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Gallup found that just 6 percent of Chinese said there were times in the past 12 months when they lacked enough money for food for themselves or their family, compared to 19 percent of Americans. Just three years ago, those results were almost reversed: 16 percent of Chinese couldn't put food on the table at times, compared to 9 percent of Americans.

I'm not surprised. Asians can go longer with the basic kitchen staples.
An American kitchen is stocked with one meal, one shot items. Asian kitchens are stocked with dried fungus, seaweed, spices, fish, beef stock, chicken stock, clam stock, garlic sauce, oysters sauce, peppers, I could go on and on.

All of which are high in antioxidants, and higher in vitamins and minerals. These items last months and are cheap and easy to replenish. There's a huge diversity of meals that can be created, with the basic ingredients. Often they need nothing more than noodles or rice. Americans feel under nourished if we don't have a few pounds of meat, a garden assortment of vegetables and all of the other my Plate puzzle pieces.