Why is we "complicated" by our drinking water?

I was also drinking cooked water at first, and was the supporter of boiling water. There are warm pots that grow in northeast China. This is a must -have for life. People who live in the courtyard will also go to boiler rooms that boil water to open water. The scene of the previous pot was "very China". Later, when I went to Beijing to go to college, the boiler room was the most popular place outside the library and the cafeteria.

In October 2021, Benton, Michigan, USA. Due to the high lead in drinking water in the local area, the state government issued a warning to residents not to drink tap water, and local volunteers distributed bottled water to the public.

Cooked water is still raw water

Of course, the popularity in the Northeast is not limited to drinking water. In the past, he needed a warm water bottle, or even a fire. If the heat of the bucket made of adobe is not enough, you can also add a firewood wall to leave the flue between the walls to make the cigarettes of the stove to cook. Drill the flue under the flat fire first, then pass through the vertical fire wall, reach the chimney, and finally discharge the outdoor. It makes full use of its heat during the liquid flow of the smoke. At that time, the kitchen would not be able to see the shadow of smoke.

Even boiling water, it is cold and cold in our country. When the Chinese party, the owner often says "the water is cold, add some heat to you." Drinking water seems to be warm enough to be suitable for drinking and hot mouth, otherwise it will even hinder your health. During the office decades ago, people were often visible to covering the tea cup with their hands while talking and meeting -the outside is cold, the house is cold, and the water cup is also warmer.

Later, we were also used to "cool white", which was the kind of cool boiling water. This may be a specialty invented by our Chinese people. Boil raw water into cooked water to sell money. In contrast, in addition to wine and milk in Western countries, people are directly imported from drinks or water. I have not found water and blooming. I even doubt whether the word has an English translation. So.

Boiling boiling water can of course remove sterilization, but it will also destroy the minerals in the water. Before the emergence of modern medicine, people only found that people drinking hot water were relatively difficult to get sick, so they summarized "drinking hot water is good for health", especially when it was cold in the wilderness. Westerners have also advocated drinking boiling water in the past, but it is only a long time. Before the 19th century, a political management manual in the UK suggested that people not drink cold, because "it is easy to get sick and may be killed."

Tap water in some countries in the world can be consumed directly.

These suggestions occur before the large -scale drinking water purification system appears. Society is developing and water supply technology is improving. Once the water quality purification is guaranteed, Europeans and Americans have given up drinking hot water, and often indicate "drinking" next to the faucet. Later, the technology of purifying water in Western countries became more and more mature, and tap water could be drunk directly. On the streets of New York, museums, airports, and railway stations, you can see a meter of high drinking height. Press the button water and automatically pour out. Because the water flows up, you just need to drink your mouth to drink, and you will not touch your mouth. In this way, everyone can have no contact with drinking water, no cups, and will not cross infections.

In this regard, the impact of raw and cooked water on the body may not be temperature, but in hygiene. If the water quality meets the standard, the difference between raw water can be ignored. It's like eating cold dishes. Since there is no pollution, it may be less nutritious than fried, and the taste is okay.

In the history of our country, infectious diseases were popular due to poor water sources, so they called on people to drink cooked water, which was inherited by our parents. After the reform and opening up, the urban and rural water systems are basically installed with purification systems. The water quality is guaranteed to a certain extent. Everyone still feels that it is not assured, and they still have to drink boiled water, so it is so popular.

Of course, I am no exception in the country, mainly drinking cooked water. However, traveling abroad is drinking raw water according to the local people's habits, and I don't think this transformation to the gastrointestinal. When I was traveling alone in western Canada, I saw the glaciers and mountain streams along the way. The water was clear and cool. I couldn't drink it with my hands. The mountains and rivers are mainly, and I am also living.

Hot water is still cold water

Exactly what bad consequences of drinking cold drinks can bring to the body, and what kind of first -mover advantage can be caused by hot water, we have never been quantified, and we are always in a state of wisdom. Nevertheless, cold water is a consensus among Chinese people, especially for those who are cold. They only drink hot water throughout their lives. Even in the summer, the sun is hot, and the cold people will be hot, but health experts suggest that you continue to drink hot water, the hotter, the more he drinks, the hotter, the hotter, until the whole body sweats. That is to say, drinking hot water at any time, it seems that drinking cold water will cause disease. In the field of catering, if there is a distance between Chinese and Western in this area, the gap between the aspects of drinking is even greater or even unseen. In China, hot water is like a universal drink: drinking a glass of hot water after getting up, drinking more hot water when you have a cold. The reason for foreigners is crazy.

In the 1940s, American children were accustomed to drinking cold drinks.

For example, breakfast that Chinese people attach great importance to, water must be hot, milk is also hot milk, otherwise it should not drink. The benefits of hot milk do not understand the time of Westerners, because sanitary standards are no longer the era when cooking milk must be "out". Before listing, it usually goes through about 60 degrees of high temperature Baba. The pathogenic bacteria retains healthy lactic acid bacteria, and vitamins will be lost if they are heated before drinking. But Chinese people do not care about this, although often warm milk and even cold milk can match more things. There are many oatmeal products on the market. These can only be used to make the taste with cold milk. The crispy oatmeal is poured into the cool liquid so that it will not become soft and refreshing. Milk soaking oatmeal is the tradition of Westerners, and they are not willing to hot milk.

Whether it is Western Europe or North America, most of the milk is bottle. You only need to take it out of the refrigerator every time you drink it and pour in the bowl of oatmeal. In contrast, domestic supermarkets sell small boxes to install milk and drink once. Western bottle milk can drink at least 10 times, only one packaging box. There are not many types of products in French milk, but there are many types of cheese. You can see hundreds of cheese in Paris. They compete for secondary processing products rather than raw materials.

Our refrigerator is used to store food, and Westerners' refrigerators also have the function of making food. They will refrigerate the food after cooking, and then take it out to eat, which is the opposite of eating "hot". For example, cakes or some color pulls are just like beer and white wine. Only by lowering the temperature to taste.

If your body is unwell to see a doctor in China, even though it is not a gastrointestinal problem, the doctor will remind you: Do not eat cold. In France, I have never seen a doctor give this prompt. In addition, there will be cold meals in Western Europe or North America. The vegetables are cold, the drinks are cold, and the meat is cold. Go after finishing.

I thought the old ancestors were hot and cold. Until one day I went to the Forbidden City, walked the route to the west, and saw a royal ice cellar. The scale was not small. It was specially placed in large ice cubes for the royal room to prevent heat and cool down, and even frozen food. The emperor gave the ice to the minister in the summer.

The people in the Northeast are cold -resistant and have the habit of eating frozen food. Eating a popsicle in the winter is a scene of the Central Street of Harbin. The cold is cold. When you enter the night, you have to wait in front of the Malline Hotel. Eating frozen pears is a custom many years ago. Pears should be frozen, hard, and bite can produce white marks. If thawing is soft but it is not delicious.

Cure or not cure

In the concept of Chinese people, hot water can not only eat meals, but also cure diseases; in the eyes of others, as long as it is water, it can cure the disease. The book "Water is the best medicine" by Bartman, a doctor of American Medicine, wrote that 70%of the human body composition is water. Water has a great role in maintaining the structure of human cell structure, energy supply, and internal environmental stability. If people dehydrate for a long time, they will cause diseases and keep drinking water for a long time. Many minor illnesses can heal themselves. It seems that it is ourselves that it is complicated to drink water.

There is a saying that Westerners drink ice water because their food is mainly meat, and the calories of food are relatively high. There is no need to provide heat to provide calories. Cold drinks can help them cool down. And our Asian foods are mainly rice vegetables and meat, so we need to drink hot water to provide energy for the body. Gastrointestinal function is different.

Chinese people can cure diseases. Westerners drink water just drinking water, without drinking hot water to treat diseases, drinking cold water and not treating diseases.

Then the problem comes again: there is a kind of noodles in South Korea to eat cold to taste. This is South Korea's cold noodles; there is a kind of meat in Japan that must be eaten raw or even spread on the ice cubes. This is Japanese -style sashimi; As for Southeast Asian countries, although their soup is hot, they can often see a drink with ice cubes and drink with straws. They will drink cold drinks to cool down in the hot summer. Eating raw cold food in cold winter will not have gastrointestinal diseases. Japan is also one of the longest -lived countries in the world.

Moreover, the Japanese eat lunch -that is, the box lunch we say is never heated. The kindergarten and the school have no equipment that heated the bento. , Japan has the habit of eating cold things, just like many children in Japan wearing shorts in winter. The rice balls in their street convenience stores are also cold. The milk is taken from the refrigerator directly to drink, and even the hospital's meal during the period of women and children is cold.

In June 2022, a flood occurred in the Sylhit area of ​​Bangladesh, and children in the disaster area lined up waiting for safe drinking water.

In fact, our ability to adapt is very strong. When I see most international students, I adapt to cold water or even ice water. On the territory of others, don't always think about living in their own behavior, and want Americans to drink hot water. It is probably impossible for a lifetime. Those hot water warm the stomach and cold water are all traditional Chinese concepts. My old relatives learned to drink cold milk after living in Canada, and took it out of the refrigerator directly because the locals in Canada were like that. Some people often say that drinking and hurting their bodies, but the French people drink almost every day, including women. This does not delay French women is one of the longest life in the world. They live their own life in their later years. Healthy and happy.

When encountering high fever and fever, our doctors often recommend covering sweating with bedding, just like Westerners in the 19th century to cool down through bleeding.Broken ice cubes have also become a treatment method. Until now, when the treatment of head injuries, Western medicine also used ice cubes to cool down.Therefore, some cognition that seems to be rooted in our minds may not be correct.What is prejudice?It is the habit of reversing with both listening.The prejudice may come from the tradition, from the world outlook formed from childhood; prejudice may come from personality. Some people are born with goodness, and some people are born with stubbornness; prejudice is also easy to solidify, and long -term identification may be regarded as truth.

This article contains the 14th issue of "World Expo" magazine 2022

Editor in charge: ZAN

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