The Reality and Dreams of Obese People: Food Safety and the Perfect Nutritional Meal

9.2 The Reality and Dreams of Obese People

9.2.1 Problems encountered by ordinary food products in China

In China, most consumers believe in food safety or that illness can be contracted through food. However, in the United States, people generally don't worry about food contamination. What do we eat every day? The vegetables farmers grow for themselves are small, thin, and riddled with insect holes because they don't use pesticides, so insects are willing to eat them. Meanwhile, the pesticide-treated vegetables we buy in the market are so bad that even insects wouldn't dare eat them, yet you eat them every day. Do you drink milk? Milkmaids milk cows daily, which quickly causes teat inflammation. To prevent this, antibiotics are added to the cow feed, so you're drinking milk heavily treated with antibiotics every day. When we were children, fish took a year to a year and a half to grow from fry to adult size. Now, fish are fed commercial feed, growing very quickly-a mature fish in two or three months. This feed contains birth control pills, so you might be eating fish containing birth control pills. Is it okay to eat pork instead of fish? Pork might be processed using ractopamine, a growth hormone used to accelerate pig growth.

9.2.2 The Rise and Scarcity of Alternative Foods

Vegetables are sprayed with pesticides, livestock are treated with hormones, and water is polluted. As a result, there are many problems with plants and animals. Young consumers are increasingly enthusiastic about healthy and unique foods, and they are more concerned about the condition of livestock and the use of water and soil resources in the food production process.

Some startups are using plant-based ingredients to replace animal protein in foods like hamburgers and mayonnaise. Some are even creating proteins in labs using animal cells. Their nutritional drinks, containing vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients, are ready to drink and can replace health foods. These products not only taste good but also alleviate concerns about animal health and make food production more efficient. Furthermore, compared to animal farming, their products use less water and other resources, making them more environmentally friendly. However, not everyone can afford these alternative foods, and eating them regularly would be even more unaffordable.

Many consumers today simply don't understand the difference between safety and insecurity. Where does the greatest food insecurity lie? It's certainly not the unsafety of dyeing steamed buns red. That kind of insecurity is far less than the harm caused by pesticides or the use of organic feed. That's why alternative foods are so popular globally. Food safety is not just a Chinese problem; it's a global issue. Alternative foods, to a certain extent, address the problem of food safety.

9.2.3 The perfect nutritional meal that obese people dream of

In daily life, obese people often suffer from overeating, dieting in a one-sided pursuit of beauty, or nutritional imbalances due to irregular eating habits and gastrointestinal dysfunction. Nutritional imbalances can lead to the following six physiological dysfunctions:

① Imbalance in digestive function;

② Endocrine dysfunction;

③ Imbalance in blood circulation function;

④ Disorders of nerve function balance;

⑤ Imbalance of immune function;

⑥ Imbalance in metabolic function.

Disorders of six major physiological functions can trigger serious health crises, leading to decreased immunity and reduced resistance to disease.

The Perfect Nutrition Meal maximizes the preservation of nutrients and is rich in carbohydrates, fats, proteins, various vitamins, and minerals. Convenient to eat, it's a delicious and invaluable food for modern people, compensating for the deficiencies in nutritional intake often found in daily life. Protein is the building block of life, a crucial component of cells, and the primary raw material for tissue renewal and repair. Fat provides energy and assists proteins in normal physiological metabolic activities. Vitamins are essential for maintaining and regulating normal metabolism, promoting metabolism and nutrient absorption. Carbohydrates provide the energy needed for amino acids to synthesize proteins. Minerals aid metabolism and maintain cellular homeostasis. The Perfect Nutrition Meal offers a unique flavor, is suitable for healthy living, and provides a more balanced nutritional profile.

A scientifically formulated, perfectly balanced meal provides the body with all the nutrients it needs and offers the following health benefits:

① Provides comprehensive and balanced nutrition. This perfect nutritional meal contains abundant amino acids, vitamins, minerals, functional oils, and dietary fiber, making it truly complete nutrition. It can enhance physical fitness and is highly suitable for those who are malnourished, physically weak, recovering from illness, pregnant women, breastfeeding mothers, and infants; it can promote growth and development in children and improve memory; and it can improve symptoms caused by deficiencies in relevant nutrients, such as nutritional anemia, osteoporosis, and beriberi.

② Lowering blood lipids and blood pressure, preventing cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases: The fiber in brown rice, whole wheat, corn, soybeans, and oats all have the effect of lowering blood lipids; the vitamin C, zinc, and calcium in the nutritional meal all have the effect of lowering blood pressure; the nutritional meal can prevent arteriosclerosis and various cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.

③ Lowering blood sugar: Brown rice and soybeans are rich in zinc, brown rice is rich in chromium, and brown rice, whole wheat, corn, soybeans, and oats are all rich in fiber. Spirulina is rich in linolenic acid, as well as zinc, magnesium, and potassium, all of which have the effect of lowering blood sugar.

④ Improve gastrointestinal function and prevent digestive tract diseases. A perfect nutritional meal needs to contain rich dietary fiber. Dietary fiber can cleanse the intestines, accelerate defecation, reduce harmful bacteria in the intestines, and promote the growth of beneficial bacteria. It can also reduce the absorption of toxic substances in the intestines. Spirulina is rich in chlorophyll, phycocyanin, β-carotene and γ-linolenic acid. These substances have anti-inflammatory effects on mucosal tissues, repair damaged cells and restore normal secretory function. They have a significant effect on preventing chronic gastritis and digestive tract ulcers.

⑤ Improve sleep: Oats and corn contain melatonin, brown rice and soybeans contain zinc, and corn contains copper, all of which have the effect of improving sleep.

⑥ Delay aging: Soybeans contain soy saponins, corn contains vitamin E, and nutritional meals contain vitamin C, beta-carotene, lecithin, amino acids, etc., all of which have anti-aging effects.