Author: Zeng Yusheng
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
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Moderate nutrition, avoid overeating; maintain a healthy weight, don’t exceed the limit; appropriate exercise is essential, avoid overexertion; quit smoking, reduce alcohol consumption, follow advice, and cultivate good lifestyle habits; prevention is key when healthy, seek medical attention early if sick.
—Advised by Wang Minqing, this series of books carries out high-intensity educational campaigns to enable health workers and various groups to master the principles of healthy eating, thereby achieving the goal of health and longevity.
—Advised by Chen Xiaoshu, as long as the principles of the "Dietary Guidelines" are followed for reasonable allocation, even ordinary foods can achieve the purpose of preventing diseases, promoting health, and extending life.
—Advised by Gu Jingfan, the series’ editorial committee chair, prevention is more important than treatment. Strengthening the publicity and education of reasonable nutrition and balanced diets is the primary task.
—Advised by Zhou Wenzhen, life depends on nutrition. Since the existence of organisms, life’s continuity and sustainability have been inseparable from dietary nutrition. Ancient wisdom long recognized this truth, noting that "eating well leads to prosperity, while starvation leads to peril," highlighting its profound value. Thus, the saying "food is the foundation of life" emerged. Modern science further understands that the abundance or deficiency of nutrients is a major cause of various diseases. Insufficient or lack of nutrition can lead to anemia, rickets, dementia, goiter, blindness, osteoporosis, and congenital deformities, while excessive nutrition can result in "luxury diseases" such as obesity, atherosclerosis, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, coronary heart disease, and diabetes. Mild cases affect health and reduce quality of life, while severe cases threaten life. With China’s national economic development and rising living standards, the aforementioned nutritional imbalances have become increasingly prominent, making nutrition and health care receive greater attention. In response, the Chinese Nutrition Society formulated the "Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents" in 1997, based on scientific research and tailored to the nutritional needs and dietary deficiencies of the Chinese population, offering universal guidance. The significance of this series lies in further popularizing scientific knowledge of nutrition and health care, enabling the general public to correctly master balanced diets, thereby strengthening the body, extending life, and improving national quality. The content of the series is divided into two parts: one is how nutrition prevents and treats various common diseases, and the other is the relationship between dietary nutrition and different life stages. The contributors to the series are all professionals who have long been engaged in nutritional work in clinical, teaching, and research settings. Through their daily practice, they have gained deep insights and rich experience in handling the relationship between nutrition and health care, resulting in writing that is both accessible and practical. We hope that readers can gain extensive nutritional knowledge from this series and apply it in their daily lives, contributing to disease prevention, health promotion, and strengthening the body to better achieve a well-off society.