Chapter 4 MD's perspective

Zhang Huojun (Shanghai Changhai Hospital Radiologist, MD) Let me first ask a question that everyone, especially ladies, is very concerned about: which method can scientifically help you reduce your appetite? A. Eat more in the last meal. B. Take some fat at the beginning of each meal. C. Get rid of tapeworms. D. Drink a soft drink before eating. I collected more than 10 common-sense answers from ordinary people, but none of them chose the correct answer B. You may find it strange that eating fat before meals can reduce the amount of meals?Yes, taking a small amount of fat before each meal will slow down the peristaltic speed of the stomach, so that you can feel full after eating a small amount and last longer, so that you can achieve the purpose of reducing the amount of food you eat.

This handbook begins with several similar health-related common-sense questions, and the correct answers to the questions are often unexpected.These questions can create a strong desire to read the entire book.After browsing the complete book and some chapters of the original book with great interest, I think this is a very good book about health, and has some unique features: 1. The book is very practical and operable The Chinese translation of this book is very faithful to the original work.As the name suggests, the manual is for people to read and follow the manual for specific guidance. The content of the book reflects very high practicality and operability, just like following the car manual can make you understand and use the car correctly. Reading After finishing this book, you will have a comprehensive understanding of your body and get some practical suggestions on how to maintain your health.

Most of the time in life, what the body needs is not a panacea, but advice on how to use the body scientifically.Most chronic diseases are the result of our wrong use of the body. Therefore, correct ideas can help people prevent and eliminate diseases more than expensive drugs. Since the book was published abroad, many people have followed the specific suggestions in the book and the results are healthy It's that easy to get. 2. The book is very readable and interesting As a popular science book, it is not enough to be practical.The textbooks used in medical schools are also very practical, but when I teach medical students, many people often doze off.This is not because my teaching level is not high. In fact, I used to be the youngest school-level outstanding teacher in our school.The reason for dozing off is that the teaching material is too boring, too much emphasis on knowledge and ignoring the flexibility of expressing knowledge.But the book we see today is quite different. It uses relaxed and humorous writing, appropriate metaphors and some witty illustrations to make the boring knowledge of anatomy and medicine interesting and readable, making people unable to put it down after reading it .

3. The book is highly scientific and authoritative Some readers may ask, compared with the overwhelming number of books on health and some pamphlets that are well written and interesting, how is this book different from them?Yes, this handbook is highly scientific and authoritative while being readable and entertaining.There are many popular science books on health maintenance, but often the views of many books are contradictory.My mother-in-law suffers from diabetes. Once she read in a health book that pumpkin can lower blood sugar, she ate pumpkin three times a day. After eating it for three months, she read in another book that diabetics can’t eat it. I was so scared that I hurried to the hospital to go to the emergency room to check my blood sugar.I believe everyone has encountered similar examples.This manual, written by two famous American doctors, corrects a large number of misunderstandings about health in life from the perspective of medical profession and science, and is scientific and authoritative.

With the improvement of living standards and scientific standards, ordinary people are more concerned about their bodies and their health. Therefore, after reading this manual, I personally feel that its significance is not to put forward innovative ideas. Concepts such as BQ and REALAGE are meant to guide people to establish a healthy lifestyle on the basis of fully understanding their own body systems.Therefore, since the book was released in Europe and the United States, it has achieved unprecedented success, and the evaluation of all parties is also very high.If I want to make a personal evaluation of this book, I think it is a good book about body and health suitable for reading by professional medical workers and the general public.For doctors, reading this book can bring their expertise closer to people's needs.Once, a patient asked me: Dr. Zhang, where is the adrenal gland and what does it look like? As a result, I spent a lot of energy explaining the anatomical structure of the adrenal gland, but in return this patient was confused in the expression.In this manual, the adrenal glands are described as follows. If the kidneys are compared to tomatoes, then the adrenal glands are the hat-like peduncles on the top of the tomatoes. A simple sentence solves the problem vividly; For the general public, reading this book can help them better understand themselves, prevent disease, and promote health.Last week, a patient with liver metastases from advanced colon cancer was admitted to my ward. He was dying. After he was admitted to the hospital, he asked about his medical history and found out that the patient had irregular stools six months ago. At that time, he thought it was after reaching age. normal performance.In fact, irregular stools in middle-aged and elderly people are often the earliest symptoms of colon cancer. If this patient understands these common senses, he can get early treatment without paying the price of his life.This book is full of similar medical common sense, so that ordinary people can get some early warnings about health.

Of course, for the general public, when reading and using the knowledge in this manual, I personally have two suggestions: First, although this book explains the esoteric medical knowledge in an easy-to-understand manner, it is not professional after all. Textbooks, in fact, some structures and functions of the human body are far more complex and detailed than those described in this book.Secondly, although this book provides some common sense of disease prevention, diagnosis and treatment, it cannot replace formal disease diagnosis and treatment after all. Finally, as a doctor and an ordinary reader, I would like to thank Yilin Publishing House for organizing the introduction and translation of this excellent book, which is very faithful to the original work in terms of content and style.Therefore, if you want to live younger and healthier, I suggest, come on, read this book in my hand.