My mother-in-law is 73 years old and has always been obsessed with health preservation.

If you buy a 1.6-liter bottle of oil, you won’t be able to use it up for a year.

All her food is boiled in water, with only a little salt added, and two drops of cooking oil added after taking it out of the pot.

Speaking of her life, it's really interesting.

I heard from my aunt that when she was young, she ate it normally, but now that she is older, her taste suddenly changed.

For more than ten years, she has lived alone.

Usually, eating alone is very simple. I either go out and buy some white steamed buns, or I cook some clear soup noodles, white porridge, or soup rice.

There is only one seasoning at home, and nothing else except a packet of salt.

I can buy a massage bed worth tens of thousands of dollars without batting an eyelid. It really just tastes light and I don’t have high requirements for food. As long as it’s cooked, I’ll eat it!

Many times, when relatives and friends come to visit, they will bring some practical oil and rice, but she has used less than half of the large barrels of cooking oil until it expires.

The vegetables she buys most often are cucumbers and cabbage. She often boils these two vegetables with water and eats them.

No oil, no onions, ginger, and garlic. Except for not eating sweet potatoes and peppers, she is not picky about anything else. I personally think she eats too much vegetarian food, so she is very thin.

We don't usually live together. During the holidays, the whole family basically goes out for dinner.

Therefore, for so many years, she has been able to eat whatever she wants, and we respect her taste.

My mother-in-law doesn't have any fat on her body, which is a very popular skinny beauty among young people.

During the Spring Festival of 2020, the epidemic broke out in Wuhan. We were in a surrounding small town, and the city was suddenly closed on New Year's Eve, so we were trapped in my mother-in-law's house, unable to move.

Now I'm in trouble. Although there are a lot of cured meats at home, the seasoning only has one packet of salt.

My mother-in-law is nice. She got up early and started cooking for us.

But we really couldn't eat the food she cooked, and even her own son found it tasteless.

The family solved the problem harmoniously, and from then on I was the one doing the cooking.

I am a person who pays more attention to food. Not only that, I also pay attention to the color of the dishes I cook.

During the two months of being trapped, there was no light soy sauce or oyster sauce, not even soy sauce.

Although moistened with a normal amount of oil, the stir-fried vegetables were all pale and pale, which made people feel unappetizing.

At first I thought my mother-in-law was not used to stir-fried vegetables, but I didn’t expect that she ate it with gusto!

What is unexpected is that after the lockdown was lifted, she gained back a total of 8 pounds.

From this point of view, it is true that if you eat less oil and less salt, you will not gain weight easily.

I thought that after eating my cooking for a few months, she would not be used to eating her own food, but I didn’t know that she was still like this.

After living with us for a few months, she returned to the previous state of living alone. She often joked that it was because she was lazy, so the simpler, the better.

She also always believes that eating a light diet will help control calorie and fat intake. Relatively speaking, blood vessels are less likely to be blocked and the burden on the liver is relatively small.

Generally speaking, maintaining a light diet is better for your health.

Now, whether we are middle-aged or elderly, health is the most important part of our lives.

So a light diet has become the first choice in many people's minds.

Many young people also choose this lifestyle in order to lose weight.

How to eat, not only to maintain a light diet, but also to ensure that the nutrition is kept up?

I personally feel that “light” here does not only mean vegetarian food, but also the food with less oil and less salt.

Usually, we should choose a variety of foods, whether they are boiled or steamed, and they should be within a reasonable range.

For example, in the daily meal structure, there must be a certain amount of meat, grains, eggs, milk, vegetables and fruits, etc. to ensure good health.

Only such a light diet can make our bodies healthier, not a single one.

Now I often buy other ingredients and visit my mother-in-law.

Even if she eats it in her own way, at least the nutrition will be more comprehensive!

In many cases, whether food is light or heavy may be more of a matter of habit. The soil and water support a person!

But people like my mother-in-law, who cook all kinds of things every day, are probably very rare.

Even Cantonese people, who pride themselves on eating light food, have to admit defeat.

I have a classmate who never eats with us.

At first I thought he was a bit lonely.

But later I found out that he started a small stove and cooked in the dormitory.