Chinese food! Run for your lives!!
Posted on Wednesday March 21, 2007 at 10:11am.
I'm shocked. It turns out that Chinese food is fattening, full of sodium, and in general not very good for people. Who knew?
The CNN article advises readers to share Chinese dishes to minimize calories and fat intake. First, I believe that this is how many Americans have traditionally eaten Chinese food anyway. Second, it doesn't do much good, since though people share Chinese dishes, they usually share mulitple dishes, eating the same amount, or perhaps more, than if each person had ordered a single dish and not shared it.
In any case, the article misses the biggest danger of all -- everyone knows that an hour after eating Chinese food, people are hungry again, and usually snack or even eat another meal. That has to be factored in to the already high-fat, high-calorie Chinese food dinner. I'm amazed that this stuff is still legal. But maybe not for long.
The CNN article advises readers to share Chinese dishes to minimize calories and fat intake. First, I believe that this is how many Americans have traditionally eaten Chinese food anyway. Second, it doesn't do much good, since though people share Chinese dishes, they usually share mulitple dishes, eating the same amount, or perhaps more, than if each person had ordered a single dish and not shared it.
In any case, the article misses the biggest danger of all -- everyone knows that an hour after eating Chinese food, people are hungry again, and usually snack or even eat another meal. That has to be factored in to the already high-fat, high-calorie Chinese food dinner. I'm amazed that this stuff is still legal. But maybe not for long.