Kati Hinck, a 92-year-old waitress who has been working as a waitress at a restaurant near the town of Weyarne in southern Germany for 77 years since 1939, pours beer for a customer. 130 years ago, the average life expectancy for men in Germany was just 35 years, and for women just 38 years. What made them become a famous country of longevity in just over 100 years? This is closely related to their dietary structure, living habits, and focus on the concept of health care. Germany is now one of the top ten long-lived countries in the world. In May this year, the World Health Organization released the World Health Statistics 2016 report: Global life expectancy: 71.4 years Germany life expectancy: 81 years China life expectancy: 76.1 years 130 years ago, the average life expectancy of men in Germany was only 35 years old, and women were only 38 years old. What made them become a famous country of longevity in just over a hundred years? This has a close relationship with their dietary structure, living habits, and focus on the concept of health care. It turns out that the Germans have 10 secrets of longevity, worth learning. 1, three meals a day have garlic Almost every German loves to eat garlic. They also play out a variety of garlic food patterns, such as garlic put into the bread, with garlic fried fish, drink garlic wine and so on. Garlic is known as “natural antibiotic”. Garlic contains allicin, which can inhibit bacterial reproduction and growth. 2, drink fruit green tea Germans attach great importance to health, scientific research has proved to be conducive to health, there will be businesses to develop production and promotion. They like to taste authentic Chinese green tea, also like to transform green tea: strawberry green tea, aloe green tea, banana green tea, pineapple green tea, vanilla green tea and so on. Drinking more green tea can prevent cardiovascular diseases and reduce the risk of cancer. The tea polyphenols in green tea have the function of antioxidant and inhibiting blood clot formation. It also prevents cells and tissues from being destroyed by oxidation and is also anti-inflammatory. Green tea in the green tea can improve the activity of liver detoxification enzymes, inhibit the spread of tumors, reduce the possibility of cancer cell metastasis. 3, every Friday to eat fish Every Friday, all canteens and people’s homes, the main dish is fish. Germans love to eat fish on Friday is a religious origin. In honor of the crucifixion of Jesus on Friday, the faithful do not eat meat every Friday. In the West, fish is not part of the meat, so eat fish on Friday. Fish protein is rich in methionine and taurine, which can prevent high blood pressure and reduce the incidence of stroke, while fish oil is rich in unsaturated fatty acids, which also have a hypotensive effect. Eat fish can also reduce the incidence of colorectal cancer. 4, drink milk from childhood There is no country where people love milk as much as Germans. Germans drink about 85 kilograms of milk every year, the world’s largest. They drink a lot of milk since childhood, and even do dishes also put milk, similar to our Chinese thickening, so the Germans do not seem to lack of calcium. Milk has high nutritional value, in addition to protein, but also contains fat, sugar, calcium, phosphorus and other nutrients. Children drink long, adults drink healthy bones. 5, “stand more than sitting” sedentary people with the shortest sitting time compared to those who suffer from colon cancer, endometrial cancer and lung cancer and other diseases to a higher risk. The Germans are not so fond of “sitting”. Standing office: In Germany, some of the office workers who suffer from lumbar spondylosis, began to get rid of sedentary, try “standing office”. This is conducive to alleviate the symptoms of lumbar spine discomfort. Standing meeting: Frankfurt, a number of companies before the meeting, will take out a small alarm clock and alarm time set at 20 minutes, the staff will stand in place to exchange views enthusiastically, the alarm clock on the end of the meeting. No nonsense, only briefly talk about the main points, so twice the result with half the effort. Also standing in class: In Germany, there are elementary school children in the third grade who stand to listen to the lesson. Their desks are much higher than normal desks. At recess, they can sit on the carpet for a while. Teachers believe that this classroom approach to the children’s interest in learning to improve a lot of obese children can also play a role in weight loss. 6, hobby walks Most German adults walk at least 15 minutes a day. Especially every Sunday, but also their “walking day”. Walking can relieve the tension of work and mental fatigue, but also to promote the increase in blood vessel elasticity, so that more blood back to the heart, is conducive to improving blood circulation, improve the efficiency of the heart. Walking is the best form of exercise for reducing weight, protecting the normal function of the heart and burning calories. Walking for 30 minutes a day is enough to greatly reduce the risk of many diseases. 7, do not eat than, do not wear will be self-relaxation Germans weekday meals, clothing and hats are very casual, will not compare, will not go to the loan to buy a house. Although the German work pressure is also very large, but they are very satisfied with their own lives, many people do not want to burden the loan, simply rent a house to live all their lives. In the eyes of the Germans, the house has no direct impact on happiness. The house appears in their lives in its most basic form and meaning. In a sense, the mind determines health. When a person’s state of mind is optimistic and cheerful, a variety of physiological processes in the organism become active, and at this time, the defense function is also played more fully. When the immune function is strengthened, naturally less susceptible to the invasion of disease. 8, understand leisure Rest day can not be disturbed German people’s work attitude is meticulous, at the same time the German people also attach great importance to leisure life. For the Germans, rest is sacrosanct, the weekend time absolutely must be left to themselves. Very few people work on weekends. Even those who are keen to work are convinced that the only way to fully recharge and rejuvenate is to take a well-deserved break. Fatigue is categorized into physiological fatigue and psychological fatigue. Long-term stressful work and the pressure of double fatigue will bring great health risks. Accumulation of fatigue can easily lead to physiological, immune function, neuromodulation dysfunction, the most common result is a cold, the most horrible is cancer, the most critical is cardiovascular disease. 9, do not serve the old, retired and not idle German old people do not serve the old, many people take the initiative to postpone retirement. In the streets of Germany, some elderly people specialize in giving directions to foreigners, reading newspapers for the blind, and life is therefore full of happiness. Retirement is the starting point of another new life, where you can freely organize your time and do what you want to do. You can pick up the unfinished dreams of youth, you can use a paintbrush, camera, typing, to show their own lives, enjoy the sixty years old after the “second spring”. 10, never randomly buy drugs to eat medicine strictly follow the doctor’s instructions in recent years, the Chinese people kidney disease increase one of the reasons, is their own abuse of drugs. And the Germans never buy drugs to eat, even if the medication is strictly in accordance with the doctor’s instructions. They only use medication when they have to. When we are not aware of the health care products, non-reasonable abuse of drugs, do not know the invisible will bring liver damage, kidney damage, wrong use, abuse of drugs are the most dangerous.