Eating habits The western diet is mainly beef and mutton, with bacon, cheese, butter and milk every day, which produces a lot of calories. So westerners consume more calories every day than we do in China. From the perspective of Chinese medicine, eating like this will lead to? Angry? . Ice water is very strong water in Yin Qi, which can quickly restore the balance of the body. To put it simply, foreigners like to drink cold water because they usually eat greasy food. Fire fighting? . Similarly, this is why many people want a glass of cold water to cool themselves after eating a lot of spicy and exciting things.

Pay attention to water quality. One of the most basic prerequisites for them to drink cold water is the appearance of direct drinking water. However, China has not yet developed a perfect urban direct drinking water system. In this respect, they didn't pay attention to it from the beginning. Historically, the pollution of water sources and the prevalence of epidemics made them pay the price of blood. Subsequently, the industrial revolution intensified the concentration of urban population. This has led to many large-scale cholera epidemics in European history, with many deaths and very profound lessons. Therefore, the west attaches great importance to the water problem. Until today, the water quality standards in the west are the most stringent in the world.

The eating habits of China people are also different from those of foreigners. Most people in China are cold. Chinese medicine believes that water can nourish yin and heat can warm yang. Drinking hot water can nourish yin and warm yang, so people in China keep the habit of drinking hot water, which can eliminate dampness and balance cold and dampness. Ice water is harmful to qi and blood. For people with cold constitution, drinking it often is undoubtedly worse. Unlike foreigners, they live on beef and mutton. Eating beef and mutton for a long time is easy to make their bodies hot and dry, and ice water can just help them relieve their body heat and dry. With the rise of the concept of health preservation, people agree that drinking hot water can nourish the stomach, while drinking ice water will hurt the stomach. Hot water is close to human body temperature, which can naturally relieve and relax stomach discomfort.

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