How to eat healthily

There is never a standard answer to healthy eating that suits everyone. The core is to adapt to your physical condition and pace of life on the premise of meeting basic nutritional needs. You don’t have to stuff yourself with things you don’t like to eat just to meet the standards of “healthy”.

Two years ago, I followed the trend and followed the so-called "standard healthy meal", which consisted of brown rice, boiled chicken breasts and broccoli. Within a week of eating it, I developed stomach problems. Later, I asked a friend who is a nutritionist and found out that I have a weak spleen and stomach. Brown rice is not soft when cooked and is particularly difficult to digest, which puts a burden on my stomach. Nowadays, everyone is clamoring to eat whole grains to be healthier, but if you do physical work or do a lot of fitness, white rice and white flour can quickly raise sugar and provide enough energy, which will make you more energetic when you work and exercise. There is no need to switch to brown rice, which is difficult to chew. There is no absolute right or wrong.

Speaking of which, there are a lot of controversies about healthy eating on the Internet. For example, can you drink sugar-free drinks? One group says that sugar substitutes for sugar-free drinks have no added free sugars, are extremely low in calories, and are much healthier than drinking sugary drinks. The other group says that long-term and large intake of sugar substitutes will disturb the intestinal flora, which will instead increase people's desire for sweetness and eat more high-sugar foods in disguise. In fact, in a specific scenario, there is not so much tangle. If you usually like to drink milk tea, it is simply unrealistic for you to switch to plain water all at once. First, switch from full sugar to three-point sugar, and then slowly switch to sugar-free sparkling water. This is a good direction. There is really no need to turn around and drink full sugar milk tea because of the saying that "sugar substitutes are unhealthy".

If you are in a hurry at work, there is no need to bother with an exquisite breakfast. Just grab a tea egg, a multigrain rice ball without sweet sauce, and a box of room-temperature pure milk from the convenience store downstairs. You can have a nutritious breakfast for less than ten yuan. It is much better than skipping breakfast and ordering two high-fat burgers at noon just to sleep for ten more minutes. If you have a dinner party with friends on the weekend, it is perfectly fine to have a hot pot and barbecue meal. Don’t fall into the anxiety of “Why did I eat so many unhealthy things again” after finishing the meal, or even induce vomiting, and only eat boiled vegetables for the next three days. This kind of ups and downs eating habit is more harmful to the body than eating a few meals of high-oil and high-sugar foods occasionally.

In fact, to put it bluntly, healthy eating is like finding shoes that fit your feet. What others are comfortable in may not be suitable for you. You don’t need to copy the recipes of Internet celebrities, and you don’t need to pursue 100% health standards. Occasionally eat some of your favorite “junk food” to satisfy your cravings. As long as you eat regularly and have a few bites of meat, eggs, and vegetable staples most of the time, it is considered a very healthy eating habit.