That day, while Dr. Clove was eating, he saw such a picture:
One can only eat 9 tons of food in one’s life. Who eats first and who goes first?
In this way, I…
No! Or invite a professional nutritionist to ask: What is going on with this statement?
Who eats first and who goes first?
First, let’s look at what the authoritative official guide says:
Take a closer look at the above picture, we can also feel:
According to the recommendation in [Balanced Diet Pagoda for Chinese Residents (2016)], the total daily food intake of the average adult is between 1.195 and 1.815 kg.
Let’s take the average value of 1.5 kg, then it will take less than 17 years to eat 9 tons of food.
If we think this calculation is not rigorous enough, let’s look down and talk with the data.
According to statistics released by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization in 2011, the average Chinese eat 2.368 kilograms of food every day. According to this calculation, 9 tons of food is only enough to eat 3,800 days, equivalent to a little more than 10 years.
If we calculate the average life expectancy at 75 years (in 2015, China’s average life expectancy was actually 76.1 years), we can only eat 328.7 grams of food per day on average if we eat 9 tons of food in our whole life, which is equivalent to:
Pa! Pa! Pa! Have you heard the rumor that you were beaten in the face? It is really popular!
But then again, is it really better to eat less? Will it make people live longer?
Is it really better to eat less?
Monitoring data from the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention show that:
As of 2012, the prevalence rate of dyslipidemia, hypertension and diabetes among urban residents in China was 5.6%, 24.5% and 7.6%, respectively.
Not to mention the rapid growth of overweight and obese people, the average BMI of urban residents over 30 years old has reached 24, hovering on the edge of overweight.
Judging from this situation, properly limiting dietary energy and eating less should help us stay away from these [rich diseases].
As for the question of whether dieting can make people live longer, although some animal experiments (mice, rats and macaques) have proved that limiting diet can prolong life span.
However, the energy restriction mentioned here does not mean dieting, let alone not eating in what. Besides, the results of animal experiments do not mean that it can be 100% realized in human beings.
It is almost impossible to live a long life by dieting alone.
Eat less ≠ Diet
You won’t let me go on a diet, but you also said that I should limit my dietary energy and eat [seven full]. Isn’t that contradictory?
[Seven-point-full] is very different from dieting.
Diet, is not to eat hungry, or with a few fruits, a few cups of fruit juice hastily deal with, all kinds of torture yourself.
Obsession with dieting may also bring irreversible damage to the body, such as:
- Losing fat will also reduce useful muscles. The metabolic rate of the body decreases, but the function of fat synthesis and storage may be enhanced, making it easier to accumulate fat after resuming diet than before. It is easy to suffer from insufficient supply of vitamins and minerals, causing abnormal emotional fluctuations and increasing the risk of osteoporosis.
In short, dieting has great risks and into the pit needs to be extremely cautious.
And the feeling of [seven full] should be:
My stomach already feels satisfied, but my appetite has decreased, and I habitually want to eat two more bites. However, if I withdraw my food, I will soon forget to eat more. Moreover, I will not be hungry again soon within the next 4-6 hours.
When you are seven or eight minutes full, stop and shut your mouth in time. Don’t eat two more bites every time you are full, and don’t eat until you hold on. It is ideal to feel hungry about half an hour before the next meal.
Is there a diet secret that can live a long life?
So, is there any dietary secret for what’s longevity?
Let’s review the [Rules of Eating] (Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents):
Balanced dietary pattern is the basis for ensuring human nutritional needs and health to the greatest extent. Food diversity is the basic principle of balanced dietary pattern.
So, how can we eat in a balanced and diverse way? Simply put, what eats everything, but in moderation.
Not to let you go on a diet is not to let you eat what and eat until you can support yourself, nor is it to let you eat all kinds of snacks and drinks freely. What is important is
Eat enough nutrition
According to this principle, there is no guarantee of longevity (after all, there are irresistible genetic factors), but it is absolutely no problem to ensure nutrition and health.
Sufficient nutrition and good health are not far from the ideal of a long life, are they?