The pace of life for young people is getting faster and faster, with endless work to do every day. It's easy to neglect one's own health and unknowingly violate dietary taboos. Experts point out that office workers have 10 dietary taboos. Let's take a look!
Dietary Taboo 1: Loving to drink coffee
American medical researchers have found that people who drink 5 or more cups of coffee a day have twice the risk of developing heart disease compared to non-drinkers. The longer they have been coffee lovers and the more they drink, the higher the likelihood of heart disease. A survey of 858 people aged 45-69 who had their first heart attack proved that those who drank more than 5 cups of coffee a day had a 70% increased risk of the disease.
Dietary Taboo 2: Insufficient water intake
Office workers, due to high concentration during work, can easily forget to drink water, leading to insufficient replenishment of body fluids. Reduced body fluids cause blood to concentrate and increase in viscosity, which can easily lead to thrombosis, trigger cerebrovascular and cardiovascular diseases, and also affect kidney metabolic function.
Dietary Taboo 3: Smoking after meals
Smoking a cigarette after a meal is more toxic than smoking ten cigarettes at other times. Because after eating, gastrointestinal motility strengthens and blood circulation accelerates. At this time, the body's ability to absorb smoke enters an "optimal state," and toxic substances in smoke enter the body more easily than usual, thus further damaging health.
Dietary Taboo 4: Too lavish dinner
For office workers, dinner has almost become the main meal of the day. Breakfast depends on the "clock," lunch depends on the "work schedule," and only at night can they truly relax, sit steadily at the dining table, and have a hearty meal.
Dietary Taboo 5: Eating too fast
This加重 the burden on the digestive system and lead to obesity. Many office workers eat their lunch in a very hurried state. Eating too fast means food is not chewed thoroughly, which is not conducive to the initial digestion of food and salivary amylase in the mouth,加重 the burden on the digestive system. Chewing for too short a time keeps the vagus nerve in a state of excessive excitement. Over the long term, this can easily lead to overeating and obesity.
Dietary Taboo 6: Never leaving raw food at banquets
Among the preferred foods for office workers at business banquets—such as salmon, geoduck, sea bass, snakehead fish, sashimi, snake, turtle, and crab—the probability of parasites and pathogenic bacteria is very high. Furthermore, in pursuit of fresh flavor, chefs often do not cook them sufficiently, making it easy for you to get sick from what you eat while enjoying a feast.
Dietary Taboo 7: Brewing tea in a thermos
Tea contains large amounts of tannic acid, theophylline, tea essential oil, and various vitamins. It is more suitable to brew with water around 80°C. If tea is steeped in high-temperature water in a thermos for a long time, it's like simmering it with low heat. This will destroy all the vitamins in the tea, cause a large amount of tea essential oil to evaporate, and lead to the excessive seepage of tannic acid and theophylline. This not only reduces the nutritional value of the tea and diminishes its aroma but also increases the amount of harmful substances.
Dietary Taboo 8: Skipping breakfast
This seriously harms the stomach, making it impossible to work with full energy, and also容易 "make you look older." Researchers at the University of Erlangen in Germany, after a long-term follow-up of 7,000 men and women, found that 40% of them were in the habit of skipping breakfast, and their lifespan was 2.5 years shorter on average than the other 60%. Another university, in a study of people aged 80-90, found that one of their common characteristics for longevity was: eating a hearty breakfast every day.
Dietary Taboo 9: Using fruit as a staple food
Many office workers suffer from poor digestion, high blood lipids, and vascular sclerosis due to long-term sedentary work, and they do need the nutrients in fruit to alleviate these conditions. However, fruit cannot be a staple food. Although fruit contains various vitamins and sugars, it lacks the protein and certain trace elements that the human body needs.
Dietary Taboo 10: Excessive drinking
The optimal amount of alcohol: A person weighing 60 kg should limit daily alcohol intake to under 60 grams. Those weighing less than 60 kg should reduce it accordingly, preferably to around 45 grams. Converted to various finished alcoholic beverages, this would be: 50 grams of 60-degree liquor, 1 kilogram of beer, or 250 milliliters of whiskey. Although red wine is beneficial to health, it should not be consumed in excess. 2 to 3 glasses a day is best.