Rather than adopting a low-fat diet, itâs more important to focus on eating beneficial âgoodâ fats and avoiding harmful âbadâ fats. Fat is an important part of a healthy diet. Choose foods with âgoodâ unsaturated fats, limit foods high in saturated fat, and avoid âbadâ trans fat. âGoodâ unsaturated fats â Monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats â lower disease risk.
The Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) is notable for two important emperors. â¢Kangzi Emperor was the longest-ruling emperor in China's history (sixty-one years); wrote the most complete Chinese dictionary; and tried to adopt Western technology. â¢Qianlong Emperor had conflicts with European imperialism that took shape with the opium trade; and demanded that Europe trade with silver.
Shen Nung, the Father of Chinese medicine (approximately 2695 BCE) noted for tasting 365 herbs and dying from a toxic overdose, also wrote the treatise On Herbal Medical Experiment Poisons. This treatise was later expanded by countless generations of doctors and is a main reason why knowledge of remedial herbs is so expansive in China.