Dietary taboos and recipes

There are no dietary taboos that apply to everyone, and there is no universal recipe that can be copied directly from homework. All dietary rules must be anchored in the individual's physical constitution, basic diseases, and current living conditions and dynamic adjustments. If they are applied rigidly, it will easily lead to pitfalls.

To be honest, I have seen too many people rely on the "Red and Black List of General Diets" found on the Internet. I once had a friend with a weak spleen and stomach. After reading a blogger saying that broccoli was a top anti-inflammatory, she washed it every day and ate it raw for afternoon tea. As a result, she had diarrhea for three days in a row. When she went to the hospital, the doctor said that she was afraid of cold, and she ate raw cruciferous vegetables every day. It would be strange if she didn't have a stomachache. You see, the "healthy food" in other people's mouths may be a burden on you.

Many people are making a fuss about the "fawu" controversy. In fact, both sides of the argument are reasonable. According to traditional Chinese medicine, you should avoid seafood, mutton, toon and other hair-raising substances after surgery and during allergy attacks, for fear of aggravating redness and swelling and inducing allergic reactions. ； Modern nutritional science says that as long as you are not allergic to these foods, high-quality protein can help wounds heal faster. I have talked with nutritionists at community hospitals before, and the advice they give patients now is a compromise: if you are prone to allergies in the first three days after surgery, you should avoid foods with high foreign protein content. After the edema period is over, you can eat shrimps or stewed mutton if you want. As long as you don't add too much chili pepper and heavy oil, you will recover faster than drinking white porridge every day.

There is also no need to take those rumors about diets that have been circulating for more than ten years. "Eating vitamin C and shrimp together will cause arsenic poisoning". Calculated, it would take dozens of kilograms of spoiled shrimp and more than a dozen bottles of vitamin C tablets to reach the toxic dose. Who can produce so much in daily meals? There is also a saying that "soy milk cannot be mixed with eggs." As long as the soy milk is thoroughly boiled and the eggs are fully cooked, I often eat this when I am in a hurry, and I have not had any indigestion for more than half a year. Oh, and by the way, "Don't eat bananas on an empty stomach." I've caught the high-speed train several times without buying breakfast, and it's okay to eat two bananas. As long as you don't have hyperacidity, you don't need to pay attention to this at all.

Rather than digging into these invisible taboos, on the contrary, personalized taboos for basic diseases are worth paying more attention to. The recipes must also be followed by people, and we cannot let people adapt to the recipes. I used to help Aunt Zhang, who has diabetes in her family, adjust her diet. The sugar-control recipes on the Internet all asked her to eat pure multigrain rice. She had bad teeth and couldn't chew hard oats, so I changed it to a mixture of brown rice and rice cooked in a ratio of 1:2. I added a few pieces of baby pumpkin to each stew. The glycemic index was not high. She ate well and her blood sugar was stable. There is also a buddy who suffers from gout. He heard people say that you should never touch soy products. After not eating soy products for more than half a year, his face became sallow. Later, after checking the guide, he found out that most of the purine in processed soy products such as yuba and tofu has been removed by water treatment. It is no problem to eat a small half bowl each time. Now he dares to eat mapo tofu twice a week, and his uric acid level has not increased. He is more energetic.

Nowadays, the various diet schools on the Internet are very noisy. The low-carb group says that only by cutting out carbohydrates can we lose weight quickly, while the balanced group says that carbohydrates are the core source of energy, and the lack of them will affect endocrine systems. Two friends around me lost weight at the same time. One gave up carbs for a short period of time to take wedding photos and lost 20 pounds in three months, but my aunt postponed it for half a month. ； The other one ate according to the dietary guidelines for Chinese residents, including carbohydrates, vegetables and meat every meal. He lost 8 pounds in three months and had no problems. Which one do you think is right? In fact, it all depends on your needs. If you want to achieve short-term goals, low-carbon is not a scourge. If you want long-term health, a balanced diet is definitely more secure.

There is really no need to turn eating into a game of adventure. Every bite of food has to be checked against the taboo list for a long time before you dare to eat it. My own habit is to eat whatever I want, except for mangoes I am allergic to and the doctor’s instructions to avoid high-purine foods. Drinking one cup of milk tea a week will not make me fat, and cooking hot pot with two pieces of fat meat is not burdensome. My body is more honest than all recipes and taboo lists. If you feel comfortable after eating and feel energetic the next day, that is the diet that suits you.