There is no doubt that eating less and more meals is more scientific than eating three or two meals a day, especially if you don't eat breakfast, you are more likely to suffer from gallstones.
Many people in China are used to buying fresh food to cook every day; Americans often buy food for a week at a time and store it in the refrigerator. They eat frozen food every day, and they eat 8 times and 6 times as much canned food and pickled products as people in China. You should know that they contain more preservatives, pigments and other chemicals, which are harmful to the body and deserve the attention of urban white-collar workers whose lives are getting simpler and simpler.
Many families in China will have many dishes and entertainment activities on holidays.
Americans, on the other hand, never lavish their banquets or festivals. Even the president's banquets for foreign heads of state are five dishes, not to mention persuading them to drink.
China people like to use vegetable oil for cooking, while Americans like to use animal oil with high cholesterol.
Vegetable oil is an unsaturated fatty acid and contains no cholesterol, so the incidence of cardiovascular diseases in Americans is particularly high.
China people often use more salt in cooking, while Americans use only half as much salt as China people, and some even use no salt at all.
Eating too much salt can cause various diseases.
Sixth, China people love to use monosodium glutamate in cooking, but Americans don't.
MSG contains sodium, and excessive intake is harmful to health, especially to children's development.
People in China eat more fresh vegetables and fruits than Americans.
Americans consume much more protein than China every day, but their gastrointestinal function is affected by the lack of cellulose in their bodies.
Although the medical conditions in the United States are better than those in China, the prevalence rate of digestive system and cancer rate in the United States greatly exceeds that in China.
China people like to eat brown rice and ordinary flour, while Americans prefer pasta made of refined white flour.
In fact, brown rice and ordinary flour contain more nutrients than refined white flour, which is a useful reminder for China people who love white flour products more and more.
People in China, especially in the Pearl River Delta, and Americans have the habit of eating sashimi or fried steak, but Americans pay great attention to the quality and sanitary conditions of sashimi seafood and beef, and choose pollution-free deep sea as a necessary condition.
But China people don't pay enough attention to it.
Americans are used to adding a dessert after a meal, while China is used to eating fruit after a meal.
Of course, fruits are more beneficial than sweets, but now people in China often add sweets to fruits after meals, especially at banquets.
Many nutritionists believe that eating fruit before meals is more beneficial than eating it after meals.
People in China often drink a cup of hot tea after meals, while Americans like to drink coffee after meals.
Tea can lower cholesterol, while coffee can raise blood fat and help the heart.
Some nutritionists point out that drinking hot tea about half an hour after a meal will better play its role in lowering cholesterol and helping digestion.
Thirteen, Americans have realized that beef, horse meat and mutton called "red meat" are one of the causes of colon cancer and prostate cancer, and the fat in red meat is also one of the pathogenic factors of prostate cancer and heart disease, and they have noticed that eating red meat once a week.
Many domestic newspapers and periodicals have reported the problem of red meat many times, but at present, domestic people have not paid enough attention to it.
People in China, especially in Guangzhou and the Pearl River Delta, love to eat pig liver, pig intestines, pig lungs and other internal organs, while Americans do not have this hobby.
Animal viscera contains a lot of cholesterol, so it is not advisable to eat more.
People in China generally like soybean milk, tofu and other bean products, which not only retain the nutrition of soybean, but also are more easily absorbed by the human body. Its protein digestibility is as high as 92%-96%, and it enjoys the reputation of "vegetable meat".
On the other hand, Americans are not interested in tofu.
Americans used to eat separately, but China only practiced it during the SARS period, and then returned to it.
Sixteen, China people use fire for cooking, so there is more oil smoke, and more attention is paid to the ventilation equipment in the kitchen; Americans, on the other hand, don't like to use fire, and pay great attention to the ventilation conditions in the kitchen.
Therefore, the incidence of lung cancer among chefs and housewives in China is significantly higher than that in the United States.
China people, especially Cantonese people, especially like to drink soup, and the cooking forms of soup are various, such as pot, stew, boiling and soup. In addition to fruits and vegetables, poultry, Haihe fresh and dry goods, there are unique Chinese herbal medicines and even wild vegetables, which are very helpful for eating, preserving health and adjuvant treatment of diseases.
On the other hand, American soup is rather monotonous.