Use organic seasonings and eat less for more flavor: Homemade natural sauces and avoid toxic foods.

Use organic seasonings

I often see people on diets rinsing their food in hot water before eating. If you're eating out, the restaurant might use inferior oil, so rinsing won't make a difference, just affect the taste. Instead, I suggest steaming or boiling, and then making a good sauce. This way, it's both delicious and filling.

As for sauces, organic is ideal if you can find them, but unfortunately, most commercially available condiments, including ketchup, soy sauce, and light soy sauce, contain added chemicals. While small amounts of these may not have an immediate effect, excessive consumption can lead to various health problems. We can't metabolize these substances, and over time, this can cause obesity and swelling. Many people ask, "I eat very little, but why do I gain weight so easily?" This isn't weight gain, but rather a buildup of toxins. Avoid foods containing chemical additives, so pay attention to food labels. For example, soybean paste might say it uses organic soybeans, but it still contains stabilizers, preservatives, and MSG. Consuming such products is harmful to your health.

Therefore, I only use organic sauces for cooking, or make my own natural sauces. For example, Chinese people often use scallions, ginger, garlic, and chili peppers to season sauces; you can also learn from foreigners and use natural herbs such as rosemary and basil to make seasonings, which are both healthy and delicious, and you don't have to worry about eating preservatives. For organic sauces, I buy them from large supermarkets, and I specifically buy products with organic certification. Not consuming too many chemicals is for the sake of my family. If I'm cooking for children, it's even better if the seasonings and food used have fewer chemical additives.

Chili peppers help to dispel cold and warm the stomach, making them a healthy and natural ingredient for sauces.

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The dishes use natural ingredients and healthy cooking methods such as steaming, poaching, and stewing. However, using sauces with high levels of preservatives and colorings would waste all the previous effort. Below are the main sauces I use in my cooking, all made from organic ingredients. However, the amount of sauces I introduce is not for one-time use. You can prepare several glass jars, store the prepared sauces in the refrigerator, and take out an appropriate amount as needed, but be sure to use them within one week.

Five-Flavor Sauce

Ingredients: 1 scallion, 2 slices of ginger, 4 cloves of garlic, 1 chili pepper, 1 sprig of cilantro

Seasonings: 1 tablespoon organic black bean soy sauce, 5 tablespoons organic tomato sauce, 3 tablespoons sugar, 2 tablespoons vinegar, 1 tablespoon sesame oil

Instructions: Remove the seeds from the chili peppers and chop all the ingredients. Mix the seasonings together, then add all the chopped ingredients and mix well.

Orange sauce

Ingredients: 1 tablespoon freshly squeezed orange juice, 1 tablespoon cold water, 1 teaspoon organic tomato sauce, 1 tablespoon orange zest

Seasonings: 1/2 tablespoon sugar, 1/4 teaspoon salt

Instructions: Simply mix all ingredients together.

Spicy sauce

Ingredients: 1 scallion, 3 tablespoons minced garlic, 1 chili pepper

Seasonings: 5 tablespoons organic black bean soy sauce, 1/2 cup cold water, 6 tablespoons sesame paste, 3 tablespoons sugar, 2 tablespoons vinegar, 1 teaspoon Sichuan peppercorn oil, 2 tablespoons chili oil

Instructions: Finely chop the scallions and remove the seeds from the chili peppers. Dilute the sesame paste with cold boiled water, then add the seasonings and mix well. Finally, add the remaining ingredients and mix well.

Eat less, enjoy more flavor

To maintain good health, a balanced diet is essential, including plenty of fresh, natural ingredients to ensure adequate nutrient intake. A healthy diet is crucial, so not all foods are suitable. Limit your consumption of stimulating foods (such as coffee, milk tea, and chocolate), high-fat foods (such as fatty meats, fried and greasy foods), pickled or smoked foods (such as cured meats, salted eggs, salted fish, ham, fermented bean curd, and preserved meats), and strongly flavored foods (such as those that are too sweet, too salty, or too sour). While fruits and vegetables are generally lower in calories than starches and meats, some fruits are high in sugar and calories, such as bananas, longans, lychees, mangoes, cantaloupes, and sugarcane. Durian, on the other hand, contains a significant amount of fat. These fruits often have alarmingly high calorie and sugar content, and excessive consumption can lead to weight gain. Therefore, to lose weight healthily, remember to choose your foods carefully and avoid overeating.

Reject "poisonous" food

Modern lifestyles often involve poor dietary habits, insufficient water intake, and inadequate enzyme absorption. Furthermore, frequent dining out exposes consumers to high levels of MSG and chemicals, leading to toxin buildup in the body. Consider this: why can commercially available pork jerky, luncheon meat, fish balls, and snacks be stored for a year, two years, or even longer, remaining edible and unchanged in color? It's all due to food additives. Preservatives, which effectively extend shelf life and inhibit the growth of mold and other microorganisms, contain sorbic acid and benzoic acid, which can cause stomach pain and excessive stomach acid with long-term consumption. Nitrites, used to maintain the fresh color of fresh meat and jerky, pose a carcinogenic risk. Borax, which increases the elasticity, water retention, and preservation properties of food, is often added to shrimp, meatballs, and rice cakes; long-term consumption can lead to stomach problems and indigestion.

Furthermore, excessive amounts of MSG and aspartame (a sugar substitute used in many low-calorie soft drinks) can also harm the body. They not only stimulate brain nerves, causing brain cells to degenerate and eventually die, but these chemical additives are like time bombs for the nervous system, gradually causing qualitative changes in brain cells, leading to neurodegenerative diseases such as encephalopathy, involuntary movements, and cognitive and emotional problems like Huntington's disease. MSG and aspartame have extremely wide applications; canned drinks, cookies, cakes, instant noodles, meatballs, salad dressings, and many other products contain these chemical ingredients.

In short, many processed foods around us are filled with hydrogen peroxide, pigments, preservatives, antioxidants, color-retaining agents, bactericides, growth hormones, artificial flavors, etc. Multiple reports around the world have pointed out that long-term consumption of certain chemical additives can lead to allergies, asthma, cancer, indigestion, impaired growth and development, chronic headaches, and fatigue.

Essential Enzymes for Health

Once you've mastered the Tang Anqi Cosmic Diet that I've taught you, to achieve more noticeable weight loss and better health, you need to maintain sufficient gut enzymes.

I often say that modern people are riddled with toxins; everyone is toxic. Why? Frankly, aside from fresh fruits and vegetables, many of the foods we eat contain toxins. Some friends say they love frozen dumplings. A frozen dumpling may seem healthy on the surface-it's just dough wrapping a filling-but it contains MSG, preservatives, seasonings, and colorings. All this food we consume every day is harmful. Since there are so many unhealthy foods in the world, what can we do? We can use enzymes to detoxify.

Enzymes, also known as digestive enzymes, are divided into digestive enzymes and metabolic enzymes. Digestive enzymes mainly include carbohydrate digestive enzymes, protein digestive enzymes, and fat digestive enzymes. Most enzymes are produced by beneficial bacteria in the gut. Their function is to absorb nutrients from food, digest and absorb them, and convert nutrients into energy, promoting metabolism. However, when dietary and lifestyle habits change unhealthily, enzymes are consumed in large quantities to metabolize toxins accumulated in the body, leading to problems such as indigestion, gastrointestinal diseases, lethargy, fatigue, bloating, and constipation. In such cases, external enzyme supplementation is necessary.

Enzymes are not only produced in the human body but also found in fresh foods such as fruits, vegetables, raw meat, and sashimi. Many people tell me that Japanese food is very healthy, and that's true. Japanese cuisine is considered one of the top five healthiest cuisines in the world because Japanese people frequently consume raw foods containing enzymes, including sashimi and miso. Eating these completely fresh, fermented foods is very beneficial to health. Raw foods are rich in enzymes, which is why Tang Anqi's Cosmic Diet emphasizes eating plenty of raw foods. We can eat more raw foods, such as sashimi and raw beef. After eating meat, you can eat fresh green papaya, as the enzymes in green papaya can help digest meat and prevent fat accumulation. If you can't eat green papaya immediately, you can drink enzyme supplements in the evening.