Composition on reasons for recommending healthy recipes

I recommend everyone to find a healthy recipe that suits you. The core reason is never to follow the trend of fat loss or check in to social media, but it can help you avoid dietary misunderstandings with the lowest cost of trial and error, and find the optimal solution among the three core needs of "eating comfortably", "not time-consuming" and "meeting the body's needs", without having to figure out the pitfalls on your own.

To be honest, I used to think that healthy recipes were an IQ tax. Last year, I came across a blogger’s “Recipe for Losing 10 Pounds in 7 Days”. It was all boiled vegetables with no fat at all. I struggled to squat on the toilet on the third day after eating, and my aunt postponed it for half a month. At that time, when I met people, I would say that this thing was all a cover for brainwashing young people. It wasn’t until I went to the nutrition department for a physical examination and consultation that the doctor explained to me: Those eye-catching extreme recipes are not formal healthy recipes at all. There is never a unified template for real healthy recipes, and different genres cater to completely different groups of people. For example, the balanced dietary formula of traditional nutrition is based on the "Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents". The proportions of cereals, potatoes, eggs, milk, meat, poultry, and fruits and vegetables have been verified by a large number of people. Ordinary office workers with no special needs can follow it and eat it correctly. ； If you have insulin resistance and want to control sugar, a low-carb diet recipe is more suitable. Reduce the proportion of refined sugar, white rice and white flour, and replace it with whole grains and high-quality fats. This will make you feel full and will not cause blood sugar to spike easily and make you confused. ； If you have a weak spleen and stomach and have diarrhea after just two mouthfuls of cold food, then the Chinese-style health pie’s medicinal and food-based recipes are more suitable. Adding more warm ingredients such as yams, pumpkins, and poria will make you feel many times more comfortable than eating a cold salad.

There is a ready-made example around me. The young man who works in the same department works at 996 every day. Before, he ate the heavy oil takeout downstairs. Last year, he suffered from acute gastritis twice and went to the emergency room. Later, he found a "quick healthy recipe" specially made for office workers. All the combinations can be done in 15 minutes: weekends in advance A week's worth of multi-grain rice was steamed and frozen in portions, marinated with two kilograms of beef, dug out a portion of the rice and ate it for 2 minutes before going out in the morning, fried an egg, blanched two handfuls of green vegetables, cut two slices of beef and that was it. It was cheaper to pack it and bring it to the company than to wait for takeout to save time. He has not suffered from gastritis for two months, and his blood fat levels dropped a bit during his physical examination last month.

Oh, by the way, my mother used to sneer at healthy recipes. She always said, "I have been eating for decades, so why do I need others to teach me how to eat?" ”, until last year’s physical examination showed that her fasting blood sugar was 6.8, which is close to the critical value of diabetes. The doctor prescribed a very simple sugar control diet, which required her to add one-third of oats and brown rice to the white rice she ate every day, eat a pound of green leafy vegetables every day, and add half a spoonful of oil when cooking. She continued to eat it for three months with dubious belief, and then checked again and her fasting blood sugar had dropped to the normal range of 6.1. Now she shares her sugar control menu with her old sisters in the community owner group every day, and she is more active than me.

Many people also say that healthy recipes have too many rules and regulations, and life is too tiring. On the contrary, I feel that good recipes are not shackles at all. The recipes I use now don’t have so many strict rules. I allow 200 calories per day to fluctuate, and I also have two “free meals” allowed per week. I can eat hot pot or drink milk tea as much as I want without feeling guilty at all. I used to stick to the strict gram-based diet for three days. I have been using this flexible one for almost half a year. The low-density lipoprotein that was high in the previous physical examination has now returned to the normal range. Even my face, which was always prone to acne before, is much smoother.

To put it bluntly, a good healthy recipe is actually like the navigation you hold in your hand when you go out. It will not force you to take every step exactly. If you want to take a detour to buy ice cream on the way, or go to have a barbecue with friends temporarily, it is no problem. As long as the general direction is correct, you will not make any big mistakes. Why do we look for healthy recipes to become health experts? We just want to make ourselves feel more comfortable when eating, have fewer health problems, and don’t have to make blind detours in the most daily matter of eating. Isn’t this much more cost-effective than buying health care products blindly?