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Many of us like to eat out. We treat to delicious food. We are used to choosing rich, fat—filled dishes and sugar—charged desserts, which are not easily cooked at home.
The recent rise of light meals, however, gives us a choice. According to Economic Daily, low—calorie, low—fat and high—fiber （高纤维的） meals popular in China's restaurants and online food order apps.
The country saw the fastof restaurants specializing in light meals, from just 600 in 2018 to more than 3,500 in 2019. According to a report by Meituan, a main online food order app, the number of light meals online also rose 75 percent from the past year.
a light meal, however, doesn't mean eating only vegetables. Different from the meat—free lifestyle, a typical light dish avoids , oily and spicy food. Instead, it includes things like boiled meat, whole grains, fruits and vegetables. Healthy nutrients （营养成分） are the theme of the light meal.
These dishes are useful for keeping healthy and controlling your weight. That'swhy so many people,especially millennials （千禧一代）, are into them.We see it as "a great way becoming heavier," wrote the Telegraph.
These changes in eating behavior to deeper changes in how people think about food, says Walter Willett, chair of the Harvard T. Chan School of Public Health, US. "Diet quality, not quantity （数量）, is important for both weight control and long term well—being," Willett told The New York Times.
So the next time you have a party with friends, try a light meal. It will satisfy not only your stomachs but maybe also your hearts.
