How to eat to be healthy and long-lived

Author: Gao Ke
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Publish Date: 2005-12-01
Features: Professor Gao Ke has long been dedicated to health education practice and deeply feels that nutrition and health are topics of great public concern. The book comprehensively and systematically addresses various questions about "how to eat for a healthy and long life," featuring scientific rigor, practicality, and operability. To facilitate readers' understanding and application, it includes illustrations and diagrams, examples and comments, proverbs and sayings, nutrition tips, food composition tables, and the glycemic index table. It serves as both a popular science reading for families and a reference material for healthcare professionals in health education.
To maintain good health throughout one's life, the best approach is a healthy diet. Proper nutrition can promote health and treat diseases, while improper diet can harm health and cause illness. Whether one's diet is balanced or not not only affects personal health and happiness but also directly impacts the country's economic development and the grand goal of building a moderately prosperous society. Therefore, the Chinese government, along with medical professionals and nutritionists, has called for urgent changes to the current unreasonable dietary habits to control the rising trend of various "affluent diseases."
Currently, many people have become aware of the consequences of unhealthy diets, but they know very little about how to eat scientifically and reasonably, and there are many misconceptions. They urgently need to acquire knowledge about nutrition and health care, which is closely related to daily life. Once learned, it can be applied immediately, bringing real benefits and helping people truly grasp the key to their own health. This book is based on lecture notes written by the author for health education in recent years, which have been revised, supplemented, and compiled into a cohesive volume that combines knowledge and practicality. It can serve as both a popular science reading for the public and a reference material for healthcare professionals in health education.