Nowadays, more and more people are beginning to pay attention to health.
Attaching importance to health is a good thing, but some people have "done bad things with good intentions", spending money and effort to maintain health, but in the end they have been sick!
Let's say that the following few widely circulated "health scams" it, pit miserable a lot of people, quickly see if you and the people around you are also "stepping on the thunder" -
10,000 steps a day
Many people are convinced that walking 10,000 steps a day is good for health, and some people are keen to "brush the number of steps" on WeChat and walk a few kilometers in the circle of friends.
But in fact, blindly walking around and blindly pursuing the amount of exercise can easily lead to whether the joints are worn and deformed, causing knee synovitis, fluid accumulation, and meniscus problems.
Mr. Liu of Hangzhou, who wants to lose weight by brisk walking, has 15,000 steps per day, and suffers from knee synovitis from excessive exercise.
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There are also some people, who usually do not like to move, and suddenly follow the trend of a lot of exercise, and may also have the risk of rhabdomyolysis.
So how much is the right way to walk?
The Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents recommend that it is better to walk 6,000 steps slowly and at medium speeds per day.
Of course, the specific number of steps, but also pay attention to according to their own situation. For example, for people with coronary heart disease, walking three or four thousand steps a day is not bad.
In fact, compared to how many steps to take, mastering the posture and speed of correct walking can actually achieve the exercise effect.
Academician Zhong Nanshan suggested: "The best walking speed is > 120 steps / minute." If you are not in good health or are older, you can reduce the speed as appropriate. ”
The correct walking posture can reduce the damage that occurs when walking. Pay attention to keeping your chest and abdomen when walking, your shoulders sink naturally, and your hands naturally swing your arms.
Drink plenty of water
Drinking more water is simply a three-word scripture that "cures all diseases" in the eyes of many people.
But everything is too late, drinking too much water, the kidneys have to "work overtime", the excess water is excreted from the body, and the burden on the heart will increase.
If the water is too late to be excreted, it will remain in the body, which will also lead to a decrease in blood osmolality and an increase in circulating blood volume, causing water poisoning.
The Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents recommend that adults drink 1500 to 1700 ml of water a day, which also includes water intake for drinking soup and eating fruits.
Many people cling to "8 glasses of water a day", which is actually not scientific. Different cups vary in size, and different people's physical states cannot be generalized, and how much to drink depends on the actual situation.
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Regarding the amount of water to drink, the health king teaches everyone a way: look at the color of the urine to judge.
If the color of the urine is clear and transparent, it is pale yellow, indicating that the water drunk is enough; If the urine is dark in color and heavy in smell, it means that there is less water to drink.
Coarse tea light rice, vegetarian health
Rough tea and light rice, many elderly people are insisting.
It is true that appropriate oil reduction and meat reduction are good for the body, but we can't go to extremes.
The long-term diet is too light, too vegetarian, unbalanced nutrition, and the physique and immunity will be reduced, which makes it easier to get sick.
What's more, meat, milk and eggs are not eaten at all, completely vegetarian, and the result is anemia and fatty liver!
Anemia is easy to understand, but they are vegetarian, how can they still get fatty liver?
Vegetarians tend to have a small protein intake. Because, in addition to beans in vegetarian food, other foods have very little protein content, and it is not easy to be absorbed and utilized by the human body.
Too little protein is ingested, which affects the synthesis of apolipoprotein.
Apolipoprotein is a "lipid-carrying protein" without which lipid circulation cannot be achieved. Lipids accumulate in the liver and cannot go anywhere, resulting in a dystrophic fatty liver.
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Therefore, it is best to do meat and vegetarian collocation. It doesn't matter if you eat three or five coarse teas and light rice, but don't eat like this for a long time.
Drink porridge to nourish the stomach
White porridge is thin and soft, so it is labeled "stomach nourishing" by many people.
When you are sick, uncomfortable, and indigestion, eating a little soft and rotten white porridge can indeed reduce the burden on the stomach and intestines.
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But for ordinary people, if you let the stomach "steal" for a long time, it is not a good thing.
The stomach actually needs to be exercised. For example, the original stomach has 100% of the digestive power, but if in order to nourish the stomach, long-term eating white porridge, which can be digested with only one successful force, the stomach is easy to become lazy.
Over time, the digestive power of the stomach will slowly decrease, becoming only able to digest white porridge.
It is recommended that when you occasionally have indigestion, you can drink some porridge to give the stomach a rest, but do not drink porridge for a long time and frequently; If people with a bad stomach want to drink porridge for a long time, it is best to consult a doctor first.
Drink red wine for health
Some people believe that drinking red wine can beautify, sleep, and protect blood vessels.
To be honest, the beneficial substances in red wine, such as resveratrol, are very limited, and drinking a little bit has little effect.
But if you drink too much, you will definitely do more harm than good.
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Red wine also contains alcohol, whether it is alcohol itself, or acetaldehyde, its metabolite in the human body, which has long been listed as a carcinogen by the World Health Organization.
If you drink too much, alcohol and acetaldehyde will accumulate in the body, which will have toxic effects on organs, starting with the liver.
Even if you don't drink much, over time, the liver cells will slowly be damaged.
Detox regimen
Detox regimen, these years have fooled many people. In particular, all kinds of laxative products, many of which are under the banner of "detoxification".
However, the so-called "detoxification" and "clearing the house" are just the concepts marketed by businesses. Neither Chinese medicine nor Western medicine has such a theory.
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Many people think that "body toxicity" is just a normal metabolite of the human body, such as uric acid, carbon dioxide, lactic acid, etc., and is not a real toxin.
Most of the best-selling intestinal detoxification products on the market are based on traditional Chinese medicines such as rhubarb, senna, cassia seeds, knotweed and so on, which is similar to laxatives.
Long-term use of such products can easily lead to the weakening of the peristaltic function of the intestine itself, making constipation more and more serious.
What is more frightening is that these traditional Chinese medicines mostly contain anthraquinone compounds, which will irritate the intestine, damage the intestinal mucosa, and even cause colonic melanosis.
Currently, studies have shown that colon melanosis may increase the risk of colon cancer.
Therefore, using such products to detoxify and cleanse the intestines is tantamount to drinking and quenching thirst!
(Health Daily Push)