Nov. 13, 2000 -- Scan the menu at your local Chinese restaurant and you're apt to find dozens of meat-centered dishes -- General Tso's chicken, orange beef, twice-fried pork. But don't be fooled ...

Scott Chang-Fleeman first started growing organic choy sum, a leafy vegetable common in Chinese cuisine, while he was a second year apprentice at the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food ...

An order at a typical Chinese restaurant squeezes in more than 1,200 calories, 3,500 mg sodium, and 50 grams of sugar. If you're craving protein as a start to your meal, seared tuna or a lean ...

The battered, fried chicken dish with vegetables has 1,300 calories, 3,200 milligrams of sodium and 11 grams of saturated fat. That’s before the rice (200 calories a cup).

"Really, the traditional diet is all about vegetables," she says. "In the past, most people couldn't afford to eat much meat, so they had to concentrate on making their everyday vegetarian produce ...