Eating the right breakfast can protect your heart! Cardiovascular disease and nutrition experts teach you how to eat.
On June 1st, several experts attending the 13th Oriental Cardiology Conference (OCC) held a live breakfast in the Oriental Live Room. Why did the experts at the cardiology conference talk about breakfast first?
In April 2019, a study published by JACC, an authoritative academic journal, prospectively proved that skipping breakfast is related to higher cardiovascular mortality. Eating the right breakfast can protect your heart! Let’s listen to the advice of these experts.
Academician Ge Junbo of Zhongshan Hospital affiliated to Fudan University: Eating the right breakfast can protect your heart.
Someone once called breakfast "the first expectation in a day", but with the acceleration of the pace of life, we have less expectation for breakfast. In order to catch up with the time, we either make do with two people or have two meals with lunch and make one meal.
Previous studies have shown that skipping breakfast may lead to the risk of obesity, diabetes and hyperlipidemia. OCC held an activity such as "Healthy Heart Breakfast" at the meeting, inviting cardiovascular experts and nutrition experts to interpret the reasonable diet structure together. On the one hand, it popularized the importance of breakfast to the public, and at the same time, it released a reference recipe of "Healthy Heart Breakfast" for the general public to refer to and improve the level of cardiovascular disease prevention in China. On the other hand, it also reminds doctors and media reporters not to forget to eat breakfast when they are busy with their work.
Professor Huo Yong of Peking University First Hospital: Eat breakfast like an emperor.
"As the saying goes, you should eat like an emperor for breakfast, like a commoner for lunch and like a beggar for dinner." Why do you value breakfast so much? Because for most people, this meal is about ten hours away from the last meal and needs more energy. Fasting for a long time will lead to an increase in blood pressure in the morning. Not eating breakfast all the year round will inevitably lead to the disorder of related hormones, making it easier to overeat and obesity, and also causing fluctuations in blood lipid levels.
Related studies have found that eating breakfast helps to lower blood pressure, thus preventing various cardiovascular events such as blood vessel blockage.
Qian Juying, Chairman of Cardiovascular Branch of Shanghai Medical Association: Regulating blood lipid can’t rely solely on diet therapy.
It is generally believed that the increase of low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) will increase cardiovascular risk. Will improving eating habits significantly improve blood lipid levels?
Diet therapy and lifestyle improvement are the basic measures for the treatment of dyslipidemia, and they are "fighting" together. Diet control and active exercise should be continued even after medication, but lifestyle intervention should not be relaxed because of medication. But we should also avoid entering a misunderstanding, that is, we only hope that diet can improve blood lipids. (Yin Wei)
Director Gao Jian, Department of Nutrition, Zhongshan Hospital affiliated to Fudan University: An excellent breakfast must contain four kinds of food.
The choice of breakfast in different regions is rich and varied. The traditional breakfast food provided by restaurants outside is single, mostly high-calorie food. Although it can satisfy the stomach, its nutritional value is not high. An excellent breakfast should include the following four kinds of food:
The first kind of food should be a bit like whole wheat bread and coarse grains. Because breakfast should have a staple food first, but now the staple food is too fine, so eat some miscellaneous grains for breakfast.
The second category of food, there is an animal food, such as boiled eggs.
The third category of food is soybean milk and milk. Generally, a bag of milk basically meets this requirement.
The fourth category of food is vegetables and fruits, so today we have some fruits.
All four are called excellent breakfasts, only three are called good breakfasts, and only two and one are called poor breakfasts. At present, many people have only one or two kinds of breakfast, so it is suggested that breakfast should be as diverse as possible, at least there are some of the four categories of food. (Yin Wei)