As the standard of living improves, many people want to take care of themselves through a proper diet. That is, they want to choose a healthy diet to live a long and healthy life. Usually, books and magazines are full of knowledge about food therapy in Chinese medicine, but here I would like to talk to you about some gastrointestinal tract health care from a Western medicine perspective. The main function of the gastrointestinal tract is to digest food and absorb nutrients, so it is important to maintain a balanced diet. By balanced diet the first refers to the balance of nutrients, including starch, fat, protein, water, salts (potassium, sodium, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus), vitamins and trace elements such as zinc and selenium, which are absorbed in a very comprehensive way. The second refers to the body’s weight is basically maintained in the general range of the average weight, too fat is not good, it will cause the heart to be overburdened, easy to get diabetes, hypertension, coronary heart disease, etc.. Too thin is also not good, the body’s immune system needs to provide adequate nutrition to maintain health, too thin people malnutrition will cause the immune system function decline, prone to tuberculosis and other diseases. A woman’s economic situation is very good, so always take some ginseng bird’s nest and other expensive tonic, but in order to maintain the body, do not eat properly, resulting in anemia, the body becomes a hidden malnutrition. There are still many examples of this, many people do not diet correctly and partial diet, thinking that their diet is very healthy, resulting in hidden malnutrition. The Chinese diet is characterized by more oil and more salt. Oil is fat, too much consumption will cause fatty liver and vascular sclerosis, especially in the Xinjiang region, developed agriculture and animal husbandry, the people’s diet can not be separated from meat, animal fat intake in large quantities, often resulting in obesity, fatty liver and vascular sclerosis. Therefore, cardiovascular disease (coronary heart disease) and cerebrovascular disease (stroke) in Xinjiang is higher than the mainland, so middle-aged and elderly friends should pay special attention to eat meat in moderation. Eating too much salt will promote the occurrence of hypertension, prevention of hypertension must restrain themselves, eat less flavorful dishes, and gradually form a sense of taste lighter more health care. It is easy to infect each other through tableware. HP can be eliminated by using general antibiotics, but it can be re-infected through tableware due to eating habits. Therefore, it is important to form the habit of using communal chopsticks, or to adopt a meal-sharing system where individual utensils are used separately, which can prevent infection. People with frequent stomach pains can go to our Bozhou People’s Hospital for gastroscopy and laboratory tests for HP infection at the same time. The current painless gastroscopy technology, which uses a small dose of anesthesia to put the person being examined under supervision into anesthesia and then examined, makes it easy for many people who are very afraid of gastroscopy to accept it, so it is popular among the public. How about the function of the gastrointestinal tract to evaluate? In fact, by observing bowel movements and exhaust (commonly known as farting), you can monitor your own health status. As the saying goes, “stomach grumbling”, in fact, stomach grumbling is the performance of normal intestinal peristalsis, as long as the stomach grumbling, accompanied by normal exhaust, it means that the gastrointestinal movement function is normal, is the performance of health. Vegetables and fruits contain crude fiber, which can promote intestinal movement and help defecation, so people who pay attention to health care should pay attention and eat more vegetables to promote intestinal peristalsis, which is of great benefit to their health. Another point is that it is important to have regular bowel movements. 1-2 times a day, or once every 2 days is normal. Otherwise, more than 4 times a day is diarrhea, and more than 2 days of bowel movements is constipation. What is a good bowel habit? First of all, when you have the intention, immediately solve, do not hold it, some playful children, or the work pace is particularly fast white-collar, with the intention to hold, over time, will increase the occurrence of proctitis, hemorrhoids and other anorectal diseases. Another point is the habit of defecation, do not read a book when defecating or prolonged forceful defecation, it is easy to form hemorrhoid prolapse, so you should train yourself to shorten the time of defecation, can prevent many anal diseases. Long-term alcohol consumption coupled with constipation can easily aggravate hemorrhoids, so drinking less alcohol is also health care for the gastrointestinal tract. Stool contains products of fat from food being decomposed by intestinal bacteria, which can easily induce colon cancer, so eating less fat and good bowel habits can shorten the time that stool is in the body while reducing the formation and absorption of carcinogenic substances, which is a guarantee of health. There are many kinds of bacteria in the intestine, which under normal circumstances do not affect the health of the body and will help the body synthesize vitamins. However, the invasion of pathogenic bacteria can inhibit the normal flora and secrete toxins, causing illness, mainly diarrhea, fever and so on. So now supermarkets will provide a special yogurt, which contains probiotics, the so-called probiotics, including yeast, bifidobacteria and other bacteria, drink, occupy our intestinal tract and multiply, can inhibit the growth of pathogenic bacteria, and harmless to the human body, so it is not lost as a good health food.