Eating China: Best Chinese dietary advice

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Best Chinese dietary advice Jun 10th 2011, 18:46 We are so constantly bombarded by the media with conflicting, seesawing dietary advice that I usually just tune out. That is easier to do once you realise that 90 percent of it is coming from someone trying to sell you something. More and more I think back to what our mothers and grandmothers told us. Not all of it was good ('finish everything on your plate,' for instance), but at least it was simple and well-meant. The best dietary advice a Chinese grandmother would give you is, eat only until you are '7 parts full' (70 percent full). What makes more sense than that; what could be simpler (in theory, if not practice)?

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