Recently, China’s chief health expert, 74-year-old Professor Wan Chengkui, visited CCTV’s People Weekly and told national TV viewers about his “secret recipe” of health, longevity and happiness.
On health issues, you are more useful than God. Professor Wan Chengkui said that the World Health Organisation stipulates that 15% of an individual’s health and life expectancy depends on heredity, 10% depends on social factors, 8% depends on medical conditions, 7% depends on climate influence, and 60% depends on yourself. On this issue, you are more useful than God.
Do you know? Meals must be: eat well in the morning, be full at noon, and eat less in the evening. Nowadays, people are the opposite. They are sloppy in the morning, deal with it at noon, and eat and drink in the evening. This is the root of all diseases. This meal in the morning is equivalent to taking tonic medicine. It is the most important meal. Be sure to have a nutritious breakfast.
There must be several things for a nutritious breakfast: staple food, soy milk, oatmeal and apples, and the staple food must include vegetables and fruits. If there are only two nutritious breakfasts, it is a low-quality breakfast. Now 20% of us Chinese don’t eat breakfast, and 50%-60% don’t eat breakfast. Breakfast is not nutritious, and we can’t make up for it at noon and evening.
The worst habit in the world is smoking. Among the five worst habits in the world, the first bad habit is smoking. People who smoke for a lifetime should live 20 to 25 years less, smoke once, and live 11 minutes less. Why am I younger and healthier? I have never smoked in my life. Who smokes in front of me? I’m sorry, please smoke outside. You can commit suicide. You can’t kill people. Smoking is especially harmful when you get up early in the morning. Smokers, tracheitis, emphysema, pulmonary heart disease, and finally lung cancer, this is a death trilogy.
Excess nutrition is also poisoned. Excess nutrition is also poisoned. Remember, there are rules for eating a day: one, two, three, four, five, six. One plate of vegetables a day must be eight taels to one catty; two fruits a day; three spoonfuls of clear oil a day, no more than 25 grams; four taels of rice or four steamed buns a day; plus sufficient plant protein.
Now let’s talk about eight glasses of water. You must drink eight glasses of water every day. Because water is human life. Nowadays, many people can’t drink water until they are thirsty. Wrong, you must drink it when you have time, not when you are thirsty. Can I have eight cups of tea? Tea is not good. What about eight cups of coffee? No drinks, coffee or beer can replace water. If you want to drink tea, drink light tea, not strong tea. Remember that water is human life.
People don’t die of old age, they don’t die of illness, they die of anger. How can people not be angry? People are emotional animals, happy, angry, sad, sad. If you are happy, you have to laugh. If you are unhappy, you have to cry. If you are angry, you have to scold. This is a manifestation of people’s rich feelings. If a person has only one feeling, this person is not healthy.
A person has a lot of feelings, and he can do whatever he or she should, but you must remember: the first one should not be excessive, the second one should not be excessive, but not for a long time, and adjust it quickly. This is healthy.
“Huangdi Neijing” has long been very clear: “Angry hurts the liver, happy and sad, sad lungs, thinking hurts the spleen, afraid of hurting the kidney, all diseases are born of anger.” It’s a great story. To be honest, many people don’t die of old age, not sick, but angry. If you can’t be an official, you’re so angry; if you can’t mention a professor, you’re so angry; if you can’t make money, you’re so angry; many elderly people are so angry for small things. I have many examples here.
So I said, “You can’t be angry, but you must be angry; don’t be a prisoner of emotions, you must be the master of emotions; you must control emotions, and don’t let emotions control you.”
