CHINA: DIET AND LIFESTYLE

Embracing Western Culture And The New Golden Era: How Golden

Is It for Health?

What’s Their Secret?

Lifestyle and Diet in China: Healthy Living into your 70s, 80s and Beyond?

This presentation discusses several customary practices in China that greatly contribute to the quality of life most elderly Chinese experience. The ethnographic interviews and observations for this presentation were conducted primarily along the affluent and developed East coast corridor of China in the cities of Beijing and Nanjing from 2006-2010. It’s no secret...to Chinese... what health experts in the US have been saying will improve our quality of life! Photos and interviews from this fieldwork illustrate several lifestyle practices exemplified among the Chinese that can be modeled and incorporated into our lifestyle in the US.

Chinese Academy of Social Sciences PhD students learn field methods

Interviews on lifestyle with elderly in parks

Social Science Interview Findings

Retirement means time for family and community

Time for Exercise

Even at work/school

Group Stretch, Dance and Flex

Tai Chi

The Traditional Diet of Fresh Vegetables

Harvested and Bought Daily

Farm to Table

Fresh Fruits

Local Vendors on Corners

Fresh Meat

Eaten along with noodles/rice and veggies

Traditional Green Tea

Hot Tea, Hot Water all day (and nap) Breaks

And Beer BreaksToast to your Health

Beer is very weak, 3%

Nuts and Seeds as Snacks

Family Meals at Dinner

A Time to Relax

Flash Fry Foods

Fresh from the Market

Market Produce and Meat, Rice and Soup on the side

Take your time and enjoy

A little oil and high heat

No need to diet with this meal

Fresh and Colorful

Traditional Fast Food

Fresh and Fast

New Fast Food The New Golden Era

The New Golden Era

How Golden it is?

Embracing The New Western Diet

For Chinese Health?