We live in an era where we dare not eat indiscriminately but eat indiscriminately everywhere, and many people have given up struggling with their three meals a day.
Every day face can eat what? What should I eat? What will eat? All turned into a sigh of relief and an inner confusion.
Comrade Wang Qishan, then Vice Premier, once said:
"I'm sorry that the Chinese people have just had enough to eat, but it is not safe to eat".
Health is the one, and everything else is the zero that follows. To realize this dream, we need to look to the minds of wise men, and Professor Colin Campbell is one such wise man. He wrote The Lifesaving Diet: A Survey of China's Health, which is the bible of nutrition.
The book was called the pinnacle of epidemiological research by The New York Times, and was the first joint scientific experiment after the establishment of diplomatic relations between the United States and China. The manpower and resources invested in the book, the data collected, and the results obtained are all unprecedented, and the ideas provided are even more groundbreaking.
This study shows that a diet based on animal-based foods can lead to chronic diseases such as obesity, coronary heart disease, tumors, and osteoporosis. A diet based on plant foods is most conducive to health and most effective in preventing and controlling chronic diseases, i.e., more grains, vegetables and fruits, less chicken, duck, fish, meat, eggs and milk.
Professor Campbell from the conscience that death is caused by food , the scientific evidence, conclusive, the results of the study is shocking, animal protein, especially milk protein, can significantly increase the probability of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, kidney stones, osteoporosis, hypertension, cataracts and Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's disease, and even more alarmingly, all of these diseases can be controlled and treated with dietary modifications.
It also reminds us of another wise man, the 111-year-old Professor Zhou Youguang, the father of Chinese hanyu pinyin, who summed up his life's experience by saying:
Diseases are all about eating.
Prof. Campbell was born in a rural area to a farmer and a boy who grew up drinking milk from a dairy farm. Like other Americans, he believed that the American diet was the healthiest in the world, and that one of the criteria for the so-called healthiest foods had to be high levels of high-quality animal protein. This view was not reversed until he left MIT and traveled to the Philippines to conduct a study of liver cancer in Filipino children.
That is, the boys in his community who ate the most animal protein were the most likely to develop liver cancer, and they were the children of wealthy families. And the results of a six-year epidemiological study of dietary lifestyles and disease mortality in China, spanning 24 provinces and 65 counties, convinced him that animal or plant-based nutrition makes a big difference to health.
He also tells us that people who eat the most plant-based foods are the healthiest and less prone to chronic disease; that food can change our lives; and that hope is in your food. Prof. Campbell also makes a righteous comparison of the American medical establishment to an expensive tomb, adding that optimal nutrition is not the same as optimal health, and that the more nutritious you are, the more dangerous you are; and that diet can prevent cancer.
Prof. Campbell drew an analogy, if bacteria and viruses are guns, pulling the trigger can only be bad nutrition; even if you switch to organic, chemical-free meat, it won't make you any safer.
In this book, Prof. Campbell exposes the dark side of the scientific community in the U.S. Plant-based food for cancer prevention is not at all popular with the food and medical community, because there are many vested interests against him doing it.
I have read The Lifesaving Diet twice now, and each time I have read it, I have found it to be a gutsy, intelligent, well-written, and profoundly rewarding book, and I can sense that the professor's work is revolutionary and concise.
Yu Mengsun, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, wrote the preface to the book, which says:
Each of us has our own way of coming, eating, both a way of awakening memories, but also a way of celebrating life, and eating out of health and eating out of the disease of the double-edged sword.
So eat healthy, both to respect science, but also to eat out of the philosophy, to be different from time to time and from place to place, that is, philosophy guides science.
What Prof. Campbell has adopted this time is a holistic eating pattern and complete food. This provides absolutely full information to influence practical decisions.
In China, there is a book called "The Art of War", which opens with the words, "Soldiering is the most important matter of the state, the way of life and death, and the place of existence and death, and it must not be ignored.
If we change one word, "soldier" to "eater", I think it is also very relevant to the scene, acupuncture:
Eaters, the country's major events, the way of life and death, the place of survival, can not ignore.
Diet, too, is the most intimate way of contact with the world, and it can even directly become part of your body.
Someone said, in this world, only love and food can not live up to, love yourself, love others, from the daily diet.
Respecting the hard truth of deliciousness, creating a healthy melody, and using Professor Campbell's "Lifesaving Diet" as the "Art of War", Let's eat healthy, and round up the healthy Chinese dream for each of us.