Health begins with breakfast, which is an important source of energy and nutrition for the whole day. A nutritious breakfast can make people energetic and improve the efficiency of study and work.
However, with the accelerated pace of life, many people simply skip breakfast or make do with it. In fact, eating breakfast, like exercise, may be a habit, an idea, or a reflection of the overall lifestyle. However, skipping breakfast will do a lot of health harm to your body.
(1) is easy to cause depression.
Breakfast is the energy source of brain activity. If you don't eat breakfast, your body can't supply enough blood sugar for consumption. Especially for the elderly and people with unstable blood sugar, if they don't eat breakfast, they will be depressed all morning and increase dizziness caused by hypoglycemia.
(2) accelerate aging.
If you don't eat breakfast, your body's energy needs will not be met. The energy you need in the morning can only be supplemented by consuming sugar and protein in your body. Over time, it will lead to dry skin, wrinkles and anemia, and accelerate the aging of your body.
③ Susceptible to lithiasis.
People who don't eat breakfast for a long time, because the water and nutrition lost in the evening can't be replenished in time in the morning, in the long run, the blood viscosity in the human body increases and it is easy to get lithiasis.
4 susceptible to stomach problems.
During sleep, the stomach is still secreting a small amount of gastric acid. If you don't eat breakfast, stomach acid will not neutralize food, which will stimulate the gastric mucosa and cause stomach discomfort. Over time, it may cause gastritis and gastric ulcer.
⑤ It is not conducive to the discharge of wastes generated in the body at night.
In the case of regular meals, the phenomenon of gastrocolon reflex will naturally appear in the human body, which is simply to promote defecation; If you don't eat breakfast for a long time, it may cause imbalance of gastrocolon reflex, constipation and even more serious lesions.
What should I drink for breakfast? Many people like to drink coffee, milk and so on at breakfast. In fact, what to drink in the morning is purely a personal habit, and it is not necessary to exclude it from breakfast. However, it is worth mentioning that you should eat something before drinking coffee (especially black coffee) and tea to avoid drinking on an empty stomach, otherwise it will easily hurt your stomach. Because drinking coffee (tea) in the morning can not only refresh people, but also stimulate the intestines and stomach of people who rarely drink such drinks, affect defecation and even cause constipation.
It is best to drink some soft and digestible food for breakfast, such as milk, soybean milk, noodles, wonton and so on. And you'd better have some porridge. Of course, you should also eat some fresh vegetables and fruits together. As for greasy, fried, too hard and irritating food, don't eat it at breakfast, otherwise it will easily lead to indigestion. In addition, don't eat too much breakfast, because after a night of digestion, the stomach has not recovered. If you eat too much at this time, it will increase the burden on your stomach and reduce your digestive function, so you can't eat breakfast, but don't overdo it.
At the same time, it is more important to achieve a balanced and diversified diet, which is the health of the diet.
Generally speaking, the food we usually eat should include grains (such as rice, wheat, corn, oats, etc. ), fresh fruits and vegetables, moderate amount of low-fat dairy products, fish, lean meat, poultry, sugar and salt. Various foods have different nutritional contents, some are rich in vitamins, some are rich in minerals, some are hot, some are cold, some are fine, and some are rich in slag. Only diversified intake can get more comprehensive nutrition, and only diversified diet is the primary guarantee of human health.
It should be noted that although there are many foods that should not be eaten too much (such as sugar and salt). ), they must not be eaten, otherwise the body will feel uncomfortable, and long-term lack may even lead to various diseases.
Take the partial solar eclipse as an example. People who are partial to food often like to eat certain foods, but they scoff at foods they don't like, which can easily lead to a lack of some nutrition in the body. For example, people who don't like to eat meat dishes are prone to lack of protein in their bodies; Preference for meat dishes can lead to excess calories and lack of vitamins and minerals.
Simply put, the suggestions for a balanced diet are:
Drinking about 500 grams of milk every day can effectively supplement the phenomenon of low calcium intake in the diet.
Take in 300 ~ 500 grams of carbohydrates every day, which is equivalent to 7 ~ 9 servings of staple food.
Eat some high-protein foods every day, such as 50 grams of lean meat, 2 eggs or poultry100g, fish and shrimp100g.
Eating 500 grams of fresh vegetables and fruits every day is an effective measure to ensure health and prevent cancer. Vegetables should be red and yellow, such as carrots, sweet potatoes, pumpkins and tomatoes, because they are rich in immunity.
Besides, 78% satiety is the healthiest way to eat. There is an old saying in Chinese medicine: "If you want to be healthy, you must be hungry and cold", which makes sense.
Modern nutrition research has found that if you eat too much, there is a substance called "fibroblast growth factor" in your brain that will increase significantly. These "fibroblast growth factors" can increase the fat in skin cells and capillaries and promote atherosclerosis. If you are full for a long time, it will inevitably lead to cerebral arteriosclerosis, premature aging of the brain and mental retardation. Cerebral arteriosclerosis is also the inducing factor of Alzheimer's disease.
Eating too much will dull the brain. Many people have this experience: overeating, being in a trance and sleepy. This is because the blood in the human body goes to the gastrointestinal system to "work", leading to cerebral ischemia.
After people enter maturity, especially middle-aged and elderly people, the metabolic functions of various systems of the body have tended to be stable, while others have shown a downward trend, and the calories needed by the human body are relatively stable or reduced. At this time, if eating reaches the level of "100% satiety", it will naturally increase the burden on the gastrointestinal tract and cause excess energy in the body. Proper diet, eating only "80% full" every meal, can prevent many diseases, such as heart disease, diabetes, kidney disease and so on. It can also prevent many common senile diseases, such as cataract, gray hair and weakness. In addition, diet restriction can also delay or prevent the occurrence of various cancers.
Healthy eating and drinking. If there is no healthy habit of "drinking", it will also affect your health.
Because many people are busy, they drink water when they are dry. They think that "dry mouth" is a sign of lack of water in the body, and then infer that as long as you don't do this, it means that there is enough water in the human body. Medically, this is ridiculous enough to lead people astray. Many times, some bodies of the human body are short of water, which will signal "dry mouth", which is harmful to health. Dry mouth is just a sign of serious water shortage.
One of the most basic mistakes that more people will make is to drink tea, coffee or industrial drinks instead of natural water when the body is in urgent need of water. Tea, coffee and drinks contain a lot of dehydration factors. The more you drink, the more you want to urinate, which not only allows the water that has just entered the body to be quickly discharged, but also takes away the water stored in the body. Over time, people will be numb to water shortage, which will lead to metabolic disorder. At this time, the signal of water shortage in human body is not only thirst, but also many symptoms, such as low back pain, digestive tract ulcer, elevated blood pressure, asthma and allergies, and even some people suffer from type II diabetes. After entering adulthood, there will be less and less water in the human body. With the increase of age, the water content of cells in the body will gradually decrease and the sense of demand for water will become weaker and weaker. Many middle-aged and elderly people will gradually suffer from chronic dehydration because they don't know that their bodies need water, thus further reducing the water content in cells, which will lead to a series of diseases. If they don't understand that some symptoms are emergency signals of water shortage, they will mistakenly increase the dose.
For many patients, water is the best medicine. For example, people with typical dyspeptic pain rather than ulcers should be alert to water shortage signals and avoid excessive drug abuse. Even if there are ulcers at the same time, sometimes the pain can be alleviated after drinking water, and diet adjustment is helpful for the gradual recovery of ulcers. The reason is that there is a layer of mucus on the glandular level of gastric mucosa. Mucus is 98% water, which can absorb and dilute gastric acid. Water is the only natural means to prevent the invasion of gastric acid.
Kidney calculi, bladder stones or kidney cancer are closely related to the toxicity of chemicals in urine. Because drinking less water, urination will be less, and the concentration of impurities and toxic substances in urine will increase, which may lead to the formation of stones and cancer.
Therefore, people should drink water and not be thirsty. Adults should drink at least 1400 ~ 1700 grams of water every day to meet the needs of all aspects of the body.
Whether there is water shortage depends on the color of urine. The ideal urine should be colorless or yellowish. If the urine is dark yellow or orange, it means water shortage, which means that the kidneys are trying to excrete toxins from the body. It must be made up at this time.
The easiest way to improve water shortage is to use a cup with a capacity of 230 grams and drink at least 6 ~ 8 cups of natural water without additives every day. The best time to drink water is before eating-half an hour before breakfast, lunch and dinner, which can prevent blood from thickening due to eating. Drink the same amount of water two and a half hours after a meal, and drink an extra glass of water before a big meal or before going to bed.
If you don't like drinking boiled water, you can drink green tea or wolfberry tea, both of which are good for your health. Green tea and medlar are very nutritious. Green tea contains catechins, β-carotene, vitamin C, vitamin E and so on. Many experiments have proved that green tea can scavenge free radicals, delay aging and prevent cancer.
Drinking green tea regularly can prevent cell gene mutation, inhibit the growth of malignant tumors, lower blood lipid and blood pressure, prevent cardiovascular diseases, prevent colds and dental caries, and eliminate bad breath.
Lycium barbarum is flat in nature and sweet in taste, and has the effects of tonifying kidney and essence, nourishing yin and blood, nourishing liver and improving eyesight, moistening lung and relieving cough. Many health care drugs contain Lycium barbarum. Lycium barbarum contains amino acids, alkaloids, betaine, acid pulp, vitamins and linoleic acid.
Drinking green tea in the morning can stimulate appetite and wake up; Drinking Lycium barbarum in the afternoon can improve physical fitness and sleep.
But it is best not to drink alcohol, or to use carbonated drinks instead of water, because alcoholism is the enemy of health, and drinking carbonated drinks often will cause many diseases.
Health begins with diet, and good eating habits are the guarantee of health. Therefore, men should develop the correct habit of "eating and drinking" for their own health.