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hey Dr will Lee here I am at a uh
Chinese restaurant and I want to
actually show you what I um choosing
today from the mediterran the Asian side
of mediterran uh food and talk you about
what is actually helpful about what I've
chosen most of you are interested so the
first thing I actually have is here a
bowl of hot and sour soup pretty common
uh offering in a Chinese restaurant and
I want to talk to you about what's in it
and why I chose it first of all it's a
nice warming uh bowl of soup but you
might be surprised to know that what's
inside it are sliced soft tofu which
actually has genine genine um helps to
right siize your circulation it also um
helps activate your metabolism so um
that's also good and of course uh tofu
soy products have been shown to lower
the risk of breast cancer uh and uh also
have this anti-angiogenic cancer
starving effect the other thing in hot
and sour soup um let's see you can see
some of the black strips here um or dark
strips here that's woodier mushroom
woodier mushroom is kind of a delicacy I
have a bigger plate of it here's an
appetizer um show you right here all
right these are woodier mushrooms really
delicious it's kind of a it's not really
a mushroom it's a fungus um and it's a
it's a great uh little appetizer but
when it's in the soup it actually adds
to the flavor of the soup now what's in
a wood your mushroom is really amazing
there's natural antimicrobial properties
um it's been shown in the lab to kill
staff arus and ecoli right you guys have
probably heard of both of those bacteria
they're the ones that we actually don't
want to be infected by so another
healing property of sweet and sour soup
the other thing that's in sweet and sour
soup look at the green bits that's
cilantro cilantro also has bacterial
killing properties another healing
property and then look a little bit of
chili oil here chili oil has capsacin
capsacin activates your taste buds and
it actually um uh can send a signal to
your brain that releases
neurotransmitters and activates your
brown fat to undergo thermogenesis so it
actually lights your body up uh to be
able to have your good fat burn down
harmful bad fat and then what's the that
result of that you actually have an
improved metabolism so here is a great
example of how a classic
soup that you can find in a a Chinese
restaurant actually is good for you so
um also vinegar by the way there's
vinegar in here vinegar is heic acid
prevents your fat cells from expanding
uh so it slows down uh the growth of fat
uh let's see do I need to actually put
any other good properties well the best
property is that it tastes
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do we actually strengthen our health so
I hope to see you in the course Dr Le
out
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