Food for Maintaining Youth – A Chinese Perspective

Aside from the benefits tea brings for detoxifying the body and helping it appear youthful and replenished, there are also a number of foods that people need to consider in their overall diets in addition to overall eating habits and food consumption time.

12 foods absorbing your excess fat

1. Oats
2. Corn
3. Asparagus (the “Anti-cancer King” in China)
4. Chinese yam
5. Seaweed
6. Tremella
7. Potato
8. Celery
9. Red dates
10. Hawthorn
11. Chrysanthemum
12. Apples

12 foods that might cause disfigurement

1. Stinky tofu
2. Aginomoto
3. Sunflower seeds
4. Pork liver
5. Pickles
6. Popcorn
7. Dried fish slice
8. Fried bread stick
9. Coffee
10. Bubble chewing gum
11. Sweet fresh orange juice
12. Preserved duck egg

11 foods you shouldn’t eat on an empty stomach

1. Sweet potato
2. Oranges
3. Cold drinks
4. Milk
5. Hawthorn
6. Persimmon
7. Yogurt
8. Sugar
9. Tomato
10. Banana
11. Soy milk

It takes 32 days for the liver to detoxify after having instant noodles

Instant noodles are fried, and they contain stabilizers to prevent acidification. The bowl of instant noodles is made of polystyrene, in order to avoid deformation of heating. If the temperature is high during the brewing process, the substance will dissolve. The acceptable daily intake of polystyrene is 0.001mg/kg. The amount of polystyrene from one dissolved bowl for instant noodles is 0.015mg.

7 good foods for skinnier legs

1. Laver- Eliminates body wastes and accumulated water
2. Sesame- Removes cholesterol attached to blood vessels
3. Grapefruit- Abundant potassium helps to reduce the lower-body fat
4. Tomato- Reduces dropsy
5. Red bean- Improves the peristalsis of the large intestine
6. Papaya- Eliminates lower-body fat from having meat
7. Kiwi fruit- Accelerates to break down fats

10 foods for keeping white and healthy teeth

1. Banana
2. Celery
3. Cheese
4. Sugar free gum
5. Water
6. Mint
7. Green tea
8. Onion
9. Mustard
10. Mushrooms

6 bad habits stopping you from keeping slim

1. Don’t have breakfast
2. Have too much for dinner
3. Addicted to coffee
4. Drink tea with vacuum cup
5. Have fruits as entrée
6. Eat too fast

Ways to prevent you from getting cold hands and feet

1. Exercise, and swing arms regularly
2. Have Vitamin E
3. Have more food with niacin (animal liver, egg, milk, cheese, brown rice, wholemeal, sesame, mushroom, peanut, mung bean, and coffee)
4. Have more nuts and carrots
5. Have warming foods (ginseng tea, ginger ducks, longan tea, black sesames, and sweet dumplings)

How to recover if you fail to resist the temptation

Hotpot, and spicy pot are “hot” and produce excessive internal heat- drink tea made of pear juice, sugarcane juice, lotus root juice, and lophatherum gracile. Second, try to have congee such as mung bean congee and millet congee.

KF vegetables and barbecue are hot and dry, and they cause eczema- Mung beans kelp soup, tortoise jelly and aloe.

Sweet greasy cakes will produce phlegm and excessive internal heat- kiwi fruit, hawthorn and barley water will help cure this.

7 ways to keep you from getting fat after meal

1. Have a banana after barbecue
2. Have a cup of celery juice
3. Eat some yogurt after having hotpot
4. Eat some fruits after having instant noodles
5. Drink some ginger red-sugar water after eating crabs
6. Have a persimmon after meal- moistens lung and relieves a cough

11 foods for a flat abdomen

1. Sweet potato
2. Mung bean
3. Oatmeal
4. Pearl barley
5. Millet
6. Brown rice
7. Red bean
8. Carrot
9. Chinese yam
10. Balsam pear
11. Asparagus

6 practical ways to prevent skin allergies in the fall

1. The most important thing is to keep moisture
2. Make sure to choose skin care products with natural ingredients
3. Choose facial cleanser with less foam
4. Make it a habit to wash face with warm water 3 times a day
5. Pay attention to the exposure to sunlight
6. Have a balanced diet