(People’s Daily Health Client Reporter Qiao Jingfang) “The 2018 Global Nutrition Report shows that unreasonable dietary patterns have caused serious health burdens, and one-fifth of global deaths are related to diet.” April 26, At the press conference of the Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents (2022), Yang Yuexin, chairman of the Chinese Nutrition Society, said that in order to meet the nutritional and health needs of Chinese residents, reduce malnutrition and prevent the occurrence of chronic diseases, the Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents is based on the 2016 edition. Updated again.
New: From six recommendations to eight guidelines
“Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents (2016)” put forward six core recommendations: food Variety, mainly cereals; eat dynamic balance, healthy weight; eat more fruits and vegetables, milk, soybeans; eat fish, poultry, eggs, lean meat in moderation; less oil and less salt, control sugar and alcohol; eliminate waste, emerging food fashion.
The newly released 2022 dietary guidelines have been updated to eight guidelines: diverse foods and reasonable combinations; eating a balanced, healthy weight; eating more fruits and vegetables, dairy, whole grains, and soybeans; eating fish, poultry, Eggs, lean meat; less salt and less oil, sugar control and alcohol limit; regular meals, drink plenty of water; know how to cook, choose, and read labels; share meals with chopsticks to prevent waste.
Yang Yuexin, President of the Chinese Nutrition Society
“Compared with the 2016 edition, the new dietary guidelines add ‘regular meals, meeting Election cooking, sharing meals with chopsticks, eliminating waste, understanding food, etc.” said Chairman Yang Yuexin.
In addition, the reporter noticed that the dietary pagoda, an important part of the new dietary guidelines, has also changed: separating potatoes and cereals, with special emphasis on the importance of tubers (50-100 grams), The intake of whole grains and mixed beans remains unchanged at 50-150 grams, accounting for 1/4-1/2 of the intake of cereals; Animal foods”, and combined the intake to 120-200 grams per day, and advocated eating aquatic products twice a week and 1 egg per day; the intake of dairy products was increased from 300 grams to 300-500 grams; salt Intake was adjusted from less than 6 grams to less than 5 grams.
New concept: “Oriental healthy dietary pattern” is proposed for the first time
The new version of the dietary guidelines proposes some new concepts, such as “Oriental healthy diet”, “disuse syndrome”, “Abilities of daily living” “Assessment of Frailty”, etc.
It is understood that this is the first time that the Dietary Guidelines have proposed the “Oriental Dietary Pattern”. Chairman Yang Yuexin introduced that the diet in the Jiangnan region represented by Zhejiang, Shanghai, and Jiangsu in my country is considered to be a representative dietary pattern of healthy Chinese dietary patterns, which is also a representative of the Eastern healthy dietary pattern. Its main characteristics are light and less salt, diverse food, rich vegetables, fruits, soy products, more fish and shrimp aquatic products, daily milk, etc., and have a high level of physical activity. Such a dietary pattern is beneficial to avoid nutrient deficiency diseases and the occurrence of diet-related chronic diseases, and to increase life expectancy.
The new dietary guidelines also have qualitative descriptions of “eat more”, “eat less”, “moderate amount”, “control”, “restriction”, etc. “Rich in”, “low salt”, “low oil” and “lean meat” are quantitatively described, so that the public can understand these words more conveniently and intuitively.
Chairman Yang Yuexin said that the idea of ”understanding food and designing meals scientifically” is to guide and encourage families to practice the scientific behavior of dietary nutrition.
New form: revised and improved the visualization of graphics and recipes
In order to facilitate the application of the people, the society also revised and completed the popular science version of the “Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents (2022)” to help people make Healthy dietary choices and behavioral changes.
The visualization of graphics and recipes such as Chinese Residents’ Diet Pagoda (2022), Chinese Residents’ Balanced Meal Plate (2022), and Children’s Balanced Meal Abacus (2022) have also been revised and completed simultaneously to guide the public in their daily life. specific practice.
In addition, for different groups of people, the “Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents (2022)” includes dietary guidelines for the general public over the age of 2 and 9 guidelines for specific groups. According to Yang Yuexin, a major change in this revision is the addition of dietary guidelines for the elderly.