If you want to live longer and more healthily,you’d better constrain yourself from the unreasonable food and eat more nutritious food. A good way of keeping healthy is eating less food of “the three white” but eating more of the “three black”.

 “The three white” foods---salt, suger and fat

Taking too much salt can not only lead to increasing blood pressure and hardening arteries but increase the burden of the kidneys. Generally speaking, the proper daily intake of salt should be about 6 grams. Although  sugar is the essential to human body, but too much sugar causes high blood pressure, obesity and some kind of liver damage and so on.

When cooking,you can use the way of sprinkling soup on the food,thickening the food with starch or dipping the food in the soup after it is done, thus, you can put the sweet and salty flavor on the surface of the food easily, thereby satisfying your desire but taking in less sugar and salt. Animal fat always exacerbate angiosclerosis and increase cholesterol. However, we need take in some fat,but we can not eat too much. The total daily consumption of oil and fat should be 25 grams -30 grams with the appropriate ratio of 10:7 (plant oil to animal fat).

"Three black" - mushrooms, black fungus, black rice
Mushrooms , especially lentinula edodes, can prevent cancer, dissolve cholesterol, lower blood lipids and serum cholesterol, and prevent osteoporosis.  The dish “black with green”---stir-fried lentimula edodes with green napus is strongly recommended.  Black fungus (or blace tree ear) is a natural anticoagulant, it has the function to replenish  blood, activate  blood, prevent and treat coronary heart disease and arteriosclerosis , but it is recommended to eat about 2 times a week.
Black rice is of black appearance,  it is relatively rich in nutrition, so it is called "black pearls" and "the king of rice in the world", it is especially suitable for those aged people who are weak in legs and limbs, thus black rice is also called "medicine rice". Black rice porridge tastes very good and  is easy to digest and absorb, meanwhile, it has an excellent tonic effect.

The five most obscure but macrobiotic foods in our life

1. Pine nuts clear the bowel and nourish the skin
Looking like pearls, pine nuts were widely used in the traditional imperial meals in ancient China and have been viewed as nurishing and salubrity. Pine nuts are rich in oil composition, they can not only help defecate, but also nourish the skin; at the same time, pine nuts are high-quality sources of fat, and this kind of nuts contain multiple unsaturation fatty acids, which can help relieve inflammatory reactions. Meanwhile pine nuts are of high calorie. We can sprinkle some in the food in our daily diets, a small handful is enough every time.

2. Cabbages can not only relieve cough and reduce phlegm, but also resist cancer
In winter, all things wither,while cabbages are still as green as the pine, so the vegetable is welcome by the people. In Chinese medicine, Chinese cabbage can be antipyretic, relieve cough and reduce phlegm; and the modern science has found that the nutritional value of cabbage is fairly high, with various species, it can be eaten all year round, and is the most popular anti-cancer star.

3. Porridge protects the stomach and replenishes the vitality
During the process of cooking porridge in the boiling water, the active ingredients of the food have dissolved and released in the soup, so porridghe is easy to digest and absorb. Thus, this food is very good for those who have a poor appetite and is weak physically. 

4.Kelp helps defecate and keep fit
With low calorie and rich jelly and minerals, kelp is a tipical beauty and health food,it is very suitable for the life of modern people. Kelp is rich in soluble fiber, and more easily to digest and absorb than the average fiber. It helps smoothen the bowel movements and defecate. The biggest advantage is that kelp is low in calories, so it is an ideal snack to the ladies, for it can help them keep fit and enjoy the food without putting on weight.5.Buckwheat helps us bring high blood pressure down and have a good sleep
Buckwheat contains a strongly effective antioxidant,and it can lower blood fat, enhance the elasticity of blood vessel and prevent blood clotting,so it is a good heart-care food. In addition, it is effective in lowering blood pressure and helping us sleep sound. Buckwheat is also a good colon scavenger, its content of fiber is 6 times as much as the normal rice, thus it is called “grass of clearing the guts”..