People's Daily health client reporter Qiao Jingfang
"The 2018 Global Nutrition Report shows that an irrational dietary structure has caused a serious health burden, with one in five deaths worldwide related to diet." On April 26, at the press conference of the Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents (2022), Yang Yuexin, chairman of the Chinese Nutrition Society, said that in order to meet the nutritional and health needs of Chinese residents, reduce malnutrition and prevent the occurrence of chronic diseases, the Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents were updated again on the basis of the 2016 edition.
What's new:
From six recommendations to eight guidelines
The "Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents (2016)" put forward six core recommendations: food diversity, cereal-based; eating balance, healthy weight; eating more vegetables and fruits, milk, soybeans; eating fish, poultry, eggs, and lean meat in moderation; less oil and less salt, controlling sugar and limiting alcohol; eliminating waste, and emerging food.
The newly released 2022 version of the dietary guidelines has been updated to eight guidelines: food diversity, reasonable collocation; eating balance, healthy weight; eating more vegetables and fruits, milk, whole grains, soybeans; eating fish, poultry, eggs, and lean meat in moderation; less salt and less oil, controlling sugar and limiting alcohol; eating regularly, drinking plenty of water; cooking and choosing, reading labels; dividing meals with public chopsticks and eliminating waste.
Yang Yuexin, president of the Chinese Nutrition Society
"Compared with the 2016 edition of the new dietary guidelines, the new dietary guidelines have added content such as 'regular eating, cooking, chopsticks, eliminating waste, and knowing food'." Chairman Yang Yuexin said.
In addition, the reporter noted that the dietary pagoda, an important part of the new version of the dietary guidelines, has also changed: the potato and cereals are separated, with special emphasis on the importance of potato foods (50-100 grams), the intake of whole grains and miscellaneous beans remains unchanged, still 50-150 grams, accounting for 1/4-1/2 of the intake of cereal foods; the "livestock and poultry meat, aquatic products, eggs" are merged into "animal foods", and the intake is combined into 120-200 grams per day, and it is recommended to eat aquatic products twice a week, 1 egg per day The intake of dairy products increased from 300 grams to 300-500 grams; the intake of salt was adjusted from less than 6 grams to less than 5 grams.
New concept:
Proposed for the first time the "Oriental Healthy Diet Model"
The new version of the dietary guidelines proposes some new concepts, such as "Oriental Healthy Diet", "Waste Syndrome", "Daily Living Ability", "Debilitation Assessment" and so on.
It is understood that this is the first time that the dietary guidelines have proposed the "Oriental Dietary Model". Chairman Yang Yuexin introduced that the diet in the Jiangnan region represented by Zhejiang, Shanghai and Jiangsu in the mainland is considered to be a representative dietary model of healthy Chinese dietary patterns, which is also a representative of the oriental healthy dietary model. Its main characteristics are light and salt, diverse food, rich vegetables, fruits, soy products, fish and shrimp aquatic products, milk every day, etc., and have a high level of physical activity. Such a dietary pattern is conducive to avoiding the occurrence of nutrient deficiency diseases and diet-related chronic diseases, and improving life expectancy.
The new dietary guidelines also have qualitative descriptions of "eat more", "eat less", "moderate amount", "control", "restriction", etc., and quantitatively describe "high salt", "high oil", "high sugar", "containing", "rich", "low salt", "low oil", "lean meat", etc., so that the public can understand these words more conveniently and intuitively.
Chairman Yang Yuexin said that the proposal to "understand food and scientifically design meals" is to guide and encourage families to practice the scientific behavior of dietary nutrition.
New format:
Modifications have improved visualization of graphics and recipes
In order to facilitate the application of the people, the society also revised and completed the popular science version of the "Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents (2022)" to help the people make healthy dietary choices and behavior changes.
Visualizations of graphics and recipes such as the Chinese Residents' DietAry Pagoda (2022), the Chinese Residents' Balanced Diet Plate (2022) and the Children's Balanced Diet Abacus (2022) have also been revised simultaneously to guide the public to carry out specific practices in daily life.
In addition, for different groups of people, the Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents (2022) include dietary guidelines for the general public over 2 years old and 9 population-specific guidelines. Yang Yuexin introduced that a relatively big change in this revision is to add dietary guidelines for the elderly.