What should be checked in a dietary health check

The core of the dietary health examination is to detect nutritional deviations and health risks from the daily diet trajectory. It is not just a matter of filling in a simple dietary questionnaire. The core examination content is centered on the three directions of personal physical foundation, eating habits, and potential disease risks.

A while ago, I helped an Internet operator who stayed up late all the time to do a diet assessment. She patted herself on the back and said that she ate vegetables and drank milk every day, so her diet was definitely fine. As a result, I asked her to record her complete diet for 7 days - including the three-point sugary poplar nectar she drank in afternoon tea, the braised toppings she added when making noodles, and 4 cups a day. Taking into account the iced American style, the first thing to sort out is the overall ratio of macronutrients. Calculated, her day's carbohydrates account for almost 65%, and her fat intake exceeds the recommended value by 30%. On the contrary, the protein that should be supplemented only accounts for 13% of the total intake. Under the appearance of a "healthy" diet, the structure is ridiculous.

After finishing the big nutrition framework, you have to find the gaps in micronutrients that you usually don’t notice. Many people always feel tired, lose hair, and have calf cramps in the middle of the night. Most of them are caused by these small gaps. She was still the same girl. She thought that she was definitely not deficient in calcium if she drank milk every day. However, drinking too much coffee accelerated the loss of calcium. In addition, she rarely ate dark green leafy vegetables. Follow-up blood tests found that vitamin D and blood calcium were stuck at critical levels. No wonder she always said that her legs became weak after climbing two floors.

Many institutions now actively recommend food-specific IgG testing when conducting dietary inspections, which is often referred to as "food intolerance" testing. Many people directly add all positive foods to the blacklist after receiving the results. In fact, there have been differences in the industry on this point. The current consensus is that this test result can only be used as a reference. , cannot be directly used as a dietary ban. I have previously encountered a user who was found to be intolerant to eggs and stopped eating them at all. As a result, the protein gap became larger and larger. Later, he adjusted to only eat one boiled egg a day, and the flatulence reaction before did not appear at all. The previous intolerance was actually just the digestive burden caused by eating too much at one time.

If you have underlying diseases, you need to additionally check the compatibility between diet and disease. For example, people with gout should not think that they are safe if they do not eat seafood. The old fire soup that has been simmered for several hours and the processed meat products that are eaten with meals are all invisible sources of high purine. These details that are easily overlooked must be discovered one by one during the dietary examination.

To be honest, the purpose of dietary health check-up is never to give you a bunch of rules about what you can't eat and what you can't touch. It's just to help you fill in the small loopholes in your diet that you usually don't notice. After all, every bite you eat really affects your physical condition.