Don't eat too much
Eating too much at a time will suddenly increase the burden on the stomach, which will cause symptoms such as stomach pain, vomiting, abdominal distension and belching. In severe cases, acute gastritis, enteritis, pancreatitis and gastric perforation will occur. One day of violence and ten days of cold do irreparable harm to health and life. For this reason, Zhang Guo in Song Dynasty warned in "On Medicine": "Eat less and count more, but don't eat more", which is the "small amount and multiple meals system" advocated by modern science.
Don't eat too much when you are hungry and don't drink too much when you are thirsty. When people are hungry, they are most likely to eat too much or drink too much water at a time, which makes it difficult for the stomach to adapt and causes adverse consequences. The ancients advocated "eat first when you are hungry and drink first when you are thirsty", which is a scientific method to prevent you from eating hungry and drinking thirsty. Sun Simiao, a drug king and a long-lived old man in the Tang Dynasty, summed up the experience and lessons in this respect and gave a warning. "If you don't want to be extremely hungry, you can't eat too much; I don't want to drink too much when I am extremely thirsty. " If you have hunger and thirst, review these diet instructions or persuade your child to chew slowly and drink water gradually, you can avoid being hurt.
Don't force your diet.
The reasons for anorexia are: first, physiological anorexia; The second is pathological anorexia; Various psychological factors can also cause anorexia. In any case, as long as you have no appetite, don't "try to add meals". Positive measures should be: adjusting the diet system, strengthening physical activities, participating in recreational activities, maintaining a cheerful spirit, creating a relaxed diet environment, cooking attractive meals with colors, smells and shapes, and so on. Regarding the harm of barely eating, Tao Hongjing of Liang Dynasty once pointed out in the Record of Keeping Healthy and Prolonging Life that "if you are not thirsty, your stomach will swell" and "if you are not hungry, your spleen will be tired". In short, it will still hurt the spleen and stomach, which is regarded by Chinese medicine as the "acquired foundation" for human health and longevity. Therefore, paying attention to dieting and protecting the spleen and stomach are really the key links to health and longevity.
Eat regularly and quantitatively.
Sun Simiao's "A Thousand Daughters Should Be Prescribed" says: "Eat in time, and you will be full when you are hungry" and "Don't use it again every meal", which means to eat regularly and quantitatively, and not to overdo it. This is very important to maintain the normal function of gastrointestinal tract and keep its work regularity. In the Ming Dynasty, the Secret of the Truth even made it very clear: "If you eat a small amount, you don't want to eat. If you are hungry often, you will be hungry. "This diet theory, that is, enough is enough, people are often in a state of hunger and satiety, which is very consistent with the views advocated by modern science.
Fat people should eat less.
Ancient health experts have a saying: "The grain is stronger than the vitality, and its people are fat but not long-lived;" The vitality is better than the grain, and people are thin and live long. The demand for health care often makes the grain gas less, so the disease will not be born. " (from "Taiping Yu Lan"). The scientific truth of this sentence is obvious, so obese people must strengthen their vitality (viscera function) by cutting down the staple food (grain gas), so as to avoid a series of gastrointestinal and cardiovascular diseases caused by obesity and thus achieve the purpose of prolonging life.
The problem of diet control has long attracted great attention all over the world. Italian scholar Conalu put forward the theory of "dieting to prolong life" in "Reliable Secret Method of Fitness Expansion" written by 1958. He strictly abides by the principle of dieting, eating only 360 grams of solid food and drinking 400 grams of liquid drinks every day. As a result, he lived to 100, and at the age of 83, he was said to be able to ride horses, climb mountains and write. Sheldon, an American scientist, founded a "fitness school" from 1928, which lasted for 40 years, and adjusted the living system through dieting, so that tens of thousands of patients with various diseases recovered. In the book Longevity of Caucasians (1975), Professor Peter Laurie of the Soviet Union formulated a dietary principle for centenarians: moderate diet.
Throughout the experience of health workers at home and abroad, they all emphasize the role of dieting in health and longevity. Therefore, in terms of diet health, the first is to eat comprehensive and balanced nutrition, and the second is to feel full and maintain the normal function of the stomach. Under this premise, a reasonable diet system should be determined according to people's needs. This is inspired by the dieting concept of ancient health care workers, and it has also been proved by modern science to be an effective prescription for health care and longevity.