The saying "skip the afternoon without eating" has been popular for many years, and many people use this method to lose weight and maintain health. Skipping food after noon is literally after noon (11 a.m. to 1 p.m.) knowing that the next day at dawn will no longer eat.
According to the author's research, the first person in the doctor's family to talk about "not eating after noon" was Yu Chang (1585-1664), one of the three famous doctors in the early Qing Dynasty, who mentioned the importance of diet and maintenance in his medical case monograph "Allegorical Grass". He believes that not only is the fat and thick taste easy to produce phlegm, the diet time is also related to the phlegm turbidity, from the perspective of the change of yang qi in the human body, the yang qi gradually flourishes before noon, which can help the spleen to transport, and it is not easy to produce phlegm; In the afternoon, the yang gradually declines, and then eats at this time, then "the fire does not warm the soil", the diet is difficult to dissolve and become phlegm: 'However, the diet is the most appropriate to be cautious, not only fat and sweet phlegm, the strong taste hurts the yin, the person is flat and to the middle of the day, the yang is twenty-five degrees, the diet is easy to consume, so it is not phlegm. From the middle of the day to the end of the night, the yin is twenty-five degrees, the diet is not consumed, so it is easy to become phlegm. The Teachings of The Sect abstain from eating after noon, and one of its Great Medicine King's protective bodies is 欤. Entering the adjustment of the shooting, especially tight. ”
The reason why Yu Chang helped Bow Buddhism to abstain from eating at noon" is related to his experience of entering Zen from Confucianism to Zen and from Zen to medicine. Yu Changyuan learned Confucianism, attacked ziye, and once entered Beijing as a deputy gongsheng and wrote to the imperial court in the name of Zhusheng to state the political views of the auxiliary state. But man spoke softly, and his letter was naturally not adopted. After 3 years in Beijing, he was depressed and discouraged, cut his hair and became a monk, and fled into the empty door. While reciting the Buddhist scriptures, he also studied medicine intensively, and finally chose the path of "not being a good doctor, but being a good doctor", growing his hair down the mountain, and practicing medicine until he was old. The "Biography of Yu Chang in the Qing History Manuscript" says: "In Ming Chongzhen, he entered the capital as a deputy gongsheng to write a letter and say things, seek edicts, and if not, go back and forth to Jing'an, and shave as a monk." ..... Fu Chu Hair Tour Jiangnan, Shunzhi Zhong, Overseas Chinese Changshu, in the name of a doctor, treatment of DuoqiZhong. Therefore, Yu Chang's saying of "not eating after noon" comes from Buddhism and has high credibility.
After Yu Chang, many doctors have similar statements. For example, Chen Qi's "Medical Transmission Lamp" says that "Shi Jiao did not eat after noon", Cao Cishan's "Old Hengyan" said that Shi Shi had no food at noon", and Manganese Ying's "Qianzhai Jian Gong Fang" also believes that "Shi Shi had the precept of not eating at noon". It can be seen that not eating after noon does not originate from the theory of Chinese medicine, but from Buddhism.
Recently, the Team of Mimi Shirasu-Hiza from Columbia University in the United States found that a time-limited feeding regimen can improve aging by extending the time of night fasting (no food after noon), which can increase the lifespan of fruit flies by 18%. The study was published in the journal Nature.
Not eating after noon also has to vary from person to person, and the various pressures in modern people's life and work are far more than those of monks in ancient times, so it is necessary to ensure that they can take in enough energy from food every day. Moreover, there are objective individual differences between different groups of people and different ages, and the energy needed by people who often sit in the office and those who often do manual labor are completely different, and cannot be measured by the same standard.
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