1. "Jane" is simple. Simplicity is mainly about not eating too many kinds of food at each meal, being simple and less, and not, as some people say, "the more miscellaneous, the better". The ancients said that diet should be avoided. Why did the ancients attach so much importance to dietary taboos, especially collocation taboos? Traditional Chinese medicine has the theory of "seven emotions" of traditional Chinese medicine, which summarizes the relationship between drugs into seven situations: single line, mutual need, mutual attraction, mutual fear, mutual evil, mutual killing and opposite. Some drugs together can enhance the effect, while some drugs together can weaken the effect and even be harmful to the body.
2. The same is true of food. Food has four flavors, and food collocation also has seven emotions. Modern science advocates eating as many kinds of food as possible at each meal, because its nutritional components can complement each other and its nutrition is more comprehensive. However, one truth has been ignored, that is, the more varieties of food, the more difficult it is to ensure the harmony of five flavors, the more difficult it is to ensure the rationality and safety of food collocation, and the greater the possibility of problems. I don't know if you've noticed, the daily food of longevity people is often simple, and they usually don't eat many kinds of food every meal. Nowadays, people tend to eat many kinds of food every meal, and put a lot of ingredients and seasonings in a dish. Although it achieves delicious results, it ignores health.
Therefore, there is a simple way to avoid unreasonable food collocation, which is to eat less varieties every day or every meal. If there are fewer varieties, there will be less danger of disharmony between the five flavors.