Ma Yinchu, a famous economist, and his wife, Zhang, are centenarians. They especially like to drink porridge. Every morning, 50 grams of oatmeal is added to 250 grams of boiling water and brewed for 2 minutes to make porridge. Every day, never stop. Mr. Su Juxian, a centenarian in Shanghai, has developed the habit of drinking rice porridge three times a day, with porridge in the morning and evening and slightly thick porridge at noon, and each meal is quantified as a shallow bowl. They said, "Drinking porridge is comfortable and good for your health." Physicians and health experts in past dynasties strongly recommended the elderly to drink porridge. "Diet is interesting" says: "Porridge is the first nourishing food in the world." Porridge is easy to digest and absorb, and can harmonize stomach, strengthen spleen, clear lung and moisten lower body. Cao Cishan, a health care practitioner in the Qing Dynasty, said: "In old age, even if you eat porridge, you can keep fit and prolong your life." He compiled more than 100 porridge charts for the elderly to choose from, which was very popular with the elderly.
Old people like millet best and regard it as the best tonic. Millet is a granular grain after peeling millet, which has always been known as "whole grains, millet first". Sick old people often use millet to nourish their bodies. Chinese medicine believes that millet benefits the five internal organs, thickens the stomach, tonifies the body fluid and strengthens the bones and muscles. A famous doctor in Qing Dynasty said: "Millet is the most nourishing. Rice oil when cooking rice porridge is better than ginseng chicken soup. " It can be seen that it is reasonable for long-lived old people to like rice.
Corn, alias corn, corn, pearl jade, etc. Together with rice and wheat, it is called the three major crops in the world, and it is recognized as the "golden crop" in the world, and it is also the staple food of the long-lived elderly. The American Medical Association conducted a survey and found that none of the native Indians in the United States suffered from hypertension and arteriosclerosis. I used to eat old corn. Medical scientists have found that old corn contains a lot of lecithin, linoleic acid, grain alcohol and vitamin E, so it is not easy to suffer from hypertension and arteriosclerosis. Judging from the physique of the long-lived elderly, they seldom have hypertension and arteriosclerosis, which is closely related to their eating corn as their staple food.