Best Diet of 2016

In January this year, DASH diet was recognized by medical nutrition experts in the United States in the U.S. News & World Report’s annual diet appraisal. DASH diet stood out among 38 diet styles and was named the best comprehensive diet of the year for 6 consecutive years. DASH (Dietary Approach to Stop Hypertension) diet is a long-term healthy diet designed to prevent hypertension. It advises people to reduce sodium intake in their diet and eat a variety of foods rich in potassium, calcium, magnesium and other foods to help lower blood pressure. If you stick to DASH diet, you can reduce blood pressure in just two weeks. In the long run, systolic blood pressure will be reduced by 7 Read More …

How complicated can the amount of calcium required by the baby be? One article makes it clear

Parents often consult their children about calcium supplement. Many parents worry that their children will lack calcium and even start to supplement calcium to their children under the impetus of advertisements. Does the baby really need calcium supplement? Which foods are rich in calcium? How much calcium do infants need? According to the latest 2013 edition of the Recommended Intake of Dietary Nutrients for Chinese Residents, the appropriate intake of calcium is 200 mg per day for 0-6 months, 250 mg for 7-12 months and 600 mg for 1-3 years. Appropriate intake (AI) refers to the intake of certain nutrients in healthy people obtained through observation or experiments. For example, Healthy full-term babies who are exclusively breastfed come from breast Read More …

Some Dietary Suggestions for Chemotherapy Patients

Chemotherapy and radiotherapy are important means to treat cancer, but they can kill cancer cells and damage other normal cells at the same time, resulting in a series of adverse reactions, such as loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, etc., which seriously affect the quality of life of patients. However, if we can pay attention to our diet, we may minimize these side effects. So how should we adjust our diet? Eight Suggestions for Combating Adverse Reactions Make food more delicious Patients during chemotherapy need more nutrition, but chemotherapy drugs often make people lose appetite. To make chemotherapy patients eat sweet, they have to work hard on the taste of food: Drink yogurt and vegetable soup; Eat some sweet snacks; When Read More …

Should all Chinese take nutritional supplements?

During the festival, many friends may take gifts to visit relatives and friends. There are many kinds of nutritional supplements in this gift. Nutritionists on TV always say that there is no need to supplement other nutrients except scientific diet, but there are always people around us who recommend to you all kinds of bottles and cans… This time, Dr. Clove decided to talk about nutritional supplements to help everyone eat healthily and be less fooled. Nutritional supplements cannot cure diseases. With regard to nutritional supplements, the Ministry of Health’s “Notice on Issues Related to the Management of Nutritional Supplements” reads as follows: Products aimed at supplementing vitamins and minerals are included in nutrient supplements for management. Products made of Read More …

How should I eat to overcome acne?

Beautiful women all yearn for smooth and flawless skin and regard acne on their faces as the number one enemy in life. They wish they could wipe it off like the [skin whitening] of the photo editing software. During the long acne period, this dare not touch, that dare not eat, for fear that eating the wrong thing will aggravate acne. So, will eating affect acne? Acne is called acne vulgaris in medicine. In fact, before 2007, the mainstream view in the international dermatology circle was that the correlation between diet and acne was very small, mainly caused by genetic factors and high androgen levels. However, this concept changed after 2009: in March of that year, the International Society of Read More …

10 Suggestions for Women’s Diet-Health Needs No Help from Others

1. Find yourself in need of what Based on your age, height, weight, physical activity, disease, working status, etc., understand your nutritional needs. Dietary analysis can be found by nutritionists, exercise amount can be found by private education, and can also be calculated through App, exercise bracelets, software, etc. 2. Enjoy delicious food and control the total amount. With the improvement of material conditions, we often have the opportunity to taste various delicious foods. These foods are not poisonous in themselves, but eating too much is easy to increase the risk of various chronic diseases. Eat better and eat less at a time. Step 3: Strong Bones The incidence of osteoporosis in women is much higher than that in men. Read More …

Truth, is acidic constitution the source of all diseases?

I often see articles on [acidic constitution and alkaline constitution] on the Internet. The friends who reprinted this article are indeed well-intentioned, just to remind everyone to pay attention to their health so as not to suffer from cancer. However, unfortunately, these two concepts are not recognized at all in the mainstream medical field. The discussion among the people is hot. Personally, I remember hearing about this concept at the first time. When I was in high school. Listen to my grandmother who pays great attention to health care and say all day long, After that, I saw advertisements continuously. So-and-so water claimed to be weakly alkaline. Drinking this water can improve the acidic constitution and keep people away from Read More …

How old is the baby and can eat honey?

< < Condor Hero > > 82nd time: [Yang Guo adjusted less than half a bowl of honey paste, picked up Guo Xiang and fed her, and put her in a stone room in the distance…] Dear mothers, don’t doubt the wrong way to open it. This is indeed the public micro-signal of [Clove Mommy], not the martial arts novel channel. It’s just that I’m thinking that old Mr. Jin Yong may not have brought much children before he let Yang Guo feed honey water to the infant Guo Xiang. In the 1970s, The United States was the first to discover the death of Clostridium botulinum infection caused by infant consumption of honey. Honey samples were tested in California in Read More …

Seven Life Details Causing Elevated Blood Glucose

Step 1: Caffeine Due to the effect of caffeine, blood sugar will rise after drinking coffee, even black coffee with zero calories-thanks to caffeine. Similarly, black tea, green tea and energy drinks can also affect blood sugar control in diabetics. However, there is no definite conclusion on the effect of long-term drinking caffeinated drinks on blood sugar. Patients can drink according to their own habits, but it is not recommended to add large amounts of milk and sugar when drinking. 2. Sugar-free foods Many foods marked [sugar-free] also raise blood sugar. Why? Because these foods may contain starch, they can still provide sufficient carbohydrates. In addition, sugar alcohols, such as sorbitol and xylitol, should also be paid attention to. Step Read More …

Red meat causes cancer. Which meat belongs to red meat?

Almost every dietary guide tells us to eat less red meat and eat some white meat appropriately. So what is red meat and what is white meat? Is red meat red and white meat white? If the color of animal food is divided, it can be divided into [red meat] and [white meat]. Those meat that is red before cooking belong to [red meat], including the meat of mammals such as pigs, cattle and mutton that we often eat. The meat that is light in color before cooking belongs to [white meat], including the meat of non-mammals such as chickens, ducks, geese, fish, shrimps, crabs, oysters and clams that we usually eat. In fact, this classification method is not perfect. Read More …