Originally Posted by
Majik8ball
Hello, first off let me say that I LOVE Asian food. (Teryaki chicken, chow mein, spring rolls, sushi, pad thai, ect) Unfortunately, most of it has very high calories, fat, and above all sodium; So I eat it sparingly. I recently went to China and Japan on holiday and was surprised to see that there were literally NO overweight people in these countries. My first assumption was that the locals cook with no soy sauce and use brown rice ect, but I was wrong. I ate noodles with a friend who moved to Tokyo several months earlier, and he told me that this was the best place to get "authentic" Japanese noodles. The noodles I ate were drowned in so much soy sauce I literally had to drain some of the sauce into my empty soup bowl because it was so overpowering, But he ate every bite then slurped the soy sauce left over like milk from a cereal bowl! So my question is how do Asian people consume so much salt and fat yet none of them gain weight?
Note: not sure if this is the place to ask this question, but it is the only place I could think of.