&gt; Chinese are actually eating.<p>Considering how popular street vendors are and crappy restaurants, who have been caught using gutter oil, well, China may not be the miraculous country of healthy eaters you think it is.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;worldviews&#x2F;wp&#x2F;2013&#x2F;10&#x2F;28&#x2F;you-may-never-eat-street-food-in-china-again-after-watching-this-video&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;worldviews&#x2F;wp&#x2F;2013&#x2F;10&#x2F;28...</a><p>Fried foods and obesity are huge concerns in China right now:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;global-development-professionals-network&#x2F;2015&#x2F;feb&#x2F;12&#x2F;chinas-body-mass-time-bomb-policymakers-tackling-rising-obesity" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;global-development-professionals-...</a><p>Chinese kids are almost as fat as American kids:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.wsj.com&#x2F;chinarealtime&#x2F;2014&#x2F;05&#x2F;29&#x2F;as-obesity-rises-chinese-kids-are-almost-as-fat-as-americans&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.wsj.com&#x2F;chinarealtime&#x2F;2014&#x2F;05&#x2F;29&#x2F;as-obesity-ris...</a><p>&quot;The country is now No. 2 for obesity, with its number of obese residents outstripped only by the U.S. Its obesity rate has skyrocketed over the last three decades, resulting in 46 million obese Chinese adults and 300 million who are overweight&quot;<p>They have more overweight people than the US has people!<p>&gt;Modern processed food managed to increase our daily calories intake while decreasing the essential nutrients that we need.<p>This sounds like bullshit that falls into the nostalgia of the past fallacy.