It is human instinct to ingest food, but eating is fundamentally different from eating and eating healthily.
"As a country with a traditional diet, strengthening the 'food education' education that takes food as the carrier, develops dining civilization etiquette, learns healthy diet knowledge, and improves food choice ability is a move for the people to enrich the connotation of the 'big food concept' and conform to the people's yearning for a better life." Wu Jia, registered dietitian of the Chinese Nutrition Society, pointed out that "food education" is an important part of health and health, and is the preferred strategy to improve the nutrition and health level of children and adolescents and even the whole people.
Recently, the Ministry of Education issued the "Compulsory education Labor Curriculum Standards (2022 edition)". Among them, according to the different students, the goals of "cleaning and hygiene, cooking and nutrition and other daily life work" are set. For example, in terms of cooking and nutrition, students in grades 5-6 should be able to design a nutritional recipe for lunch or dinner according to the needs of their families, and understand the relationship between different cooking methods and food nutrition.
Experts pointed out that through experiencing and perceiving the characteristics of food, children understand and recognize food, learn and enrich the life experience based on food, which is conducive to promoting their language, sensory, cognitive, social emotional development, so that they have self-care ability, good interpersonal relations and psychological state.
"I hope that more and more people will pay attention to food breeding." Wu Jia said that "food education" can not only cultivate children's labor ability, let children master the basic nutritional knowledge and skills, but also help children establish a good connection with food, help children establish correct nutritional concepts from childhood, develop healthy eating behaviors, avoid anorexia, binge eating and other bad tendencies, and promote the healthy growth of children and adolescents.
Why did the new Dietary Guidelines change from less than 6 grams of salt to less than 5 grams?
Studies have linked excessive salt intake to high blood pressure, stroke, stomach cancer, and all-cause death. Chinese residents generally exceed the salt intake, so it is necessary to firmly reduce the daily salt intake per person, cultivate light taste, and gradually quantify the use of salt. The daily intake of less than 6 grams of salt recommended in the previous version of the Dietary guidelines is a phased goal, and the daily intake of salt is now recommended to be no more than 5 grams, which is not only in line with the health guideline value of the World Health Organization, but also better in line with the requirements of healthy China.
How to achieve 5 grams of salt per person per day at home?
First, don't overeat. If you eat more food than your body needs, it's easy to eat more salt. Refuse high-salt food, learn to read the nutrition label, pay attention to hidden salt, there are many seasonings, food itself contains salt, such as chicken essence, MSG, oyster sauce and other seasonings contain high sodium content.
Second, learn to cook. The amount of salt used in cooking at home should not be completely calculated according to 5 grams per person per day, and the daily salt intake of children and the elderly should be less. You can use a limited salt spoon jar and gradually reduce the amount.
Third, reduce meat intake in moderation. Meat foods use more salt, whether it is packaged meat products or cooking meat at home, you should pay attention to less salt.
