Novel dietary trends return to simplicity. As nutritional research continues to deepen, the dietary concepts of people worldwide are changing day by day. Compared with some traditional eating habits, this change is mainly reflected in the following aspects: Eating coarse rice
In some countries where rice is the staple food, such as Japan and South Korea, eating brown rice is now vigorously advocated, while white rice is avoided or consumed less. Regular consumption of brown rice helps prevent diseases such as diabetes, beriberi, age spots, and constipation, and also has a weight-loss effect. Eating wild
More and more people have begun to realize that diet should return to nature, and one should eat more pollution-free wild vegetables and wild fruits in daily life. Wild fruits and vegetables not only have unique flavors, but their nutritional value also exceeds that of artificially cultivated fruits and vegetables—for example, wild vegetables like mustard and Malan are fragrant and refreshing, and the vitamin C content in sea buckthorn and wild rose in wild fruits is 100 times and 60 times that of apples, respectively. In addition, wild fruits such as Cherokee rose, mulberry, sour jujube, and ginkgo all have good therapeutic effects. Eating raw
Eating raw food helps prevent and treat cancer. In the United States, tens of thousands of cancer patients, in a state of near despair, have eaten only raw vegetables, fruits, or their juices for three meals a day, without any cooked food, for several years without undergoing any treatment. As a result, a considerable number of patients miraculously recovered or had their lives extended. This is because when people eat cooked food, the number of white blood cells in the body increases rapidly, as if bacteria have invaded, putting the body in a state of "emergency alert." Over time, the body's immune function may be damaged. Eating more raw food can keep white blood cells in a normal state and improve the immune system function that has declined due to long-term consumption of cooked food. Eating live
In the view of nutritionists, live food has the richest nutritional value. Medical experts believe that eating live food helps prevent and treat certain diseases. Nowadays, eating live fresh shrimp and silver fish is very popular in Japan. Eating peel
Many people eat oranges along with the peel because the orange peel has many special functions. The peel contains vitamin E, an anti-aging substance, and the volatile oil in the peel can stimulate the digestive tract, increase gastric juice secretion, promote gastrointestinal motility, strengthen the spleen, increase respiratory tract mucous secretion, and promote phlegm expulsion. The peel is also rich in fiber, which has the effects of preventing constipation and colon cancer, and regulating qi, benefiting human health and longevity. Eating insects
At present, eating insects is popular in many countries. For example, Mexico has more than 200 kinds of insects on its menu, the French use turtle eggs to bake pies, and the Germans consider cockroaches a delicacy... Insects are rich in nutrients, and their nutritional structure is more reasonable than that of poultry and livestock, and their protein content is much higher than that of poultry and livestock. Eating tea
The traditional way of eating tea is to drink tea water and discard the tea leaves. But now in China and Japan, many people eat the tea leaves before drinking tea, because research shows that many nutrients in tea leaves, such as tea polyphenols, are beneficial for cleaning the mouth, preventing cavities, digestive system diseases, and constipation, and also have effects such as improving eyesight and losing weight.