Active nutrition, eat away the diseases caused by eating

If you want to prevent the seeds of chronic diseases from growing into towering trees, you must cut off the soil in which they develop— unhealthy lifestyles . So, where is the easiest and most effective way to improve your lifestyle?

Among lifestyle interventions, I think dietary intervention is the easiest to implement. Why? There are two reasons. One is that diseases come from the mouth, because most chronic diseases are related to eating. The other is to control diet.

As the saying goes: Diseases come from the mouth. The great abundance of material things satisfies our appetite, but it also becomes a "catalyst" for diseases. So, how does diet affect the occurrence of chronic diseases?

There are two most important concepts for the occurrence of chronic diseases: avoid diseases from the mouth and promote diseases from the mouth. There are four common chronic diseases, cardiovascular disease, cerebrovascular disease, cancer, and metabolic diseases, which are the most common. In fact, these four chronic diseases ranked in the top 4 are all related to diseases from the mouth.

Well, diseases come from the mouth. Let me give you a simple example, called metabolic syndrome . Obesity, blood lipid problems, high blood sugar, high blood pressure, high uric acid meet three of the five conditions, which is metabolic syndrome. What is the concept of metabolic syndrome? First of all, metabolism. In fact, the simplest understanding of metabolism is that the energy that enters is then excreted. So roughly speaking, it is what you eat, but the food you eat is not just excreted. Some of the things you absorb must be consumed by the body. Energy is only OK if it circulates. If it accumulates anywhere, everyone will have problems. Metabolic syndrome is a comprehensive disease caused by excessive intake and insufficient excretion. There are several types of these diseases, and they are basically the chronic diseases I just mentioned.

The top two chronic diseases, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, are definitely related to metabolic syndrome. Therefore, the control of metabolic syndrome is a very important method to control common chronic diseases. Metabolic syndrome is a general outline for us to prevent diseases from entering the body through the mouth.

The key to disease coming from the mouth is that we are too greedy, only caring about satisfying our own appetite, but ignoring the body's tolerance and needs. When we take in too many calories that the body does not need and lack the nutrients that the body needs, diseases will come.

Clinically, there are many cases of illness caused by nutritional imbalance. If there is a problem with any vitamin or any micronutrient, our body will get sick. There is no such thing as important nutrients or unimportant nutrients. All nutrients are essential to our body. Even a trace amount of any nutrient, such as iron deficiency anemia, vitamin C deficiency scurvy, vitamin B deficiency congestive cardiomyopathy, beriberi, and encephalopathy, is just a tiny amount.

Many elderly people died two days later for unknown reasons. What is a very important reason? Low potassium . We didn’t realize that just a little bit of it could kill you. Isn’t it important? Maybe micrograms or milligrams can kill you. So we say that the amount of micronutrients is small, but it really makes a big difference. So from the perspective of nutrients, there is no such thing as unimportant nutrition. Only by balancing the functions of our body can we maintain balance. If this is out of balance, our body functions will show various problems.

Since many diseases are caused by eating, we can start conditioning from “eating”. Similarly, we can also achieve the goal of “diseases come from the mouth” and eat away the diseases caused by eating .

In fact, if we do things purely from the perspective of nutrition, it may replace the role of many drugs in the development of future diseases. Especially for chronic diseases that occur all year round and only show the final bad results after years of occurrence, long-term nutritional intervention has gradually become a very important means of controlling chronic diseases. Emphasizing disease prevention, from the perspective of implementation, grasping the point of nutrition is a very important part of achieving a healthy China.

There are 45 essential nutrients for the human body. They are like an army, and they can only exert their greatest combined force by working together. To grasp the key point of "nutrition", we must maintain the balance of the "nutrition balance", neither too much nor too little, but just right. How to understand this "just right" is to grasp the two key points of "nutrition balance".

Let’s first look at the first key point, the balance between the human body’s total energy intake and expenditure.

For example, high blood pressure, high blood lipids, diabetes, and obesity are all caused to a certain extent by excessive total energy intake, especially high-sugar carbohydrates or high-energy foods, and the body consumes less. This accumulates to a certain extent and our body will have problems. So from this point of view, from the perspective of disease prevention, disease recovery, and disease treatment, in addition to keeping a good entrance, there is also a balance. What you eat and what you excrete, and what you consume, must maintain a steady state. This is a steady state.

What is the new concept of nutrition? The new concept of nutrition is to find a balance. If the main food is high-density nutrition, then you need to supplement it with other things including fiber, some trace elements and some minerals to balance your excess nutrition.

Let’s look at the second key point of nutritional balance – the balance between nutrients .

The second balance is the balance between nutrients. So these two balances are originally the balance between eating and moving, the balance between eating and excreting. In addition, there is another situation that should not be ignored, the balance between nutrients, that is, food diversity . To solve the problem from the root and from the pathogenesis, we still have to go back to nutrition and eat away the disease caused by eating.

The two "nutritional balances" seem easy, but it is difficult to stick to them. From a long-term perspective, how can we achieve nutritional balance?

To achieve nutritional balance, the most important concept is active nutrition . Why do I say that? I always think that the weaknesses of human nature should not be challenged easily. There are some things that you can't do.

The most important thing to develop a good nutritional concept is implementation and persistence. I learned some nutritional knowledge today. I think tomatoes are delicious, so I eat scrambled eggs with tomatoes every day, and they are low in oil. I can't stick to it after a week. I learned some nutritional knowledge today. I don't eat fatty meat for six months. After six months, when a plate of pork with preserved vegetables is served, you can't help but eat it. Eating, which is a very beautiful human enjoyment, has become an important task and burden. But if you do this every day, eating will not be fun at all, so this is called challenging human nature.

Since it is not easy to change a deep-rooted eating habit, is it possible to find a relatively simple and easy way to achieve nutritional balance?

Whether you are lacking certain nutrients or need to control your diet and reduce excess nutrition in the process of overcoming chronic diseases, you need a tool. Being able to control and supplement nutritional intake without affecting the quality of life, coupled with some tools to assist, including some nutritional supplements and other diet-related tools, it will make you live a healthy and happy life, and more importantly, it is easy to stick to it for a long time, which is an important issue.

Just like with the support of trekking poles (nutritional supplements), we can walk farther and climb higher mountains. In life, we need to always pay attention to the gaps in our daily diet. Once we find a gap, we must make up for it as soon as possible. This is the necessary health literacy for modern people to stay away from diseases.

Good nutrition is the foundation of health, good nutrition is the main source of immunity, and good nutrition is the best army to fight against diseases. Nutrition is the most basic treatment. Nutrition is not a supplement, not a support, and even less an auxiliary, but a treatment . I hope that we can push the role of nutrition forward to the prevention of diseases, and extend it to the recovery of diseases, rather than just thinking about nutrition when we get sick. This is wrong. When we are not sick, we should deposit zero, and when we get sick, we should withdraw the whole amount, so that our body can better fight against diseases. So I especially hope that everyone can give full play to the role of nutrition in disease prevention and health maintenance.