In the era of preventive medicine, perhaps we should start by re-understanding a dish.
Of course, this is not to promote the omnipotence of nutritional diet therapy, but to advocate a scientific understanding that the dining table should be the first line of defense in health management.
Against the backdrop of the in-depth promotion of the "Healthy China" 2030 strategy and the heated discussions on weight management and chronic disease prevention and treatment at this year's two sessions, China's first nutritional and dietary therapy documentary "Amazing Food" will premiere on Dragon TV on May 27, and will be broadcast again on Shanghai Metropolitan Channel on May 30. It will soon be launched on online platforms such as Dragon TV, Tencent, and Youku.
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The "Healthy China Action (2019-2030)" clearly lists "reasonable diet action" as one of the 15 major special actions. On April 14 this year, the National Health and Family Planning Commission issued a notice, combining the actual work of building a healthy China and the progress of the Healthy China Action, and decided to include the healthy weight management action into the Healthy China Action. At the individual and family level, it is proposed to correctly understand weight, manage weight scientifically, and master weight management skills.
May 17-23 is the National Nutrition Week. This year, a popular science activity with the theme of "Scientific Weight Loss" was carried out to deeply explore the important relationship between diet and the prevention and treatment of obesity and chronic diseases. However, in daily life, high-fat and high-salt takeout diets, the abuse of meal replacement foods, and the blind following of Internet celebrity weight loss methods have exposed the deep crisis of public nutrition cognition. This "cognition-behavior" split is causing serious consequences - the economic burden of diet-related chronic diseases has accounted for 28% of total medical expenditures (data from the National Center for Disease Control and Prevention). This situation is in sharp contrast to the currently hotly debated concept of "new quality productivity" - while technology is changing with each passing day, the "first productivity" of national health (diet nutrition) is still at the stage of empiricism.
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Through scientific interpretation and real case tracking by a team of academician experts, "Amazing Food" systematically reveals for the first time how the "health revolution in the kitchen" helps prevent and treat chronic diseases.
The creators interviewed experts in the field of nutrition, including Chen Junshi, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Ge Sheng, director of the Clinical Nutrition Department of Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital, Shen Xiuhua, professor and doctoral supervisor of the Nutrition Department of Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, and Fan Zhihong, professor of China Agricultural University. They also conducted an in-depth discussion on the role of nutrition in improving chronic diseases in 40 minutes, combining animal and real-life experiments.
Healthy diet experiment conducted by Shen Xiuhua's team at Shanghai Jiaotong University: Ms. Wang, a 10-year fatty liver patient, has seen her visceral fat almost return to normal levels. Oriental Hospital Diabetes Intervention Project: Mr. Zhou, a patient, has finally lost weight and brought his blood sugar to normal levels after receiving care from a nutritionist.
Professor Fan Zhihong of China Agricultural University believes that nutrition classes in hospitals can answer many questions, but resources are limited. Consumers can work with nutritionists to conduct dietary interventions, regulate obesity and prevent chronic diseases.
In the grim situation where "one person dies from diet-related diseases every 10 seconds" (WHO data), the documentary reveals a subversive understanding: the most effective "medical device" may be on our plates.
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At present, the medical community and all sectors of society are committed to popularizing food nutrition knowledge, and the true potential of nutritional diet therapy can only be fully realized through the joint efforts of medical institutions and social institutions, so that more people can benefit. This documentary deeply explores the magical power of food and explains to the public key issues such as the relationship between food and medicine, nutrition and medicine, etc., bringing nutrition from the mysterious halls to the public, and making everyone realize that what deserves our most attention is actually every meal in the kitchen, which may be the key to improving our personal and even family health.
