Back to childhood diet--abit

[shootingstar]

I posted earlier about diabetes 2 probability...which results show not..but already I was trying to gradually switch to low-glycemic diet.

http://forums.teamestrogen.com/showthread.php?t=4555

So then I went back to eating what I used to eat for a few days that higher GI (bad carbs), more sugar...and I felt worse. "Going back" meant temporarily some small pastries, rice, etc.

Maybe it's time I reverted more what I ate as a child & teenage, but revise the diet, which was predominantly Chinese home cuisine --at that time, not much bread (ie. 1 slice per day), lots of rice (which I shouldn't have as much now), lots of cooked fresh veggies, homemade veggie broths, fruit daily, no pop (I don't drink pop as as adult), sweet/sugar desserts only on special occasions....

And eating out in restaurants was just 3-4 times per year. As a family never ate at restaurants much when growing up ...it was just too expensive for a large family, on my father's salary as a restaurant cook. Restaurant meals were usually at a large Chinese banquet-fest /buffet for community & friends.

So mom did shovel alot of healthy home-cooked food at us. And no, processed food was pretty minimal --sliced ham, bread, she even eagle-eyed the processed Chinese grocery condiments ...for volume of salt, etc.

[Zen]

Sounds good to me but splain why i have a stereotypical image of a Chinese family being roly-poly?

[shootingstar]

Sounds good to me but splain why i have a stereotypical image of a Chinese family being roly-poly?

The medical community have done some studies both in China and North America...on effect of income (abit more money), access to processed food, more pop, food now higher in sugar and fat...leads to next generation of Asians as more ..fat.

Most of the people in my parents' generation and my own boomer generation aren't what I call obese. ..but next generation looks pretty obvious to me...but I still many Asians..seen as slim or too thin.

Vancouver has a high % of people of Asian descent. So does Toronto. I live near Chinatown..so I'm not fantasizing... I've lived in both cities for last 25 years.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Sounds good to me but splain why i have a stereotypical image of a Chinese family being roly-poly?

I have no idea why you have that image. I believe that in general Americans are substantially fatter overall than the Chinese.

[mimitabby]

Where I live we have a large percentage of Asian American families. You can see who eats traditional foods (older generations) and who doesn't (the kids) by how fat they are.
With caucasian Americans, there's plenty of fat in all generations.

Zen, I don't know where you got that idea.

Shooting star, your mother sounds like a great cook! good luck with the diet

[Eden]

Maybe Zen has that image because some Asian groups tend towards round faces - though they are not necessarily fat?? It's not particular to China (China is so large that it contains many different ethnic groups.... and they do not all look similar), but some Chinese, Koreans, Mongolians among others may have broad round faces even if their bodies are not chubby.

[OakLeaf]

Maybe Zen has that image because some Asian groups tend towards round faces - though they are not necessarily fat?? It's not particular to China (China is so large that it contains many different ethnic groups.... and they do not all look similar), but some Chinese, Koreans, Mongolians among others may have broad round faces even if their bodies are not chubby.

And wide pelvises.

-Oak, who shares my mom's Chinese pelvis and my dad's German sub-q fat

[Pedal Wench]

Could you replace the white rice with brown rice?

[Zen]

Maybe it's Buddha.
And my friend from Kahzakstan.