In English: You are what you eat. Chinese also said: what to eat, what to make up!
This is not necessarily absolutely true, but it is a vivid expression of the impact that food can have on people.
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For example, this high-cholesterol diet, the cholesterol eaten into it, is not quietly as an ornament, it accumulates in the body to a certain extent can begin to affect the expression of genes. This effect can easily be demonstrated by animal tests: mice, after eating a diet with high cholesterol, can cause changes in gene expression of fat metabolism in the liver, which can further lead to hepatic steatosis and hyperlipidemia.
Miraculously, however, if mice are fed ginger soup, these changes caused by a high-cholesterol diet can be reversed!
(Ginger soup.) Image from the web)
In another animal test, adding gingerol (note: a major component of ginger) to mice's food also alleviated the symptoms of high-fat foods. It is worth mentioning that although gingerol in this test was not able to prevent the increase in blood cholesterol caused by high-fat foods, the enzymes that synthesize cholesterol in the liver decreased.
What is known at present is that the cholesterol in the human body is mainly produced by itself, and only 15% to 20% of the intake from food is obtained. If gingerol can reduce the synthesis of its own cholesterol, it may activate a negative feedback inhibition mechanism, and it is possible to study this mechanism to find a better way to control blood lipids.
What are the adverse consequences of high blood lipids? Fat? Probably not. Moreover, being fat is not a sin.
The undesirable consequence of high blood lipids should be heart disease. In animal tests, mice fed a diet high in cholesterol, a significant increase in the activity of an angiotensin coverting enzyme (ACE), which is supposed to be the direct cause of heart disease, is now widely used in the treatment of cardiovascular disease.
But in an animal test, without taking medicine, as long as the mouse food is supplemented with ginger, the activity of this ACE is reduced, the total cholesterol, triaclycerides, and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels in the blood are significantly reduced, and the level of high density lipoprotein (HDL) is significantly increased (Note: HDL is currently considered to be good, the higher the better).
Another experiment, in which mice were fed ginger oil extract, found that the fat in the liver of mice was also reduced, and it even prevented fatty liver disease caused by alcoholism. If you only look at the high blood lipids caused by a high-cholesterol diet, animal tests have found that the inhibitory effect of ginger soup can even be comparable to that of chemical drugs.
"So much talk, it's all about rats!" Do you think you're telling a story to a rat? "What is the condition of a person eating ginger?"
Humans have been eating ginger for thousands of years, but for a long time it was just a taste, just using ginger as a condiment. Nowadays, some people have finally taken ginger as a "staple food" for clinical trials, although it is not completely conclusive, but there are some results after all.
In a double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial, 70 patients with type 2 diabetes were randomly placed into ginger and control groups. Ginger groups ate 1.6 g of ginger per day, while the control group ate 1.6 g of flour placebo per day for a total of 12 weeks. The results showed that ginger could significantly reduce the patient's triglycerides and total cholesterol compared with the control group, and also reduce fasting blood glucose.
It can be seen that these effects seen by ginger in animal tests can also be repeated in the human body.
Therefore, when cooking, ginger can not be less!
Such a good thing, can not all be taken to feed the rats!
(Excerpt from "If the Tip of the Tongue Can Think", Author: A Section of Ginger)
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