Garlic, Natto and Maca, can these magical health foods replace medicine?

Now there is one smart phone in hand, and fashionable elders are no exception.

If we teach our elders to use WeChat, the circle of friends will probably become like this:

In fact, we can understand that as people get older, they all want to live a healthy life and hope to find some simple and effective methods to [preserve one’s health].

If it is general nutrition, healthy middle-aged and elderly people should eat some. However, if the elders in the family suffer from the diseases mentioned below, they must be reminded not to fall for it.

Garlic cure all diseases? Fake

Articles on garlic health preservation in WeChat Circle of Friends have been very popular. Rumor has it that garlic and garlic products (so-called health products made of garlic extract) are almost [cure all diseases] and can prevent cancer, bacteria, blood lipid, blood pressure, cardiovascular diseases, etc.

People who are good at thinking must realize that garlic is one of the most important ingredients in their daily diet. If it is so multifunctional, why are there so many cancers, infections and cardiovascular diseases?

In fact, modern medicine is also studying garlic, but the multi-function claimed earlier either fails the experiment or is still controversial. Therefore, it is better to give up the idea of eating a kind of food to strengthen the body earlier.

Natto Reduces Blood Lipids? Fake

Natto was originally a very popular food in Japan. After being hyped by merchants in recent years, Natto and Natto extracts have many magical functions, and the most widely spread among friends are [thrombolysis, lipid reduction and blood vessel dredging].

In fact, Natto is a product obtained by fermenting soybeans after cooking. To say that eating Natto is good, it is only similar to eating other fermented bean products, and cannot achieve the effects of [dissolving thrombus and reducing blood lipid].

As for natto’s extract, its efficacy is greatly exaggerated. The so-called benign effect of [nattokinase] on certain diseases is only reflected in a few animal experiments, and it is still far from whether it really works in humans.

It should be emphasized that although modern medicine has developed several drugs to treat cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, most of them think that they can only [delay] but not [reverse] the formation of thrombus. In this way, it is almost impossible to completely remove thrombus through drugs, let alone a common food.

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Marca is amazing? Fake

In the circle of friends, Maca is a [not old legend] that has been popular for many years.

Rumors claim that Maca is omnipotent, male can strengthen yang, female can supplement yin, and can also nourish and strengthen the body and delay aging.

Maca is actually a plateau plant produced in Peru. The so-called “strengthening yang and nourishing yin” is just a legend fabricated by some merchants, which even Peruvians are puzzled.

Later, there were reports that maca extract was effective in animal experiments, so these animal experiments became evidence that maca was [natural Viagra]. However, animal experiments can only be used for reference, but in human experiments, it was not found that maca could increase hormone levels in human body and improve [sexual ability].

It is better to teach elders to distinguish when shielding information from elders.

Some people say that I am tired of the rumors forwarded by my elders every day, so I simply block them.

In fact, the elders certainly did not intend to forward rumors, but they contacted the Internet much later than us and lacked the ability to distinguish the popular content on the Internet. Therefore, teaching them to distinguish will not only enable them to enjoy the convenience brought by the Internet and technology, but also will not be cheated and victimized.

1. Take time to accompany your elders

When communicating with their elders, they should not only care about their food, clothing and warmth, but also understand that they are thinking about what like children.

Don’t be afraid of trouble, we should repeatedly stress to them that there is no shortcut to health. Although there is no magic [health preserving trick], we can do [shut up and keep our legs open], and at the same time [follow the doctor’s advice] and adopt regular treatment methods, which can completely [coexist harmoniously] with chronic diseases.

2. Teach elders to read the source

[Look at the source] That is to say, who is the person who sent the article and has sent some what. If the author sends [chicken soup for the soul] and [health preserving rhymes] every day, with neither medical background nor original content, then it is definitely unreliable.

3. Help elders pay attention to reliable public numbers,

Although there are many channels to obtain health information, However, there are very few health information that is really easy to understand and scientific. Therefore, Dr. Clove has launched a “health headline” specially designed for the middle-aged and the elderly. It is advisable to forward it to the elders frequently or help them pay attention to it. With the correct health content occupying their vision, the room for rumors and false information will naturally become smaller and smaller.

4. Teach elders to search

If you want to know some health information but don’t know where to find it, teach them to search in [health headlines] according to the following methods.