Does the human body have health care needs? The answer is yes. According to the data, our three meals a day diet can only provide most vitamins, trace elements and nutrients that our body needs, but not all of them, so we need to supplement them through ways other than normal diet.
Take vitamins for example. Vitamins are one of the six nutrients in human life activities and are very important for human health. Because the human body can't synthesize them by itself, it can only be ingested from the outside, so some people can satisfy their own vitamins and enhance their health by taking vitamin preparations, tablets or fruits bought from pharmacies. Take vitamin c as an example. In order to supplement vitamin C deficiency caused by smoking, drinking and air pollution, we need to take 200 mg of vitamin C every day. If you only eat from the diet, you should eat 3-4 Jin of fresh apples, bananas, rape or 1.2 Jin of tomatoes every day. In addition, vitamins in fruits and vegetables are greatly lost in the process of washing, cutting and heating. Therefore, it is not enough to supplement vitamins in food to prevent and treat diseases. Medical experts suggest that taking 100 mg of vitamin E and 200 mg of vitamin C every day is very safe and effective for delaying aging and preventing cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
And trace elements. It is closely related to human health. Excessive intake, insufficient intake or lack of them will cause different degrees of physiological abnormalities or diseases. Up to now, it has been confirmed that there are 18 kinds of essential trace elements related to human health and life, namely iron, copper, zinc, cobalt, manganese, chromium, selenium, iodine, nickel, fluorine, molybdenum, vanadium, tin, silicon, strontium, boron, rubidium, arsenic and so on. Every trace element has its special physiological function. Although they are very rare in the human body, they are necessary to maintain some decisive metabolism in the human body. Once these essential trace elements are lacking, the human body will suffer from diseases and even life-threatening. Trace elements also play an important role in disease resistance, cancer prevention and longevity.
In view of the above reasons, commodities, products and commodities of health care products came into being. With the rapid development of market economy, they developed rapidly and formed a huge market and industry. There are manufacturers, scientific research institutions, distributors, stores, promotion and marketing personnel, training and education institutions and personnel, which can be described as a mixture of good and evil, and it is difficult to distinguish between true and false.
At present, the health care products on the market mainly include vitamins, minerals, herbs, amino acids, enzymes and other products. Dietary supplements come in many forms: traditional tablets, capsules and powders, drinks and energy bars. The most popular health products include vitamins D and E, minerals such as calcium and iron, herbs such as echinacea and garlic, and special products such as glucosamine (the main component of vitamin E), probiotics and fish oil.
According to the normal situation (that is, putting aside malicious counterfeiting and counterfeiting for the time being), after full scientific research and correct production and taking according to its product description and doctor's advice, regular health care products can still supplement vitamins, trace elements and other nutrients needed by the human body, enhance human immunity and promote health. However, although some health care products are really helpful to health, if the daily diet is diverse and nutritious, in fact, most people do not need to take health care products. The function of health care products is only to make you supplement the necessary nutrition that you lack, and it cannot fundamentally replace the important role of a balanced diet in your health. This sentence has two meanings. First, it is an unnecessary and unimportant nutrient, and it doesn't need to be supplemented enough. Second, from the scientific rationality of human digestion and absorption, it is much better to ensure the balance and sufficiency of various nutrients in the body through a balanced diet than to serve health care products. In addition, the ingredients in many health care products may have strong side effects, especially when multiple health care products are taken at the same time, the probability of side effects will increase exponentially. Such as ginkgo, garlic, ginseng, fish oil and so on. If taken before or after surgery, it will increase the risk of bleeding, and some health care products such as Valeriana root will affect the effectiveness of anesthetic. Some health care products will also interact with prescription drugs, resulting in health problems.
The above are just the advantages and disadvantages of regular health care products. Next, let's talk about abnormal and irregular health care products, which is the dark side of the health care products market.
Marx once said that capitalists can even deny their fathers for 300% profits, and they will kill and set fire to them. When the possible profit of a product can reach a level that can be called profiteering, profiteers feel that their opportunity has come. As a result, a large number of so-called health care products with shoddy, insufficient content, low quality and even useless have appeared in the market. Apart from beautiful packaging, expensive prices and earth-shattering advertisements, they have no health care function. This is not the worst, because this health care product at least can't kill people. At one time, vicious cases of eating corpses or even dying because of health care products occurred frequently. The reason is that some of the health care products purchased by the parties concerned are not produced by regular manufacturers (in fact, the products of some big-name regular manufacturers also eat people, which was once well known), but come from small family workshops with no hygiene license, disgusting production environment and unknown sources of raw materials. It is conceivable that eating that kind of thing can have any health care effect, and it is very lucky not to be poisoned. In addition, under the guise of health care products, by putting on a show and taking advantage of people's greed for petty gain, we gradually lure cheating consumers, especially those middle-aged and elderly people who are bent on pursuing health, into traps and traps, and finally abscond after defrauding a lot of money and huge funds. In the news reports, we can see many cases in which old people were taken away by swindlers, and some even led to suicide.
When it comes to medical care, I believe everyone has noticed a phenomenon, that is, some retired veteran cadres, especially those who hold important positions while on the job and can enjoy some special treatment after retirement, are often 80-90 years old or even hundreds of years old. We know from incomplete information that these veteran cadres are surrounded by full-time health care doctors who are responsible for their health, including reasonable arrangements for their three meals a day, soup, desserts and snacks before and after meals. It can be said that these old comrades can't eat whatever they want. Without this freedom, they must obey the arrangement of health care doctors, or at least strongly advise them. There is a common word called "three walnuts and two dates". Here, I don't mean to describe things as unimportant, but to refer to a practice in the daily health care of the elderly, that is, to eat some dried fruit snacks in a planned way to supplement a certain vitamin or nutrient. The so-called plan is the right amount, three is three, and two is two. Never eat half a catty of melon seeds or eight or two peanuts on a whim. This is not only excessive, but also unbearable for the elderly.
Therefore, health care is also necessary. According to the ancient people's health care experience and the dietary tradition formed by China people for thousands of years, it is the most natural, harmonious and effective way to supplement the nutrition needed by the body by eating. Fortunately, our country is vast in territory and abundant in natural resources, and we eat a lot, especially in China.