Balanced diet in a sentence

1. On the way to picking up a third-grade child from school, I held up the fried skewers I just bought and said, "If you can eat a balanced diet this week and eat enough vegetables every time without being picky, I will take you to the amusement park to ride a roller coaster on the weekend."

2. Aunt Zhang, who had just finished a glucose tolerance test in the clinic and found that her fasting blood sugar was high, clutched the test sheet and promised the doctor: "I will definitely keep a balanced diet in mind when I go back, and I will never eat white porridge with pickled radish every time again."

3. The fitness blogger held up the brown rice ball in his hand and smiled at the camera: "Don't stare at those magic pills that promise to lose five pounds in three days every day. A balanced diet and regular exercise are the best ways to lose fat without rebounding."

4. The latest health white paper released by the WHO clearly states: "A balanced diet, regular exercise, and adequate sleep are the three core pillars to reduce the risk of non-communicable diseases."

It's interesting to say that the same four words, when spoken in different people's mouths, can have completely different meanings. I have been working as a public nutritionist for almost five years, and I have met too many people who talk about balanced diet as a slogan. If you really want them to put it into practical life, it is awkward to even use these four words in daily conversations. I always feel that this is official language written in health promotion columns.

According to the standards of traditional dietary guidelines, a balanced diet has clear quantitative indicators: eat enough 12 kinds of food every day and 25 kinds of different foods every week. Grains and potatoes, vegetables and fruits, meat, eggs, milk, nuts and legumes are matched in proportion, and oil, salt and sugar are all controlled within the recommended amount. Artificial sentences that hold this kind of view always have a certain rigor in textbooks. For example, an old expert who gives health promotions in the community will take the microphone and say: "As long as we can achieve a balanced diet, the risk of hyperlipidemia and hypertension, which are common problems among our middle-aged and elderly friends, can be reduced by at least 20%." This statement is supported by data, and there is nothing wrong with it, but it always sounds a bit distant, as if to do it, you have to weigh it with a food scale every time.

Intuitive eating, which is more popular among young people now, doesn’t think so. In their understanding, a balanced diet does not require calorie counts, and there is no need to force yourself to eat boiled vegetables that you don’t like. Eating a little of everything and not eating too much is a balanced diet. I came across a video of a food blogger a while ago. He said that many people now regard balanced diet as a new type of kidnapping. They can't touch polished rice and white noodles, drink milk tea or hot pot. His sentence is particularly poignant: "If a balanced diet requires me to eat things that I can't swallow every day, then I would rather be unbalanced and live happily than anything else." There is nothing wrong with this. After all, if you can't stick to a diet for half a month, no matter how scientific the conclusion is, it will be in vain.

Last time I met a little girl who just went to college for consultation. She said that her mother sent her WeChat messages every day about a balanced diet. She was so annoyed by it that she made up a sentence to reply: "The balanced diet you are talking about is letting me eat steamed broccoli every time? Why is it not balanced if I drink a cup of milk tea and hot pot once a week? "I didn't refute her at that time. Instead, I showed her my food record for the past week: I went out with friends to eat barbecue and crayfish on Thursday and Friday. In the remaining five days, I added whole grains and dark green vegetables every day. In total, I consumed almost 30 types of food in a week, which fully meets the standards of a balanced diet. I told her that I usually go out to eat skewers, and my friends laughed at me as to why I was a nutritionist and still ate these things. I always replied: "A balanced diet does not make you an ascetic. There are so many things that you cannot eat."

To put it bluntly, the four words "balanced diet" have never been written words that can only be written in textbooks. How you understand it will determine how you use it to form sentences and how you will live a corresponding life - after all, what you eat in your mouth will eventually become a part of your life.