual weight of bread is not as good as the meat in the middle; There are few vegetables, just a little raw leaves sandwiched in hamburgers for ornament; There is a lot of meat. French fries? Chicken nuggets are fried foods, and drinks contain a lot of sugar, which is a typical unbalanced diet: high in calories, high in fat, low in dietary fiber, and insufficient in vitamins and minerals. Many American nutritionists suggest that McDonald's revise its recipes or strengthen its nutrition.
In addition to many advantages of China diet, Japanese diet has some improvements, that is, the proportion of aquatic products in animal food is large, and the consumption of milk is more than that of China people.
In short, there is absolutely no need for us to blindly worship foreign things in our diet. As long as we give full play to the advantages of China's diet, absorb some advantages of other countries' diets and make up for our own shortcomings, it will be enough to become a scientific and reasonable diet.