I was reading an article in Marie Claire magazine about what women eat daily around the world and come to find out that the United States is ranked second to Namibia to the amount of calorie intake. It was a eye-opener to me on how some of these women consume so much in a one-day setting, but yet the American culture is the Fattest. Crazy! Just a thought!
Here are a list of foods that each woman in their own culture consume in 1 day.
Namibia
- 1,500 calories in 1 day's food
- Most of their meals consist of cornmeal porridge, sour whole milk, and bird plums.
Venezuela
- 4,000 calories in 1 day's food
- Most of their meals consist of a variety of unhealthy things: Pastelitos (deep-fried stuffed pastries), fruit, mary white rice with amparito, lettuce, cucumber and tomato salad, fried red snapper, white bread, once once vanilla cake, candy bars, and chips.
India
- 2,100 calories in 1 day's food
- Most of their meals consist of usual things: urine, dragon and passion fruit, puffed lotus seeds, amia (Indian gooseberries), sun-dried pine nuts, Mili tamarind candy, Uttapam(black lentil and rice-flour flatbread) baked with several veggies, Idli(steamed, fermented rice and lentil bread), tomato chutney, soy yogurt, pigeon peas and eggplant, boiled potato with veggies, vagharelo bhaat(soft sticky rice with veggies and seeds), lime pickles, Alu papad( thin, crispy bread made from potato starch, butter, and ground chillies), etc.
Yemen
- 2,700 calories in 1 day's food
- Most of their meals consist of foods similar to India: Qishir(sweet, tealike coffee made from coffee bean husks), Ful(fava beans), Khubz(wheat-flour flatbread), black tea, Saltah(mutton, eggplant, tomato, and onion stew with hot chillies and hulbah, a foamy fenugreek topping), rice with cimin and cardamom, Lahuuh(fermented flatbread), salad with just veggies, scrambled eggs with tomato and onion, Maluuj(millet bread), calf meat on the bone, and lots of fruit.
USA
- 1,900 calories in 1 day's food
- Most of our meals are fast foods: Burger king meal, Taco bell, sodas, fruit snacks, etc. (all processed foods)
Germany
- 3,700 calories in 1 day's food
- Most of their meals consist of breads and pastas: Walnut rolls with ham, croissants, fruits, bologna, smoked pork loins, gouda cheese, Radiatori pasta with homemade bolognese sauce, Muddy water(apple and grape juices diluted with water), lots of diluted fruit drinks.
Taiwan
- 2,700 calories in 1 day's food
- Most of their foods consist of fried fish and meats: fried fish, kung pao chicken, steamed eggs, white rice, Luwei(soy-sauce broth with medicinal herbs), pickled cabbage, instant ramen noodles, doupi(tofu skin), lots of veggies, stujing jiao(boiled rice-flour dumplings with meat), mu'er(gelatinous tree fungus), bean sprouts, Fried dougan(dried tofu), yansu ji(salty fried chicken), freid fish pasta, fried squid tentacles, fried chicken gizzards, rui-sui whole milk.
