Typically yes, Chinese food is high in cholesterol. However, this statement needs to be qualified. Not all food of Chinese origin is high in cholesterol, or generally unhealthy. Mostly Chinese food is as balanced and beneficial as any other national cuisine. The problem comes with Chinese restaurants. Foods from these sorts of vendors tend to be quickly cooked and often very oily.
The best advice you can be given is to reduce the meat content in Chinese fast food, or with Chinese food in general, and to avoid anything fried. Their dishes to tend to be more vegetable orientated, it's just in the West (primarily the US and UK), it's a case that the quick, meaty dishes are the most popular.
Reducing the amount of meat in a dish will help, as will cutting the amount of sodium intake that day. If you don't know what has sodium in it then a quick look at the product's ingredients will tell you and explain its relation to your daily allowance. The most common sodium by-product is of course salt.
Other recommendations are to order Cantonese and get steamed rice, as opposed to another variety. This is because Cantonese is generally cooked fresher and is lighter in content; both in terms of size and ingredients. Steamed rice is preferable because it is a complex carbohydrate. As well as being low in refined carbohydrates it is also a metabolism boosting food. In comparison, fried rice is extremely high in cholesterol and special fried rice is made using day-old rice that is re-cooked and heavily flavored.
The best advice you can be given is to reduce the meat content in Chinese fast food, or with Chinese food in general, and to avoid anything fried. Their dishes to tend to be more vegetable orientated, it's just in the West (primarily the US and UK), it's a case that the quick, meaty dishes are the most popular.
Reducing the amount of meat in a dish will help, as will cutting the amount of sodium intake that day. If you don't know what has sodium in it then a quick look at the product's ingredients will tell you and explain its relation to your daily allowance. The most common sodium by-product is of course salt.
Other recommendations are to order Cantonese and get steamed rice, as opposed to another variety. This is because Cantonese is generally cooked fresher and is lighter in content; both in terms of size and ingredients. Steamed rice is preferable because it is a complex carbohydrate. As well as being low in refined carbohydrates it is also a metabolism boosting food. In comparison, fried rice is extremely high in cholesterol and special fried rice is made using day-old rice that is re-cooked and heavily flavored.
