[teach]

Meat bun for breakfast, biandang for lunch and dumplings for dinner sounds like a hell of lot of red meat -- aka the Western diet.

If I were her I'd try to cut out the animal products for a month and see what that does. It might not work and then you've at least eliminated a variable.

Also remember that the average medical doctor never had to take a single human nutrition course. Some doctors have done quite a bit of additional studying and are up-to-date on nutrition research and findings but most probably just see the same flawed headlines most Americans do.