Beware of the two “invisible killers” during the Spring Festival

Chinese New Year is a busy and happy festival, but every year when the festive atmosphere is in full swing, someone always falls ill. The lighter ones rest and can be relieved; the more serious ones can only be sent to the hospital or even lose their lives. In recent years, this trend is more often seen in young and middle-aged people. Most people think it is due to cardiovascular disease caused by people being too happy, overeating, excessive drinking, staying up late, etc. Here is a reminder that the damage to one’s health from our traditional Chinese New Year eating habits cannot be ignored! Another thing that deserves high alert is the information dissemination tools around us. Zhang Hongchao, Cardiovascular Surgery Department, Air Force General Hospital First of all, the traditional Chinese New Year is characterized by a culture of eating. Whether in the south or north, it is easy to understand how to eat in different ways. Excessive intake of sweets, meat, eggs, and seafood during the Spring Festival is obviously detrimental to human health, especially for patients with diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, hyperuricemia, cardiovascular disease, and liver and kidney insufficiency, all of which can easily stimulate the aggravation or deterioration of the condition. In addition, another more insidious harm is less likely to attract attention, that is, in the food culture, Chinese cooking techniques have quietly become the invisible killer of people’s health! In addition to the large number of carcinogens produced by the food manufacturing processes of frying, stir-frying, pickling and smoking, the combination of various spices can greatly undermine people’s appetite protection. To give a simple example: for example, do a fish, without any seasoning for water steaming, the average person can not eat much, but if it becomes what braised fish, sweet and sour fish, boiled fish, baked fish, spicy hot pot I’m afraid most people can increase the amount of food 4-5 times. Another example: our people’s favorite hot pot, shabu-shabu, spicy hot, spicy hot pot, barbecue this series of food, mainly relying on hemp and spicy to stimulate increased appetite, in the spicy stimulation of people not only intake of beef, lamb, fish and shrimp such high-calorie meat, but also can put a lot of improper food overdose, such as animal viscera. The common feature of these dietary methods is that they undermine the protection of human appetite. In other words, many people have limited or no intake of food in large quantities due to excessive greasiness or off-flavors, destroying the natural taste protection of humans. Another thing that does not attract much attention is the ubiquitous information tools around us. In recent years, I information dissemination tools have gone far beyond the telephone and television. Computers, the Internet, Internet chat, cell phone text messaging, WeChat, and Fetion have put many people in a constant state of “online”. It is true that information technology has facilitated human life, but it has also increased the capacity of human thinking, let us not ask about the health hazards of various kinds of radiation. The amount of information that most people are exposed to and the corresponding behavioral activities that they pay for have far exceeded the capacity of people themselves. During the Chinese New Year, in addition to relying on information to arrange their schedules, the large number of greeting messages becomes a burden for most people, seriously affecting their normal rest. Besides, the convenience of information is more conducive to arranging various gatherings and dinners, which increases the amount of social activities and reduces the time space for private life. Rapid information exchange can bring a lot of happiness and new information for human beings to enjoy, but it greatly reduces the time for rational thinking and makes it easier to produce internal tangles and even voice conflicts. The combined effect of these factors is to increase the tension of life, leading to fatigue, and the Spring Festival not only does not have a good rest, but also becomes a health risk factor. In simple terms, this can be called “Screening Syndrome”. These hazards are especially significant for cardiovascular disease and must be taken seriously. Our advice for the Chinese New Year is to simplify cooking, eat lightly, reduce parties, create a quiet atmosphere, travel easily, visit friends and relatives, take more walks alone, go out at the wrong time, reduce screen surfing, turn off all kinds of internet communication at night, and talk face to face with loved ones as much as possible.