In order to achieve this goal
Diet and nutrition are one of the essential links.
Worryingly,
Many people are biased in their pursuit of health.
Not only did it fail to achieve the goal of keeping healthy.
Instead, I hurt myself.
At present, there is no unified definition of NHPs. NHPs is closely related to plant-derived foods or traditional medicines.
NHPs should meet the following characteristics: it exists naturally, not artificially; Existing in local food types; Daily intake can prevent or reduce chronic diseases such as tumors, cardiovascular diseases and Alzheimer's disease. Its physiological function is different from traditional nutrients, which provide neither energy nor vitamins and minerals.
It can be seen from the above characteristics that NHPs is not a health care product, and health care products can also be equivalent to NHPs. For example, bitter gourd is one of the common vegetables in summer, and may also contain insulin-like substances, so regular consumption is conducive to maintaining normal blood sugar and blood lipid metabolism. But this does not mean that the "bitter gourd capsules" (health products) sold in the market also have the same effect. Secondly, as food, the possibility of excessive intake of bitter gourd is very small, and the daily average intake and taking time of health care products are much higher than that of daily food, so the probability of adverse complications is greatly increased.
The principle of liver function damage caused by taking traditional Chinese medicine is basically the same. Many traditional Chinese medicines can be used as part of diet therapy, which can really prevent chronic diseases. However, it should be noted that the dosage of Chinese herbal medicine taken as food in dietotherapy is extremely low, and the dosage taken by people with complications is much higher than their intake as food. Secondly, some manufacturers' processing of traditional Chinese medicine is not standardized, which leads to the mixed emphasis on metal substances in their products, resulting in liver function damage, but this does not mean that traditional Chinese medicine is not good or ineffective.
Why are some people using NHPs ineffective?
The role of NHPs should be comprehensively analyzed and cannot be separated from other eating habits. It must always be remembered that NHPs is a part of food. NHPs interacts with other dietary and behavioral habits. If there are a lot of bad eating and behavior habits, it is difficult to maintain health simply by eating NHPs.
Another example: drinking tea is good for human health, but according to the research published on 20 17, the impact of drinking tea on human health is mainly among people who don't smoke. In other words, smoking is more harmful to human health, which offsets the benefits of drinking tea.
It is worth noting that some people are too superstitious about the role of NHPs and refuse to use drugs, which is also very dangerous. After all, the effect of NHPs on diseases is mild and lasts for a long time. The accurate location of NHPs should be a useful supplement to mainstream treatment, not a substitute. Take bitter gourd as an example. Although it has hypoglycemic effect, the effect is still far weaker than metformin.
The reason is that apart from the genetic differences between people, it is largely due to the differences caused by culture and climate.
As nutrition workers, we have repeatedly stressed that NHPs is a food in the daily menu of local people and cannot be simply copied to other countries. For example, almonds are beneficial in many studies in the United States, so almonds are added to many American foods such as milk. However, the consumption rate of almonds or foods similar to almonds in China is very low, and there are few research reports on their benefits. When considering NHPs and health, we should not be too obsessed with or even superstitious about foreign NHPs.
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