Scientific Selection of diets

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Scientific Selection of diets

The scientific use of diets can be defined by the proverb “The diet should include coarse and fine food grains without being too sweet and salty. People should have three, or four or five meals a day with being 70 to 80 percent full.” The first sentence refers to the advocation of a proper proportion between coarse and fine food grains in TCM life cultivation. Coarse food grains include maize, soybean, sweet potato and the like; fine food grains, non-glutinous rice, flour and so on. In the second sentence, “three, or four or five meals” means the times people should have meals a day; “70 to 80 percent full” is the experience of becoming longevous which has been proven by history.

The dietary style of being “70 to 80 percent full' has proven to be the effective method of promoting longevity by the public at all times and in all countries. This is similar to the modern theory of “low caloric diet'. There are two methods to measure the so-called “70 to 80 percent full”: one is that people feel a little hungry and still want to eat when leaving the dinning table: the other is that people have the sense of hunger when it is not the time for the next meal yet. There exists a saying in TCM life cultivation: “If you want to be healthy, you should always feel 30 percent cold and hungry.” This has already be verified by numerous longevous people.