Lose weight and stabilize blood sugar, "Traditional Jiangnan Meal" is comparable to "Mediterranean Meal"

Recently, Chinese researchers have compared the high plant-based dietary patterns from different regions at home and abroad for the first time through clinical intervention - the "traditional Jiangnan diet" and the "Mediterranean diet", and found that the two have significant effects on weight loss and glucose metabolism homeostasis.

The "Mediterranean diet", which is composed of vegetables and fruits, whole grains, nuts, marine fish and olive oil, has been widely praised by foreign researchers and the public in recent years, and is known as the "best comprehensive dietary pattern"

As a representative dietary pattern in southern China, the "traditional Jiangnan diet" is similar to the "Mediterranean diet", advocating the consumption of fresh vegetables, fruits and whole grains, limiting red meat, and strengthening the intake of soy products and freshwater fish according to local conditions , and use vegetable oils rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids such as rapeseed oil, sunflower oil, and peanut oil to cook food

Funded by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, nutrition scientists joined forces with clinical researchers and doctors to conduct in-depth research

Through systematic analysis, it was found that after 6 months of 25% energy restriction intervention, the Mediterranean diet group lost 5.

The "traditional Jiangnan diet", which focused on whole grain intake, showed similar effects as the "Mediterranean diet" in terms of weight loss and glycemic homeostasis despite a higher carbohydrate intake

Although the eating habits represented by "traditional Jiangnan diet" have a long history in the Yangtze River Delta region of China, as a newly refined concept of dietary patterns, the research on "traditional Jiangnan diet" has just started, and its food components and proportions are still There is a lot of room for improvement

(Source: Wen Wei Po)

"China Food News" (May 19, 2022 04 edition)

(Editor-in-charge: Gao Jiaodi)