Choose Grains to Help A Healthy Diet

Grains are our earliest human food, as early as thousands of years ago, the Chinese people began to collect, grow grain, and consumption of grain. With the increase of productivity and the development of production technology, we are more and more rich varieties of cereals. Grains are the food we need every day to make our body nutritious. For example, eat flour, rice, millet, corn, sorghum, oats and so on. In fact, small grains, especially corn and oats, in the eyes of nutritionists, is very "popular" two kinds of food, can be described as our gold meal.

A study by the German Nutritional Health Association shows that corn has a very high vitamin content in all staple foods, 5-10 times more than rice and wheat. At the same time, corn contains a lot of nutrition and health care materials also allow experts to surprise. In addition to containing carbohydrates, protein, fat, carotene, the corn also contains riboflavin, vitamins and other nutrients. These substances on the prevention of heart disease, cancer and other diseases have great benefits.

Compared with corn, oats health function is not weak. Oatmeal contains eight kinds of amino acids and vitamin E required by the human body, its content is also higher than white flour and rice. Oatmeal also contains linoleic acid, folic acid and a variety of trace elements, can help the body lipid-lowering diet, reduce blood sugar, eliminate fatigue, prevent constipation, promote fetal growth and development, is a high-nutrition health food.

China's nutrition experts, as early as a few years ago, called on people to inherit the Chinese "grain-based" food culture, China also has an old saying called "extremes meet". Eat grains to master the principle of moderate, where the grain is rice, millet, corn, sorghum, oats combined, but also have a degree, in addition to eating grains, we have to eat vegetables, fruits, dairy products, beans, meat, etc., so that our body will be a comprehensive and balanced nutrition.