Authoritative media reported that from 2015 to the end of 2019, the average life expectancy of Chinese residents increased from 76.3 years to 77.3 years, an increase of 1 year in 4 years. This is related to the rapid development of medical technology in our country, and of course, it is also related to the people's greater attention to their own health. But there is a profession in the countryside, which looks strong, but often dies at the age of fifty or sixty, and this profession is the rural butcher. The topic of discussion today is "Why are strong rural butchers shorter?". These 3 points are the main causes, and farmers with the same habits should pay attention to them."
The author's grandfather has a younger brother is the butcher in our village, just 59 years old when he died, although he is not tall, but people look particularly solid, but it is such a strong person, when he was found sick, he died when he was diagnosed, and he was sick for half a year, and when he died, he only had skin and bones left. In addition, there is a butcher in our neighboring village who died suddenly on the ground in the process of killing pigs, and later learned that he had high blood pressure and high blood lipid problems for many years, and finally may have died of sudden heart disease. This kind of butcher who died early is relatively common in the countryside.
So why is it that the average life expectancy of our people is increasing, but it is difficult for rural butchers to live long? This has to be said from the butcher's profession, unlike other occupations that work during the day and rest at night, butchers mostly get up at 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning, prepare for pig slaughter, washing the water, etc., and wait until dawn to prepare the work is ready, take the slaughtered pork to the vegetable market to sell. Usually, the best time to sleep at night is 11 o'clock to 5 o'clock the next day, of which 11 o'clock to one o'clock in the morning is the most active time for the liver and gallbladder, clearing toxins in the body to promote physical health, 3 o'clock to 5 o'clock in the morning is the most active time for the respiratory system such as the lungs, and the butcher can not get effective rest at night due to the limitation of work, although half a day can make up for sleep, but the accumulation of time will still cause great harm to the body.
Then there is the butcher's eating habits are not good, because of the perennial contact with various meats, many butchers also like oily and meaty food, and even some butchers are caught up with this industry because they like to eat meat. When the butcher sells meat, some offal meat often can't be sold, and finally the remaining butcher will take it home, and the stir-fry and stew are basically all eaten on the same day. Some butchers have a hard day, it is difficult to hand over and like to drink some wine, eat meat and drink wine, occasionally once or twice nothing, but for a long time, it is easy to induce chronic diseases such as hypertension and high blood lipids, which are like a time bomb, and may explode at any time.
There is also the butcher's work itself is more harmful to the body, killing a pig from the beginning of the busy work to all half of the time it takes 3 or 4 hours, in addition, in some places to kill pigs in order to be more convenient to hair and "blow pigs" This link, that is, blowing the air into the middle of the skin and muscles of the pig, so that the pigs bulge up, this is a very test of the butcher's lung capacity, and perennial blowing, there is a certain damage to cardiopulmonary function.
Most of the elderly in the countryside do not think that the butcher's short life is because the profession is more harmful to the body, and more still believe in karma, as the saying goes: "Good has good retribution, evil has evil retribution, not unreportation, the time has not yet come." "Butchers do what they do to make a living, so they can't live long." Of course, this is just a superstitious claim and has no scientific basis.
The short life of the butcher is also reminding us that due to the network and entertainment facilities are more and more developed, now people's nightlife is also more and more abundant, resulting in people sleeping more and more late, the harm to the body is scientifically based, since there is a butcher's lesson, our peasant friends usually rest to pay attention to, 11 pm to the next day's 5 o'clock is the best rest time, sleep time should also be arranged as much as possible in this time period, protect the body in order to live a long life.
Another is the problem of eating habits, due to the high family income, farmers can also eat meat, although the meat is good but can not be greedy, now people are not only taller than before, the body is also fatter, just like the usual diet, and people fat blood lipids, blood pressure, blood sugar is prone to problems, these chronic diseases are the fuse of serious diseases. This also reminds our peasant friends that life is better, diet needs more attention, meat should be eaten every day, but not greedy. There are also some farmers who feel that they have been working all year round and are very healthy, in fact, exercise and labor are two different things, exercise is beneficial to the body, and labor is a chronic consumption of the body, which also reminds peasant friends that they should combine work and leisure to prevent overwork and injury.
Finally, although karma is a superstitious statement, but doing more good deeds can make people mentally happy, with good mental illness will not be so easy to find the door, we are not saying "smile, ten years less"? We should do more things that are meaningful to ourselves, to our families, and to society.