Never before have so many healthy foods and drinks filled our lives. I believe you can see or hear such words every day. "Eat more of this" can reduce your chances of getting cancer or live a long and healthy life. "Drink more of that" can resist oxidation and delay aging ... as if these things are like a panacea. Most people are trying their best to live a healthy life. As long as they hear something beneficial to their health, they will never refuse. For example, super foods such as avocado, quinoa and chia seeds, as well as various meal replacement, compound fruit and vegetable juices, as well as nutritional supplements such as vitamin tablets and grape seeds, are highly sought after by the new middle class. However, although we will never be soft when paying for these things, we actually don't know whether they are as magical as advertised or legendary. A BBC documentary recently caused a heated discussion in Weibo, because several top scientists in the documentary revealed the truth of "healthy diet" which is particularly popular in modern cities through a series of novel and credible experiments. The study found that the super food we usually eat is actually not "more advanced", and we are cheated! It turns out that our bodies don't need those healthy foods that are particularly popular in the market, because they don't have any additional benefits to our health, and even damage our bodies. It turns out that fried eggs are actually healthier than boiled eggs, quinoa is not more nutritious than barley, and the vitamin content of Lycium barbarum is no different from that of strawberries. In fact, instead of spending a lot of money on so-called "healthy food" deliberately sold to you, it is better to know more about food and improve your diet. Today, we want to share a book with you on how to eat healthier. The author Mark Bietmann is a columnist of * * *. This book puts forward a healthier way of eating by writing about American food system and American food. If you want to eat healthier, you might as well have a look. First, cook by yourself and strengthen the control of diet. Have you ever wondered where you used to eat? Which is better, fast food restaurant or ramen restaurant? The answer is not: cooking by yourself is the best choice! Cooking by yourself has many advantages. The biggest advantage is that you can control everything in your hands. Because you bought the ingredients yourself, you know where your food came from, where you bought it, and what you added to the ingredients. In addition, cooking by yourself is also cheaper. The price of a family of four eating at McDonald's is about $28, which is equivalent to the price of two Big Macs, a cheeseburger, some chicken wings, French fries and carbonated drinks. But if you cook by yourself, you can enjoy a roast chicken, some vegetables, salad and milk, all of which cost only $65,438+04. Now, let's compare the ingredients of McDonald's dinner and your delicious family dinner. You don't know what mysterious and greasy chemicals they added to the Big Mac, but you know exactly what you added to your roast chicken. Of course, no one has so much free time to cook every meal by himself, but the more times he cooks, the healthier he is. After all, many people have never thought about what food is, and many sweet drinks are not real food. Guess what? The sugar content of a can of soda is equivalent to a cup of coffee with nine teaspoons of sugar. Second, small changes in diet have a great impact on health. What should I eat to build a perfect dietary structure? The answer is simple: real food. Real food contains no more than six raw materials. For example, there are four kinds of bread: flour, water, salt and olive oil. Vegetable is the "most authentic" food, because it consists of only one raw material. Insist on eating real food, that is, avoid eating ultra-processed industrial food. These foods are usually high in glycemic index and high in solid fat and added sugar. The healthier carbohydrates, such as whole wheat bread, the lower the glycemic index, which means that they have little effect on your blood sugar. After all, human beings are omnivores and can't just eat vegetarian food. Therefore, you can also follow several dietary rules: First, you need a diverse and balanced diet. In other words, you should eat all kinds of food, not only a lot, but also don't consume too many calories. Secondly, you should eat more fruits and vegetables like the Greeks. The Mediterranean diet is a good example, with only a small amount of red meat, sugar and super-processed carbohydrates, and more olive oil, vegetables, fruits, beans and some animal products rich in healthy fat, such as fish. 3. How harmful is the modern food industry to human beings? When people list the reasons why we need to upgrade the food industry, they often talk about the threat of animals, the environment or certain chemicals. People often forget the most important reason: ourselves! Nearly 70,000 people die of type 2 diabetes every year, which usually comes from poor diet. In the United States, 17% children are obese, which leads to many health-threatening complications. What makes us fat? The answer to this question is complicated, but part of the reason is that American children can see 5500 food advertisements on TV every year! Obesity is by no means inevitable. In fact, as long as the American people eat one more serving of fruit every day, the number of people who die of cardiovascular diseases will be reduced by about 30 thousand every year. If every American eats the recommended amount of fruits and vegetables, 654.38 million+people will be saved. Although many smart people begin to pay attention to whether food is local or organic, or whether we are good to animals, the most important problem has not been solved. In fact, how we eat healthier is a person's eating habits, a family's eating style and the development of food agriculture. If you want to improve your "health quotient", welcome to buy the column "60 Douban high-scoring books, comprehensively improve the six quotients". This column consists of six books selected by the editorial team of Reading on the Road, which will help you improve your IQ, EQ, health quotient, adversity quotient, moral quotient and financial quotient quickly. Among them, there are 10 books about "Health Quotient". In addition to how to eat more healthily, there are also reasons why today's food is not delicious, a perfect diet, the third board, and nutritional supplements. Is it so amazing? Beat Hunger, Skip Food, Diet Bible, Brain Shaping, Small Mind of Intestines. This 10 book will help you absorb health knowledge, maintain a healthy attitude and healthy ability. In today's increasingly rich material life, health problems are becoming more and more serious ... Keeping healthy is undoubtedly one of the most important core competitiveness of individuals. Edit |Lo Lo typesetting |Lo Lo reading on the road, your audio library. Disclaimer: The above content comes from the Internet, and the copyright belongs to the original author. If there is any infringement of your original copyright, please let us know and we will delete the relevant content as soon as possible.