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Just about everyone loves Chinese healthy recipes, so it would be a good way to impress your visitors if you could create succulent Chinese meals. If my children were anything to go by, they never realized that it was meant to be health food, so they didn’t decide that they hated it.

OK, when you want to do something, the best way is to pick the brains of an expert. You can find quite a few books written for Western tastes by people who have learned quite a bit about this kind of healthy food. But wouldn’t it be good if you could find a book that even the Chinese were buying to learn how to cook their own food?

Well, the good news is that Nicholas Zhou wrote a book that sold more than half a million copies to his countrymen. Then he had the idea of translating it, to share with the rest of the world. But he kept having other ideas during the translation process, so his English version of healthy recipes ideas is bigger and better.

That’s great for how delicious it is. But what about how healthy the recipes are? Consider these facts.

  • Over a billion people worldwide are now overweight and 300 million are clinically obese. People who are overweight have a higher risk of developing serious health problems in later life, including heart disease, diabetes, stroke, type 2 diabetes, bowel cancer, and high blood pressure. Most people put on excess weight because their lifestyles include an unhealthy diet and a lack of physical activity.
  • According to Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, post-menopausal women may reduce their risk of developing cancer by 35% if they eat a healthy diet and lead a healthy lifestyle. This result was based on 29,564 post-menopausal women, aged 55-69 for a research period of 13 years.
  • People who ate three or more servings of fruit per day have 36% lower risk of developing the sight loss than people who ate less than one and a half servings per day. (According to Archives of Ophthalmology)
  • Eat low fat food regularly can reduce the chance of developing heart disease and certain cancers.
  • Calorie reduction can increase life expectancy by up to 30 percent
  • Vitamins can cut cancer death rates by 37%
  • Foods that contain the mineral selenium and plant-based chemical sulforaphane in combination may have a 13 times greater ability to protect against cancer than when the food compounds are used separately.

Well, if Nicholas Zhou’s Chinese healthy recipescan increase my life expectancy by up to 30 percent I’ll definitely want to have the chance of a lower risk of going blind or getting cancer or diabetes or obesity or heart problems. Perhaps I could live to 140 years old on life-support machines, but who calls that living?