Why is it that our living conditions are getting better and our diet is becoming more and more nutritious, but our health is not as good as before and we often suffer from various diseases? My neighbor Aunt Sun is almost sixty years old, tall and thin, with short ear-length hair.

Why is it that as our living conditions get better and better and our diet becomes more and more nutritious, our bodies are not as good as before and we often get various diseases?

Eating well does not mean eating healthier. Only a balanced intake of various nutrients can improve physical fitness and maintain relatively strong vitality.

Everyone has a similar truth in front of them, but they still can’t do it well. Why?

. It’s a matter of thought. I think expensive is good.

My neighbor Aunt Sun is almost sixty years old. She is tall and thin, with ear-length short hair. She likes to wear bright-colored, slim-fitting clothes or skirts. In the summer, she puts pants on her clothes, which makes her legs look particularly long. From the back, she thinks she is a young girl. She has three daughters and the youngest son, and they are all married.

Aunt Sun likes to eat imported food. When chatting with us, she can't live without Australian beef, New Zealand milk, Spanish ham, American Sunkist oranges, Thai bananas... Her younger daughter and son work in other places and make more money. They often buy her some expensive things. Aunt Sun increasingly believes that the more expensive ones are better.

Every time these two children send her something good from other places, she has to show it off in front of the neighbors. For example, not long ago, when I walked downstairs, I heard her chatting with other neighbors downstairs: "Ah, our Xiaomei sent me another box of apples today. They are imported from the United States. They are so expensive. This damn woman, tell her not to buy such expensive ones, ehhhhhhh!"

Others After hearing this, some of the aunts said: "That's great! Our family..." Some said: "Xiaomei is becoming more and more filial, you are so lucky..."

A few days later, Aunt Sun went out with a smile on her face again. She heard that her son was back and brought her biscuits imported from Japan and milk powder imported from New Zealand... Before her son came to see her, she wanted to go and take a look first.

Aunt Sun's second daughter works in the county town. She lives relatively close to Aunt Sun. She earns a fairly decent fixed salary, has five insurances and one housing fund, and has two weekends off. Every time she comes to see Aunt Sun, she will bring some good things given to her by others to honor her mother, and then accompany her to bask in the sun on the roof of the building and whisper. If you don't look carefully, you might think they are two sisters.

Aunt Sun’s eldest daughter is in the countryside. She grows a lot of navel oranges at home. She looks dark and thin. She does a lot of farm work, either pruning branches, fertilizing, watering, or spraying pesticides. She usually has less time to see Aunt Sun, but every time she comes, she doesn’t have much in her hands. She carries local eggs, local chickens, native ducks , and some home-grown vegetables. When there are navel oranges in the winter, she will also take a snakeskin bag filled with fertilizer to put a big bag of navel oranges for her mother to eat. Aunt Sun gave these navel oranges to her neighbors. She said she didn’t like eating them because they were too sour.

When her eldest daughter comes, Aunt Sun’s face is always calm, although not to the point of curling her lips in disgust, and she always says: “It doesn’t cost much for me to buy these myself, and you don’t have to bring them all the time.” Most outsiders would think that the mother is distressed for her daughter, but every time Damei comes out of her mother’s house, her eyes seem to be deliberately avoiding our neighbors.

Last month, I saw that Aunt Sun didn't look well. Her eldest daughter didn't have to go to work, so he put down his farm work and accompanied her to the hospital. He held the bag for the X-ray in his hand and said he was waiting for the results of the examination. I haven't seen Aunt Sun this month. I heard that she went to the big city where her son lives for treatment.

Imported fruits are generally picked when they are about seven to eight years old and must be soaked in potions to accelerate ripening and preserve freshness. If the preservative exceeds the standard or is illegally added, it will be very harmful to the human body and may cause damage to liver and kidney functions, and may also lead to chronic poisoning.

Aunt Sun likes to eat imported fruits, not necessarily because they are delicious. When she was young in the countryside, she suffered a lot to raise children. Now the children can buy expensive things to honor her. She feels that her face is bright and it is giving herself credit. However, these fruits have to be transported from far away places, so the freight is expensive, not the "expensiveness" of the fruit itself. Its value is no more "expensive" than the navel oranges grown by Aunt Sun and her eldest daughter. Unfortunately, Aunt Sun has always looked down on them and thinks that the more expensive ones are better. As a result, the filial piety of the eldest daughter was hurt, and her own body was damaged. This is a problem of ideological understanding.

. It’s a matter of habit. The food you eat is too refined.

Nowadays, few people eat whole grains every day. With the improvement of living standards and the abundance of materials, people find that refined foods are more delicious, so they develop the habit of eating refined grains. However, this habit unknowingly weakens the digestion ability of our spleen and stomach.

The better you eat, the worse your health will be. Why? Because big fish and meat are acidic foods , they can produce acidic metabolic wastes such as lactic acid and uric acid in the human body, which can easily cause obesity, fatty liver, diabetes , high blood pressure , cancer and other diseases.

Since I left the rural life, like most people, I have eaten better and better, and my mouth has become more and more cunning. Big fish and big meat, the saltier, spicy and more flavorful, the more I like to eat them. Although there are vegetables, I hardly eat them. Whole grains, this wrong eating habit, led to my insufficient intake of vitamins and minerals, excessive caloric intake, weight gain, oral ulcers, and colds three to five times a year. One cold I didn't want to take medicine, so I fought hard, and it turned into pneumonia.

. The habits you used when you were poor in the past are not necessarily bad. A simple diet is actually healthier.

When we were young, we had rice for three meals a day in the countryside. In the morning we had porridge, accompanied by a bowl of fried sour beans, or pickled cabbage stalks; at noon, we had dry rice with vegetables, radish, eggplant, pepper, and occasionally meat; in the evening, we sometimes had minced duck feet porridge with steamed sweet potatoes, and sometimes we ate rice just like at noon.

At that time, conditions were limited and resources were limited. Every time I ate, I had the same dishes. Sometimes when I came back from school and saw those unpalatable dishes, I would go back and stop eating as a sign of resistance. After one meal, I was still hungry. Looking back now, I didn't eat well at that time, there was no mess in my stomach, and I rarely got sick. I remember that I only had two or three colds before I was 18 years old.

There is an old couple in our hometown. They are 90 years old. They have four sons and three daughters. They all live in the city. The living conditions of their children are pretty good, but they never care about their children. Living there, they were accustomed to life in the countryside, with good air and a broad view. But when they came to the city, there were too many lights and the place was not as big as at home. They often felt dizzy and were not used to living there, so they stayed in the countryside. The old couple made a living by themselves. Although their children occasionally improved their food, they usually lived a simple life.

Sometimes, especially during holidays, children would come back to see them. At other times, they would stay in the village.

The old lady used a bamboo fence to grow vegetables in a field not far from her home. After eating, she would sit in front of the house and bask in the sun, watching her chickens grow in the navel orange tree, The plum trees and loquat trees were digging for food under the plum tree and ; there was a river in front of the house, and in the river, the ducks they raised swam from the upstream to their doorstep, and then quacked downstream. The old man also raised fish in the pond in the village. Fish grass He also went to the field or river bank to cut it himself every day, and fed it once in the morning and evening.

The vegetables we eat every day are vegetables, radishes, eggplants, beans, peppers, onions and garlic grown by ourselves. The meat we eat are chickens, ducks and fish we raise ourselves, and the eggs we eat are also local eggs and local duck eggs.

html They are 190 years old, and their bodies still look very strong, their ears are not deaf, and their eyesight is not blurry. They also suffered a lot when they were young. Several children had no shoes to wear. Because they raised so much, they sometimes had to rely on their brothers to support them. After all hardships, they still did not change their hard-working style. They ate everything native to the country. Their sons and grandchildren would buy them expensive food, but they still like to eat food grown by themselves. I think this may be the reason why they live a long life and rarely get sick.

Although our living conditions are better now, we must not "do it". The more expensive the food, the better. Eating well does not mean eating healthily. Only with a balanced mix of coarse and fine grains can we absorb various nutrients, improve physical quality, and maintain relatively strong vitality.

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