"Dietotherapy, also called food therapy, is a way to use food to affect all aspects of the body's functions, so that it can be healthy or prevent diseases. It is a long-term health care behavior! " Mao, a professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine and a nutritionist in the State Council, said.
What is the theoretical basis of dietotherapy? Mao said that the main basis of dietotherapy is the theoretical system of traditional Chinese medicine in the motherland. Traditional Chinese medicine has the theory of "homology of medicine and food", and traditional Chinese medicine also has the theory of "four properties" of food, namely "warmth, heat, cold and cool".
Dietotherapy, like traditional Chinese medicine, should be treated according to the patient's own physical condition. People who are usually more afraid of cold than ordinary people can choose warm food appropriately; Usually the physique is weak but not obviously afraid of cold and heat, so you can choose peaceful food, or use cold, hot and cold food together to make its nature tend to be peaceful. "Dietotherapy is suitable for promotion to the public because it is relatively cheap and easy to operate!"
Dietotherapy is not to stop taking drugs without authorization.
So, who is particularly suitable for diet therapy? Mao said that in theory, everyone can have diet therapy on weekdays. For people with chronic diseases or sub-health, dietotherapy plays a greater role and has less side effects on the body. For example, some people have a slight fever and often like to go to the hospital for injections and medicine. In fact, at this time, as long as you pay more attention to drinking water and eat more foods that enhance your body's immunity, you may have a fever after a few hours or more.
For example, there are more and more people suffering from the "Four Highs" in China. Hypertension, hyperglycemia, hyperlipidemia and hyperuricemia were originally senile diseases, but now young people also have them. For these diseases, in fact, after controlling your mouth, eating proper food, ensuring reasonable nutrition and strengthening physical exercise, you can gradually improve your physical condition, and the state of "four highs" will inevitably improve. "Of course, our diet should be combined with drug treatment at least in the initial stage, and patients with chronic diseases must not stop taking drugs without authorization. Only after a period of dietotherapy and drug combination therapy, all the indexes tend to be standard. At this time, the dosage can be appropriately reduced according to the doctor's advice or even medication is not needed. " Mao Xiang emphasized:
Get health from three meals a day
Experts attending the meeting believe that dietotherapy is the most important part of Chinese traditional culture and an important part of Chinese traditional medicine system. The main purpose of holding this dietotherapy health summit forum is to make some chronic patients and sub-healthy people get health from their daily life and three meals a day.