In the past, when Chinese people were underfed and underclothed, their greeting was “Have you eaten?”. Nowadays, many people ask me, “Is it good to take bird’s nest before and after pregnancy? Nowadays, many people ask me, “Is it good to eat bird’s nest before and after pregnancy?” “How do I take Cordyceps?” “Can I take ginseng?” “What should I supplement?” And so on. Living conditions are getting better and better, more and more the pursuit of quality of life is not wrong, but whether the more precious food, the better, the more delicacies, the better? See a set of reports: “China’s diabetes incidence rate in 1994 for 2.5%, 2002 grew to 5.5%, to 9.7% in 2008. At present, the incidence of diabetes in China has been comparable to the economically developed United States …… the incidence of diabetes in large cities has reached 9 to 10%, while the United States is about 7% …… Chinese adults with diabetes up to more than 90 million people …… One in four Chinese adults has diabetes or is in the pre-diabetic stage.” High blood sugar, high blood cholesterol, fatty liver, coronary heart disease is a common disease around us, the street little fat pier can be seen everywhere, in my clinic, men’s patients with fatty liver more than half! I have an immature personal opinion: the evolutionary history of animals, including human beings, is accompanied by a history of struggle with hunger. After a long period of natural selection, perhaps our human genes have adapted to semi-starvation. Taoism preaches grain abstinence, Buddhism promotes vegetarianism, I think this is also a choice to comply with this state. For example, nowadays, children in the city are too happy, what foreign fruits, what anti-seasonal food can be eaten at any time, but the children in the countryside, who can only eat locally produced, seasonal crops, are stronger. Poor children do not get to eat as much “delicious” food, but they are much less prone to rich people’s illnesses. The fact that we see Buddhist monks, especially high priests, who are fit and healthy, also confirms that nutrition is only a part of maintaining health, and that over-supplementation does not always yield the appropriate results. Therefore, my advice on the diet is very simple: First, common balanced, three regular meals; sexual flavor is not biased, mediocre and calm. Cao Yu said: “Meat eaters despise, failed to far-fetched”, my virtue is not enough, not a vegetarian, fortunately, Confucius is also not against eating meat. For most of the secular people, in order to maintain health, you must have a balanced diet, so that you can get a full range of nutrients. However, the current situation of frequent banquets, excessive alcohol and meat, and the popularity of tonic (such as all kinds of vitamins and health supplements), it is better to reflect more on it. In order to achieve a comprehensive nutritional supply, we can refer to modern nutritional conclusions clear research, but more respect for the wisdom of the old ancestors of the five elements of yin and yang. Chinese medicine teaches that food and medicine all have five colors and five flavors, and correspond to the five organs, etc. (see the Five Element Correspondence Chart below). Daily meals should be based on ordinary food, if you can match the five colors and five flavors, but not biased, will be more conducive to the function of the five organs and physical and mental health. For example, chili peppers are pungent, red in color, hot in nature, and belong to the fire, so if ordinary people eat more of it, it may help the fire, injure the body fluid, and move the wind, leading to or exacerbating heat-related illnesses. Three meals must be regular, every day breakfast must be eaten, do not be busy and forget to eat, to avoid starvation and satiety, and not to replace the main meal with snacks. Personally, I think that some of Zhang Wuben’s statements on health maintenance are in line with the principles of Chinese medicine and deserve to be recognized. Obviously, the excessive praise of people is irrational, but in the official criticism of its, and then excessive suppression is very unkind, especially those who at first efforts to promote, and after the fact through a wholesale denial, down the well to clear the relationship between the practice is even more shameful, despicable, China is never short of thick black people. His level of Chinese medicine is at least better than some of those who criticize his Chinese medicine. Pregnant women and children have special characteristics, should increase nutrition, but again, should not be excessive, otherwise either can not be absorbed, or absorbed can not be utilized, accumulation of the body, become a burden, affecting the health of the Second, eat more locally produced, seasonal food. “One side of the water and soil to raise people”, and a seasonal crop is more suitable for this season to eat, foreign or anti-seasonal “delicious” can be eaten in small quantities, but generally should not be consumed for too long, this is the general principle, the general direction. For example, the summer heat, but the production of watermelon to quench thirst; the cold north, but the production of hot and tonic deer antler, this is the magic of creation, God is blessing us. If you want to screw up, against, have to eat watermelon in the winter, it is sure to be sick, either early or late. If you know Chinese medicine, for therapeutic health care purposes, can be flexible. The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine has a lot of discussion, more complex. Here is a basic concept to be clear: according to Chinese medicine, when a person is sick, it is often either cold or hot. And any drug has cold, cool, warm and hot four sex, is also either partial cold, or partial warm and hot, Chinese medicine is the use of drugs to correct the bias of the body’s bias when sick. “Cold is hot” “hot is cold”, this unhealthy state once corrected, you can not continue to eat this drug, otherwise, on the contrary, it will damage human health. Food in general does not have a strong cold and hot partiality, the more common daily diet, the more its flavor tends to be peaceful, or although slightly partial, but the partiality is very small, so generally can be long-term eating without causing harm to health. However, there is no strict boundary between food and medicine, the more novel and rare delicacies, the more remote and exotic delicacies, its bias tends to be the stronger, can be used as medicine, generally not suitable for long-term consumption of large quantities. Traditional Chinese medicine is concerned about the same source of medicine and food, bias is often large for medicine, bias is small for food. The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine (HUNDI NEIJING) emphasizes the “preparation of food for the year”, and that the right food for the right climate will have the best flavor and properties. And anti-seasonal food should be categorized as “non-ShiYu things”, must be “so the same quality and different, etc.”.