# Advice for Kids from Humble Backgrounds

Eat better, or you'll age quickly.

Pay attention to people you pass on the street, and you'll notice many have "carb face, inflammation face"—rough, oily, dull, with enlarged pores.

Here's the reality: if carb face shows up before you get rich, your life is essentially locked in. I'm not joking.

Observe the dietary patterns of ordinary people, and you'll find a common thread: high sugar, high fat, high carbs, with almost zero concept of "anti-inflammatory" eating. Breakfast is fried dough sticks, steamed buns, and sugared soy milk; lunch and dinner are refined white rice and noodles paired with stir-fried vegetables cooked in smoking-hot oil; snacks are cheap junk food, soft drinks, and bubble tea.

This diet seems fine when you're young, but by age 25 or 30, you'll notice yourself becoming increasingly "depleted." You'll have insomnia at night, fatigue during the day, feel exhausted no matter how much you sleep, and struggle with focus. You'll blame it on "life stress," but a huge part of it is actually your body stuck in chronic inflammation.

Many people don't fully understand this concept, so let me explain simply: the high-fat, high-sugar, high-carb foods you eat create waste. Your body is intelligent and automatically removes this garbage—that cleanup process is inflammation.

This wouldn't be a problem if it happened once, but when you eat this way constantly, your system overworks and starts grinding down. First, you lose collagen and your appearance visibly declines. Then your mental state begins to "collapse."

This collapse happens precisely during your critical life development years.

Modern science shows the human brain doesn't fully develop until after age 30—meaning your cognitive and decision-making abilities peak only after 30. This matches the wealth statistics: according to Hurun reports, most unicorn founders started their businesses after 35.

But here's the trap: most people's energy can't sustain them to that stage. Most face a cliff-like energy drop after 30. Your cognition improves, but your energy can't keep up—a sneaky trap for poor people, making you accept the fatalistic belief that "this is just how people are at middle age."

However, with basic healthy eating habits, you can avoid this trap. Even if your energy has already declined, you can recover to some degree.

This doesn't mean strictly following expensive "anti-inflammatory diet" plans—most workers can't afford them anyway, and life loses its pleasures. What truly matters is recognizing how food impacts you. Understand that everything you eat becomes part of you. Don't just eat whatever whenever. Manage your diet like you'd manage a business.

Minimize fried and high-sugar foods;

Don't eat only refined white rice and noodles—include whole grains and coarse grains;

Ensure adequate vitamins and protein;

Keep your weight in check and exercise regularly;

If you stick to these, your physical health will outpace most people.

These are also things consistency can achieve, with extremely clear cause-and-effect relationships. Unlike wealth, status, or love with luck factors involved—if you can't even manage sufficient vitamins, you have no hope for anything else.