UNDERSTAND MODERN DIETARY CONCEPTS AND MYTHS

   

1. Do people need to eat food?

Parents have taught their children to eat since childhood. Nutritionists educate the public that they must eat five fruits and vegetables every day. Middle-aged and elderly people should eat a Mediterranean diet to prevent cardiovascular disease. How good is tea and how good is coffee .

There are various health books in the market that introduce the advantages of various diets. Many of them teach various diet therapies-grain rice, energy soup, health vinegar, energy enzymes, vitality diet, certain food can cure all diseases, beauty and beauty, even direct sales The product emphasizes the effect of health care.

I remember when I was eight years old, I saw on TV an Indian who had set the Guinness World Record and had not eaten for 19 years; Japan's NHK once interviewed a girl who had refuge in valleys for ten years in China; In former India , people who claimed to have not eat or drink for 70 years appeared.

                              

Prahlad Jani ,  also known as Mataji or Chunriwala Mataji, was an Indian breatharian monk who claimed to have lived without food and water since 1940.

Our environment has repeatedly prompted us must eat food and supplement enough nutrients every day. However, after reading these reports from abroad, one cannot help but wonder, do we need to eat?

2. Is it necessary for us to eat three meals a day?

When we were young, we had to eat three meals a day. Afternoon tea is popular abroad. Health experts also suggest: "Eat well in the morning, eat well for lunch, and eat less for dinner."

However, monks can eat one meal a day, or even stop eating at noon. During the Muslim fasting month, they only eat dinner. Recently, many Japanese doctors and scholars emphasize the benefits of not eating breakfast for "fasting".

There is a pastor in South Korea who only eats one meal in four or five days. His student Li Xiangwen: The author of separation of food and liquid, Yin and Yang diet, often teaches people not to eat three meals. They all confirmed that you don't have to eat all three meals, it will be very healthy!

So is it necessary to eat three meals a day?

3. Must we not eat food until we die?

If you don't eat, do you want to be a superman?"

"A person needs to eat to have energy."

"Because I don't eat, my whole body is weak!"

"You have to eat food to get better from your illness!"

"If you don't eat food, people will die!"

These words are often heard, so before we humans die, can we not live healthy and disease-free without eating or drinking?

4. Modern nutrition myth

(1) Overemphasize the nutritional value of food, and the production process is not transparent.

One cup of milk contains 400 mg of calcium, and two cups meet your daily needs for calcium; adults need more than 1600 calories a day, how much protein should they consume, and how many milligrams of vitamin C fruits should they eat; not enough vegetables , You will be prone to constipation; the benefits of linseed oil; how healthy is brown rice oil and olive oil for meals; if you want a balanced nutrition, it is best to take comprehensive vitamins every day...

Is our body designed to have a certain amount of nutrition every day to maintain normal physiological functions?

"If you don't eat fruit, your body will get inflammation easily!"

"Your problem must be caused by lack of nutrition."

"If you want good eyesight, you have to eat more fruits and vegetables rich in lutein."

"Adult men need to eat enough oysters every day to make up for the zinc they need for the day."

"Which foods are the most anti-cancer because they are rich in anthocyanins."

All nutrition scholars, of course, will also tell you: "You have to do enough exercise every day to make your body healthier!" But in the end we ate everything and did everything that should be done. Many of us are still healthy. It is inevitable to go wrong. Finally, those doctors, nutritionists and health experts will recommend you to take many high-dose nutritional products or the latest popular superfoods:

"Eating these fruits and vegetables will help you defecate smoothly every time.

"Swallowing that capsule will make you more energetic!"

"Taking this health product every night will make you sleep well all night."

Finally, I bought it all, and after taking it for a period of time, it feels less and less effective. At this time, your friend introduced another product, and you might have bought all the products he introduced. After taking it for a period of time, you have to change to healthy food produced by another company.

You may have read all kinds of health books in the bookstore; you may have read all the topics about new nutrition information published in newspapers and magazines; you may be serious about the views put forward by all famous doctors, nutritionists, and health experts. I have checked and consulted; you have eaten most of the foods you can eat; you have done almost all the health-preserving methods that can be practiced; but in the end, all the effects of health benefits are still limited, and may even be More and more ineffective.

However, have you ever been introspective on this: Is taking these foods really nutritious and beneficial to your body?

In your mind, there may be a lot of words: how famous doctors recommend, experts, scholars, and books are all educated in this way; even family, friends, bosses, colleagues, and even the governments of all countries Departments are all working as megaphones for these health care knowledge theories ~ vigorously endorsing them.

Haha! I guess you must have been seriously brainwashed!

However, have you ever traced the source of these foods in what way they are grown, produced, and processed?

       

Does the farmer apply pesticides during the planting process?

         

Has the land been chemically contaminated?

         

Are the crops genetically modified?

         

If pesticides are sprayed, will they be harvested within the safe period?

         

Are animals raised in a humane manner?

         

Have you used inhumane methods to breed them?

         

Are there any excess antibiotics in the meat?

         

Or contain illegal drugs?

Are illegal chemicals added in the production process to increase the appearance of the product and prolong the storage period?

Are health foods contaminated during the extraction process?

Has it reached the numerical value of outsourcing labeling nutrition?

Are the working environment conditions hygienic?

Does the product lose its original nutritional activity during the production process?

Or its nutritional activity has been destroyed during the production process and transformed into other substances?

Is there any special change to its chemical structure in order to preserve its freshness?

Nutrition scholars and manufacturers seem to have rarely mentioned these questions!

(2) Quantitative nutritional doctrines brainwash consumers

In today's society, biotech professionals, medical teams, health experts, nutrition scholars, famous doctors and MLM companies are everywhere. They publish and cite a large number of nutritional academic research papers, based on countless nutritional analysis experimental reports. Educational consumer:

How many milligrams, how many cc, how many units of diet and nutrients do you have to consume each day, will you live a healthier life.

Look at the information and research reports cited by these authorities. They have a basis for saying so!

You will believe them in your heart and think that they are right!

Quantitative expert authority, academic team, and industry propaganda have been repeating quantitative nutrition information.

So, we were brainwashed by them unconsciously!

But can they understand that everyone's needs are different? Do we make everyone wear the same uniform?

They may say that because everyone's physique is different, the amount of use should be increased or decreased, but they must not stop eating these foods every day, just like changing the size of the uniform, but you just can't get out of this uniform.

Therefore, in order to persuade you to wear this uniform, they designed a series of scientific experiments to prove their claim is correct.

(3) Academic medical experiments with final results can be designed in advance.

Many of the knowledge of modern nutrition has been misrepresented by health food manufacturers without public inspection, deceived by incomplete clinical trials, and fabricated by specious epidemiological investigations.

1. To misrepresent the contents without public inspection:

　　　　　　　

The entire certification process of the so-called publicly published medical efficacy must at least be found on the Pub-Med search site of the American Biotechnology Information Center and published in well-known high-level journals around the world; its contents are all from world-class universities or top The experimental research report of the research institution.

There are many experiments provided by manufacturers, the process of which is not transparent, and is often replaced by test tubes, cell and animal experiments to prove its safety and effectiveness, but it is often used on humans, which is not only useless, and may even lead to tragedies. .

And some medicines use oral and injection methods, the effects of the two may be completely different, some of them actually replace oral reports with experimental reports of injection treatment, which greatly misleads the general consumer.

2. To deceive the public with incomplete clinical trial data:

It is not possible to distinguish whether a product is effective or ineffective under various conditions. This is for most health problems.

If there are not enough samples in clinical trials, the final research accuracy will be relatively lower.

3. False fabrications based on specious epidemiological investigations:

　　　　　

The researcher's knowledge is limited, or the conditions and equipment are not perfect, the number of samples is too small, the samples are not from the same parent, the diagnostic criteria are not clear, the grouping is not balanced, the sampling is not random , the design is unreasonable, the equipment is not accurate, and the participants have a subjective position , Interpretation results are sometimes one-sided.

There are other confounding factors that tend to distort the causal relationship. For example, people who have doubts about the efficacy of healthy foods will not help manufacturers to conduct experiments to obtain certification; while researchers who are willing to accept remuneration, or people who are tested, are very easy to favor manufacturers.

　

　　　　　　

In short, without maintaining a fair attitude and rational wisdom, experimental results are prone to deviations, and the results are more likely to be designed. This is also a deception commonly used by scholars to achieve positive results for manufacturers.

4. Propaganda tricks that exaggerate and play word games:

　　　　　　

Many health food publicity content is full of (stealthily) substitute one thing for another, spreading pseudoscience out of nothing, making use of ordinary nutrients as a special medical effect hype, using scientific research teams or medical institutions, low-ethics and poorly-learned experts to exaggerate the efficacy Exhausted their efforts and abused high-tech academic terms to hit a lot of TV commercials!

5. The broad masses of consumers are kidnapped by huge food companies, pharmaceutical companies and medical interest groups.