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Do little bitty asian women have to watch what they eat or do they eat as they like? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by cheese_greater@lemmy.world to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca

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To be that tiny/lithe. Asian cuisine seems a lot naturally healthier and nutrient-dense but i wonder if they still have to practice a ° of restraint

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[–] DearMoogle@piefed.social 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Am petite Asian woman who is a healthy weight. I do see overweight Asian women (Asians in general) though. It’s becoming more common IMO as people’s diet’s are getting worse/more indulgent. More delicious options eating out, less home-cooking. But I was raised a certain way, with lots of home-cooking lol. -> Eat a balanced meal. My table spread must look balanced! So even if I order pork belly, I have to order a side of dark greens, or maybe a light veg soup. I also don’t eat too much rice. And my best compliment for dessert? “Ah! Not too sweet” 🤣 (this one’s funny, it’s kind of an older Asian insider running joke. I sound like my mom lmao)

ALSO! There’s something about eating “family style” (shared plates). You actually don’t eat as much bc you don’t want to take everything. It’s not like eating let’s say American style, where you get a huge plate in front of you. It pushes you to want to finish the plate. With family style, you naturally eat a bit slower, you only take what you can finish.

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I find plate/serving vessel size/depth is a huge little-discussed elephant in the room basically every time these kinds of discussions happen, I agree! Like in basically any discussion of metabolism or vanilla dietary practices or etc

Also, very refreshing to get an actual representative person chiming in non-judgmentally, theres already been whiffs of people claiming degrees of racism (playing race card to out it bluntly) when I'm clearly more interested in exploring a hypothesis and open to reasonable discussion and of course any contradictions they are aware of :)

I swear, disaffected folks are addicted to spinning up relevance for themself out of whole cloth at a systemic scale, its a real epi- and sys-stemic problem