Warning! Top 10 "Short-Lived" Diets to Avoid
Enjoying delicious food is one of life's great pleasures, but if the timing and methods of eating are wrong, it can pose significant health risks. For example, consider these 10.
Skipping Breakfast
Accusation: Severely harms the stomach, prevents you from working energetically, and also easily makes you "look older."
Researchers at the University of Erlangen in Germany, after a long-term study of 7,000 men and women, found that 40% of the subjects habitually skipped breakfast, and their lifespan was on average 2.5 years shorter than the remaining 60%. Another university, in a study of people aged 80-90, found that one of their common traits for longevity was eating a hearty breakfast every day.
Punishment: Breakfast foods should be as tasty and appetizing as possible; have sufficient quantity and good quality; be small in volume but high in calories; be quick and easy to prepare; and pay attention to a balance of dry and wet, meat and vegetables in food selection.
Too Lavish Dinner
Accusation: Insulin levels in the blood peak in the evening. Insulin can convert blood sugar into fat, which accumulates on the walls of blood vessels and the abdomen. Eating a lavish dinner over a long time can lead to obesity. It can also disrupt the body's natural biological clock, making it easy to suffer from insomnia.
Punishment: First, eat dinner early to significantly reduce the incidence of urinary tract stones.
Second, eat a light dinner. Dinner should be primarily vegetarian, with more fresh vegetables and minimal intake of excessive protein and fatty foods.
Third, eat a small dinner. Generally, the calories provided by dinner should not exceed 30% of the total daily caloric intake.
Recommendation: Research indicates that cancer is a long-term, reversible "project," and poor eating habits can lead to multiple carcinogenic changes. Tumors with high incidence rates, such as liver cancer, nasopharyngeal cancer, lung cancer, and stomach cancer, are closely related to various unhealthy diets and lifestyles.
Suspect: Excessive Coffee Drinking
Accusation:
1. Reduces fertility. Drinking one cup of coffee per person per day can lower the conception rate by up to 50%.
2. Increases the risk of heart disease. Coffee contains a high concentration of caffeine, which can alter heart function and increase cholesterol levels in the blood.
3. Reduces work efficiency.
Punishment: Drink less.
Excessive Alcohol Consumption
Accusation: Excessive or frequent drinking can lead to alcoholic hepatitis, causing the liver to become inflamed and enlarged, affecting the reproductive and urinary systems.
Punishment: If you drink, you must first learn how to drink. From a health perspective, red wine is the best choice. Drinking after 2 p.m. is safer. Because the concentration of alcohol dehydrogenase, the enzyme that breaks down alcohol in the stomach, is low in the morning, drinking the same amount of alcohol is more easily absorbed and causes greater damage to the liver, brain, and other organs. In addition, drinking on an empty stomach, before bedtime, when you have a cold, or when emotionally agitated is not advisable. A person weighing 60 kg should limit their daily alcohol intake to less than 60 grams.
From the perspective of alcohol metabolism, the best food to accompany alcohol is high-protein and vitamin-rich foods. Avoid pairing alcohol with cured fish, sausages, or cured meats, as these smoked and cured foods contain large amounts of pigments and nitrosamines, which react with alcohol, not only harming the liver but also damaging the oral and esophageal mucosa, and even inducing cancer.
Smoking After a Meal
Accusation: Smoking a cigarette after a meal can be more toxic than smoking ten cigarettes at other times. After eating, gastrointestinal motility and blood circulation increase, and the body's ability to absorb smoke enters an "optimal state," making it easier for toxic substances in the smoke to enter the body.
Punishment: Quit smoking completely.
Brewing Tea in a Thermos Flask
Accusation: Tea is best brewed with water around 80°C. If tea is steeped in hot water in a thermos flask for a long time, it's like simmering it with low heat, which destroys the vitamins in the tea, causes a large amount of tea essential oil to evaporate, and leads to excessive leaching of tannic acid and theophylline.
Punishment: Change your cup.
Constantly Eating Raw Food at Banquets
Accusation: Leads to various parasitic diseases.
Punishment:
1. Drink fresh vegetable and fruit juice daily.
2. Eat fresh vegetables cold, with a moderate amount of vinegar and less salt.
3. Eat raw foods like fruits before cooked foods to avoid an increase in white blood cells.
Suspect: Eating Fruits as a Staple Food
Accusation: Causes a lack of substances like protein in the body, leading to nutritional imbalances and even triggering diseases.
Punishment: Go online first to see what foods are suitable or unsuitable for your body type.
Eating Too Quickly
Accusation: Increases the burden on the digestive system and leads to obesity. Eating too quickly means food is not chewed thoroughly, which is not conducive to the initial digestion of food and salivary amylase in the mouth, thereby increasing the burden on the digestive system. Chewing for too short a time keeps the vagus nerve overly excited, and over the long term, this can easily lead to obesity due to excessive appetite.
Insufficient Water Intake
Accusation: Leads to brain aging; triggers cerebrovascular and cardiovascular diseases; and affects kidney metabolic function.
Punishment: Drink more water and urinate more frequently.