WHO defines health as follows: healthy limbs, no diseases in the body, normal fertility functions; good social adaptability and stress resistance, and healthy mentally and morally.
According to the World Health Organization, people who meet this health standard account for only 5% of the total population, those who are diagnosed with various diseases account for 20% of the total population, and the sub-health state between health and disease accounts for about 75% of the total population. This is a very amazing set of data, because there are so few people who meet this health standard, and most people are in sub-health and chronic disease states.
So, why are there so many people in sub-health? According to professional research, this is because human health has a certain relationship with diet. If we can change our wrong dietary concepts, we can improve our physical fitness and restore our health.
The famous preventive medicine expert Yang Dingyi In his new book "Healing Diet and Fasting - Personal Nutrition in the New Era", he gave reasonable dietary adjustment plans for people's long-standing wrong eating habits, which can be regarded as a scientific dietary guide to achieve a counterattack in life.
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The author of this book, Yang Dingyi, is a Chinese American, a doctor of medical science and student. He has served as an advisory committee member of the Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health and is a well-known expert in preventing immunity and cancer. All life series " Mahara Medical ", "Good Sleep", "Abundant", "Unreasonable Happiness" and other monographs have been published.
Dr. Yang told us in the book that people’s body healing should not only start with cutting off sugar, eating good fat, eating more fresh vegetables, ingesting high dietary fiber and exercising, but also pay attention to the flexibility of the body’s metabolism. Through cutting off sugar and fasting, the body can be detoxified and repaired, and gradually gain full-body and mental relaxation.
01 What exactly did you eat wrong? It turned people who were originally healthy into chronic diseases. In modern society, the pace of life is constantly accelerating. In order to save time, people often eat fast food and over-processed foods.
This type of food includes: ice cream, donuts, potato chips , French fries, soda, cola and other snacks and sugary beverages. Because it contains a lot of sugar, salt, vegetable oil, artificial seasonings, etc., long-term consumption will cause great harm to the human brain and body.
I once saw an article titled "The more super processed food you eat, the more likely you become stupid" on the Internet: Because of eating super processed food for a long time, some people suffer from dementia, some people gradually develop into Alzheimer's disease, and some people suffer from vascular dementia .
In September 1955, former US President Eisenhower suffered a sudden heart attack. Under the careful treatment of the treatment team of Dr. Paul White, a famous American cardiologist, Eisenhower's condition was controlled. That year he was 64 years old.
The medical experts at that time suggested that he adopt a low-fat, low-cholesterol diet and not eat egg yolks, fat meat, animal offal, dairy products, olives and nuts to protect the heart.
He carefully executed this recipe, but the effect was not ideal. His weight continued to increase. In order to control his condition, medical experts arranged for his breakfast to be changed to fruit and no longer ate steak. Later, he simply stopped eating breakfast.
Although Eisenhower eats less fat and does not eat butter , cholesterol is still getting higher and higher, and at the same time, the body shape is getting fat and the physical fitness is getting worse and worse.
In fact, these symptoms of Eisenhower are the expected response of insulin impedance to a low-fat, high- carbohydrate diet. It was just that due to the medical level at that time, experts could not explain.
In 1980, the US government released the first edition of " American Dietary Guidelines ", and also recommended that everyone adopt a low-fat and low-cholesterol diet. Dr. Yang believes that the wrong dietary methods listed in this "Guidelines" are the main reasons why people's bodies are becoming increasingly unhealthy.
The main source of calorie introduced in the "Guidelines" is a low-fat diet. According to the method taught in the Guidelines, although eggs and meat are eaten less, high-carbohydrates such as refined sugar, refined rice, starch and bread and sweets have become staple foods, causing overnutrition, which laid the groundwork for the body to get sick.
Some nutrition experts remind people to use three meals a day, and six meals if necessary. They even advocate snacks and encourage small amounts of more meals.
This frequent meals will make the digestive tract not have time to rest, and will also make insulin continuously secrete. In the long run, the body will be filled with sugar, and the body full of sugar and fat will not be able to bear it and will no longer react to insulin. This is the impedance of insulin.
From this time on, this person has become a metabolic syndrome and a chronic disease constitution, which means he is not far from chronic disease.
It is precisely because experts promote low-fat diet in the name of health, changing saturated fat to unsaturated vegetable oil, increasing carbohydrate intake, which eventually caused obesity, metabolic imbalance in many people, and entering the physique of chronic diseases.
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02 Can you have health by eating well
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is not necessarily the case, because eating simply is good and not enough to keep the body healthy. If the insulin impedance can improve, people have the opportunity to stop or delay obesity, type 2 diabetes, fatty liver, cardiovascular disease, cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, low immune function, chronic inflammation and other diseases, so as to improve people's quality of life and happiness index.
So how to adjust it? When it comes to dietary adjustments, the most important thing is to restore the flexibility of human metabolism. If the human body loses metabolic flexibility, the body's metabolism will become rigid, and the adjustment range will become smaller and even metabolic abnormalities will occur. At this time, it is inevitable that the body will have problems.
How can we restore the flexibility of the body? In fact, modern people lose their metabolism flexibility basically eat it, such as eating high-carbohydrates, sugary snacks and beverages for a long time. When we make dietary adjustments, we can get nutrition from a variety of foods and intermittent fasting.
Because the purpose of dietary adjustment is to restore health and elasticity to energy metabolism. If a person's metabolism is healthy, eating less or not eating for a certain period of time can the body bear it. When the body is insufficient energy when it is not eaten, the body will use the fat stored in the body as fuel to support the body's various activities. After all, our bodies do not need to eat at all times.
In addition to dietary adjustments, if you want to restore metabolism flexibility, you must also change from a mentality of "must eat" to a mentality of "not eating" to a mentality of "not eating" so that the insulin in the body can be freed from three or six meals a day, and you don't have to work all day long to digest it endlessly...
How to do the correct dietary adjustment? We can adopt a "low-sugar diet", also known as low-carbon diet , which means eating less carbohydrates, eating more good fats and fresh vegetables in the season, such as flax seed oil , olive oil, coconut oil , steak, beef, walnuts, hazelnut , etc.
The diet mentioned here is to adjust the variety of food, not the amount, so you must eat well and eat full every time you eat. Such dietary adjustments make people hunger slowly, and the number of times they eat will be reduced, and three meals a day will naturally become two meals, or even one meal.
slowly adapts to such a low-sugar diet, and the body is liberated from various busy digestion, absorption and storage. Even the mental level has reduced the number of meals and has more spare time. In this way, the whole body and mind are rested, and the metabolism will naturally restore its original health and flexibility.
mentioned earlier that eating less or not eating is actually what we will talk about next - intermittent fasting.
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03 Want to repair the damaged body, fasting is a good choice
fast is the healing wisdom of the ancients, like Greek Father of medicine Pocrates, who fasted to keep his mind clear; the Indian saint Gandhi fasted to purify the practice of body and mind.
"Healing Diet and Fasting" says: Fasting for more than 3 days can eliminate damaged and unable to perform normal functions of immune cells , and after re-eating, replenish the immune cells newly differentiated from stem cells , so that the immune system will become younger.
Fasting can also improve brain imperfection, obesity, lumbar disc herniation and other problems. Why does fasting significantly improve the body?
Because in the process of fasting, the most important thing is to cut off sugar first, and by cutting off sugar, the body changes from using sugar to using fat. When the sugar reserves in the body are used up, the body will change from metabolic sugars to metabolic fat. When fat is metabolized, a substance is produced - ketone , which can provide energy to the brain.
Through the previous introduction, we have learned about the many benefits of fasting to the body, but there is still a very important part of the overall repair and healing of a person, that is, cleaning. The healthy operation of the human body not only requires good nutrition but also cleanup to balance.
In 1973, cell and biochemist Kristen de Diff won the Nobel Prize for discovering the autophagy mechanism of cells. Through experiments, he observed that the enzyme contained in the lysosome of the cell can decompose bacteria, viruses, protein and other organs in the cell. He named this physiological function "eat yourself", which is what we now call autophagy.
After a person has fasted for more than a certain period of time, the cells will start to "eat" themselves. Fasting can enable cells to activate the autophagy function, starting from the "power factory" that produces energy - the chondria, which reduces inflammation, promotes wound healing, reduces weight, and clears mind, allowing the whole person to easily regain vitality.
Our body activates stem cells through fasting, and allows cells to gain new vitality through re-eating. People who eat again after fasting should adopt a gentle diet and accompany every part of the body and even every cell like a friend. This is the best health preservation and the most complete physical and mental healing!
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in "Healing Diet and Fasting" Dr. Yang told us in "Healing Diet and Fasting" that we should try to eat natural ingredients to reduce the intake of refined sugar and carbohydrates. At the same time, intermittent fasting is performed with the healing wisdom of the ancients - "fasting method", to help the body restore metabolic flexibility, heal people's sub-health and chronic disease constitution, restore the intestinal healthy microbiome, and allow the body to achieve easy and reverse growth! The book
lists 5 dietary methods, 4 benefits of fasting, 6 fasting methods and precautions for intermittent fasting. It also tells us that during fasting or dietary adjustment, not only the body, but the mind will also "detoxify". The body's reaction is that from top to bottom and from inside to outside; the psychological reaction is that from video tape rewinds, from now on, bringing out some memories and the occurrence of some events.
This book is very worth reading! Standing at the level of cherishing health and cherishing life, let us open this book "Healing Diet and Fasting - Personal Nutrition in the New Era" together, follow Dr. Yang's guidance and embark on the magical journey of fasting healing!
