Foods in the Immigrant Diet _ a Personal Struggle?

Serin

带你湖 发表于 11-10-2018 18:39
Thanks for the invitaiton. I love my Shanghai cuisine very much. Living abroad for the last 15 years ...

You've put a lot of effort into your blogs and Youtube channel! Awesome work!

yearshappy

kevin妈妈 发表于 11-10-2018 12:47
我英文很渣，无法参与英文讨论你们聊

就是引用你的大吃小吃中吃的帖子，我自己的经历，几个年长的咱们的移民，当今学者的研究成果，领域里的已经建立的理论，探讨吃文化的社会现象

kevin妈妈

yearshappy 发表于 12-10-2018 09:38
就是引用你的大吃小吃中吃的帖子，我自己的经历，几个年长的咱们的移民，当今学者的研究成果，领域里的已 ...

你们英文都太好了，我下辈子也追不上。

西餐我还是不太爱吃，一直都是中餐胃。

带你湖

Serin 发表于 12-10-2018 09:15
You've put a lot of effort into your blogs and Youtube channel! Awesome work!

Thanks. It is an hobby of mine and my wife's and we have been working very hard on that. Thanks for the recognition.

OZCherry

Being an adult immigrant like us, born and raised in China and now living in Western society, we become more or less of W-easterners. I have always loved Western culture from my heart, which could trace back to my middle-school years. To be exact, i think it all happened when i first heard the Carpenters' song Yesterday Once More. From there, English as a language and English songs are all very close to my heart. And after immigration to Australia, I have been trying to mix into the main stream culture. Only recent two years, I started to rediscover the beauty of Chinese culture, all started from traditional Chinese medicine, which turned out not just about medicine, it actually is part of the Chinese philosophy, i.e. the attitude towards life, do things in moderate measures and not to indulge in anything. I feel as a Chinese descendant I actually don’t know much about our culture. So here I am, haven’t really “mixed into” the local Western society, and shamefully don’t even know much about my own tradition culture. Understanding the saying “The only thing goes Internationally is the unique aspect of a nation’s culture” now, I am trying to reconnect with my root while still loving Western music, movies and philosophy…

Ok, back onto the topic of food. It is the same with food that I am a W-easterner.
I love baking and all sorts of Western food, i.e. home-made pizza, pudding, banana bread, home-made bread, yoghurt, but not vegemite Apparently not as adaptive as you @yearshappy. I also love making traditional Chinese food, i.e. home-made rice liquor, moon cake, stir-fried pork wrapped in bread.

It is really difficult to find all those photos for the food, so I have dug into my Wechat moments and grabbed the following screen-shots.

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OZCherry

Sorry, first time posting photos here. They look awfully huge

anuo

牧马人 发表于 11-10-2018 11:54
My brekkie. The dark spread on toast was vegemite. How adaptive am I!

Looks too salty.
I've never tried vegemite before.

anuo

MICHELLE07 发表于 11-10-2018 12:58
Thanks yearshappy for inviting me   
Pleasure
Firstly let me call a new friend to join in t ...

Me too, mostly.
I have a strong curiosity to international food.
And also I really enjoy the food in Australia.
Additionally, I love cooking at home.

anuo

Serin 发表于 11-10-2018 14:10
I have no problem with most of the edible stuff. I told my colleagues that I was a typical Chinese a ...

The real local ----Aborginal people like legs and feet as well.
In my family , we love to eat some organs , maybe once a month.

KYLIE2008

We did the blood test two weeks ago. The result came up last week....not good:-( Cholesterol ratio is much more than the standard, so is Triglyceride...we have to consider to give up some of our favorite...or reduce the portion... meat and sugar...these are all my best loved

yearshappy

KYLIE2008 发表于 28-10-2018 13:31
We did the blood test two weeks ago. The result came up last week....not good:-( Cholesterol ratio i ...

Emm,  it's perhaps reasonable to have a second test as many factors such as taking certain medications, and the length of a fast, can sometimes affect the readings.
Nonetheless, a proper diet is always essential to a good health. Cut back on sugar then , also get portion under control.

yearshappy

KYLIE2008 发表于 28-10-2018 13:31
We did the blood test two weeks ago. The result came up last week....not good:-( Cholesterol ratio i ...

Cutting back your sugar intake will help lower your triglyceride. Try to avoid refined sugar as much as you can while watching your carbohydrate.
As for high cholesterol, i understand its chief cause is fat, precisely trans fat (the worst of all, according to the lecture from Yale University I learned yesterday) as well as saturated fat. So, you may have to have some changes in your diet. With regularly exercising, you'll be all right over time.

Below is talking about sugar, cholesterol and diet (from the perspective of public health), just in case you're interested
https://oyc.yale.edu/psychology/psyc-123/lecture-4

I'd like to hear from @yping88; how do you keep a healthy cholesterol and lower bad LDL?

HPEB

Normally we would have an egg,  porridge and salted veges in the morning. Steamed bread for lunch and dinner only cause no time to prepare more for breakfast.

yearshappy

journal articles on the topic of breakfast

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc

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yearshappy

a reference from Azar et al "Festival foods in the immigrant diet' (2013)

a passage of ''The Roel of Food in Emotional, Social, and Physiological Wellness"