How full is the best meal?

As people's quality of life improves, they have more or less some problems with their daily diet, especially overeating. This situation has a great impact on oneself and can easily lead to some gastrointestinal diseases and obesity. However, many people do not know what level of diet control is appropriate. So, how full is the best meal?

First, how full is the best way to eat? Scientists have found that long-term fullness can lead to premature brain aging. After a full meal, the gastrointestinal circulating blood volume increases, resulting in a relatively insufficient blood supply to the brain, which affects the normal physiological metabolism of brain cells. It may even cause angina pectoris in patients with coronary heart disease, and induce cholelithiasis, cholecystitis, diabetes, etc. Relevant scholars have also confirmed that a full meal can induce a substance called fibroblast growth factor in the human brain. After a full stomach, its content in the brain increases tens of thousands of times compared to before a meal, and its increase is proportional to the amount of food eaten. This fibroblast growth factor has been confirmed to be the culprit that causes cerebral arteriosclerosis, which is closely related to Alzheimer's disease. Scholars have also discovered an astonishing fact: about 20% of patients with Alzheimer's disease were "gourmets" who ate a lot when they were young and middle-aged.

Second, if you want to have a healthy body, you must develop good eating habits—eat until you are 80% full, and delay the aging process of the brain by regulating your food intake. The eating pattern of people after middle age should be like "sheep eating grass", eating when hungry and not eating much each time, so that the stomach and intestines always remain in a state of neither hunger nor full. The secret summarized by Professor Li Ruifen, a famous nutritionist in my country, is: "Eat multiple meals a day, don't feel full at each meal, eat when you are hungry, and eat very little." Only in this way can you delay aging and prolong your life.

How full is the best way to eat? A balanced diet is a prerequisite for health. Many people suffer from various diseases due to a lack of certain vitamins and minerals, including calcium, due to a poor diet. Nowadays, the saying "eat until you are 70% to 80% full" is almost known to everyone, but it still causes many people to eat too much staple food and meat, and consume excessive amounts of calorie-rich foods, causing high blood lipids, high blood pressure, high blood sugar, and overweight. Many people develop atherosclerosis prematurely in their 40s and 50s, and there is currently no drug that can gradually reduce and eliminate atherosclerosis. As a result, many people take lipid-lowering drugs, antihypertensive drugs, and hypoglycemic drugs for many years, but still eventually suffer from critical illnesses such as myocardial infarction and stroke. This is caused by people not paying attention to controlling calorie balance. Many people have many opportunities to eat delicious food and often cannot control their appetite, so the calories they take in every day are often more than they burn. Over time, they eat more and exercise less, which leads to metabolic diseases, hyperlipidemia, hyperlipidemia, and even coronary heart disease and diabetes. Atherosclerosis reduces blood flow and, due to high blood lipids and blood viscosity, causes microcirculation disorders, accelerates the atrophy and aging of many organs, and shortens people's lifespan.