Writer Liang Wendao said this: In the past thirty years, one of the biggest changes in China is getting heavier and heavier. Spicy hotpot, boiled beef, spicy chicken, crawfish, fragrant pot, barbecue, hot pot ……
There are netizens who describe the state of many people who are not happy with spicy food: “chrysanthemum” has been bubbling with blood, the pot is still non-stop. Even if the butt hurt tomorrow morning, tonight will come again.
Heavy flavors have become the norm for many Chinese people’s diet!
Stinky tofu, marinated chicken eggs, Kung Pao chicken, spicy chicken, boiled beef …… these people’s favorite “heavy taste “food, often high salt, high oil, high sugar, too spicy. And for boiled vegetables, small onions mixed with tofu, steamed fish and other light foods, people often turn their noses up and can not swallow. Heavy taste has become the norm for Chinese people’s diet.
A former journalist and self-publisher, “Kraft Mingming”, once recorded a story like this.
The writer Liang Wendao once went to Hanover, Germany with a colleague, because he was not used to the local diet, within a few days the colleague fell ill.
During the recuperation period, the colleague asked him to bring food, and he packed a famous local dish – Vienna pork chop.
The next day, his colleague was much more energetic and thanked him: “Finally, I’ve got something good to eat, that pork chop yesterday was very special and the soup was really tasty. “
Liang Wendao froze: there is no soup ah, where to get the soup?
A colleague said: that small bowl is not soup?
Liang Wendou then realized that the colleague will be the dip of pork chops as soup to drink, so that “enough taste”.
This incident made Liang Wendou feel very emotional: people with long term heavy tastes, their taste buds have become numb, and they can’t taste the beauty of the real taste of food.
In the past two decades, the biggest change of the Chinese people is that their taste is getting heavier and heavier, almost to the point of no spice, to the fierce oil, fierce seasoning, fierce salt.
Regarding this phenomenon, Liang Wendao said with immense regret: “Today’s heavy tastes make it impossible for us to properly appreciate a bowl of vegetarian noodles and a brick of tofu anymore. “
Perhaps what we like to eat is not the ingredients themselves, but simply like to melt into the ingredients in a variety of seasonings.
Heavy taste: to satisfy the mouth and tongue, and finally end up with a disease!
Heavy food, mostly too sweet, too salty, too spicy, too oily, and these, are very unhealthy way of eating!
1 too sweet – injury to the heart, obesity
In February 2012, published in the international top academic publication “Nature” magazine, an article entitled “public health: the toxic truth about sugar” (Public health: The toxic truth about sugar) pointed out that: sugar is like tobacco and alcohol, and the harm of sugar is far above fat and calories.
In fact, if consumed over a long period of time, a diet high in sugar can destroy the entire body from top to bottom: increasing the risk of heart disease, making you fat easily, and destroying your teeth.
Increased risk of heart disease: A study published in the Journal of Nutrition by researchers at Tufts University’s Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy found that children who drank one less sugary drink per week improved their heart health and reduced their risk of developing heart disease later in life. The more sugary drinks children drank, the higher their blood triglyceride levels were.
Obesity: According to Han Dongmei of the Pregnancy Nutrition Clinic at Peking Union Medical College Hospital, excessive sugar intake increases the risk of overweight and obesity. Sugar can be converted into fat, and a high-sugar diet is a direct risk factor for diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
Destroying teeth: on May 18, 2018, at the launch of the Chinese Children’s Sugary Drink Consumption Report, which was prepared by experts in related fields organized by the School of Public Health of Peking University and the UNICEF Office in China, Professor Ma Guangsheng, director of the Department of Nutrition and Food Hygiene at the School of Public Health of Peking University, introduced that after drinking sugary drinks, bacteria in the mouth can ferment sugar and food residues to form Dental plaque. Sugary carbonated drinks have a certain acidity, and long-term consumption will erode teeth and increase the risk of tooth decay.
2 too salty – heart, kidney and blood vessels
Recently, the British medical journal “The Lancet – Global Health” gave a set of survey data: in China, four fifths of the surveyed groups have an average daily salt intake of 12.5g, which is more than twice as much as the Chinese dietary guidelines (6g).
According to the study, the average salt intake among people aged 20 years and above worldwide, the redder the color, the higher the salt intake. China, Japan and Korea, which have salty diets, overpower most countries in the world when it comes to salt intake.
The study concluded that the salt-heavy nature of Chinese food is directly linked to health risks, and also issued a reminder that “Chinese food is too salty”.
Excessive salt intake is one of the major causes of high blood pressure, heart disease, kidney disease, stroke and other diseases.
So many people in the country, unknowingly soak themselves into the salt shaker.
3 too spicy – injury to the intestines, stomach, gallbladder inflammation
Chili pepper taste pungent, hot, but chili pepper has a strong local stimulating effect, although oral can enhance appetite, but should not eat more, over-eating can cause dizziness, dry eyes, burning in the mouth, abdomen or anus, pain, diarrhea. It can also induce ulcers, hurt the stomach and intestines, and indirectly lead to chronic diseases such as hypertension, hyperlipidemia and diabetes.
Li Rong, a professor at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, introduced that eating too spicy not only makes the circulating blood volume increase dramatically, the heart rate increase and tachycardia, but also may hinder the recovery of the original cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and lesions in the lungs.
In addition, too spicy will stimulate the gallbladder, especially chronic cholecystitis, gallstone disease. For patients with chronic pancreatitis, greedy spicy easy to make the disease attack. In middle age, pharyngitis, chronic bronchitis, oral problems, etc., due to the stimulation of capsaicin, but also to make the disease is prolonged. The stimulation of capsaicin, so that the gastrointestinal mucosa congestion edema, gastrointestinal peristalsis increased dramatically, affecting the recovery of digestive function.
4 excessive oil – three high, obesity, sad brain
Greasy food are rich in fat, long-term intake of such high-fat greasy food, easy to cause three high, obesity, but also injury to the heart and brain.
Three highs, obesity: Cai Honglin, director of the Department of Nutrition at the Union Hospital of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, points out that eating too much oil, excessive intake of saturated fat, high calories, easily lead to an increase in blood cholesterol, accelerating the narrowing of blood vessels, certainly not conducive to human health!
In addition to obesity, too much nutritional lipids, sugars remain in the body, over time, it is easy to trigger high blood lipids, high blood sugar, high blood pressure.
Injury cardiovascular: too much fat intake, in addition to causing obesity will also lead to excess fatty acids in the blood. Fatty acid excess is mainly stored in the form of triglycerides, which are deposited in the blood vessels and cause atherosclerosis, forming thrombosis and causing cardiovascular diseases.
Dr. Bo Feng, Department of Neurology, Zhongda Hospital, Southeast University, introduced that many people like to eat animal offal, barbecue and other fatty and high cholesterol food. Coupled with the sedentary lifestyle, body fat accumulates and the three highs invariably soar. Such habits are likely to lead to cerebral infarction, cerebral hemorrhage, stroke and other cerebrovascular diseases, thus inducing vascular dementia.
Whether eating or living, plain is true
In 2017, the National Health and Family Planning Commission proposed a healthy lifestyle of “three reductions and three health”, namely salt, oil and sugar reduction, healthy mouth, healthy weight and healthy bones. Healthy mouth, healthy weight and healthy bones. This is also an important part of the National Healthy Lifestyle Action (2016~2025), each of which is closely related to the prevention and control of chronic diseases.
Salt reduction: don’t exceed 6 grams per day
It is recommended to use a quantitative salt spoon, and if you feel bad about the taste, you may want to add vinegar and pepper to taste. In addition, shopping with label awareness, such as luncheon meat, etc., to see how much salt content is inside, especially the sodium content.
Reduce oil: do not exceed 30 grams per day
It is recommended that families use oil control pots, pour the cooking oil that the whole family should consume every day into the control pot, and take all the oil for frying from the control pot. Whenever possible, do not use cooking oil or use very little cooking oil when cooking food, such as steaming, boiling, stewing, simmering, water-slide stir-frying, mixing, and quick frying.
Reduce sugar: control the total starch intake
Many people say reduce sugar, you think not to eat food containing sugar, sweet food can refuse to refuse. In fact, we are talking about reducing sugar, including not only the usual monosaccharides, disaccharides, fructose, etc., starchy foods should also be controlled, such as rice, pasta, etc.. Because these starchy foods in the intestinal tract will also be broken down into monosaccharides, disaccharides. And the standard of reducing sugar is to eat in the starch, sugar and other energy substances to balance with our daily consumption of energy, or energy accumulation in the body will be converted into fat, thus increasing the body’s metabolic burden.
Finally, when a person has realized the true meaning of life, only to understand that bland is the true nature of life!
For example: simple plain water, healthier than alcohol, drinks, will not cause obesity, diabetes, high blood cholesterol, etc.. Many people in this life, drinking a variety of high-end drinks, a variety of names grade of wine, which has become a symbol of a person’s status, experience in the world, but drink to the end to find: the original healthiest or the cup of cold white.
Some people have eaten so many high-end hotels, mountains and seafood, delicious delicacies, in the end, high blood pressure, high blood sugar, blood vessel blockage, live to the end to understand that the healthiest, the most fragrant or their own home three or five small dishes and a bowl of mixed grain with vegetables.
So, whether it’s eating or living, plain and simple is true!
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