The era of functional wellness is coming

The era of functional wellness is coming

In recent years, urban civilization diseases have become increasingly prominent. In many developed countries and some developing countries in the world, the main diseases affecting human health are no longer infectious diseases, but cardiovascular diseases, cerebrovascular diseases, and malignant tumors. Chronic non-communicable diseases, these diseases are also known as "lifestyle diseases" or "modern civilization diseases". It is believed that the disease is not caused by bacteria or viruses, but a metabolic disease that accumulates over a long period of time due to life stress and stress and nutritional disorders, coupled with lack of exercise. While most chronic diseases occur in adulthood, many unhealthy lifestyles develop during childhood and adolescence.

As a result, the health food market has begun to heat up, and the Ministry of Health has promulgated 27 types of health food functions, which can be adjusted for various physical disorders and inhibitions, and even achieve healing effects. Health food is divided into two categories: one is nutritional health products such as vitamins and minerals; the other is functional health food. Functional health food, usually with Chinese herbal medicine as the main ingredient, such as: Cordyceps sinensis can nourish lung yin and warm kidney yang; jujube has the pharmacological effect of improving sleep, and has the function of medicine and food. Therefore, health products are not drugs, but they can play a role in adjuvant treatment of diseases. Nutraceuticals are generally aimed at supplementing the human body with seven nutrients, such as vitamins, minerals, and dietary fiber. The human body generally lacks trace elements, and long-term lack of trace elements is one of the fundamental factors of chronic diseases. Therefore, according to individual factors , Appropriate supplementation of trace elements, play the role of nutritional therapy, is the most direct means to improve and prevent chronic diseases, should be used as clinical treatment as soon as possible.