{"id":264,"date":"2007-11-02T07:30:07","date_gmt":"2007-11-02T12:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/2007\/11\/02\/chinese-women-don%e2%80%99t-get-fat-but-american-women-who-eat-american-chinese-food-do\/"},"modified":"2007-11-02T07:30:08","modified_gmt":"2007-11-02T12:30:08","slug":"chinese-women-don%e2%80%99t-get-fat-but-american-women-who-eat-american-chinese-food-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/02\/chinese-women-don%e2%80%99t-get-fat-but-american-women-who-eat-american-chinese-food-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese women don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get fat, but American women who eat (American) Chinese food do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought <a href=\"http:\/\/calorielab.com\/news\/2007\/11\/01\/chinese-women-dont-get-fat-but-american-women-who-eat-chinese-food-do\/\">this piece from Calorie Labs<\/a> had such a cute title that I am citing it, even though it is citing old news. Basically in March the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cspinet.org\/new\/200703211.html\">Center for Science in the Public Interest<\/a> released a study (their second) on American Chinese food and discovered it is bad for you. This always gets a lot of media play.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it is true-ish. American Chinese food is bad for you because American-<em>anything<\/em> cuisine is pretty bad for you &#8212; because Americans favor things which are deepfried, sweetish and heavy in meat. But Chinese Chinese food (which features a lot more vegetables, seafood, tofu and less frying, less meat) is pretty good for you.\u00c2\u00a0 So Chinese people who come to the United States and thus deal with American food <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/01\/12\/nyregion\/nyregionspecial5\/12diabetes.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin\">become a lot less healthier.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chinese people in China are always perplexed when I show them a photo of General Tso&#8217;s chicken (which they don&#8217;t have in China) &#8212; one guy asked me &#8220;Is that oxtail?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought this piece from Calorie Labs had such a cute title that I am citing it, even though it is citing old news. Basically in March the Center for Science in the Public Interest released a study (their second) on American Chinese food and discovered it is bad for you. This always gets a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-food"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-4g","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}