How light is the person with the lightest taste you have ever seen?

My mother-in-law is 73 years old and has always been obsessed with health care. If you buy a 1.6-liter bottle of oil, you won’t be able to use it up for a year. All her food is boiled in water, with only a little salt added, and two drops of cooking oil added after taking it out of the pot.

Talking about her life, it is really interesting. I heard from my aunt that when she was young, she ate it normally, but now that she is older, her taste suddenly changed. For more than ten years, she has lived alone. Usually, eating alone is very simple. I either go out and buy some white steamed buns, or I cook some clear soup noodles, white porridge, or soup rice. There is only one seasoning at home, and nothing else except a packet of salt.

I would buy a massage bed worth tens of thousands of dollars without blinking an eye. It really just tastes light and I don’t have high requirements for food. As long as it’s cooked, I’ll eat it! Many times, when relatives and friends come to visit, they will bring some practical oil and rice, but she has used less than half of the large barrels of cooking oil until it expires.

The vegetables she buys most often are cucumbers and cabbage. She often boils these two vegetables with water and eats them. No oil, no onions, ginger, and garlic. Except for not eating sweet potatoes and peppers, she is not picky about anything else. I personally think she eats too much vegetarian food, so she is very thin.

We don’t live together in normal times. When it comes to holidays, the whole family usually goes out for dinner. Therefore, for so many years, she has been able to eat whatever she wants, and we respect her taste.

My mother-in-law doesn’t have any fat on her body, which is a very popular skinny beauty among young people.

During the Spring Festival of 2020, the epidemic broke out in Wuhan. We were in a surrounding small town, and the city was suddenly closed on New Year's Eve, so we were trapped in my mother-in-law's house, unable to move. Now I'm in trouble. Although there are a lot of cured meats at home, the seasoning only has one packet of salt.

My mother-in-law is a nice person. She got up early and started cooking for us. But we really couldn't eat the food she cooked, and even her own son found it tasteless. The family solved the problem harmoniously, and from then on I was the one doing the cooking.

I am a person who pays more attention to food. Not only that, I also pay attention to the color of the dishes I cook. During the two months of being trapped, there was no light soy sauce or oyster sauce, not even soy sauce. Although moistened with a normal amount of oil, the stir-fried vegetables were all pale and pale, which made people feel unappetizing. At first I thought my mother-in-law was not used to stir-fried vegetables, but I didn’t expect that she ate it with gusto! What is unexpected is that after the lockdown was lifted, she gained back a total of 8 pounds.

From this point of view, it is true that if you eat less oil and less salt, you will not gain weight easily.

I thought that after eating my cooking for a few months, she would not be used to eating her own food, but I didn’t know that she was still like this. After living with us for a few months, she returned to the previous state of living alone. She often joked that it was because she was lazy, so the simpler, the better.

She also always believes that eating a light diet will help control calorie and fat intake. Relatively speaking, blood vessels are less likely to be blocked and the burden on the liver is relatively small. Generally speaking, maintaining a light diet is better for your health.

Nowadays, whether we are middle-aged or elderly, health is the most important part of our lives. So a light diet has become the first choice in many people's minds. Many young people also choose this lifestyle in order to lose weight.

How to eat, maintain a light diet, and ensure that you keep up with nutrition? I personally feel that “light” here does not only mean vegetarian food, but also the food with less oil and less salt. Usually, we should choose a variety of foods, whether they are boiled or steamed, and they should be within a reasonable range. For example, in the daily meal structure, there must be a certain amount of meat, grains, eggs, milk, vegetables and fruits, etc. to ensure good health.

Only such a light diet can make our bodies healthier, not just one. Now I often buy other ingredients and visit my mother-in-law. Even if she eats it in her own way, at least the nutrition will be more comprehensive!

Many times, whether the food is light or heavy may be more of a matter of habit. The soil and water support the person! But people like my mother-in-law, who cook all kinds of things every day, are probably very rare. Even Cantonese people, who pride themselves on eating light food, have to admit defeat.

I have a classmate who never eats with us. At first I thought he was a bit lonely. But later I found out that he started a small stove and cooked in the dormitory.

One time when I came back from eating out, he happened to be cooking noodles. I took a look curiously and saw that he was cooking noodles. I'm a glutton, so I casually asked if it tastes good. He said do you want to try it (of course I would). Oh, I took a bite, my God, there was no taste at all. I didn’t even taste the saltiness. When I looked carefully, I didn’t see any trace of oil on the side. So I said embarrassedly: "This noodles is a bit bland." He smiled slightly, "Of course, I didn't put anything in."

I discovered then that in addition to the pot, there should also be oil, soy sauce, salt, etc. in a small stove, but he really There was nothing but a pot and food. I was surprised, and then I found out later that he was a vegetarian and did not eat meat. As for the reason, I'm embarrassed to ask.

Opinion 1: I remember one year when I went to Jinan, maybe I was a little tired from the journey. After getting off the bus, my friends who were traveling with me went to the restaurant together and watched them wolfing down the food, but I had no appetite at all. I ate some. For a bowl of clear water noodles, I deliberately told the waiter not to put anything on it for me! But when she brought the bowl of hot clear water noodles, I found it was salty when I ate it, so I asked the waiter, "I told you nothing." Don't put it, why is it salty? She said: I think it tastes bad if you don't put anything in it, so I put some salt for you! I'm so angry, I originally wanted to eat something light, but now I don't even have any noodles. Eat! Now think about it, the waiter was not thinking at all, how could this person be so bland and not even eat a little salt!

Point of view 2: A friend of mine doesn’t eat meat, and doesn’t eat any meat. , chicken, duck, fish, beef, sheep, pig, and not even squid. We bought salad chicken rice, and she picked out the chicken. Apart from the meat, there was only some salad and lettuce left in the salad chicken rice. He just ate it, and... One morning, we brought her a multi-wheat pie that was also stuffed with chicken. She refused to eat it even though she was so hungry that she refused to eat it. Later, she managed to eat it, but that was just one time. I never saw her eating meat again. , he doesn’t eat ham and sausage, he only eats noodles and sausages. He is born obese, and even if he doesn’t eat, he doesn’t lose weight...

Viewpoint 3: As a Chongqing native, I don’t seem to have the right to answer this question. Let’s talk about my weight loss meal last year. One day I realized that I was a little fat, so I wanted to lose weight. I bought a box of compressed biscuits from Ma’s house. I would eat one when I was really hungry. My main meal was boiled vegetables. I cooked cauliflower for the first time. , with only a little bit of salt, the taste was okay, but it was like not eating it. I gave up within two days, and I wiped out a box of compressed biscuits as a snack. I had morning sickness some time ago and couldn't smell the oil. Even stir-fried side dishes felt oily to me, so I prepared a large cup of tea for every meal. The hot tea tasted quite good when soaked in the rice. It was particularly good at relieving greasiness. Basically, the dishes were not To eat, just tea and rice. After three or four days, your appetite will be better and everything you eat will taste delicious. It was around six o'clock when I answered this question. I usually get up at 11 o'clock in the morning. Why did I wake up so early today? Because I woke up from hunger! I forgot to eat an apple last night. I woke up very early today. MD must do it. Eat a bowl of hot and sour noodles.

Viewpoint 4: What I met was the former family of one of my cousins. There was basically no salt in the dishes eaten by her ex-husband and her ex-in-laws, and there was no salt in the tea her ex-in-laws drank. There were only two or three tea leaves floating there. My cousin joked that she would not drink their tea because it was too strong.

But it may also be because her ex-father-in-law had cancer. After he was diagnosed with cancer, he was not frightened to death like some people. He has always been calm. Five or six years have passed since the doctor said it would only last a few months.

Viewpoint 5: I have seen too many light ones, because most of the people I know are bodybuilders. When we apply fat, we usually prepare for competitions half a year to a year in advance (body fat varies). During the preparation period, I basically cut off oil. I don’t eat any oil. The amount of salt must also be controlled. I usually eat about six to eight meals a day. I only eat the same kind of food, such as eggs, broccoli, chicken breast, beef, rice and potatoes. Milk, shrimp and fish are basically steamed or boiled and eaten with some salt or chili powder sprinkled on them (not too greasy). There is no need to eat salt until one week to ten days before the competition, and water will be cut off in two days. Yes, that’s right, I didn’t drink any water.

Viewpoint 6: I can’t help laughing when I see the complaints.

I am from Fujian. Considering health issues, I have been eating more and more lightly in recent years. But not all Fujianese eat very lightly. There used to be a lot of condiments in the kitchen, such as chicken essence, monosodium glutamate, cooking wine, oyster sauce, etc. But I stopped using them all later. Now the only common ones that are not discarded are oil, salt, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, rice wine, and salt and pepper. Moreover, sometimes only oil and salt are used in cooking.

Because I don’t add enough salt, my parents and brothers think my cooking is too bland. When my nephew first came to live with me, he complained to his parents that the food I cooked looked like there was no salt in it. Later he got used to it, and occasionally he would scream when the food was salty. My children and I went to eat at their house, and the taste was fine. However, I always felt thirsty after the meal, so I had to keep drinking water.

In fact, light dishes are not unpalatable, and the original flavor of each dish is particularly outstanding. The key is to cook with care. Pay attention to the combination and heat.

I have a friend who usually doesn’t add salt when making soup, but I at least add a little. But she used too much oil when frying vegetables, which made me tired.

I’ve been to Jiangxi and they can’t stand Fujian, mainly because it’s not spicy, but other things should be fine.

In fact, it is purely a personal habit.

I have a classmate from Jiangxi who can’t eat food with strong taste. One time we had a dinner together in our dormitory to eat spicy grilled fish. She asked others not to put Sichuan peppercorns and less onions and ginger. Her roommate and I looked at each other and said nothing!

The waiter was very embarrassed and agreed on the spot, but when the dish was served later, he still left it!

We comforted her by saying that spicy grilled fish must be filled with Sichuan peppercorns! It’s okay, eat less, pick the middle one, we have other dishes!

By the way, we also ordered the spicy hotpot without Sichuan peppercorns and onion and ginger. ah! The taste is really average!

We kept comforting her, saying that we were ordering something else, and we didn’t want her to ruin the atmosphere of the party!

But she refused to let go, kept scolding, called the waiter over, and said what I said to you before, I have already agreed, how can you do this!

I won’t talk about the worse ones!

Anyway, the five of us were very embarrassed at that time, and the waiter was not easy either. He was a few years older than us and kept explaining that this is how the fish tastes! Get rid of the smell! Even the boss was attracted by us and helped the waiter sister explain.

The atmosphere in the store was once heavy.

Later, with everyone’s comfort, she finally calmed down! Those chopsticks poked at the dishes a few times, and after taking two bites, they suddenly dropped the chopsticks and left!

My roommates and I were completely confused! What's going on?

Also, when she orders takeout, she always makes a note asking the store not to treat it as salt! Don't put... ,,,,,,

But the strange thing is that she usually eats spicy strips, soaks them in vinegar, and eats spicy crayfish and the like!

So I don’t understand. She really couldn’t take a bite in the store at that time. Did she have to make a fuss to the point of throwing chopsticks and bowls?

We are already accommodating her, why can't she worry about us? She also agreed to go to that restaurant for dinner! It makes me feel so tired when a good party turns into this!

My husband is the lightest eater I have ever seen. He has been a vegetarian since he was born. Every time I cook for him, I have to use a special pot. I can’t put too much peanut oil, and I don’t eat ginger and garlic. , I don’t eat any vegetables that have a strange smell. I usually eat Chinese cabbage, cucumber, carrots, and potatoes. I can only add salt for seasoning. I never eat out. I can only eat tomato noodles if I have to, and restaurants are not allowed to put any seasoning. ! Only drink boiled water, no drinks, no snacks, only fruits. He doesn't smoke, don't drink, doesn't go out to social events, and has no friends, because he feels that his heart is strong enough and he doesn't need friends. He values ??his family more, and he is a serious and persistent IT man! He also takes money very lightly, thinking that he can earn it back at any time after spending it! So I take care of all the money, and never ask questions about where it goes. He trusts me very much, so I am willing to serve him even though he is so picky.

The person who eats the lightest food I have ever seen is my best friend. What to eat when losing weight.

The daily diet is oil-free, vinegar-free, salt-free, spicy, plus a cup of boiled water

It is said that it is less salt, but actually it means buying a soup with salt water. Rinse it

Often eat boiled spinach, boiled cabbage, and boiled lettuce. Just pick it up and eat it without putting anything else in it.

This kind of figure is hard to come by. She is fat and gets fat as soon as she eats. Poor baby.

For foodies who don’t like spicy food and don’t like delicious food.

Losing weight is just a cloud.

If you don’t eat enough, how can you have the energy to lose weight...

I am from Henan, a Henanese with a relatively light taste. After I came to Guangdong, I still like the lighter taste here. I also often drink Cantonese-style morning tea. But I have a local friend in Zhongshan. Her mother-in-law's cooking is the most "bland" I have ever seen. It should be more accurately called "bland". My friend just ate dinner at home because it was too tasteless. I was able to eat less, and then eat less, so I lost a lot of weight after giving birth...but I also advised her because I was worried that she would be malnourished. How light is her mother-in-law’s cooking? Cantonese people like to eat white-cut chicken. White-cut chicken has no flavor when cooked, but it is usually served with a dish of soy sauce (soy sauce), ginger, etc. They just eat it as it is...without any condiments! There are even more "lighter" ones! You don’t put anything in the steamed fish and you eat it directly after steaming! No salt, no soy sauce, not to mention MSG, chicken essence and the like.

My friend only eats a little bit at night and has nothing but white porridge in the morning! If this continues, we will really become malnourished!

In fact, a healthy diet, as well as the "light diet" prescribed by the doctor, does not mean not adding any condiments, or being completely vegetarian, and eating a balanced diet is the first priority! Let me share with you the results of a light and nutritionally balanced diet! 1 The first is protein, which can keep our blood vessels young

Protein is the main component of various organs and tissues in the body. Protein is diverse. It is recommended to eat fish, eggs, milk and soy products regularly with every meal. There is protein! 2 Dietary fiber can help remove harmful substances from the body

Dietary fiber is found in vegetables, fruits, fungi and various whole grains. It is good for constipation, controlling blood sugar and cholesterol, and is huge. The adsorption capacity can take many harmful, toxic and carcinogenic substances out of the body. 3. Vitamins: Rainbow colors that add nutritional value

We recommend eating rainbow-colored vegetables and fruits. Dark fruits and vegetables such as red, yellow, green, and purple will have higher vitamin content. In addition, fruits that are often eaten Among them, the content of fruit acid, pectin, citric acid, etc. is higher than that of vegetables, which also has a certain effect on lowering cholesterol, preventing atherosclerosis, and promoting cardiovascular health. Various vitamin tablets are not as economical as eating fruits and vegetables.

What is more important than lightness is a balanced nutritious diet, do you agree?

About the author: Chen Lanlan

Master of Nutrition and Food Hygiene, Southern Medical University; National Level 2 Public Nutritionist

Director of the Guangdong Medical Trace Element Society ; Wang Xingguo Nutrition Special Training Class 5 student

He has been working as a nutritionist in the health management industry for 7 years...and is still working in the big health industry!

People in Nanyang, Henan Province drink mutton soup and beef soup. They usually put the purchased meat at the bottom of the bowl, add shredded ginger, coriander, and chives, and then make the soup and ladle the soup themselves. Some soup drinkers even just scooped up a bowl of clear soup and turned a blind eye to the spice box in front of them. Drink half a bowl of soup first, without adding any salt. Then add more soup, then add salt, MSG, chili and coriander.

In the old town of Luoyang and Zhanghe District in Henan, many elderly people also scoop out a bowl of clear soup without salt and drink it. They are called "old drinkers". It is said that they drink raw meat soup and mutton soup this way. It can sober up and keep you healthy.

I can’t eat any noodles boiled in plain water. If stir-fried without salt, is it still called stir-fry? Salt is the king of white ingredients. Human physiological functions require at least 20 grams of salt every day, otherwise the body will be weak in the long run.

Not eating any salt goes against the common sense of life and is not worth advocating!

I suspect that this person who does not eat salt is not out of money, but has a psychological disorder, like mysophobia, and needs the guidance and help of a psychologist!

Definitely my son. My husband and I don't like spicy food, and cooking is heavy on salt and oil, but my young man, who is now 23 years old, can eat spicy food without eating anything. He is also a natural vegetarian, so many of his friends love him. Are you joking about my family? Are you afraid that you are not biological? Could it be that I hugged the wrong person? Were you a monk in your previous life? Well, let alone others who doubt it, even I doubt it. Did I give birth to this? What kind of monster did I give birth to? Don’t eat spicy food, don’t eat meat, and don’t eat dark-colored food

As a child, when I was young, I would try to feed him light food, so he doesn’t like spicy food and thinks it’s normal. , but he doesn’t eat dark-colored things. He discovered this after only a few months. Once, when he was about half a year old, the family ate watermelon, and his father found a small spoon and scraped it into watermelon puree for him to eat. , but after feeding him several times, he vomited it out. Later, I just closed my mouth tightly and couldn't feed it no matter how I fed it. Once is a coincidence, but if it happens many times, it is no longer as simple as a coincidence. When he gets a little older, he will be able to talk. Fruits with dark colors that are more black and purple, such as mulberries, bayberries, cherries, etc., will be directly called "baba" and they will not open their mouths until they die.

At that time, there were many girls in our unit. Everyone liked to hug him and tease him. Knowing that he didn’t eat these things, they always liked to tease him with these things in a bad way. For this reason, I didn’t know how to cry. How many times has it been said that a certain aunt forced him to eat dada? It's both infuriating and funny. Now that I have grown up, I wouldn’t say they are daddy’s, but when I buy them and put them at home, even if they are rotten, they will not be touched.

As I grow older, I can eat meat, but I found that this young man in my family can really eat no meat at all. Every time I feed him, or I can't feed him, and I force him to eat, he just keeps it in his mouth but won't swallow. Later, because he looked thinner and many people said it was because he didn’t eat meat, his dad and I tried every means to get him to eat meat, but no matter how we fought with him, his small nose But it worked. As soon as I smelled meat, I refused to eat it.

His father and I are meat tigers who love meat, so how could we raise a vegetarian white rabbit? We really couldn't figure it out. At that time, we were worried that his incomplete nutritional intake would affect his growth, so we took him to the hospital for many examinations. Fortunately, the doctor said that it would not affect his growth, so we respected his eating habits. , no longer force him.

Now that we are older, it is better. We can eat some chicken and beef, but we will not eat other pork, fish, duck, goose and some delicacies that we consider to be delicacies. One winter, the child's father specially stewed a pot of donkey meat and asked everyone to take it as a tonic. However, no matter how much he tried to persuade him, the father and his wife ended up falling out over it. One said, "Don't worry, I won't poison you. You won't die if you take a bite of the poison." The other cried and shouted, "I don't know how to eat, why do you have to force me?"

Scenes like this are actually normal daily life in my family. Because of this stutter, my father and I often get into a lot of quarrels, leaving me alone in the wind. In addition to not eating meat, his taste can be so bland that it makes people feel bland.

Looking at the food my young man eats, no one would believe that this is what a young man eats. He is the kind of person who is very easy to support, but he is also a troublemaker.

He loves boiled vegetables and is the kind of person who can put all kinds of vegetables together and cook them into a pot. Cabbage, green vegetables, radish, and pumpkin can all be cooked in one pot. However, he is also a very particular troublemaker. He does not put oil in this pot, especially lard, and does not add salt or MSG. One time, the pork ribs had just been cooked in the pot. I thought that if he didn't eat pork ribs, it would be okay to drink some pork rib soup, so I cooked a bowl of cabbage with the pork rib soup. As a result, he vomited it out as soon as he took a bite, saying that it had a strange smell.

That time, not to mention his father, even a mother like me, who is relatively Buddhist, couldn't help but get so angry that she yelled at him. But looking at his innocent and aggrieved look, I finally cleaned the pot several times and cooked him another bowl with clean water. Later, for fear of trouble, his pot was separated from the pot we used. When it came to vegetarian dishes, he would use his pot, and when it came to meat dishes, he would use our pot. Don't worry, you have to work so hard to prepare a meal, only to be told that it tastes strange. Then there will be a lot of commotion at home again.

He likes to eat small stir-fries, but he is also very particular about small stir-fries, with less oil, only vegetable oil, less salt, only a little bit, and no MSG.

My family is from the South, but this young man in my family has an extremely passionate love for pasta. According to my husband, noodles, steamed buns and so on... these are just for fun, and cannot be made into a proper meal. For a proper meal, you have to eat rice, three dishes and one soup, and put on the big fish and meat. But my young man can eat it as his main meal. His favorite thing to eat is steamed buns. Two steamed buns and a bowl of boiled vegetables can be a meal; a bowl of noodles, a poached egg and some green vegetables can be enough. Be a meal. According to his confession, he basically ate like this during his four years in college. What are the advantages and disadvantages of having a light taste?

I can see from my son that people with light tastes have really good skin.

Other people's children have pimples all over their face when they are fifteen or sixteen years old, but at this age, my son has never had a single pimple on his face. His skin is very white and his pores are very fine, so he often gets pimples on his face. Some friends said that my son is obviously a little boy, but he looks too creamy. They always suggested that he go out to get more sun and get a better tan.

But it’s actually strange. The sun was shining brightly during this period. He rode a tram to and from get off work. He was exposed to the wind and rain, but his skin didn’t tan at all.

The bad thing is that because of his eating habits, especially not eating meat, some people always like to make fun of him, saying that he must have been a monk in his previous life, or that he was destined to become a monk, so he might as well become a monk. .

Normally, he would just laugh it off, but once, he probably got angry, and he said, as long as you make things work for my parents, I have no objection. Well, this is 10,000. It's absolutely impossible to raise a son alone and expect him to support him in old age. Isn't this just playing the piano randomly!

This is my breakfast or dinner, without a drop of oil or salt. Boil the vegetables first, then cook the noodles. Just ate it. If that doesn't work, add some black bean paste. There is no other way. For those who have just graduated, it is the fastest, simplest and saves money. I believe the future will be good.