People who eat healthy are much more comfortable

People who eat healthy are more comfortable? The answer is yes - as long as you are not born with a different metabolism than ordinary people, if you adjust your daily diet from a high-oil, high-sugar, high-salt state to a balanced one for 2 to 3 weeks, you will most likely feel that the edema has disappeared, bowel movements will be smoother, you will not feel as muddy during the day, and your mood will be much more stable. This is not the marketing rhetoric of some health bloggers, but the physiological feedback that I have experienced and been tested by a dozen friends around me.

Speaking of which, I was really in a panic in the past two years. When I was working on a project, I would always order takeout that was heavy with spicy food. I would order full-sugar bubble milk tea and fried chicken for afternoon tea. I would work overtime until 90 o'clock at night, and I would have to take two skewers of grilled tendons and iced beer when I went downstairs before I would go home. What was your state during that time? When I woke up in the morning, my face was so swollen that there was only a slit left under my eyes. I had to drink two large glasses of iced Americano to get it to go down. ； Within an hour of sitting at the company, I started to feel confused and yawned at the screen until I shed tears. ； I had to run to the toilet half an hour after eating takeaway at noon. I had a headache at 3pm and had to rely on painkillers to carry me until get off work. Last year, my triglyceride level reached the critical level during my physical examination. The doctor pushed the test sheet in front of me and said, "No need to prescribe medicine. Let's go back and change what we eat first." ”

At the beginning, I tried the low-carb diet that was very popular at the time. I gave up all rice, flour and sugar and ate fried chicken breasts with avocado. The scales really dropped quickly in the first three days and my face was not swollen. However, on the fourth day I went downstairs to buy coffee. When I walked out of the unit, everything went dark and I almost fell down. It took me a long time to recover. Later, I specifically checked a lot of information and found out that low-carb ketogenic diet patterns are more suitable for people with weight loss needs and insulin resistance. Office workers like me, who don’t usually exercise much and have low blood sugar, just try it blindly to find trouble for themselves. Now many nutrition scholars have clearly stated that it is not recommended for ordinary people to practice extreme diet patterns for a long time without medical advice, which may easily lead to nutrient deficiencies.

Later, I stopped doing those fancy things, and just followed the recommendations of the "Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents". I didn't quit completely, but made a few small changes: the milk tea changed from full sugar to three-thirds of sugar, and I drank no more than two cups a week. I usually made some oolong tea and added fresh milk as a drink.； When ordering takeout, ask for an extra serving of blanched vegetables, and note that it is less salty and spicy, and replace half of the white rice with multigrain rice. ； The kebabs in the evening have been changed from eating them every day to no more than once a week. On the remaining days, just cook some millet porridge, steam some corn, and serve it with an omelette and cold salad. Don't tell me, I felt something different on the tenth day of adjustment: my face was not swollen in the morning, I was able to stay energetic all morning without having to drink coffee, I didn't have diarrhea after eating takeout at noon, and even the headache I had in the afternoon didn't come to my door for more than half a month.

Of course, I also know that many people complain that healthy eating is as bland as eating grass and that life is no fun. I totally agree with this. Life is inseparable from a delicious bite. If I really have to stop eating hot pot, barbecue, and iced milk tea for the rest of my life, I definitely don’t want to. Therefore, I never force myself to "quit" anything completely. I try to eat a balanced diet during the workday, and I still invite friends to have butter hot pot with iced milk tea on the weekends. As long as I don't make it all the time, there is no burden on my body at all. I used to have diarrhea for two days after eating hot pot, but now I get a little angry the next day at most. After drinking chrysanthemum and wolfberry tea for two days, I got better. On the contrary, I feel much better than before when I just ate every day.

I mentioned before in the "Report on Nutrition and Chronic Disease Status of Chinese Residents" that more than 60% of adults in my country have a daily intake of oil and salt far exceeding the recommended standards (25-30g of oil and 5g of salt per day), and the intake of high oil, salt and sugar is itself a cause of disease. Edema, gastrointestinal dysfunction, postprandial lethargy, and chronic inflammation are the main causes. As long as these intakes are reduced to a reasonable range, 80% of ordinary people will feel obvious physical changes within two weeks. This is supported by statistics from a large sample and is not a metaphysics. Of course, there is another view in the academic circle, which says that individual differences are huge. Some people are born with strong metabolisms and do not feel uncomfortable eating heavy oil and salt every day. In fact, there is no need to force yourself to change. After all, mental health is also an important part of health. For the sake of so-called "political correctness", forcing yourself to eat things you don't like will make you feel depressed every day, but the gain outweighs the gain.

A few days ago, my cousin, who just graduated, complained to me that she had to work overtime every day, eat takeout every day, her hair fell out in handfuls, and she was so sleepy at work during the day that her head hit the keyboard. I asked her to try to stop drinking two cups of full-sugar milk tea a day and replace it with fresh milk or sugar-free tea. Only a week later, she sent me a message saying that she only drank one cup of milk tea this week and the number of yawns during the day was reduced by more than half, and the hair loss during shampooing was also reduced by less than half. You see, in fact, you don’t need to buy a health care package that costs thousands of dollars, or force yourself to eat “healthy meals” that are difficult to swallow. Just change your eating habits a little bit, and the feedback from your body is really more honest than anything else. To put it bluntly, expensive health products are not as reliable as eating well, right?