What to eat every day, it doesn’t matter what the experts say, it’s your body that has the final say
"Mom, am I going to buy a carton of milk?" "Don't buy it! It is said on the Internet that all milk today is full of hormones, and children will mature prematurely if they drink it!" On the other end of the phone, my mother sounded very firm, as if I was going to poison my daughter in the next second.
I glanced at the milk in the shopping cart and silently deleted it.
People with family groups know this scenario well. You never know whether what you forward next is "something that is a great supplement" or "something that causes cancer."
Let’s not talk about those scary headlines today, but only talk about the eating, drinking, and diarrhea in ordinary people’s lives, which are real, close to the reality of life, and can be realized.
When it comes to eating, don’t compete with yourself, just compete with the market.
Experts said that you need to consume one pound of vegetables every day. After my mother-in-law heard about it, she immediately changed the original one plate of fried vegetables for dinner to two plates. However, in the end, the whole family only had half a plate left.
In fact, there is no need to be so precise. When cooking noodles in the morning, throw in a few leaves, add an extra portion of green leafy vegetables when making lunch in the cafeteria, and pat a cucumber at night. This is enough for one day.
Staple food does not necessarily need to be weighed with the help of a scale. My family currently mixes some brown rice with white rice, grabs some millet, and then presses the button on the rice cooker. No one will know that there are "whole grains" hidden in it.
Things like meat, eggs, and milk are as common as daily things. There are always several boxes of fresh milk in the refrigerator. My daughter drinks a glass when she wakes up in the morning, and another glass before going to bed at night. On the weekend, she buys a fish, steams it, and then cuts it into a plate of sauced beef with a unique flavor. This is an improvement in the quality of life.
My colleague Xiao Wang is in an even worse situation. His wife puts a small bag of mixed nuts and an apple into his bag every day, claiming it is "afternoon tea", but in fact, she is forcing him not to order milk tea all the time.
At the end of the day, what kind of 12 foods are these? It sounds scary, but in fact it’s just an extra five minutes spent on pairing each meal.
How many pitfalls have you stepped on that have been "made up" over the years?
My father had knee pain, so my mother immediately made a large pot of bone soup and forced him to drink it for three days. There was a layer of oily stars floating on it.
I told her that this soup is full of fat. If you want to supplement calcium, it is better to drink a bag of milk or eat some braised tofu.
She was doubtful until she watched the popular science on TV.
My best friend is also mine. In order to achieve the goal of whitening, she drinks lemon water every day until her teeth are sore, but the color of her face and skin remains unchanged.
I told her that it would be much more effective if you just eat two kiwis and a handful of cherry tomatoes.
A few days ago, I had stomach discomfort. My mother immediately said to cook some porridge to recuperate. I quickly learned that the stomach needs to be recuperated by eating regularly. Just drinking porridge will make the stomach almost no longer want to do normal work or even work.
Not to mention those years when we believed that "eating pig's trotters can replenish collagen." As a result, we gnawed a lot of pig's trotters, but our faces were still slumped when they should have been, and our waists were actually thicker.
Suppose someone once again posts something like "Eat more XX to enlarge your breasts" in the family group, then I will reply with a sentence with a specific meaning: "If there is such a thing with good effects, then all the people in the streets will be beauties. How can we have the opportunity to discuss this topic?".
A good night's sleep is better than any skin care products
When it comes to sleeping, my family is a "negative example".
My husband always watches short videos before going to bed, and his face is illuminated by the phone screen in the dark.
I urged him to go to bed, but he didn't even raise his head and said, "Right now, finish reading this." As a result, he saw twelve o'clock at a glance.
Later, we agreed on three rules: Half an hour before going to bed, mobile phones are not allowed to be placed on the bed. Even if you want to watch them, you must turn on the bedside lamp and adjust the brightness of the screen to the minimum.
For my mother-in-law, who is a light sleeper, I bought light-blocking eye masks and anti-noise earplugs for her. After trying them, she claimed that she could indeed sleep until dawn.
Sometimes, after I lie down, my mind seems to be playing a movie, and I find it difficult to fall asleep for a long time. So I get up, find the clothes I will wear for the next day, or read a few pages of a book, and then lie down again after I feel sleepy.
Want to catch up on some sleep over the weekend?
Let's not make trouble for now. The biological clock is more accurate than the alarm clock. You will wake up at a specific time. After waking up, you will never be able to fall asleep again. Instead of doing this, it is better to live a more regular life.
Move, not just to post on Moments
Nowadays, anyone who doesn’t have more than 10,000 steps on WeChat is embarrassed to say hello to others.
However, for my daily commute, I first start from my home, then head towards the subway station, and then start from the subway station and head towards the company's location. Adding up all the steps, it is only 3,000 steps at most. This is much worse than the amount of exercise that people say is walking.
Real exercise requires walking until you are breathing slightly and your heartbeat is racing.
My dad now goes to the park after dinner for a half-hour brisk walk. He talks to his old friends while walking. When he comes back, his face is red and he says he feels very comfortable.
My mother doesn't like to go out, so she stays at home and does physical exercises according to the video, or cleans the floor and washes the dishes. She said, isn't this also a manifestation of physical function?
That's right, the housework is done, the house is clean, and people exercise.
But I have to remind you that our parents are at this age and we really shouldn’t go hiking all the time. It’s not that we’re afraid of meeting bad people, but that our knees really can’t bear it.
Uncle Li is from our community. He goes to climb Xiangshan Mountain every day. Later, his knees hurt so much that he couldn't walk. After that, he had his joints replaced and he slowly recovered.
The medicine box at home is filled with security
My medicine box, run by my mother, is full of everything, including cold medicine, painkillers, band-aids, and iodophor cotton swabs.
Last time my daughter had diarrhea, she dug out a box of montmorillonite powder , and when I saw it, it was three months past its expiration date.
So now I check them regularly and throw away those that are expired.
I am very particular about taking medicines. My mother-in-law has a thin throat and always gets stuck when taking tablet medicines. I taught her to raise her head slightly and not drink too much water, so that she could swallow it smoothly.
Once I suffered from a cold and had to pester the doctor to prescribe cephalosporins. The doctor glared at me and said: "The condition you are suffering from is viral, and antibiotics will not be effective!" It was through this situation that I learned that if antibiotics are chosen blindly, Taking it is not feasible, and the "take three times a day" indicated on the drug instructions is not based on the time of three meals a day, but means that it needs to be taken every eight hours, and these taking times must be evenly and reasonably distributed.
In addition, my dad always remembered this sentence "take medicine but not drink". The reason is that among his old comrades, some of them took cephalosporin and drank alcohol, and then went to the hospital. This situation scared him so much that he stopped touching medicine and wine.
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