How to balance the traditional diet?

1. Balance of traditional dietary nutrients: The balance between staple food and non-staple food is very important, and the ratio must be appropriate. Don't eat more animal food than plant food. The Chinese nation has realized from life practice since ancient times that whole grains are an indispensable staple food. It can be seen that the proper proportion of main and non-staple foods is the premise to ensure a balanced nutrition.

2. Balance between impurities and essence of traditional food: the human body needs a variety of nutrients. From the perspective of human evolutionary history, there must be a variety of food sources to meet nutritional needs. Because micronutrients such as trace elements can only be ingested from the outside, they can't be synthesized or produced by themselves in the body, so the importance of omnivorous food is self-evident.

3. The pH balance of the traditional diet: fruits and vegetables are alkaline foods, while chicken, duck and fish rich in protein are acidic foods. Whether in daily life or holidays, we should master the acid-base balance of diet, and we should not neglect both. Pay attention to the collocation of meat and vegetables, and only balance can make up for it properly.

4. Balance between cold and heat in traditional diet: Eating too much raw and cold food will damage the spleen and stomach and lung qi, which will cause cough and even diarrhea. People who are weak and have a cold stomach, especially the elderly and children, should be more cautious in summer. On the contrary, the diet should not be overheated, otherwise it will easily hurt the stomach cavity and throat.

5. Four-character balance of traditional diet: According to the traditional homology theory of medicine and food in China, the four characteristics of cold, hot, warm and cool diet must be balanced. For example, people with body heat, especially those with fever and acute inflammation, should avoid eating hot foods such as mutton and dog meat. When eating cold food, be sure to match some hot food; Another example is that crabs are cold and ginger is hot, and Jiang Mo should be added to eat crabs. Disrupting the balance between cold and heat in eating food is naturally harmful to the body.

6. Five flavors balance in the traditional diet: In the daily diet, five flavors of sweet, sour, bitter and spicy can stimulate appetite and be beneficial to health, otherwise it will bring disadvantages. For example, sweets can replenish qi and blood, relieve muscle tension and detoxify, but too much sugar can easily affect appetite; Sour taste can increase appetite, strengthen spleen and appetite, and enhance liver function, improve calcium and phosphorus absorption rate, but overeating sour taste makes digestive function disorder.

7. The balance of hunger and satiety in traditional catering: the ancients advocated "hunger first, thirst first"; Not too hungry, not too full. This is the principle of balance between hunger and satiety. At the same time, eating time should be regular, that is, "there is time to eat." The traditional system of three meals a day in China is scientific, and breakfast should be guaranteed, so it is not appropriate to abolish the theory of eating at home.

8. Static and dynamic balance in traditional meals: Static and dynamic balance before and after meals is also very important, because people need to keep a balance between the nutrients they consume in their daily diet and the calories they consume. The ancients advocated that before and during eating, we should be quiet and focused and not distracted, so as to achieve harmonious digestion.

9. Balance between fast and slow eating: Chewing is an important link to help eating and digestion. Chewing slowly while eating can make a lot of saliva secreted. Amylase in saliva can help food digestion, lysozyme and some secretory antibodies can help sterilization and detoxification. Slow food can gently stimulate the digestive glands such as stomach, pancreas and gallbladder, so that they gradually secrete digestive juice. In recent years, it has also been found that chewing slowly is beneficial to lose weight.

10. Psychological and emotional balance of traditional dining: a calm and happy mood is conducive to normal digestive function, and maintaining this mood before and during meals is of great significance to health. The opposite emotion will hurt the spleen and stomach. Music is good for digestive function.