I feel Chinese food is so greasy, but why isn't the obesity rate in China as high as in the US?

我觉得中餐非常油腻，但为何中国的肥胖率没有美国高？

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Anubisred

My answer excludes "American Chinese food" and only discusses the difference between real Chinese food and American food.

There's one very clear difference between Chinese and American food: you don't eat the oil you can see in Chinese food.

我的答案里只讨论真正的中餐和美国菜的区别，不包含“美式中餐”。

中国食物和美国食物有一个非常明显的区别：中餐中肉眼能看到的油，大家都是不吃进肚子的。

Stir-frying is a large part of Chinese cuisine, and this cooking method is characterized by the use of a lot of oil. But these oils are only there to conduct heat and cook the dish.

The oil on the plate looks horrible, but you obviously don't drink the oil.

炒菜是中餐的一大组成部分，这种烹饪方法的特点是使用大量的油。但这些油只是用来加热和烹饪菜肴的。

盘子里的油看起来多得吓人，但你并不会喝油。

And what about American food?

This is just a hint, many sauces in Western food contain a lot of butter and sugar, which are mixed in various ways to enhance the flavor of the food. You just know it's delicious and you don't feel like you're consuming a lot of butter and sugar.

那么美国食物呢？

我就提一点，西餐中的很多酱汁都含有大量的黄油和糖，通过各种方式混合在一起，增强了食物的风味。你只知道它尝起来很美味，但不会意识到自己吃下了很多黄油和糖。

Maybe you think "I just ate some salad, how healthy", in fact, the salad sauce is very likely to have more calories than a steak, especially Americans' love for sauces, which leads them to eat vegetables and fruits. Serve with plenty of sauce. And these sauces are extremely high in sugar and fat.

Another reason is that the love of sweets in America (and other Western countries) is horrific! Almost every American will feel that Chinese sweets are "not sweet enough", you know, sugar is the culprit of obesity.

也许你会觉得“我只是吃了点沙拉，非常健康”，事实上沙拉酱的热量很可能比一块牛排还多，尤其美国人很喜欢酱料，他们会多吃蔬菜和水果，配上大量的酱汁。这些酱料的糖和脂肪含量都极高。

另一个原因是美国(以及其他西方国家)对甜食的痴迷程度令人发指！几乎每个美国人都会觉得中国的糖果“不够甜”，你知道的，糖是肥胖的罪魁祸首。

Mel Chen

You must have American Chinese food, and not typical Chinese food.

Chinese believe in balance, if we have too much greasy food today, we will have some bland food the following day.

If we have too much meat today, we will compensate with more vegetables.

Chinese food has a lot of variety, but in most American Chinese restaurants, it is mostly fried stuff, and sweet-sour taste, which is not common in real Chinese food.

And of course, there’s no such thing as fortune cookies.

你吃的肯定是美式中餐，不是正宗中餐。

中国人崇尚饮食平衡，如果今天吃了太多油腻的食物，第二天就会吃点清淡的食物。

如果我们今天吃了太多的肉，我们就会多吃点蔬菜。

中餐种类繁多，但在美国的中餐馆里，中餐多为油炸食品，酸甜可口，但这些美式中餐在正宗的中餐中并不常见。

当然了，中餐里也没有幸运饼干这种东西。

Loring Chien

The Chinese food you get in the popular US Chinese restaurants is greasy because that’s what Americans like.

In China they eat a lot more veggies and fish and less meat, the meat and veggies they do eat is boiled, steamed and sauteed lightly rather than deep fried or stir fried in a lot of oil.

你在美国的人气中餐馆里吃到的中餐很油腻，因为那是美国人就喜欢这种“中餐”。

在中国，大家更喜欢吃蔬菜和鱼，吃肉不多，他们吃的肉和蔬菜都是用水煮、清蒸和翻炒的，不会用大量的油来煎炸或爆炒。

Anthony Skok

Related

What are the major causes of the American obesity epidemic?

美国肥胖问题的主要原因是什么？

Waiting in line behind 26 cars at Starbucks every morning for a Frappuccino loaded with 26 spoonfuls of sugar.

Pulling into a designated spot at Kroger’s while a 60 old lady who took your phone order loads up your car while you check your e-mails.

每天早上在星巴克排长队，只为买一杯加了26勺糖的星冰乐。

把车停在克罗格超市的指定地点，让60岁的老太太根据电话订单帮你装车，你则悠闲地查收电子邮件。

Parking in your “reserved for the handicap” slot at any grocery store, walking to the entry door of a store and getting on the last electric cart available and heading to the potato chip and soda aisle to stock up.

Get pissed off when the garage door opener doesn’t work.

Stop at your favorite burger joint for lunch and ordering your standard (Wendy’s as an example) Baconator (940 calories), Fries (427 calories) and large Coke (400 calories) and a Frosty (med 397 calories) to go.

把车停在杂货店的“残障人士专用”停车位，走到商店的入口，坐上最后一辆电动手推车，开往薯片和苏打水货架区囤货。

车库门开关出故障时，你会很生气抓狂。

在你最喜欢的汉堡店吃午餐，点一份标准的(以Wendy 's为例)熏肉(940卡路里)、薯条(427卡路里)、大杯可乐(400卡路里)和一份Frosty(中份397卡路里)外带。

Driving around a mall parking lot for 15 minutes until a slot opens close to the main entrance because walking an extra 50 feet is probably bad for you.

Waiting for the elevator to get to your office on the second floor.

Going to Willie’s Ice House in the evening for their Chicken Fried Steak (950 Calories)

在商场的停车场不停绕上15分钟，直到在主入口边上找到一个空位，因为多走50英尺都能要了你的命。

去2楼办公室也得搭电梯。

晚上去Willie’s冰屋吃炸鸡排(950卡路里)

David J Wong

I agree some Chinese food can be greasy. But if that’s your impression of all Chinese food, you’ve probably either been ordering the wrong things or going to the wrong restaurants. Traditional methods of cooking in authentic Chinese cuisine include steaming, boiling, and pan-frying, which actually consumes less oil.

有些中餐是很油腻，这一点我不否认。但如果你因此觉得所有中餐都很有你，那你要么点错了菜，要么就去错了餐馆。正宗中餐的传统烹饪方法包括蒸、煮和煎，其实用油不多的。

That aside, I think there are other factors that contribute more to obesity.

Take fast food, for example. The introduction of McDonald’s, KFC and other American fast food chains in China has led to a rise in fast food consumption (FFC). Studies have

…linked FFC with obesity risk, including a few reporting a positive association between FFC and obesity in China.

我认为，有一些其他因素更容易导致肥胖。

以快餐为例。麦当劳、肯德基和其他美国快餐连锁店进入中国后，导致了快餐消费的上升。

研究表明，在中国，快餐摄入与肥胖风险之间存在正相关关系。

Here’s a fun fact: in the United States, 37% of American adults reportedly eat fast food daily. In China, that figure is 7%.

Other factors include:

我要说有一个有趣的事实：据报道，37%的美国成年人每天都吃快餐。但在中国这个数字仅为7%。

其他因素包括：

Diet: Chinese meals in China will typically have a dish or two of dark green leafy vegetables suc as spinach or dou miao. And the meal will usually end with a plate of fruit such as orange slices or watermelon. There might also be a bowl of sweet red bean soup, but serving cake or pie for dessert is unusual; and

饮食：中餐通常会有一到两道深绿色的绿叶菜，如菠菜或豆苗。每顿饭通常会以一盘水果结束，比如橙子片或西瓜。或者可能有一碗甜红豆汤，但基本不会有蛋糕或派等甜品。

Portion sizes: it’s a lot bigger in the US. I remember recently ordering a soup and salad at a restaurant in San Diego, thinking it would be a nice light lunch. The sandwich covered the entire plate. The soup came in a huge bowl. This concept of “value sizing” - getting more food for the dollar - is problematic: the more food you’re served, the more you’re likely to eat.

分量：美国餐食的分量要大得多。最近我在圣地亚哥的一家餐厅点了一份汤和沙拉，感觉这应该是一顿不错的轻食午餐。结果三明治有一整个盘子那么大，汤也是大碗装。这种“性价比”的概念—用一美元买到更多的食物—是有问题的：你买到的食物越多，你可能就吃得越多。

The good news is that, with China’s increasing wealth, malnutrition is no longer an issue. The bad news is that 23% of the population is now considered overweight (and the rate is even higher in cities that have a lot of fast food restaurants).

好消息是，随着中国经济的发展，营养不良已经不复存在。但坏消息是23%的人口出现超重问题(在快餐店多的城市，这一比例甚至更高)。

Isaac Bauman

Whether Chinese food is very greasy depends on two aspects:

中餐是否油腻取决于两个方面：

Part of it is Chinese food eaten at home. In fact, the Chinese food that Chinese families usually eat is a good combination of meat and vegetables; and the oil and salt are more appropriate when cooking, and there will be no particularly greasy food or particularly salty food; except for special soup, soup in general food Juice and spices are left over. Will not be eaten up.

家常中餐。事实上，中国家庭吃的中餐是肉和蔬菜的合理搭配；烹调时的油和盐的用量都比较合适，不会出现特别油腻或特别咸的食物；一般的菜，汤汁都是剩着的，不会吃掉。

The other part is the Chinese food eaten in various restaurants, such as Sichuan cuisine, Shandong cuisine, etc., which are cooked with more oil and salt; including some noodles; but there are few real fried foods in China; you can see Chinese people The soup and spices in it will not be eaten, and most of the oil and salt in the final food will be taken away in the soup.

各种餐馆里的中餐，如川菜、鲁菜等，这些菜都比较重油重盐；有些面条也如此；但中国很少有真正的油炸食品；大多数油盐都在汤汁里，但汤汁没人会吃。

So the Chinese people have plenty of food, but they are less obese because of the Chinese way of eating. The same problem, you go to see Indians and many people in Europe and America, if you give him a dish, they will eat all of them. But Chinese ones will leave soup and various spices, these things take away a lot of oil and salt that make people fat

所以中国人虽然吃得多，但肥胖问题较少。同样的问题，你看看印度人和欧美的大多数人，如果你给他上一道菜，他们会把盘子舔得干干净净。但中国人会把汤汁剩着，这些汤汁里就有很多让人发胖的油和盐。

Alice Twain

First of all, real Chinese cuisines aren’t all that greasy. The fake chinese food you are fed in your country isn’t what Chinese people eat.

Secondly: portion control. Chinese people eat small portions at meal time and that’s it, they don’t munch snacks day-long.

首先，真正的中餐并不油腻。你在你们国家吃到的都是假中餐。

第二，份量控制。中国人在正餐时间吃的份量不多，也不会从早到晚吃零食。

Scotty T.O

Chinese food is greasy as greasy.

The reason Chinese people are not so super fat/obese is they only eat small quantity amounts of food. Americans/Canadians eat way more…

As a food addiction grabs ahold of your emotions ,and your hunger increases due to the antidepressants your doctor has you on kick in and ruin your resting metabolism and trigger your brain to eat a lot of high carb greasy food , you can’t help it and get fat.

中国菜很油腻。

中国胖人少的原因是他们吃的少。美国人/加拿大人吃得多…

由于食物成瘾控制了你的情绪，医生给你开的抗抑郁药会破坏你的静息代谢，刺激你的大脑想吃高碳水化合物的油腻食物，饥饿感增加，又无法控制自己，于是变胖了。

Wenxang Chen

What you think is greasy is only the "oil" you can see

And actually、salad dressing、cream、meat、butter、These are a lot of grease

And the extreme sugar in coffee, bread and dessert

For Western food, just the layer of cream on the vegetarian salad contains more calories and fat than most Chinese food.

你认为的油腻只是因为你看到了“油”。

事实上，沙拉酱，奶油，肉，黄油，这些都是大量的油脂。

咖啡、面包和甜点中也有很多糖。

对于西餐来说，素食沙拉上的一层奶油就比大多数中餐中的卡路里和脂肪都要高。

Chinese food only adds some vegetable oil, and most of the time they will remain on the plate and will not enter the human body. In China's staple food, steamed bread, the ingredients are only flour and water, without any extra butter or sugar······

In a word, greasiness is not only the "oil" you can see

Western food is 100 times more greasy than Chinese food, which is a true fact.

中餐只使用了一些植物油，而且基本上都留在盘子里了，不会被吃进肚子。中国的主食馒头,原料只有面粉和水，没有任何额外添加的黄油或糖··。····

总之，油腻不油腻不能光看你眼睛看到的“油”。

西餐比中餐油腻100倍，这是事实。