To protect your throat, avoid foods that deplete body fluids.
Teachers spend so much time lecturing and talking to students every day, it's really hard work.
To protect your throat, you must pay attention to your diet and control foods that are not good for your throat. Try to avoid all stir-fried and deep-fried foods. For example, don't eat roasted melon seeds, roasted peanuts, fried peanuts, or any very dry-roasted nuts, as they cause dryness and phlegm. Peanuts should only be eaten boiled. Also, avoid dried fish fillets, dried meat, milk tablets, and similar products. In simple terms, these foods make your mouth and throat dry, or in other words, they deplete body fluids, so you should avoid them as much as possible. Among various baked goods like cookies and crackers, avoid those that are particularly dry and greasy.
So what should you eat more of? You can eat some traditional foods that are considered moistening and nourishing for the throat. For example, honey, pears, lotus root, persimmons, radishes, almonds, carrots, and the like. However, according to Traditional Chinese Medicine, pears, raw lotus root, and raw radishes are considered "cooling" foods. Eating too much of them raw can make some people feel uncomfortable in their stomachs. You can consider steaming them before eating. In the past, Mei Lanfang ate steamed pears with honey every day to nourish his throat.
In addition to diet, psychological well-being is also important. People with throat problems must not get anxious or upset, as a calm mind helps with recovery. Furthermore, teaching is very tiring, what people often call "depleting qi." It's important to get enough sleep. You should also exercise appropriately, breathe fresh air often, and boost your immunity.
Lecturing is a full-body workout, an experience that few other professions can understand. What's it like to talk non-stop for two or three hours? What about five or six hours? An ordinary person's voice would probably be hoarse by then. When speaking for a long time, your voice relies entirely on your breath, so your physical fitness must be good.
To prevent pneumoconiosis, eat more wood ear and silver ear mushrooms.
Writing on the blackboard requires chalk, so teachers are prone to developing pneumoconiosis. A crucial technique is how you erase the blackboard. Always wipe from top to bottom; never wipe randomly. This way, less dust settles and is inhaled. When wiping, press the eraser firmly against the board to prevent dust from escaping.
In terms of diet, you need to increase your intake of Vitamin A and soluble dietary fiber. For example, foods often recommended for people exposed to dust are wood ear mushrooms, silver ear mushrooms, carrots, and dark green leafy vegetables. The former provide soluble fiber, which can combine with dust in the digestive tract and promote its excretion. The latter provide Vitamin A precursors, i.e., carotenes, which help regenerate the epithelial tissue of the respiratory tract. You should also eat more of the aforementioned moistening foods to increase the secretion of respiratory tract mucus, keeping it moist and reducing the absorption of dust into the alveoli. Wood ear and silver ear mushrooms also have a moistening effect.
Of course, don't forget to drink plenty of water. Drinking lots of water is one of the most basic health measures for teachers.
To combat fatigue, eat more coarse grains.
Fatigue can be mental, intellectual, or muscular, and teachers experience all three. Standing for long periods while teaching can easily lead to muscle fatigue in the legs and feet, and varicose veins in the lower extremities is also an occupational hazard. However, this is difficult to address with diet and mainly requires exercise and massage. Intellectual fatigue is best addressed with aerobic exercise and sleep. Of course, diet is also important; you need to supply B vitamins, Vitamin C, adequate protein, and omega-3 fatty acids. Eating coarse grains, beans, and nuts helps you get B vitamins. It's not good to have a diet that consists solely of refined white rice and flour. Everyone knows that eating more fruits and vegetables is important.
Oily and rich foods are actually not good for intellectual work. Digesting them requires a lot of blood, which impairs the brain's cognitive function. Therefore, overeating is detrimental to intelligence. Thus, intellectual workers like university teachers should pay attention to a light diet. Use less oil and salt, and limit meat to no more than 100 grams a day, with half of it preferably replaced by aquatic products and soy products. You could consider shifting from pursuing quantity to pursuing quality, ensuring that your vegetables and fruits are the freshest.
With Teacher's Day approaching, and since it falls in early autumn—a time when the climate shifts from humid to dry—various throat problems begin to emerge. Therefore, protecting your throat is particularly important at this time.
One day, I attended an important meeting where all the delegates had a buffet lunch for noon. The buffet was exquisitely prepared and offered a wide variety of dishes: chicken, duck, fish, shrimp, shellfish, stir-fried, deep-fried, braised, and cold dishes, along with dozens of snacks, noodles, pastries, and various fruits and drinks. However, after looking around, I couldn't find a single green leafy vegetable.
The chef in charge of the catering said: "The catering standard for this conference is very high. We felt that vegetables were too low-class, so we only made two or three cold dishes."
Relevant surveys have found that eating more meat and less vegetables is one of the wrong dietary habits that promotes childhood obesity. Undoubtedly, children's poor eating habits are the result of the influence of their parents and family members.
This adult notion of valuing meat and looking down on vegetables actually stems from a background of poverty, a lack of nutritional knowledge, and ignorance of international markets.
When foreign guests from Europe visited a Chinese supermarket, their eyes widened at the sight of green vegetables costing just over one yuan per jin: "China is truly a country suitable for a healthy lifestyle! The Chinese people are so happy!"
The foreign guests'感慨 is quite reasonable, because the nutritional value of green leafy vegetables, and their value in preventing various chronic diseases, is truly outstanding. However, in Europe, the price of a jin of green leafy vegetables can often be as high as several dozen yuan. Poor people cannot afford greens and can only buy onions, carrots, and potatoes. In reality, the vegetable itself is the same, and its nutritional content is not dozens of times higher than in China. It's just that their agricultural workers earn several euros per hour, and growing vegetables requires highly skilled manual labor, plus post-harvest tasks like picking, packaging, storage, and transportation. The labor costs are simply too high.
The nutritional value of food has no relation to its price. Price is only related to the market, while nutritional value is related to the body's needs. The so-called concept of whether a food is "high-class" comes entirely from socioeconomic and psychological factors and has nothing to do with scientific rationality.
Nowadays, the price of oil, electricity, and meat has risen, but green vegetables remain inexpensive. Before their prices catch up with international levels, let's get them onto our dining tables! A life with vegetables is a healthy and prosperous life. Nan Fang
Eating Vegetables is a Rich Person's Life
Pregnant Women with Hepatitis B Need Psychological Care.
Smoking Hurts Women's Hearts More.
Pregnancy complicated by hepatitis B is a common infectious disease in obstetrics, with significant impacts on both mother and child. It poses a serious threat to the life safety of pregnant women. The Obstetrics and Gynecology Department of Nanjing Second Hospital is the only key department in the province that centrally admits and treats pregnant women with liver diseases. It has an annual outpatient volume of over 20,000 and admits more than 1,500 patients. The department has found through clinical experience that pregnant women with hepatitis B experience significant psychological stress.
Common psychological states in pregnant women with hepatitis B include
Tension, anxiety, and fear. After a pregnant woman is infected with HBV, the fetus can be directly infected both in the womb and during delivery. Coupled with the long treatment cycle and recurrent nature of hepatitis B, pregnancy can worsen the hepatitis symptoms and further damage liver function. They worry about transmitting the hepatitis B virus to the fetus, that medication will harm the fetus's health, that the fetus will develop malformations, that long-term treatment will increase the family's financial burden, and they fear the need to terminate the pregnancy. These factors加重 their mental burden, leading to negative emotions of tension, anxiety, and fear.
Low self-esteem and loneliness. Hepatitis B is contagious, and the impact of pregnancy on marital life cannot be ignored, which creates some distance between pregnant women with hepatitis B and their families. During this special period, these patients feel conflicted: they need more care and attention from their family, but they are also afraid of infecting them. Some patients fear that their husbands and families will reject them, and worry that giving birth to an unhealthy child will bring misfortune to the family, leading to feelings of inferiority and loneliness.
Pessimism and despair. Pregnant women with hepatitis B have many complications, their condition is prone to relapse, and it can even develop into severe hepatitis with poor treatment outcomes. For them, pregnancy is a painful process. Patients often feel hopeless,表现为 being listless, speaking little, lethargic, uncooperative with treatment, distrustful of medical staff, and showing a cold, pessimistic attitude.
Professor Han Guorong, Director of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department at Nanjing Second Hospital, believes that pregnancy complicated by hepatitis B is one of the high-risk pregnancies. Poor psychological state can not only worsen the condition but also affect treatment outcomes. Psychological care should be integrated throughout the entire nursing process. It can be carried out simultaneously with other nursing procedures or as a standalone method. Patients should be actively guided in self-regulation to help them face the disease squarely, eliminate psychological stress, and actively cooperate with medical and nursing treatment to improve the success rate of a good pregnancy outcome.
First, a good work attitude is essential for providing good psychological care. Second, strengthen health education and communicate effectively. Inform patients about the basic knowledge of hepatitis B, correct their misconceptions about the disease, and improve their understanding of it. Proper disinfection and isolation, and formula feeding can reduce the risk of mother-to-child transmission of HBV, thereby alleviating the patient's concerns. Third, fully utilize the social and family support system. A good social and family support system can buffer the impact of stressful events on emotions. It is important to make full use of family support as well as support from friends, society, and other sources. For example, encourage family members to visit and spend more time with the patient, allow one companion during hospitalization, and help them maintain a good relationship.
A new study from Norway shows that women who smoke develop heart disease 15 years earlier than non-smoking women, while for male smokers, the time difference is 8 years, which is less than for women.
Dr. Morten Grundtvig from Akerhus University Hospital in Norway and his colleagues studied 1,784 patients who had their first heart attack. They found that the average age for women smokers to have their first heart attack was 66, compared to 81 for non-smoking women. For men, the average age for non-smokers was 72, while for smokers it was 64.
The researchers also found that for some other diseases, smoking also advances the age of onset in women. Compared to non-smoking women, smoking women also develop conditions like high blood pressure and diabetes at an earlier age.
Previously, the medical community believed that estrogen protected women from heart disease. However, Dr. Morten Grundtvig pointed out that smoking may cause women to go through menopause earlier, making them enter post-menopause sooner and thus more susceptible to heart disease.