“eight do not eat”

Confucius advocated “eight do not eat food “—” button and loss, meat, fish hungry and lost, do not eat. color evil, do not eat. smell bad, do not food. lost Ning, do not eat. from time to time, do not eat. not cut straight, not food. not the sauce, not fresh. Gujiu city breast, do not eat. ” The eight non-food into three categories: one, color taste: the food change the color of the eating and the taste was not eating. Second, the quality of food: the eating stale food, fresh fish and meat are not a do not, do not eat fresh vegetables. Third, production areas: improper cooking of food and eating inappropriate food ingredients do not eat up too, from the market to buy back the wine and eat cooked meat.

“meat are numerous, not to be eaten gas”

“victory” is better than over the meaning of “qi” is the meaning of the staple food. What this means is that, despite all the delicious meat very much, but it can not allow meat to eat more than the total amount of food staples. Confucius seems to have a good grasp of good meat and the proportion of other types of food, but also pay attention to the local gentleman's diet.

“Fresh ginger is not withdrawn, not much food”

means that on top of each table, must be ginger eat, but can not eat every meal ginger. Folk there was a saying “the winter eat eat Luobu Xia Jiang, not doctors prescribe.” Adage points to the benefits of ginger in summer to eat, then what is the magic of ginger in the end, so that Confucius also greatly esteem? How should eat it right?

Chinese medicine, Yang Yang should be the spring and summer, autumn and winter Yin, the advantage of the summer to eat ginger stomach and body temperature raised yang, cold chills of the winter is particularly suitable for the crowd. But is easy to eat more to help the fire damage to Yin.

“the only wine immeasurable, less chaotic”

communication and entertainment, the drink is often difficult to avoid, but alcohol is the liver's “nemesis”, long-term heavy drinking, alcohol liver cell injury, leading to alcoholic liver, hepatitis, cirrhosis, liver failure, and diabetes and cardiovascular disease. If you can not avoid to drink, they should note the following: Do not drink empty stomach, the old saying goes, “fasting anger, do not drink” that drinking Hisa cuisine, Tang Sun Simiao “dry food gold government,” also reminds people avoid drinking empty stomach; drink before eating milk thistle may be appropriate or secondary liver drug class of agents to reduce the burden on the liver; drinking a degree, should not get drunk in order to avoid acute alcoholism, such as drinking in a period of time a lot more attention should be paid regularly to the hospital health examination.

(taken from the New Zealand English “Herald” of: fresh air)