Eat Your Way to a Lifetime of Good Health: 100 Questions About the Diet Structure for Middle-Aged and Elderly People

Author: Wen Guorong Ning Zhiming
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Publish Date: 2004-10-01
Features: "Food is the first necessity of the people." With the improvement of living standards, people are becoming more and more particular about their diet. Eating is no longer just about filling one's stomach, nor is it just about eating well; it's about how to eat scientifically and reasonably. Although our dietary concepts have made some progress, in daily life, many wrong dietary concepts and unhealthy eating habits are still harming our health. Only by correcting wrong dietary concepts and changing unhealthy eating habits can we truly eat scientifically and reasonably, and achieve real health. As the saying goes, "In a lifetime, eating and drinking are the two most important things." Although this may sound extreme, it highlights the importance of diet to life. Nowadays, many people eat when they are hungry and drink when they are thirsty, yet they are completely unaware that the balance of their diet can greatly affect their health. Because dietary balance is so important, we should start from our "mouth" and scientifically arrange our diet. Especially for middle-aged and elderly people, their bodies have entered another stage of adjustment. How well they eat and drink has become a measure of their health. Combining decades of clinical experience, the two doctors have written this book in the form of questions and answers, discussing scientific and reasonable diets and some topics of concern to middle-aged and elderly people, such as nutritional knowledge, eating habits, proper cooking, and hygiene, for the reference of readers.