In modern times, with the appearance a variety of foods produced by the high technology, more and more people pay much attention to the health promotion. According to the record of the historical book named Taiping Yulan, the experts of health promotion in ancient China often said that people are fat but not longevous if the essence derived from food is more than vitality. On the contrary, if the vitality is much more than essence derived from food, people will get thin but longevous. Therefore, the purpose of health promotion should be reducing the essence derived from food, thus preventing the diseases.
From those profound words, we can see that the fat people should strengthen the vitality which reflects the viscera functions by reducing the staple food properly which indicates the essence from food. If those foreign students who come to learn Chinese language in China are interested in health promotion, they must have known that the function of doing in this way is to avoid a series of gastrointestinal tract diseases and cardiovascular disease caused by fat body, thus realizing the purpose of prolonging life.
To practice temperance in diet has been an issue attracting much emphasis of the whole world for so many years. In the year of 1958, the Italian scholar Kaonaolou wrote a book about the methods of prolonging life and building health, putting forward the theory of being moderate in eating to prolong life. He also strictly abides by the principle of diet, eating solid foods only 360 grams a day and rink liquid drink 400 grams each day, living as long as more than 100 years. The most amazing is that he can still ride a horse, climb the mountain and writing when he was 83 years old.
The US scientist Sheldon began to establish the fitness school since 1928 and lasted as long as 40 years. Thousands of patients recovered health after obeying the principle of adjusting life regularity through moderate diet in the school. In addition, a Soviet Union professor formulated the diet principle of moderating repast for the aged people.
After knowing the experts in health promotion in the past, students who are learning Mandarin Chinese can see that all of them attach much importance to the diet to have a healthy and long life. Therefore, if you want to have a strong body and live a long life, you need to follow the principle when eating.