Chapter 30 6. Diet style

Food is the paramount necessity of the people. Human beings come to this world as life. To survive, they should first know how to eat and how to cook.In order for their children to eat well, Song Jiashu and Ni Guizhen hired home cooks for them very early on.Song's mother often taught her daughters cooking, especially the peculiar tricks of American cooking.It is said that the eldest sister, Ai Ling, is the most neglectful of studies, and has only learned how to cook roast chicken in her life. Meiling has this kind of talent. Not only can she cook a few Chinese dishes well, but she also learned how to make western-style gingerbread and Christmas cakes.

No matter in the era of wars or in the peaceful life in her later years, Soong Meiling's food life is not extravagant. Her daily recipe is: a glass of milk in the morning, two slices of bread, and a small dish of celery, carrots and other side dishes made in a similar way to Sichuan pickles.Have lunch with Chiang Kai-shek.Chiang Kai-shek has four dishes and one soup, among which there are two vegetarian dishes, most of which are green vegetables and tofu.Soong Meiling only ate one or two meals, mainly vegetarian dishes such as vegetables and tofu.Meat dishes only eat a little fish or steak, and dinner is about the same as lunch.

Judging from Song Meiling's recipes, not only the portion is small, but the texture is not very good.Song Meiling's insistence on this is mainly out of consideration of keeping a slim figure. Soong Meiling's food is elegant without losing her status.During the Anti-Japanese War, after asking Guo Moruo to give a report, Soong Meiling said: "Mr. Guo, I will let you have a light meal. The real light meal, I hope you don't think I am slowing you down." Guo Moruo bowed and said: "What does Madam say? No matter how casual you are, as long as it is your wife hosting a banquet, it will be a great honor." Soong Meiling led the guests to the dining hall, because it was for entertaining guests, there were two extra meat dishes, four meat dishes and four vegetarian dishes.When seated, the host and the guest sit opposite each other.

Guo Moruo sits up, Song Meiling sits facing each other, and there are two companions on one side and the other side. Soong Meiling picked up the chopsticks: "Please! Mr. Guo, I didn't prepare wine, it's too simple!" "Where, where!" Guo Moruo said: "This is the best, this is the best!" I drank the fresh soup in small sips, and only filled half a bowl of rice. I chewed slowly and basically only ate vegetables.Soong Meiling did not have the habit of talking while eating.The accompanying guests at the banquet talked with each other, and Soong Meiling only occasionally responded, "Oh!" "Really!" .

When Song Meiling got married, she was 1.66 meters tall and weighed 50 kilograms.Generally, when women are over 40, their skin starts to turn dark and rough, their voices become thicker, their waistlines increase, and their stomachs bulge.However, until the age of 60, Soong Meiling was still in a moderate figure without much change.Her skin is still fair, soft and moisturized, youthful and radiant.Especially her slender fingers are still creamy and smooth.Soong Meiling also wears makeup, and has been doing it all her life, but her inner beauty and shapely figure cannot be maintained by makeup.A lady who once met Soong Meiling recalled that Soong Meiling after the age of 60 did not have a stooped back, nor did she have the old-fashioned appearance of ordinary old people.She looks only in her 40s, and the youthful beauty of that year has been replaced by another vicissitudes of beauty, and Song Meiling is still beautiful in her old age.

In fact, Soong Meiling has been haunted and tortured by many diseases in her life. In addition to the "urticaria" mentioned above, which has not been cured throughout her life, due to several life-and-death encounters during the war years, Soong Meiling often suffered from systemic aches and pains in her later life.In the 1960s and 1970s, because she often suffered from joint pain, she had to invite the best Chinese medicine practitioners in Taiwan into the Fuchu for acupuncture and moxibustion therapy. Reluctantly give up diagnosis and treatment. Around 1972 and 1973, Soong Meiling also underwent breast cancer surgery.She had a very good personal relationship with the doctor who operated on her for breast cancer. In 1993, the doctor passed away unfortunately, and Soong Meiling was very sad about it.

Elderly Song Meiling, one is because people are old, and there are illnesses even if they are not sick.In addition, because of her westernized living habits, cystitis began to trouble her. On this point, it seems that Soong Meiling did not deny it. For example, girls in China at that time wore panties first, and then pantyhose. However, Song Meiling's American life habits, she never wore pantyhose, but directly wore pantyhose.The doctor believes that her cystitis keeps recurring, which is inseparable from her greed for cold.Especially after menopause, the hormones in the bladder are less, and it is easy to get infected. If you have bad habits, you are more likely to get infected due to cold.Therefore, the doctor advised her to keep her lower body warm.

Song Meiling listened to the doctor's advice very much.I started to wear trousers, so the number of cystitis attacks was significantly reduced. In 1989, an American doctor found a tumor on Soong Meiling's ovary during her physical examination. The doctor suggested surgery to avoid future troubles. Soong Meiling never shy away from illnesses and doctors.She obeyed the doctor's orders, and the American doctor performed the surgery. Meiling loves and pursues beauty and has taken extreme measures, that is, Soong Meiling, who has always opposed smoking and never smoked, actually violated medical principles and once smoked to lose weight.However, this weight-loss method only lasted for a few years. Maybe she felt that this method was a bit wasteful, and then gave up.

Later, a new weight loss method was adopted by Soong Meiling, which is to have an enema every day before going to bed. Song Meiling did not suffer from constipation.But in people's normal life, the intestinal wall will inevitably absorb some toxins, especially in old age, when the metabolic function is weakened.The purpose of an enema is to wash out toxins and achieve the effect of detoxification.Persisting in enema every day is considered a troublesome and painful thing by most people, but she regards it as a happy thing to do, which shows her perseverance.In this regard, she said to her adjutant, once a day to give an enema, and then take a bath, I feel that I have completed a great metabolic project, a little trouble in exchange for a lot of fun Why not take a good night's sleep.

Soong Meiling always maintains smooth skin and smooth skin, the secret of which is that she insists on daily massage in addition to eating soup.Two nurses from Rong General Hospital massaged her. The massage time is divided into before nap or before going to bed at night.The massage procedure started from eyes, face, then chest, abdomen, then lower limbs, insteps, and soles of feet. The nurses left quietly until Song Meiling fell asleep comfortably. Beside Song Meiling's bedroom door, there is a small scale specially placed, and she weighs it almost every day.If she gains a little weight, she will pay attention to diet; if she loses weight, she will pay attention to nutrition adjustment.