An entrepreneurial couple was worried because their child had a lot of problems in elementary school. He was hyperactive at home and at school, had trouble concentrating, was often itchy here and there, and had allergic rhinitis. When they took the child to the hospital for allergen testing, the test showed that he was allergic to most of the foods.
Allergic to everything? Finding the real cause from the intestines
The couple were both health screening clients of Union Preventive Medicine, and at the suggestion of the medical team, the nutritionist and physician from the integrated medical team of the Union Youth Clinic joined in to help. Further review of various tests revealed that the child’s intestinal mucosa was inflamed and the intestinal flora was severely imbalanced. When the intestinal tract is inflamed, small molecules of food pass through the intestine and enter the bloodstream, thus triggering allergic reactions to all kinds of foods.
What disrupts the balance of intestinal bacteria? The first thing you need to do is to take antibiotics, and eat high-fat, high-sugar, or some additional food additives. Many people take antibiotics whenever they get a cold, and they take them for a week or two at a time. Many children love to eat processed foods and drinks that contain sugar, colors and flavors, and these foods do not support good bacteria.
To maintain the health of intestinal bacteria, we should increase the fiber in the diet, reduce the intake of trans fats and refined starches, and maintain a regular lifestyle, and most importantly, we should first find out what really stimulates the intestinal tract and remove it.
The dietitian suggested changing the contents of her meals, such as avoiding toast, burgers and dairy products for breakfast, trying to eat groundnuts or rice instead, and supplementing with nutrients and probiotics that can repair the intestinal mucosa, and her symptoms improved.
“If you don’t understand what causes inflammation in the intestinal tract and solve it, you will think that any food you eat is also an allergen, just like a bird in fear. Xu Jingyi emphasized.
Eat protein and vegetables first, starch and fruit last
Many businesspeople and office workers work under pressure and use food to relieve stress, but nutritionists warn that “eating wrong” may in turn allow the body’s anti-stress hormones to become dysregulated and more stressful. Xu Jingyi said that more vitamin B complex and vitamin C food to relieve stress, brown rice, whole grains, green leafy vegetables, milk and eggs are rich in vitamin B, guavas, kiwis, citrus fruits are rich in vitamin C, but eat these foods should also pay attention to the balance, for example, should not eat too sweet fruit, and do not eat too late.
In addition to the content of eating, the ratio and order of eating is also important. Xu Jingyi suggests that the order of meals should start with protein and vegetables, then starch staples, and finally fruit. Because first eat protein and vegetables, can increase the sense of satiety, to avoid taking too much starch, can stabilize blood sugar, not easy to appear hunger.
Staple food and fruit, occupy one-third of the plate can be
Chinese people are accustomed to rice and other starch-based staple foods, but too much starch will cause a rapid rise in blood sugar, which can easily cause poor metabolism and lead to disease or obesity over time. Therefore, many “healthy diet plate” advocates, the configuration of various foods in the plate, the total amount of starch-based staple foods and fruits are controlled to about one-third.
Xu Jingyi pointed out that the general rule of various food ratios, high-quality protein (soy, fish, meat, eggs and milk) accounted for one-third, fresh vegetables should take up a total of one-third of the entire plate, fruit + starch only one-third, and give priority to whole grains. For example, brown rice should only be about half to eight bowls, fruit should only be about one fist size, and more water should be drunk.
The most important thing is to pay attention to individual health status and ask a professional nutritionist to provide customized dietary advice according to their own health check data and lifestyle, for example, people with poor kidney function should pay extra attention to the proportion of protein portions.
Self-service meals and convenience stores, there are ways to have healthy meals
About 70% of the working population are external eaters, and some people often use buffets and convenience stores for quick food to solve their three meals.
Dietitian Xu Jingyi provides the following six smart tips for buffets:
One, select the color of the dish to take into account the five colors, including black (such as eggplant, seaweed), white (such as bitter melon, white cauliflower), red (such as carrots, tomatoes), yellow (such as yellow peppers, pumpkin soybeans), green (such as groundnut leaves, kale).
Second, try to choose less oil cooking methods, such as braising, steaming, baking, avoid frying, deep-frying.
Third, increase the amount of vegetables, at least three different kinds of vegetables at each meal.
Four, clearly distinguish between vegetables and rootstocks, corn, pumpkin and rice belong to the same rootstocks, not vegetables, a meal if there is rice starch, you should choose other vegetables instead of corn and pumpkin.
Five, choose grain rice and brown rice, avoid white rice, fried rice and other high-calorie refined starch.
Sixth, avoid processed products, buffet soup often has processed meatballs, a meal of a maximum of one is good.
The dietitian Xu Jingyi provides the following four smart tips to solve three meals in convenience stores:
One, increase the amount of protein intake, it is recommended to choose tea eggs, sugar-free yogurt, sugar-free soy milk.
If you choose a salad, you should pay special attention to the dressing. You can replace Thousand Island dressing or Caesar dressing with a more refreshing and lower calorie Wafu dressing.
Three, you can choose triangular rice balls as a source of starch intake, thickening or other rice bento starch amount is easy to exceed the standard.
Four, eat fruit after meals to be balanced enough to help digestion, but also to increase the sense of satiety, but fruit as long as a fist size, to avoid taking extra calories in the afternoon refreshments.
According to the National Health Service, the average medium-sized male and female office workers should consume between 1,600 and 2,200 calories a day. Xu Jingyi reminded everyone not to fall into the trap of “eating less at convenience stores with a low burden” healthy diet, should try to avoid processed products such as noodles or hot dogs as a meal, generally small bowls of noodles nearly 500 calories, large bowls of noodles may be nearly 1,000 calories, hot dogs are also high-calorie foods, just eat a bowl of noodles a hot dog, the caloric intake is close to a full day of caloric requirements of health standards.
To maintain health is not difficult, every meal is an opportunity to implement health management. In recent years, United Preventive Medicine has been promoting “1+364 Health Management”, which emphasizes that in addition to the day-to-day precision health checkups, health management is equally important for every day of the year. With the increasing number of chronic diseases and uneven diets in modern times, it is even more important to have regular and complete health checkups, and to ask doctors and nutritionists to find the nutritional gaps needed by the body based on personal data and lifestyle, so that every bite of food is a conscious and knowledgeable choice, which is the true manifestation of preventive medicine.
