Traditional Chinese cuisine has four major advantages

Health newspaper

Ministry of Health chief health education experts, People's Liberation Army General Hospital Nutrition researcher Zhao Lin

      Chinese people say: medicine is not as tonic. Foreigners say: food is the best medicine. If there is a way as long as through the diet conditioning, you can maintain the body, eliminate the disease, presumably everyone wants to try. In fact, this method has long been, and this is our traditional diet health law.

      Diet health is based on different groups of people, different ages, different physical, different diseases, in different seasons with a certain role in health care or treatment of food, through scientific and reasonable match and cooking, made with color, , Taste, shape, gas, keep the delicious food. These foods are both delicacies, but also health care, disease prevention and treatment, can eat healthy, longevity. We will continue to invite you to introduce some of the different seasons, different physical food and diet methods, I hope you can benefit from it.

     Chinese traditional diet pay attention to balance, put forward the "grain should be raised, lost beans is bad; five animals for the benefit, but the harm is not shallow; five dishes often charge, fresh green and yellow; five fruit to help, While the number of "dietary principles. In the modern language, it is necessary to keep the biodiversity of the food source, mainly to the cereals, to eat more vegetables, fruits and potatoes; to feed enough beans and their products every day; fish, poultry, meat and eggs Milk and other animal foods to moderate.

     China's traditional dietary structure is very reasonable, but in recent years the Chinese people's diet is more and more Westernization. Data show that from 1997 to 2002, China's consumption of ten categories of food consumption, food and legume consumption decreased by 12.6% and 6.8%, sugar products increased by 42.1%, vegetable oil, meat , Poultry and eggs consumption were increased by more than 20%. The emergence of this situation with the proliferation of foreign fast food and other issues related. Western fast food is mostly fried, baked processed food, meat ratio is very high, this "eat nuts only nutrition," the wrong guide is caused by the important reason for the dietary structure of Westernization. In fact, about 60% of food calories from carbohydrates, 25% from fat, 12% to 15% from the protein, so is the ideal dietary composition ratio. Western fast food is characterized by three high and three low, that is, high calorie, high fat and high protein, low minerals, low vitamins and low dietary fiber. Because of the serious imbalance in nutrition, so the international nutrition community called the fast food for the Energy bomb and Junk Food, that is, energy bombs and junk food.

     In fact, in some people keen to Western food when the traditional Chinese diet to represent the oriental diet, but more and more attention for the world. In 1989, the US Senate held an unprecedented hearing on dietary nutrition, listening to the United States Cornell University, the British University of Oxford, China Academy of Preventive Medicine in China 6 years of cooperative dietary survey results that China's traditional diet is very Good for health.

     In summary, the traditional Chinese dietary structure has four major advantages. The first is the main non-staple food is clear, the traditional diet is very focused on the health of the role of grain. The second is concerned about the health of fresh vegetables. Chinese traditional dietary fresh vegetables from a wide range of food consumption. "Food is not green" has become the traditional Chinese diet golden rule. Chinese residents each day about 500 grams of fresh vegetables to eat, Germany, only 80 grams, the United Kingdom is 83 grams, the Netherlands about 100 grams, the United States 102 to 103 grams, 120 grams of France. The third is to emphasize "can be a day without meat, not a day without beans"; "green vegetables tofu safe" diet principle. Fourth, our traditional diet adhere to the low-temperature cooking methods, such as staple bread, rice, noodles, dumplings, porridge and other cooking are carried out in the water environment, the use of heating temperature of about 100 ℃, baking temperature is lower Much more. Explosive dishes are also completed in a short time, this cooking method is not only beneficial to keep the nutritional content of vegetables from loss, but also to meet the needs of the surface of the dish sterilization, but also reduce the oxidation of oil.

     Therefore, we must adhere to the traditional Chinese food structure, learn to diet health methods, to eat "God" made of natural food, eat less man-made processed foods.