Gormand

the newly developed product is named "GORMAND", which means gastronomist or gourmet. This foreign name may not be easily accepted to some people, as it is unlike Shenqi’s tradition of naming its products with classical works. Is Shenqi trying to attract attention by changing its traditional name or just a special trick? It is partially true.

Shenqi products, such as edible fungus and tea for health, are developed based on the TCM principles of King, Minister and Conveyer of ancient times. Thus, the name of GORMAMD will not divert from their nature too far. GORMAND food-bags, which include four flavors like lichee, strawberry, lemon and cantaloup, are instant nutritious foods. It is all known that with the development of modern industry and rapid pace of life, people seldom have the chance of enjoying a delicious lunch at ease. So that is why the instant food was deveploped, to meet the needs of people nowadays. As we have mentioned above, GORMAND originally means gastronomist or gourmet, which are thus embodies nature, health and deliciousness of the product.

Most people are not really healthy in fact.

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The WHO establishes ten criteria of being healthy.

1. Energetic, able to undertake burdensome tasks of daily life and work without much tension and tiredness.
2. Optimistic, enthusiastic, willing to bear responsibility, not fussy.
3. be capable of having good rest and sleeping.
4. With good adaptability to various changes in the outside world.
5. Immune from general cold and infectious diseases.
6. With proper weight, fit shape and good coordination with head and shoulder when standing.
7. With bright eyes, quick reaction and eyelids free from infection.
8. With clean teeth, free from the decayed or toothache; with normal-color gums, free from bleeding.
9. With lustrous hair free from dandruff.
10. With flexible muscles and skins.

According to this criteria, most people can not be considered as being healthy; but sub healthy which is a state of between being healthy (the first status) and being diseased (the second status). Less than two thirds of population are really healthy and over one third are in the transitional state between being healthy and being sick. It is termed as “the third status” by the WHO and “sub healthy” by Chinese. Usually, one is said to suffer from disease. However, in ancient times, the word “disease” consisted of two words: illness and disease. And illness is not easily detected, but if not proper treated take, it will develop to disease which is visible. Modern science refers such kind of disease as “sub healthy” or “the third status”. According to the traditional Chinese medicine, the status is “Non-disease”. Non-disease does not mean being free from disease or visible heavy disease; instead, it means that the human body has started to be out of balance in terms of ying, yang, heart and blood from the traditional view of point. Our ancestors have long realized the existence of the status. In addition to actively searching for treatment of diseases, they have accumulated a lot of measures to prevent them. According to the medical classic of the emperor, sage treats non-diseased people instead of diseased people. Medical treatment for those who have been diseased is as late as drilling well when one has felt thirsty or as recruiting soldiers when in a war. It is clear that our ancestors understood the importance of prevention.

If properly treated, the third status may be converted into being healthy, and the other way round. So research on sub heath is very important part of modern life science study this century.

Even though there is no distinct symptom shows, sub healthy people are unhealthy to some degree in terms of vitality, organs, tissues, physical equilibrium and cells (the most basic components of the body system). For example, they are found to suffer from obesity, overweight, loose muscle and skin, fatigue, high blood fat, sclerosis of blood vessels, high blood viscosity, sleep disorder, depression, increased cell membrane permeability, reduced cell membrane mobility and thymus atrophy. They are all signs of unhealthy. People with sub health are tend to get ill, have low immune to diseases and low work efficiency. If last for a long time, they will at last suffer from all kinds of acute disease or chronic diseases such as hepatitis, hypertension, coronary heart disease, diabetes, neurosis, tumor, repeated colds, rheumatism and bronchitis.

The state of sub healthy is very popular among white-collar workers who are engaged non-manual labors. As seldom involved in injury-causing labors and are working in comfortable conditions, white-collar workers do not get visible organic diseases. However, their way of life is harmful to health. They take so little exercise that their heart, muscle, blood vessel, bone and endocrine can not be properly practiced which result in low aerobic metabolism and low absorption of oxygen and nutrition by cells and cells. Therefore tissues and organs are underdeveloped. As time passed by, some of tissues and organs will be atrophy or unbalanced. Overuse of brain, excessive stress and reduced exercise lead to lack stimulation to the nervous system, thus the brain tends to function less efficiently, or one may even suffer from neurosis. The life habits of the white-collar workers are always not in accord with the heath standard, such as irregular lifestyle, excessive intake of alcohol, fats and proteins. With less laboring and consumption of nutrients, there will be far more nutrition component left in body. On the other hand, they take excessively refined foods and eat less coarse food grain with testa and pericarp that contains much vitamins, polysaccharides, microelement and bioactive substances. Therefore, white-collar workers are more likely to suffer from sub healthiness or even certain occupational diseases such as cervical spondylosis, fatty liver, gastric ulcer, depression, and coronary heart disease. Older patients may suffer from stroke, tumor, diabetes or osteoporosis.

Tasty GORMAND, healthy GORMAND

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