Why the Chinese are so thin?
The author in his research that the Chinese eat 30% more calories than Western populations, with the difference being 20% thinner, based on a survey of T. Colin Campbell in China, authors of a large study that 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 than the Chinese, like office workers who have a sedentary lifestyle, with a group of average Americans moderately active.
However, despite 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, following the combination of 5 flavors and 5 colors, etc.., is to take into account the existence of a latent danger is the modernization of China.
Which would bring the Chinese to move away from its own traditional food, culture away from its ancient knowledge accumulated and unfortunately incur practices with western food consumption Snacking (fast food), the purchase of processed foods and empty calories , etc., leading inexorably to the Western industrialized world diseases such as cancer, diabetes and obesity.