ecstatichamster
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I visited Myanmar and some other surrounding countries and just got back.
The people here are much, much smaller than the USA people. Much shorter, thinner. You NEVER see an overweight person except a tourist.
They eat rice, a bit of fish, some chilies. In some parts, soup is the meal, containing rice noodles, chilies, and some protein but not much.
Some veggies but not a lot. Some cooked greens perhaps.
Fruit is very common and ripe. Very small bananas, papayas, always in season. In season mangos, guavas, dragonfruit. It was dragonfruit season so I ate a lot. It has a lot of seeds that you eat, probably contains a lot of PUFAs, but I doubt they are digested.
Also jackfruit which is just starting to be in season. I don't like these at all.
As far as nutrition...
Babies seldom get milk. They breast feed then eat rice gruel. Only in some parts of Myanmar do babies get some evaporated milk with their rice gruel. There is no dairy industry here to speak of.
PUFAs everywhere. Peanut oil is popular, as is sesame oil, and cheap vegetable (soya) oil. But the people don't eat a lot of that. That's used in restaurant food and presumably food served to guests. The typical diet probably isn't swimming in PUFAs. But they do use these oils at home. A little palm oil but not much. I didn't see palm oil plantations anywhere.
EVERYONE sneezes multiple times a day. LOTS of coughing. People don't seem to be the picture of health here.
And TONS of dental problems. Didn't see too many people with good teeth actually.
TL;DR: in Southeast Asia, low protein, moderate PUFAs, low calorie, small people, coughing and sneezing, bad teeth.
The people here are much, much smaller than the USA people. Much shorter, thinner. You NEVER see an overweight person except a tourist.
They eat rice, a bit of fish, some chilies. In some parts, soup is the meal, containing rice noodles, chilies, and some protein but not much.
Some veggies but not a lot. Some cooked greens perhaps.
Fruit is very common and ripe. Very small bananas, papayas, always in season. In season mangos, guavas, dragonfruit. It was dragonfruit season so I ate a lot. It has a lot of seeds that you eat, probably contains a lot of PUFAs, but I doubt they are digested.
Also jackfruit which is just starting to be in season. I don't like these at all.
As far as nutrition...
Babies seldom get milk. They breast feed then eat rice gruel. Only in some parts of Myanmar do babies get some evaporated milk with their rice gruel. There is no dairy industry here to speak of.
PUFAs everywhere. Peanut oil is popular, as is sesame oil, and cheap vegetable (soya) oil. But the people don't eat a lot of that. That's used in restaurant food and presumably food served to guests. The typical diet probably isn't swimming in PUFAs. But they do use these oils at home. A little palm oil but not much. I didn't see palm oil plantations anywhere.
EVERYONE sneezes multiple times a day. LOTS of coughing. People don't seem to be the picture of health here.
And TONS of dental problems. Didn't see too many people with good teeth actually.
TL;DR: in Southeast Asia, low protein, moderate PUFAs, low calorie, small people, coughing and sneezing, bad teeth.