Health truth: medlar jujube not magic tonic

08:50 August 23, 2016

Source: People's Daily online - health channel

People in Beijing on August 23 (xinhua Zhao Jinghan) medlar jujube is a magical food?

Network spread medlar jujube "magic food" actual effect

【 talk 】 the white paper on data of Chinese residents nutrition awareness, according to Chinese nutrition classes most popular ten food keywords, respectively is: fruit, eggs, bananas, honey, sweet potato, Chinese wolfberry, red dates, kelp, soy milk, brown sugar, total reading quantity reached more than one hundred million times. Among them, fruits, eggs, banana reading quantity throughout the year is about 110 million, 100 million, 7 million, respectively. Banana, honey, sweet potato, Chinese wolfberry, red jujube, brown sugar and other foods are legend "magic", endowed with such as detoxification, weight loss, anti-cancer, antihypertensive efficacy, kidney, blood tonic, for all kinds of preserve one's health articles.

Magical efficiency of resisting the [truth] in fact, these foods are either non-existent, either ignore concentration-response relationship, the effects of small doses. In our country the new dietary guidelines, points out that each food contains nutrients not identical, a balanced diet must be composed of a variety of foods, to meeting the various nutrient requirements of the human body, achieve the goal of reasonable nutrition and health promotion.