1. Most Chinese people eat too much salt. According to statistics, the national per capita salt intake is over 10 grams per day, with the highest in the Northeast, reaching 18 grams. The World Health Organization recommends that salt intake should be controlled to below 5 grams per day. Eating too much salt can significantly increase the incidence of diseases such as high blood pressure and stomach cancer.
2. Chinese people consume too much MSG, which increases the body's intake of sodium, and sodium is harmful to the human body.
Therefore, when eating soups and other dishes, it is advisable to use chicken essence, mushroom essence, etc., instead of MSG.
3. Chinese people mostly eat in groups and like to serve each other food from the same plate, which increases the probability of disease transmission.
4. Chinese people like to eat animal offal. Animal offal contains relatively high cholesterol, which is an important factor in inducing and aggravating atherosclerosis.
5. Chinese cooking methods mostly include pan-frying, stir-frying, braising, and deep-frying. People like stir-fried and fried foods, which increases the risk of cancer.
6. Chinese people like to eat red meat (pork, beef, mutton) with high fat content, and the proportion of eating white meat (fish and chicken) is relatively small. In recent years, the proportion of Chinese people eating white meat has been increasing year by year, which is a good phenomenon.
7. In many regions of China, people like to eat pickled foods such as salted fish, cured meat, and pickled vegetables. This not only increases salt intake but also, because pickled foods contain relatively high nitrites, it also increases the risk of cancer.
8. Chinese people like to eat various kinds of braised meat. However, when making braised meat, spices such as cinnamon, star anise, fennel, cloves, and Sichuan peppercorns added are not only "warm and dry" in nature, which can easily cause "internal heat" (inflammation), but also contain a certain amount of safrole, which has certain mutagenicity and toxicity and is easy to cause cancer. Therefore, people with colds, fever, inflammatory diseases, and chronic liver disease should eat less braised meat.
9. Chinese people like to hold lavish banquets to entertain guests. People are accustomed to drinking large amounts of baijiu (white liquor) at banquets, or overeating, or smoking and drinking at the same time. In some regions, there is also the bad custom of serving food from the same plate. These habits not only cause waste but are also extremely detrimental to health and can easily induce various diseases.