Top 16 Points to Remember in Diet

Fish sauce is a condiment containing many nutrients. Therefore, always add a little when cooking anything. When making soup, turn off the stove immediately after adding fish sauce, as the aroma will dissipate if left too long, and the soup will no longer taste good. For crab soup, add fish sauce right after removing the pot from the stove to preserve the protein, vitamin A, D, and B12 in this condiment.

Butter is a spice with a very distinctive, fragrant, rich taste often used when frying dishes, but not everyone knows how to make delicious dishes without using much butter. First, use oil to fry the food. When the food is cooked and still hot, just spread a little butter on top to let it melt.

If you add pepper before cooking, it is prone to becoming a carcinogen. It's best to add pepper when the food is already cooked.

Depending on the dish, you may add salt before or after cooking. If you want the meat to be flavorful and not lose its sweetness, add salt beforehand. When making soup, where the sweetness comes from the bones and meat, bring the soup to a boil before adding salt. Since salt contains the toxin aflatoxin, when stir-frying, add salt just before adding vegetables and other ingredients to remove this toxin.

When cooking, add half of the wine. Reserve the remaining half to add right before serving, that way you'll preserve the wine flavor. When making pickles, adding a bit of wine will make the dish more enticing and delicious.

Drinking tea immediately after consuming dog meat can be very dangerous because dog meat contains protein. When combined with tea, it creates a protein-tannic acid compound that slows down intestinal peristalsis, causes dry stools, and attracts harmful substances, potentially leading to cancer.

Some people enjoy eating raw chicken eggs, believing that they can absorb more nutrients this way. However, this belief is incorrect. Chicken eggs are easily digested and absorbed through any cooking method—frying, stir-frying, steaming, boiling, etc. Eating them raw can lead to digestion difficulties and nutrient deficiencies. Why should you also avoid consuming too many salted eggs? It's because the ingredients used to make salted eggs contain a substance called lead oxide. Excessive lead oxide intake can cause loss of appetite, inflammation of the intestines and stomach, and more severe symptoms such as insomnia, joint and muscle pain, and anemia.

Various types of foods such as fish, meat, etc., all contain carcinogenic substances. However, the higher the cooking temperature of these foods, the higher the likelihood of carcinogenicity of those substances. It can be affirmed that excessive consumption will lead to cancer, so it is advisable not to consume them frequently or excessively. When eating, it is recommended to consume them with green vegetables and fruits.

Chicken bursa is the area with the highest concentration of the chicken's lymphatic ducts, containing many harmful bacteria that weaken our bodies and can lead to various diseases, especially cancer. Therefore, it is advisable not to consume it.

• Avoid overeating as it can lead to obesity, fatty liver, gallstones, and increase the risk of heart disease due to hardened arteries, and diabetes.
• Avoid eating too late as it can disrupt sleep patterns and affect brain rest.
• Limit intake of fats as the body metabolizes energy slower after dinner due to less physical activity, leading to the conversion of excess energy into fat, gradually causing obesity and increasing the risk of cardiovascular diseases.
• Avoid excessive alcohol consumption as it can lead to liver fibrosis, pancreatitis, and decreased blood sugar levels.

Note: For those who work night shifts such as writing, night shifts, etc., they may need to eat additional food at night. If fasting is done regularly, it can lead to gastrointestinal and gastric symptoms or symptoms of low blood sugar, which is not beneficial to health.

A balanced breakfast should include adequate protein, fats, and carbohydrates. It's also advisable not to consume dry food in the morning because the human body loses a significant amount of water overnight. Therefore, it's essential to replenish the lost fluids and enhance the body's ability to absorb nutrients.

• Eggs and Soy Milk: The tơrípxin in soy milk combines with the egg white's sticky protein, hindering protein breakdown and limiting protein absorption in the body.
• Beetroot and Grapefruit: Consuming these together generates inhibitory acid affecting thyroid gland function, leading to goiter.
• Persimmon and Sweet Potato: Sweet potato produces a lot of hydrochloric acid in the stomach. Eating it with persimmon leads to the formation of insoluble sediment, difficult to digest and excrete, potentially causing gastric stones.
• Cow's Milk and Chocolate: Cow's milk contains a lot of protein and potassium, while chocolate contains oxalic acid. Eating these together can form insoluble oxalic acid-potassium compound, leading to diarrhea, dry hair, and affecting children's development.
• Grapes, Roselle, Pomegranate, and Persimmon should not be eaten immediately after seafood: The acid in these fruits, when combined with the protein in seafood, generates sediment, difficult to digest, leading to fermentation in the intestine. Therefore, it's advisable to eat these fruits at least 4 hours after consuming seafood for safe eating.
• Cow's Milk, Yogurt, Cheese, and Cabbage, Soybeans, Duckweed, Water Spinach, Amaranth: Milk contains potassium, and these vegetables have chemical components that affect potassium digestion and absorption. Eat them separately with a gap of 3 - 4 hours.
• Some food groups need attention not to eat together: Watermelon and Goat Meat, Sweet Potato and Banana, Brown Sugar and Salted Duck Eggs, Honey and Tofu, Peanuts and Cucumbers, Rabbit Meat and Brassica Vegetables, Mung Beans and Dog Meat, Persimmon and Freshwater Crab, Crab with Orange or Mandarin, Crab with Pumpkin, Crab with Eggplant, Duck Eggs and Da Lat Plums, Eel with Pumpkin, Noodles with Snails, Catfish and Amaranth, Cow's Milk and Vinegar, Dog Meat and Garlic, Goat Liver and Bamboo Shoots.

• Avoid standing up or walking immediately.
• Avoid smoking because after eating, the body absorbs smoke ten times more than usual, slowing down food digestion.
• Avoid loosening the belt as it can cause the stomach area to sag, increase bowel movement, leading to intestinal twisting, bloating, and stomach sagging.
• Avoid going to the toilet immediately, as it can lead to functional disorders, poor digestion. Wait at least 1 hour after eating before going to the toilet.
• Avoid eating fruits immediately after a meal as it can cause bloating or diarrhea.
• Avoid sleeping immediately.
• Avoid drinking tea immediately.
• Avoid swimming immediately as it can cause stomach cramps and nausea (wait at least 2 hours after a meal if you want to swim).

Children often indulge in snacks at some point during the day. Instead of giving them sugary or salty snacks, we should offer them healthy snack options such as nuts, cheese, plain yogurt (preferably sugar-free), fresh or dried fruits, hard-boiled eggs, or other healthy snacks available in your area. These snacks are nutritious, keep children feeling full, and help them develop healthy eating habits for the future.

When fresh food is not available, it's best to limit the consumption of processed foods. Instant meals, snacks, and packaged desserts often contain high amounts of saturated fats, sugar, and salt. If you must buy processed foods, carefully read the product labels and try to choose items with fewer of these ingredients. Try to avoid sugary drinks and opt for water instead. Adding slices of citrus fruits or cucumber to your water is a great way to enhance the flavor.

Avoid using oil at high temperatures as it not only destroys the nutritional content of the food but also produces peroxides and harmful compounds. Reusing cooking oil multiple times breaks down vitamins and nutrients, leading to the formation of harmful substances and food residues that are often invisible to the naked eye after cooking. Regular consumption increases the risk of cancer. Additionally, rancid oil is harmful to your family's health.