I don’t know since when, everyone around me suddenly started to “keep in good health”.
Lycium barbarum is soaked on the desk, and astragalus is boiled in the thermos cup. It seems that the water is drank in vain without adding anything to the water. However, have you ever thought about whether what you swallowed is the so-called "nurturing" or another kind of "mistake"?
Nutrition is not as simple as stuffing things into your mouth
My mother used to always say, "medicinal supplements are not as good as dietary supplements."
This statement sounds very correct, but if you think about it carefully, it seems that there is something wrong somewhere. What exactly is nourishment? It uses three meals a day to adjust the bias of your body with the help of the bias of food. When your body is in a hot and dry state, give you foods that are cold in nature; when your body is in a cold state, give you foods that are warm in nature. Only in this way can we call it nourishment.
But now? Many people will eat whatever they hear is good.
Even if mung beans are beneficial, you should not drink mung bean soup every day; even if barley can remove dampness, you should not eat barley porridge with every meal. This is not recuperation, but a constant struggle with oneself.
Medicinal diet is not “food” that everyone can eat
I checked specifically and found that there are only more than 100 medicinal and edible homologous substances announced by the National Health Commission. These items can indeed be eaten as food and used as medicine.
But the key point is - "taking it as food" and "taking it as medicine" are two different things .
If you eat it as a meal, it depends on the taste and preference;
If you use it as medicine, you have to look at your physical constitution, contraindications, and dosage.
I met a girl and heard that barley has the effect of removing dampness and whitening, so she boiled water and drank it for half a month. However, the humidity showed no signs of improvement. Instead, my hands and feet began to become cold, and my menstrual period was no longer normal. Why exactly? The reason is that barley is cold in nature! Her own physique is already on the cold side, isn't this just making things worse?
If you eat it right, it is a tonic; if you eat it wrong, it is poison. This is really not meant to scare people.
How on earth should we eat?
In fact, Chinese medicine gave the answer thousands of years ago, but we have forgotten it.
The sixteen words in the "Huangdi Neijing" are the real "dietary constitution". They are, "Five grains are for nourishment," "Five fruits are for help," "Five animals are for benefit," and "Five vegetables are for supplementation."
You see, the five grains are in the first place and are used to nourish your life; the five fruits play a auxiliary role and are helpful; the five animals contain a gain effect and can provide slight nourishment; the five vegetables have a filling function and are used to fill some gaps.
People today regard the five animals as the most important. Without meat, eating is no fun. They regard the five fruits as the main diet and use fruits as food substitutes to achieve weight loss. If the order is confused like this, won't the body become disordered?
Let’s talk about the cliché “drink more water”
Many people know that a glass of water is recommended when getting up and a glass of milk before going to bed.
But there are also things to pay attention to when it comes to drinking water. It does not mean that you drink water when you feel thirsty. It is a passive behavior of drinking water. When your body is already in a state similar to "on fire", you only go to water it, and it is already too late. Instead, you need to take the initiative to drink water, and take a sip from time to time, so that the water can slowly moisturize you.
Don’t just stick to eight glasses of water a day. There are some people whose kidney function is not good. Drinking a lot of water will eventually cause trouble to the body. 1.5 liters to 2 liters is just a reference value, not an absolute guideline that must be followed.
Tea is also a "biased" drink
Drink green tea in summer, black tea in winter, and scented tea in spring and autumn.
This sentence may sound like a jingle, but behind it is what Chinese medicine calls "cold, hot, warm and cool". Green tea has not been fermented and is cold in nature. Drinking it in summer can clear away heat and relieve heat. If your hands and feet are cold in winter, if you still drink a lot of green tea, isn't that just asking for trouble? After black tea undergoes fermentation, its nature changes to warm, and drinking it in winter can warm the stomach.
A friend asked, I love drinking green tea. Can I drink it all year round?
No, how could this not work? There is no fixed answer to health preservation, only whether it suits your situation. If you feel comfortable physically and mentally after drinking it, then continue drinking it; if you have stomach pain or diarrhea after drinking it, then try something else.
Your body can speak, you have to learn to listen.
"One, two, three, four, five" by Professor Hong Zhaoguang
Some people may still remember Professor Hong Zhaoguang’s “one, two, three, four, five” dietary principles.
“One”: a bag of milk every day to supplement calcium;
"Two": 250 grams of staple food, flexible adjustment;
"Three": Three points are high in protein, and the meat cannot be less or more;
"Four": four sentences - thick and thin, neither sweet nor salty, three to four to five meals, seven to eight cents full ;
"Five": 500 grams of fruits and vegetables.
Especially the so-called "seven to eight points full", Chinese medicine has long said: if you want to be healthy, you need three points of hunger and cold. The problem now is that we are not hungry, but full. Eating every meal up to your throat is not a way to preserve your health, but rather punishing your gastrointestinal tract.
Don’t let leftovers become “carcinogens”
There is a habit that needs to be changed: eat the same vegetables as the whole meal.
After the vegetables in the dish are fried, left there, and then heated and eaten after waiting for a few hours, the nitrite content involved will increase. And that same substance is one of the factors that induces gastric cancer.
So no matter how distressed I am, I must fall when I should. The body is much more expensive than those few dollars.
Food nourishment, what exactly is nourishment?
As I write this, I suddenly feel a little dazed.
When we explore how to eat, what specific content to eat, and when to eat, what is the ultimate goal? Is it to achieve immortality? Is it to achieve a situation where all diseases will not invade oneself?
Probably neither.
Professor Hong Zhaoguang once said something very good: "The best doctor is yourself, the best medicine is time, the best mood is tranquility, and the best exercise is walking."
You see, the doctor is yourself, the medicine is time, the mood should be peaceful, and exercise is just walking.
The end of nourishment is actually not food, but life itself.
You know when to stop the chopsticks in your hands, know what is good for you, and know that even if others say it is good, but you feel uncomfortable after eating it, then don’t eat so "willfully".
Therefore, stop blindly believing in so-called “miracle foods”. There is no one food that can save you, and there is no one food that can harm you, unless you eat it every day, every meal.
Real nutrition means eating well, sleeping well, and living well.
As the ancients said, there is a saying of "taking obedience as nourishment". Follow your own physical condition, follow the changes of the four seasons, and follow the true feelings presented by your body.
Follow your heart, whatever you want, whatever happens to you.
Don't be too pushy.
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