What are the dietary health problems

The dietary health problems encountered by ordinary people today are not essentially "not eating" but "not knowing how to eat" - either they actively step into the pitfalls of extreme diets, or they passively fall into the trap of processed foods. Many times, when there are minor health problems, it is never thought that they are caused by a few mouthfuls of food every day.

A while ago, I helped a friend who works in operations to adjust her diet. In order to keep up with the progress of wearing small skirts in the summer, she ate boiled vegetables and fried chicken breasts every day for more than two months. She only dared to eat half a stick of corn as a staple food. In the end, she lost eight pounds. My aunt postponed it for 20 days and often got angry at her colleagues. She went to the hospital to check her hormone levels. The doctor said that it was caused by eating too little carbohydrates and high-quality fats. Speaking of which, there is another controversy that has been going on for several years: Is low-carb water healthy? People in the fitness circle say that short-term low-carbon fat removal is more efficient, and endocrinology doctors also say that carbohydrates are the core energy source of the brain, and the lack of carbohydrates will affect cognition and mood. In fact, both sides are right, but the target groups are completely different. People who spend two hours in the gym every day to build muscle and ordinary people who sit in the office and can’t walk 5,000 steps a day cannot use the same set of dietary standards.

Compared with this extreme way of actively choosing to eat, more people step on silent and hidden pitfalls without even noticing it. Let’s talk about the breakfast combination often bought by office workers downstairs: hand pancakes with tenderloin and salad dressing, and a cup of freshly ground soy milk with three spoons of sugar. It looks healthier than eating instant noodles, but the actual amount of fat and added sugar exceeds the standard by one-third in the morning. At noon, I order a takeaway that is heavy on salt and spicy, and in the evening When I feel hungry after working overtime, I have a cup of full-sugar milk tea with fried skewers. At the end of the day, the calories are off the table. I haven’t eaten enough dietary fiber and high-quality protein. Last month, the community organized a physical examination. Several young men under the age of 25 were found to have high blood lipids. The doctor asked about their diet, and they all found out that they ate this way.

There are still many people who hold the idea that "eating whole grains is definitely healthy" and go to the supermarket to buy the kind of bread and biscuits with "whole wheat" and "grain" printed on the package. After half a month of eating, they gain two pounds in weight. They come to me with the ingredient list. I look through it and find that the first one is wheat flour, followed by white sugar and shortening. The so-called whole wheat flour does not even add 10%. This is not eating whole grains, this is eating processed snacks with high oil and sugar in a different name. There is another topic that everyone often debates: Does drinking ice water hurt your stomach? Elders always say that ice will irritate the stomach, and drinking too much will cause gastrointestinal problems. However, many Europeans and Americans have not experienced gastrointestinal problems after drinking ice drinks since they were young. In fact, the core is not the temperature at all, but their own gastrointestinal tolerance. For people with chronic gastritis or gastric ulcer, drinking ice is indeed likely to cause cramps and pain. But for people with healthy gastrointestinal health, there is no need to feel guilty at all when the weather is hot, drink an iced American or eat ice cream. If you are really uncomfortable, just stop.

After all, most dietary health problems are caused by not putting "fitting yourself" in the first place. No matter how brilliant the diet prescriptions on the Internet are, if you feel uncomfortable and lack of energy after eating, then it is not suitable for you. After all, you must first eat happily before you can talk about long-term health.