Low-carbon food refers to fruits and vegetables, such as apples, bananas and other fruits, vegetables such as cucumbers, pumpkins, mushrooms and other fungi, tofu, dried beans and so on. Vegetable food does not contain any red meat products (such as beef and mutton).

Low-carbon diet first appeared in Atkins' Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution 1972. Although the types and intake of food are restricted and the body is balanced, it has caused strong controversy in the medical field. Its effect is being further studied.

The book "National Handbook of Energy Conservation and Emission Reduction" points out that each person wastes less than 0.5 kg of pork every year, which can save energy by about 0.28 kg of standard coal and reduce carbon dioxide by 0.7 kg. If the waste of pork is reduced by 0.5 kg per capita every year in China, about 353,000 tons of standard coal can be saved every year, and the carbon dioxide emission can be reduced by 9 1. 1.00 million tons. More data show that eating 1 kg beef is equivalent to emitting 36.5 kg of carbon dioxide; However, if you eat the same amount of fruits and vegetables, the carbon dioxide emission is only 1/9 of this value. Therefore, eating more vegetarian food and less meat is not only beneficial to health, but also reduces carbon emissions.

Properly implementing a low-carbon diet can make the fat and glycogen stored in the body meet the needs of energy metabolism without consuming muscles. But low-carbon diet can also cause ketosis, which has diuretic effect and makes the body lose weight quickly. In fact, what the body loses is not fat, but water.

Extended data:

Low-carbon food mainly refers to two aspects:

1. Simplification of food packaging. In the past, many leisure snacks were packaged in "three layers inside and three layers outside". For example, some "leisure gift packages", several packages of snacks are packaged in large packages, and two are packaged in small packages. Results A package of food with a total content of less than one catty was wrapped with three layers of plastic paper inside and outside, and more than 20 packages could be unpacked.

Second, the environmental protection of raw materials and technology: This process is mainly to let consumers eat safe food. For example, the "Apple with ID Card" displayed in the Dusseldorf Pavilion, the best urban practice area in the Expo Park, is transparent and visible to consumers from the place of origin to the time of growth.

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