Master Zhu fished out a live fish from the fish tank, and with a neat knife, he sliced the fish and wrapped it in powder, and fried it in a hot pot of hot oil that was boiling hot.
The pork belly stewed in advance is fried in a hot pan to color, immediately put into ice water, sliced, and put into a bowl with ginger slices, green onions, star anise, etc. into a steamer basket, hook the sauce, and finally sprinkle on the button meat that has been plated...
This is the opening scene of the movie "Eating Men and Women".
Several of the dishes mentioned here have a common feature, that is, they can't do without that big pot of hot oil. Indeed, when it comes to the impression left by Chinese cuisine, there are many stir-fry vegetables and large oil.
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When you only eat vegetables and get fat, you may wonder if there is too much oil in the usual meals? Eating so much oil, is it healthy?
From eating too little oil to eating too much oil
Now we see our parents cooking with oil and save again, always feel that they can't understand. Because we haven't experienced the days of racking our brains just to save a little oil. From not being able to eat oil to eating too much oil, it only took about a generation in China.
Compared to the past, we are indeed "greasy" a lot today.
In 2017, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention publicly stated that 80% of households in China exceeded the standard of cooking oil. Our per capita daily intake of edible oil is 42.1 grams, which is much higher than the standard of 25 to 30 grams recommended in the Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents (2016).
For example, the vegetable oil commonly used in cooking, in 1982, an eighteen-year-old boy who did manual work could eat about 12.9 grams of oil a day, and by 2012, almost a person, the oil in the dish doubled and a half times.
The appropriate amount of cooking oil written in the recipe is more and more in practice
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As we all know, Chinese is famous for her love of rice noodles. However, in contrast, our carbohydrate energy supply ratio is still within the recommended range (recommended range 50% to 65%, actually 50.6%), which is quite controllable, while the proportion of fat energy supply is significantly exceeded.
In 2017, the former National Health Commission issued the "Reference Intake of Dietary Nutrients for Chinese Residents", which recommended that the percentage of fat energy supply in adults' diets should be 20% to 30%. However, the China Agricultural Industry Development Report 2021 shows that in 2020, our fat energy supply ratio has reached 34.7%.
Waistlines are also a silent story of how oily we eat, and according to a clothing industry, the waist length of men in Urban China has expanded from 63.5 centimeters to 76.2 centimeters. What precipitates in the small stomach is all indigestible oil and water.
Nourished by oil, our little belly is getting thicker and thicker
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Not only adults, but also children and teenagers are no exception. In 2021, a survey of junior high school students in Fangshan District, Beijing, found that these energetic children had a very unreasonable dietary fat intake, and the proportion of fat intake was too high, and their obesity rate reached 41.4%.
The two sources of sin that eat oil
A 2016 study published by the Shanghai Center for Disease Control and Prevention found that 73% of Shanghai residents had excess fat intake. Among them, the residents of the city center and the suburban junction have a relatively large problem of eating too much meat; while the residents of the suburbs have a relatively large problem of eating too much cooking oil.
This basically sums up the two major sources of oil we eat: meat and cooking oil.
Now a Chinese eats about 30 kilograms of meat a year, and by the early 1980s, there was almost enough meat for three people.
For Chinese, the second master brother can be described as a must-have at the table
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As a pig-eating country, China's pork consumption in 2019 was 48.97 million tons, accounting for 46% of global consumption. In other words, only one-fifth of the population eats nearly half of the world's pork.
And our favorite pork is the fat king of meat. The crude fat content of pork is higher than that of beef and chicken.
Eat more meat, and fat is naturally indispensable. That's why, a nutrition survey in Shanghai found that 40% of the fat eaten by local residents came from various meats, almost double the past 20%.
With China's rapid urbanization, the meat-based, high-oil and high-salt diet style has rapidly conquered China's major cities, replacing the traditional Chinese diet structure of rice as the main food and vegetables as the supplement.
Heavy oil and heavy salt, gradually became the mainstream
Cities where crowds gather have also spawned a large number of cheap Chinese fast food.
When it comes to fast food, it's hard to mention crispy fried foods. In the northeast and north China, people show a high preference for fried food, which may be a red flag for eating too much oil.
The cooking concept of "big oil" and "wide oil" is deeply rooted, not only fried foods, but also many dishes that are made and then poured with a layer of bright oil to make the color bright and attractive. It looks good, but it's also less healthy.
In 2015, researchers randomly sampled six middle-class restaurants in Beijing to record their fat intake. It was found that an average man would eat 128 grams of meat and 28 grams of oil each time he ate a meal, which translated into 52.7% of the fat supply ratio of this meal, almost twice the recommended amount.
With the improvement of everyone's living standards, it is not uncommon to go out to restaurants and order takeaways. Guess how many tons of over-standard delicacies you ate?
Crystal clear food, behind the excess grease
If you can't stand rubbing a mouthful of oil every time you eat a stir-fried vegetable, and want to break through the siege of greasy food and find a pure land, then the south may be more suitable for you.
A Ph.D. from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention found that in the south, traditional eating patterns are still stable and have not been greatly affected by urbanization. If you want to get away from the greasy oil, eat some light white rice, green vegetables, fish and shrimp, and go south.
Eat greasy, where the disadvantages are
Since the current meal is much more greasy than before, are we really eating too oily?
In fact, in terms of edible oil consumption alone, China is not much compared with other countries in the world. According to scholars' calculations, China's annual consumption of edible oil is a little higher than india's, and it is not even the global average.
So do we eat so much oil and don't eat enough?
Not all indicators need to be at the forefront. Major countries around the world are facing the problem of excessive intake of edible oil. We should be more vigilant.
Since ancient times, animal fat has been the table delicacy we seek
As for the harm of eating too greasy, you may already be more familiar with it than I am. Edible oil is mainly fat, and eating too much will lead you to the dead end of chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular system diseases, and cancer.
Of course, fat is also indispensable to the body, and fat also has "good and bad points". We need to know that try to stay away from "bad fat" and control "good fat" not to overdo it.
In addition to coconut oil, palm oil, most vegetable oils have more monounsaturated fats, which can be regarded as "good fats". And those deep-sea fish have more fat than unsaturated fat, which is also "good fat".
While animal oil, which contains more saturated fatty acids and cholesterol, is often eaten, it significantly increases the risk of hyperlipidemia. In Jilin Songyuan, the investigation found that those patients who often eat animal oil have a significantly higher probability of dyslipidemia than those who often eat vegetable oil.
The same edible oil intake, if more from fatty meat and animal oil, will be a heavier burden on your health.
But even if you know what the harm is, you may still unconsciously eat more oil.
Cooking at home, unless you pay close attention to the amount of oil, otherwise just making a plate of fried shredded potatoes may have too much oil. But if you are out of the house, then you have nowhere to escape.
Takeaway, restaurants, canteens have one, can make you eat oil until you are full, you can't always bring lunch from home every day.
When eating out, it is inevitable that you will encounter the problem of excessive intake of oil and fat
If you can pay attention, first control the parts we can control, cook our own food to control the amount of oil, and eat takeaways do not always choose those "shiny" restaurants.
Otherwise, if you eat so much oil every day, I'm afraid that before you reach middle age, you will be greasy first.
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