"Breakfast is eaten like an emperor, Chinese food is eaten like a commoner, and dinner is eaten like a beggar", from this sentence we can see the status of dinner and three meals, Chinese medicine does not advocate eating dinner, foreigners say "dinner is given to the enemy to eat." "So, do you want to eat dinner or not?"
Rice is the food of filling, and a meal that is not eaten is hungry and panicked. However, recently there is a saying that loving dinner can cause human diseases, and it is also the cause of many diseases that cannot be cured for a long time. What is this statement? Now people think that it is normal to eat at night when they are hungry, but this is not the case - it is normal not to eat when they are hungry at night.
In 1418, Hu Guang, a hanlin scholar who was the favorite vassal of the Yongle Emperor Zhu Di of the Ming Dynasty, died at the age of 37. Hu Guang was a man of letters, characterized by a tight-lipped mouth. Zhu Di consulted with him, and he would never leak it; Therefore, Zhu Di liked him very much. But Zhu Di also hated him because Hu Guang loved to eat dinner. In ancient times, a person who ate dinner was considered debauched. But Hu Guang said that he had been ill for a long time and was very weak; Not much is eaten in one meal, so it is necessary to eat several more meals. Zhu Di also forgave him.
Both Chinese medicine and Buddhism say, "Don't eat after noon." The so-called "noon" is 11:00-13:00 at noon, and after 13:00, you can no longer eat. What should I do if I am hungry? You can drink juice and eat fruit. Chinese medicine and Buddhism advocate skipping dinner, not to save food; It's for health.
In addition, there are many rules for Chinese people to eat, such as: you should close your lips when eating, and you can't spit on them. Another example: sandwich dishes can not cross the line, can only be on the side of the dish on their own side of the dish. Another example: you can't talk when you eat. But the biggest rule is that you are not allowed to eat dinner, and if you eat dinner then it is considered unruly. Then the government will not allow you to take the imperial examination, you may not even find a daughter-in-law, and you are also very troublesome in doing business. After Hu Guang became a Hanlin, he began to eat dinner. As he himself said, he himself has been ill for a long time and is very weak; Not much to eat at a time, so dinner is to be eaten; And the dinner was very generous. However, Hu Guang's body did not become stronger because of dinner, but more and more problems. So they ate to death.
(1) In the past, we Han Chinese did not eat dinner - as the saying goes: "Horses do not eat night grass and are not fat." ”
In the same way, people will not be obese without eating dinner. Most of the population is currently too obese, and it is said that about 60% of the population in the United States is fat; However, the amount of food for Americans is not large. Why? This is because Americans love dinner and late-night snacks. Why is it that dinner and supper are obese? Because people do not consume calories when they sleep at night, a large amount of calories will be converted into fat. This fat is stored in the kidney sac, then the stomach is plump, and then the stomach is getting bigger and bigger. Of course, these fats are also distributed in various parts of the body, such as: subcutaneous, blood, myocardium, liver booty, etc., which causes a decrease in human function. People will be hungry without eating dinner, and the effect is the same as drinking appetizer soup. Therefore, if you don't eat dinner, you don't suffer losses, because it is equivalent to drinking a free appetizer soup. Who is so kind-hearted as to make you drink free appetizer soup? This is what nature has given you when it sees you not eating dinner. Don't you feel happy? Then you're hungry for a while and you're not hungry, and you start eating yourself. The big fat is slowly disappearing, and you are slowly slimming. Others are surprised and ask what diet pills you have taken? You say, the sky can't leak. Some people say that you Liu Hongzhang is talking nonsense. Because you don't do physical work, you don't know the importance of eating dinner. Wrong, because I lived in Tsinghua University Affiliated High School from the age of 16 to the University of Beijing Medical College, exercising and running 10,000 meters a day, you say tired? Tired of course! And it's time to grow up, but I don't eat dinner. Teachers and classmates were strange. Now some people come home from work and rip open their bellies for dinner. The name goes: "Supplement nutrition." ”。 In fact, it is not, this is called finding a disease. Because you don't keep hungry, what can't you get sick?
One person can't eat too much. The concept of seven points full is not only seven points full for each meal, but also seven points full all day long. However, we eat too much, we are always worried that we are hungry, always worried that the children are hungry, always worried that the elderly are hungry, always worried about the patients hungry; When we meet Chinese, we always ask people if they have eaten, and even if they invite them to eat, they must make people eat very full. Yet we do bad things with good intentions, because we prop up ourselves and others out of the disease; And I don't know. We Chinese didn't know when we started having dinner and supper. Weird! You must know that not eating dinner will not starve people to death, but eating more dinner will prop people to death, which is the most basic health knowledge. Especially children, if they eat a full dinner, they are prone to fever. Even young people, if they have a full dinner, are very prone to nightmares and damage their brains. Moreover, the elderly, if they eat a full dinner, are very prone to sudden death. The bad habit of eating dinner and supper has caused tension in Chinese food. On the one hand, farmers produce grain in large quantities, herders produce livestock in large quantities, fruit farmers produce fruits in large quantities, and fishermen catch fish and shrimp in large quantities; On one side, cars and trains are constantly transported; On the other side, there are 1.3 billion bottomless pits. However, all this production and transportation can be halved, because humans do not have to eat dinner. A person who lives not to eat a lot of food, can not think that the more food eaten the better; Nor can it be considered better not to eat food; Be sure to moderate the amount, this amount is seven points full. How can I be seven full? This is what breakfast must eat, because to promote the liver's bile diarrhea; Be full for lunch, because you need to supplement nutrition; Not eating dinner is to protect the stomach. This is how to make seven full points a day. Some people advocate not eating one day a week, which is also true. However, such an operation can easily affect the bile excretion of the liver. There are also people who advocate not eating for three days a month, which is not good, and it will also affect the liver's bile diarrhea, so it is safer and reasonable not to eat dinner every day.
What if children, manual workers, the elderly, the sick, are hungry?
You can drink juice and eat fruit. If a child develops this good habit from an early age, then he will feel that the time of day is very abundant, and he will not feel sleepy because of writing homework after meals. If an adult develops this good habit, then he will feel that there is plenty of time after work, and he will not affect the entertainment because of the time occupied by dinner. If the elderly develop this good habit, then he will feel that the evening time is very long, and he will not worry about sudden death at night. Of course, the most popular should be housewives, who love to settle accounts; If the whole family does not eat dinner, then the meal money will save a lot, the gas bill will also save a lot, there is no need to brush the dishes, and of course, they will liberate themselves. It is precisely because of this that in the past, from the emperor down to the peasants, they did not eat dinner; Believe me or not ask the elderly. However, it is wrong to say that we Han Chinese absolutely do not eat dinner. In the past, we Han Chinese only ate one dinner a year, and this dinner was eaten at the time of the Chinese New Year's Eve every year. The time is 23:00-1:00, which means that Chinese New Year's Eve dinner should be eaten at this time, but it is all auspicious words and New Year's greetings, rather than eating and drinking. Because it is eaten at the time of the child, this meal is called dumplings; And because it is a night meal, the dumplings are vegetarian stuffed. However, dumplings can not be eaten more, the elders eat four, the younger generations eat eight, this is called four flat and eight stable, take a lucky. At the same time, the elders should give the younger generations money, and the younger generations should kowtow to the elders. However, the current Han people no longer listen to the old clichés. Chinese New Year's Eve have a hearty dinner at night, and at 24 o'clock at night, you have to eat dumplings, and you have to put a lot of meat in the dumplings, and you have to eat more. So Chinese New Year's Eve the hospital on the night is the busiest, you see the patients who eat and support, drunk, and coronary heart disease are hanging up the emergency department; It makes the doctors busy, because some doctors are also on duty half drunk. Is this called celebrating the New Year? Pure frustration.
(2) Why is dinner now prevalent
This was caused by Soviet experts advocating three meals a day when New China was just founded. These Soviet experts criticized Chinese's unreasonable eating habits, saying that concentrating food on midday every day is very easy to cause overeating and damage the stomach and intestines. Therefore, they vigorously promote the equal distribution of food intake throughout the day, which is called the principle of threes, fours, and threes. That is to say, eat 30% of the all-day food for breakfast, 40% of the all-day food for lunch, and eat 30% of the all-day food for dinner; Only in this way is it consistent with nutritional science. At that time, the call of soviet experts was the holy will, so the public in the city responded positively to the call and ate dinner. But at that time, the Chinese peasants did not listen to this set and still did not eat dinner. They work on an empty stomach before dawn in the morning and then go home for breakfast. After breakfast, there is work in the field, and work until noon to eat lunch; After lunch, I went to bed and called a break. After resting and working, this work will be until dark. What do you do when you get home? Some drink a bowl of porridge, and some play. At the time, Soviet experts were angry, saying that Chinese peasants did not understand science. By 1959, people's communes were established in rural China, and farmers were given free meals in large canteens; Three meals a day, no white food, of course the peasants have dinner. However, in just one year, the sumptuous supper has eaten many peasants sick; It also ushered in a three-year period of food hardship that began in 1960. Therefore, some peasants said: "Dinner in the big canteen has eaten China down." "If you think about it, this dinner has doubled the food demand of hundreds of millions of farmers. Chinese mainland how many grain reserves can be consumed in this way, and it is not counted as if the grain depot is exhausted. The result is really eaten, what to do? Hungry. As a result, the city people in China also followed the bad luck and went hungry. Therefore Chinese hunger is three years; Of course, there are other reasons for the three-year period of food hardship. However, during the three years of food difficulties, Chinese no longer eat dinner. Therefore, there are very few patients with diabetes and hypertension. It is only because of malnutrition that the number of patients developing hepatitis, cancer, and tuberculosis has soared. The difficult period of food hardship has finally passed, and the people in Chinatown have forgotten the scars and forgotten the pain, and have begun to eat dinner again. After the reform and opening up, there were many restaurants in the city, and the night was the most prosperous, and China's rural areas also studied with the city, so China's patients soared. It should be noted that foreigners also advocate skipping dinner. They said, "Dinner for the enemy." "That is to say, whoever you hate the most will let you eat dinner."
I think you can understand why "don't eat dinner, hunger cures all diseases".
Whether to eat dinner or not, different people have different opinions on this issue, no one forces you to eat dinner, no one does not let you eat dinner, it all depends on yourself.