This article is continued, “Why the Chinese are so thin?”
The author in his research that the Chinese eat 30% of calories more than the western population, with the difference being 20% thinner, based on a survey of T. Colin Campbell in China, authors of a major study which assessed the diet and its relation to disease.
A study in China based on the idea that the Chinese are thinner due to a more active lifestyle, defined by consuming more calories to maintain that lifestyle.
In fact, to establish this point, the study compared a group less active in the Chinese, like office workers who have a sedentary lifestyle, with a group of average Americans moderately active.
However, although in the Study of China was praised how fed rural Chinese, the old fashioned way or with the knowledge of balance or feeding called Yin-Yang, respecting the combination of 5 flavors and 5 colors, etc.., is to take into account the existence of a latent danger that is the modernization of China.
Which would bring the Chinese to move away from its own traditional food, culture away from their accumulated knowledge and ancient practices unfortunately incur other Western food consumption Snacking (fast food), purchase of processed foods and empty calories etc.., leading inexorably to the Western industrialized world diseases such as cancer, diabetes and obesity.
