This article talks about the diet of Queen Elizabeth II.
She passed away in September this year at the age of 96, and according to media reports, she has only been to the hospital 3 times in the past 20 years, and being able to live such a long and healthy life is also closely related to her diet.
Let's first take a look at the queen's one-day diet, and then summarize the 4 key points of her diet with you, and see how we ordinary people learn from it.
After waking up at 7:30
8:30 Breakfast
Fruit cereals will be served with a variety of fruits
Among them, strawberries and white sweet peaches are the favorites
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12:00 Lunch
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A person's lunch does not eat anything that contains starch, such as potatoes, rice, pasta.
15:30 Afternoon tea
In addition to black tea with a small amount of milk, you will also eat the following three types of food:
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In addition to chocolate cake, he also eats gingerbread, cream cake, chocolate puffs and other pastries, but his favorite is chocolate, and he loves black chocolate, the queen's former chef Darren said, the queen is a chocolatier, and it must be dark chocolate, the darker the better.
19:30 Dinner
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Dinner is very similar to lunch, and it is also a side dish of meat, but in addition to salmon, flounder, tuna and chicken, she will also eat some lean beef, venison, and some small sweets after dinner.
Finally, add 2 more points, the queen also drinks small wines, such as champagne, gin, dur bernay, and likes to eat barbecue on weekends like everyone else.
After reading the Queen's one-day menu, did you find anything worth learning?
1. Love to eat fish
We all found the shadow of fish in the queen's three meals, salmon, tuna, and flounder, which are rich in DHA, which can be antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and friendly to cardiovascular health.
The American Heart Association released scientific recommendations on n-3 series fatty acids in 2017-2019, and all three of these recommendations recommend eating 1-2 servings (114-228 grams) of fish per week to reduce the risk of congestive heart failure, coronary heart disease, ischemic stroke, and sudden cardiac death, especially when replacing unhealthy foods with fish, which can better protect the cardiovascular system. [1]
But the Chinese people eat too little fish, and this has to be learned from the queen. Like salmon is more expensive, tuna is mainly canned, oil and salt are more, we can eat more flounder, and other more cost-effective mackerel, sea bass, croaker, can't eat every day, just eat at least 2 times a week, eat such a piece the size of a palm at a time.
2. Love to drink tea
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The queen wants to drink tea after waking up, and she also drinks tea in the afternoon, and she drinks black tea.
Current research proves that tea consumption may reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and stomach cancer (level of evidence: B). [2]
We China is the birthplace of tea, and the earliest Western tea was imported from us, so when it comes to drinking tea, our Chinese people will definitely not lose to the queen.
The nutritionist just recommends that friends with a bad stomach drink black tea, which is milder than green tea; If your stomach is normal, it is more recommended to drink green tea, because green tea is richer in antioxidant tea polyphenols and catechins, remember to soak it in water at 80 degrees Celsius, so that more antioxidants can be retained.
3. Love to eat chocolate
The Queen's former chef Darren said that the Queen is a chocolatier and must be dark chocolate, the darker the better, dark chocolate is rich in antioxidant cocoa polyphenols, which can reduce inflammation, and many studies have shown that cocoa polyphenols are good for cardiovascular health.
But chocolate is high in fat and energy, and eating too much will make you fat. The queen's greatest thing is that she never eats much, and every time she prepares a whole chocolate cake for her in the kitchen, she eats a small tooth.
4. Love sweets and control staple foods
The queen will eat some desserts before breakfast, afternoon meals and after dinner, desserts are properly processed, high-sugar foods, which are foods that nutritionists recommend eating as little or not as possible, but the queen, like most women, just like this sweet feeling.
To enjoy this sweetness and be healthy, how does the queen do it?
Except for fish and vegetables, almost no starchy foods for lunch and dinner, such as potatoes, rice, pasta, so balanced, the intake of refined carbohydrates is well controlled.
In addition, Darren said that although the queen does not diet, she does not eat much at every meal, so that eating less and more meals is not only conducive to stable blood sugar, but also can control weight.
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To summarize:
The Queen's diet has very healthy sea fish, vegetables, tea, and black chocolate, but there are also unhealthy added sugars, such as chocolate fudge and cake, but she can be very moderate, Darren commented on the Queen's moderation in diet, saying that the Queen eats to live. [4]
I hope that those of us who read this article can also eat moderately like the queen, so that we can enjoy both food and a healthy life.
