Thursday, August 1, 2019

Chicken meat provides great amount of fiber in my diet

Every time I eat a substantial amount of chicken (2+ leg quarters) in a day, my poop is very healthy the next morning.

I believe that this is because chicken meat is high in fibers and low in lectins.

Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Muslim population of China

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gansu#Religion

Gansu province has one of the highest proportion of Muslims in China. As per Wikipedia (see link above), only 12% of the population identifies with a religion (the rest are atheists). Out of that 12%, about 3.4% are Muslim. Extrapolating this to the entire population, about 28% of the province's population (or roughly 7.3 million of the province's 26 million population) would be, at least culturally, Muslim.

However, a simple extrapolation may not be very accurate, although that is all we have to go by. Perhaps Muslims, specially in provinces where they have a sizeable population (Gansu, Ningxia, Qinghai, Xinjiang) are far more likely to identify with their religion than the Han Chinese (who are more likely to be atheist).

Extrapolating this to the national level, one would expect the percentage of cultural Muslims in China to be about 8-9% (instead of the official 2% number). That would be more than 120 million Muslims, which would be more in line with the pre-Communist census figures.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ningxia#Religion

Even in Ningxia, which is a Hui Autonomous province, the Muslim population is only 34%. This doesn't make sense. One would expect Muslims to be in a solid majority in a Hui Autonomous province. 
I would peg the real number of (cultural if not religious) Muslims in Ningxia to be at least 68% of the population. That would be 4.6 million Muslims.