Lighter and healthier

We often hear that a light diet helps to improve health, so many people stick to this light diet and don't eat oil or meat, resulting in more and more weakness and various diseases.

Why is this happening? It is many people who misunderstand lightness.

Now people pay more and more attention to health, and everyone knows to eat lightly. Some people who are used to greasy diets. In a light diet, it is easy to go to extremes, completely abandon the meat and fishy oil, just drink porridge, eat some side dishes and even eat white flour.

However, this practice is very wrong for nutritionists, because it will cause nutritional imbalance, and a high-carbohydrate diet will increase people's obesity, diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia and other related problems, all of which are factors of high incidence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.

This is because meat is rich in protein, fat-soluble vitamins, B vitamins, etc. These nutrients play a vital role in our growth and physiological metabolism.

If we don't eat meat, even many people don't eat or drink animal products such as eggs and milk, it will lead to the lack of protein. Without protein, human hemoglobin, immune protein and collagen will be short of raw materials, leading to decreased immunity, dry and wrinkled skin and anemia.

If the intake of fat-soluble vitamins is insufficient, such as fat-soluble vitamins A, D and E, it will lead to diseases such as osteoporosis and dry eye.

So not eating meat can easily lead to malnutrition.

The doctor said a light diet is definitely not what you said about not eating meat.

This lightness is relative to the fat, sweet and heavy taste. Clear means less oil, and light means less salt, which is not our food.

We should choose foods comprehensively, including meat, vegetables, fruits, staple foods and coarse grains, which can help us achieve balanced nutrition.

And light means reducing cooking oil, salt, spices and animal oil accordingly.

1. Less salt

The Dietary Guide for Residents points out that the total salt intake of healthy people should not exceed 6 grams a day, which is about the amount of a beer bottle cap.

Many people don't pay attention to the amount of salt when cooking. You can reduce the use of salt in the following ways:

Reduce sugar intake

Many studies have found that excessive intake of sugar will increase oxidative stress, accelerate human aging and induce metabolic diseases such as diabetes. To limit the use of sugar, not only white sugar, but also fructose, glucose, fruit pulp and other dessert drinks that we can't see should be reduced accordingly.

3. Less oil

We can't eat oil because it is good for our health, but we can't eat too much oil.

Edible oils, such as rapeseed oil, olive oil and soybean oil, can be eaten alternately to avoid some disadvantages brought by a single oil.

The daily consumption of edible oil should be 25 to 30 grams.