Original title: Guangdong Province National Nutrition Week launched Expert: Choose healthy food on demand
On May 16, the 2022 Guangdong National Nutrition Week, jointly organized by the Guangdong Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the Guangdong Provincial Nutrition Society, and the Guangdong Provincial Food Safety Society, was officially launched. will look at the label”.
When choosing a food, what should I look at the nutrition label? How to eat a reasonable meal match? The reporter interviewed experts in public health and nutrition for popular science answers.
Recently, the Chinese Nutrition Society released the latest version of my country’s “Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents (2022)”, recommending that people eat a variety of food, a reasonable diet, eat more fruits and vegetables, milk, whole grains, soybeans, and moderate fish, poultry, eggs , lean meat, advocate less salt and less oil, control sugar and limit alcohol, keep regular meals, and drink enough water. Among them, it is particularly emphasized that “knowing how to cook, choose, and read labels”.
“With the improvement of our living standards, everyone’s food consumption behavior has changed a lot, especially some young people, they are reluctant to cook, and more choose to take out or buy pre-packaged food.” Sun Yat-Sen University Zhu Huilian, a professor of nutrition at the School of Public Health, said, “This also makes our current obesity and chronic disease problems more prominent. Learning to read food labels, especially nutrition labels, can help us understand the nutritional content of food and screen out healthy foods more quickly. .” (Chen Yichun)
(Nanfang Daily)