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"One year old in the sound of firecrackers, the spring breeze sends warmth into Tu Su." It's another year and Chinese New Year's Eve night, and I wonder how many wanderers are on their way home, or have arrived safely at home to be reunited with their families?
Chinese New Year's Eve, the reunion night, in addition to family reunion, what is more exciting is "New Year's Taste" - a lively Chinese New Year's Eve meal. The family gets together to draw up a Chinese New Year's Eve menu, go shopping for ingredients together, and prepare and cook delicious dishes lively. The moment the food is served, happiness fills the room.
However, with the improvement of people's living standards, many people will choose to eat "Chinese New Year's Eve rice" in outdoor restaurants, feeling trouble-free and worry-free. In addition, it is difficult to stay up to the seven-day vacation of the New Year, naturally to make an appointment with friends and relatives, eat out for a good meal, and the indicator of rising 5 pounds in 7 days of the New Year is easy to get.
As we all know, eating out often is really bad. But to what extent is it "bad"? Researchers at the University of Iowa School of Public Health have found that ≥ 2 meals a day are associated with a 49% increase in all-cause mortality, an 18% increase in cardiovascular mortality, and a 67% increase in cancer mortality, compared with people who hardly eat out. The study was published in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
It seems that the more you eat outside, the sooner you die, it's really not sensational! It is recommended that everyone Chinese New Year's Eve cook and eat at home with family and friends, and go to restaurants outside less often.......
https ://doi.org/10.1016/j.jand.2021.01.012
The improvement of living standards has made people love to eat out more and more. Statistics show that in 2020 (even in the epidemic era), Chinese ate 5 trillion yuan just eating out! Not only at home but also abroad, the amount of energy Americans get daily from eating outside grew from 17 percent in 1977-1978 to 34 percent in 2011-2012. However, the problems caused by eating out are also obvious, high energy density and low quality of diet will naturally cause damage to health.
To get an accurate relationship between eating out and the risk of death, the researchers followed 35,084 adult participants for up to 7.83 years. In the end, 2,781 deaths were recorded, of which 511 deaths were attributed to cardiovascular disease and 638 deaths from cancer.
As expected, there is little to eat out (
Basic information about people who eat out at different frequencies
After excluding many confounding factors such as age, gender, diet and lifestyle, BMI, etc., the adjusted model showed the same as eating out every week
Holidays aside, among contemporary young people, there are not a few who eat out 2-3 times a day. Pass by a pancake stand in the morning and buy a luxurious pancake with eggs and ham; The time at noon is more tight, it is better to order a takeaway directly in the company to solve it quickly; Meet three or two friends in the evening, have a barbecue and drink some beer... Eat out 3 meals a day, don't you? But have you ever asked your body, can you really afford to eat out?
More poignantly, the researchers also found that among lower-income people, the relationship between higher frequency of eating out and higher all-cause mortality was stronger. In other words, without money and eating out regularly, all-cause mortality increased significantly by 104%! (The working dog editor has been offended...) ）
Association between frequency of eating out and mortality
The reasons behind the "increased mortality due to frequent eating out" are also well understood. Unless you actively choose salad or light food, most of the ingredients and ingredients provided by outside meals are difficult to control, compared to meals at home, they are naturally heavy oil, heavy salt and heavy seasoning, often containing higher saturated fatty acids, sodium, lower calcium, iron, dietary fiber, etc., which can be called a healthy chronic killer.
Not only that, unhealthy cooking methods can also make people who eat out often contain more harmful chemicals, such as phthalates, which can also increase the risk of cardiovascular disease.
Sure enough, cooking for yourself is king, both healthy and long-lived. Previously, a study by Public Health Nutrition that followed for 10 years showed that people who love to cook live longer and more frequently, the lower the risk of death; 50% lower risk of death for those who cook more than 5 times a week, especially women!
Risk ratio for cooking frequency (doi: 10.1017/s136898001200136x)
In fact, for migrant workers who have to eat out on weekdays, the Spring Festival or holidays are a good opportunity, why not stay at home and cook a good meal with family/friends?! Wouldn't it be nice to go home for a year, reunite with family and friends, and cook together not only to enhance relationships, but also to taste delicious and prolong life?
Bibliography:
[1] Du Y, Rong S, Sun Y, Liu B, Wu Y, Snetselaar LG, Wallace RB, Bao W. Association Between Frequency of Eating Away-From-Home Meals and Risk of All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality. J Acad Nutr Diet. 2021 Sep;121(9):1741-1749.e1. doi: 10.1016/j.jand.2021.01.012. Epub 2021 Mar 25. PMID: 33775622.
[2] Chen RC, Lee MS, Chang YH, Wahlqvist ML. Cooking frequency may enhance survival in Taiwanese elderly. Public Health Nutr. 2012 Jul;15(7):1142-9. doi: 10.1017/S136898001200136X. Epub 2012 May 11. PMID: 22578892.
New Year's coming, blessings have arrived!
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Raise the eyebrows "rabbit" qi, show the "rabbit", the former "rabbit" is immeasurable!
In 2023, the rabbit must run!!