Geographically, the Qinling Mountain-Huai River line divides China into two parts, Northern and Southern. Surprisingly, the line also divides the high prevalence of obesity and metabolic syndrome in Northern China from the low prevalence of Southern China. In past decades, the diet-center hypothesis has gained much support from the apparent cardiometabolic disease-protection effect of the Mediterranean diet. Questions include the following: Does the diet pattern explain the disease prevalence difference between two parts with similar genetic background? What kind of diet pattern is suitable for future national diet recommendation for Chinese, as the Mediterranean diet does for the Western countries? Here, we review the main healthy diet components, which the native inhabitants in the Yangtze River Delta region have eaten for several hundreds of years, and refer to this healthy diet as "Southern River ()-style dietary pattern" or "Jiangnan Diet."
在地理空间上, “秦岭-淮河”连线将中国版图分为南方和北方两个部分。令人惊讶的是, 这条线也将中国肥胖及代谢性疾病的患病率一分为二:南低北高。过去几十年, 地中海饮食在心血管代谢病中的保护作用被很多研究所证实, 因此代谢性疾病的“饮食中心学说”备受支持。那么, 在相似的遗传背景下, 不同的饮食模式是否能够解释中国南北方代谢性疾病患病率的差异?另外, 以往的饮食研究(包括地中海饮食)多基于欧美人群, 何种健康饮食模式适合今后在国家层面上向全民推荐?在本篇综述中, 我们提炼江南地区几百年来当地居民饮食中的健康组分, 并将其称作“(传统)江南饮食模式" 或"江南饮食”。.
Keywords: Jiangnan diet; Mediterranean diet; diet; metabolic syndrome; obesity; 代谢综合症; 地中海饮食; 江南饮食; 肥胖; 饮食.
© 2019 The Authors. Journal of Diabetes published by Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine and John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd.