Rational diet and eight points for attention

Institute of nutrition and food safety, China CDC deputy researcher Jia Jianbin

Source: Health News

        Abnormal blood lipids, cholesterol, and cardiovascular damage, is the vast number of occupation health problems one faces in the crowd. Recently, the Chinese Health Education Center organized, Deluxe with the "2012China enterprise employee health line into the500 strong" launching ceremony cum first lecture, against the occupation people how to deal with the cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and other problems, we propose to start from dietary nutrition.

        Many people are accustomed to looking for" secret", if health" tips ", can be simply summed up as" three disciplines", namely, proper nutrition, exercise and good psychological. The reasonable diet, should accomplish " eight points for attention", namely the food diversity, cereal-based, with a thickness; eat more vegetables, fruits and tubers; every day to eat milk, soybean and its products; eat proper amounts of fish, poultry, eggs and lean; reduce the amount of cooking oil, eat light food dietary salt; excess, daily exercise, maintaining a healthy weight; nutritional meals will be distributed reasonably, snacks should be appropriate; drink enough water every day, a reasonable choice of beverage.

        In addition, according to their own health and diet supplement, containing specific nutrient fortified food, such as plant sterols. Studies show that, increasing plant sterol and dietary fiber intake, to help reduce cholesterol in human intestinal absorption, enhance the metabolism of cholesterol. Plant sterols are one of the active ingredient, found naturally in fruits, vegetables, nuts, grains, beans and other plants, natural vitamin E is associated with. It is similar to the structure of human body cholesterol, in the digestion process, plant sterols can replace cholesterol in human intestinal micro mass in position, reduce the human intestinal absorption of cholesterol, promote" bad cholesterol excretion," in order to protect heart health and reduces coronary heart disease objective.

        Studies show that plant sterol intake, body and blood cholesterol concentrations are inversely proportional. Adhere to the daily intake of two grams or more of plant sterols, can be reduced to about 10% of the level of cholesterol in the blood. However, plant sterols in human body cannot oneself synthesis, through food supplement. Every day we from the daily diet can usually obtain about 300 mg of plant sterol. In the United States of America and other developed countries, still bread, milk, edible oil and other food aggrandizement added plant sterols.