The best diet list is out, the top three eating methods may not be right for you

Science and Technology Daily reporter Zhang Yun

In January of this year, the USNews&World Report website (USNews&World Report) released its annual "Best Diet List"

Diet is a topic that accompanies people throughout their lives.

So, why did the above three dietary >Are they suitable for Chinese stomachs? In response to the above-mentioned problems, reporters from Science and Technology Daily interviewed relevant experts to interpret the "How to Eat with High Scores" for you

Mediterranean diet: focus on nature

What is the Mediterranean diet?

Shi Mei, deputy chief physician of the Nutrition Department of the China-Japan Friendship Hospital, introduced to reporters from Science and Technology Daily that the Mediterranean diet was proposed by Walter Willett, MD, the head of the Department of Nutritional Sciences at Harvard University, academician of the American Academy of Sciences, and M.

Shi Mei said that the Mediterranean diet has the following six characteristics: it advocates the intake of natural plant foods, such as vegetables, grains, etc.

So is this top Mediterranean diet really perfect?

"Mediterranean diet has been at the top of the list for 4 consecutive years, and its'strength' cannot be underestimated, and its scientific nature has been proven

In addition, some specific groups of people are not suitable for the Mediterranean diet

Deshu Diet: The main brand of "potassium"

In recent years, the Deshu Diet formulated by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the United States has captured the hearts of many slimming experts

Shi Mei introduced that Deshu Diet is a transliteration of the English abbreviation DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension), meaning "Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension", which aims to prevent or control high blood pressure

"Sodium and potassium are a pair of factors that maintain the body's metabolic balance.

Different from the Mediterranean diet, in terms of edible oil, the Deshu diet emphasizes the intake of a variety of vegetable oils, rather than a single type of vegetable oil, because different vegetable oils have different nutritional components, and only by supplementing a variety of nutrients can nutritional balance be achieved

So, is the Deshu diet suitable for everyone?

"Healthy people can try the Shu diet, but this type of diet is not recommended for diabetics

In addition, Shi Mei specially reminded that the Deshu diet cannot be understood as a blood pressure lowering diet.

Flexible vegetarian food: no meat for three days a week

Flexible vegetarian diet is also called flexible vegetarian diet, which refers to only eating vegetarian food on certain days of the week, and generally requires no meat for three days a week

"Obese people or people who have abnormal blood lipids and blood sugar metabolism due to eating too much meat can try a flexible vegetarian diet, but it is not recommended to concentrate the meat on a few days, because the intake of protein is balanced

So, is this diet worth promoting?

In this regard, Shi Mei put forward his own point of view

Is the best diet list reliable?

Is this list called the "best diet" really reliable?

"This ranking has a certain degree of scientificity and reference value
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" Shi Mei believes that this ranking is organized by the US News and World Report website every year to organize experts to score the shortlisted dietary patterns.
It determines whether it is easy to implement, short-term weight loss, and long-term Seven aspects of weight loss effect, nutritional value, safety, prevention and treatment of diabetes, and prevention and treatment of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases were comprehensively evaluated
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For these 7 aspects of the shortlisted diet, relevant experts will give a score from 1 to 5 stars, and then rank the diet based on the overall score
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At the same time, the organizing committee will also evaluate the diet pattern with the highest individual score
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"The diet with the highest comprehensive score not only pays great attention to the long-term weight loss effect and its preventive effects on cardiovascular and diabetes, but also takes into account safety
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" Shi Mei pointed out that the diet with the highest comprehensive score may not make people fast Lose weight, but if you eat this way for a long time, it will be of great benefit to most people's health and it is also very safe
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The ranking committee will also select the "fastest way to lose weight" and "the easiest way to practice diet".
The former focuses on the speed of weight loss, while the latter focuses on the difficulty of implementation, such as whether the ingredients are easy to buy, and the overall cost
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At the same time, the best dietary model selected by the ranking "advocates the selection of natural ingredients", "avoids saturated fatty acid intake", "avoids unnecessary over-processing", "less sugar, fat and less salt".
These dietary recommendations are beneficial to human health.
These also coincide with the main thrust of the "Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents" and are worthy of reference and reference by the Chinese people and the people of the world
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At the end of the interview, Shi Mei specially reminded that no matter what kind of diet you choose, you still need to combine your home country and your own eating habits.
You can't copy them all.
They should learn from each other and use it to continuously optimize the diet of Chinese residents to help a healthy China
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