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Recently, the National Health Commission issued four 2024 edition dietary guidelines: "Dietary Guidelines for Adults with Hyperuricemia and Gout (2024 Edition)", "Dietary Guidelines for Adult Obesity (2024 Edition)", "Dietary Guidelines for Child and Adolescent Obesity (2024 Edition)", and "Dietary Guidelines for Adults with Chronic Kidney Disease (2024 Edition)".

According to the report, the dietary guidelines aim to leverage the combined advantages of modern nutrition and traditional dietary therapy in integrative Chinese and Western medicine. They integrate materia dietetica and new food materials into rational diets, provide recipe set examples and nutritional health recommendations tailored to different seasons, regions, and populations, thereby enhancing the applicability and practicality of dietary guidance.

In the "Dietary Guidelines for Adult Hyperuricemia and Gout (2024 Edition)", the traditional Chinese medicine understanding and classification of hyperuricemia and gout are clearly defined, introducing common syndrome differentiation types such as dampness-turbidity syndrome, dampness-heat syndrome, phlegm-stasis syndrome, spleen-kidney deficiency syndrome, along with their clinical manifestations.

In the "Dietary Guidelines for Adult Obesity (2024 Edition)" and "Dietary Guidelines for Childhood and Adolescent Obesity (2024 Edition)", the traditional Chinese medicine understanding and classification of obesity are clearly defined, introducing common syndrome differentiation types such as stomach heat-fire stagnation syndrome, internal exuberance of phlegm-dampness syndrome, qi stagnation and blood stasis syndrome, spleen deficiency with impaired transportation syndrome, spleen-kidney yang deficiency syndrome, along with their clinical manifestations.

In the "Dietary Guidelines for Adult Chronic Kidney Disease (2024 Edition)", the traditional Chinese medicine understanding and classification of chronic kidney disease are clearly defined, introducing common single deficiency syndrome types such as qi deficiency syndrome, blood deficiency syndrome, yin deficiency syndrome, yang deficiency syndrome and their clinical manifestations, as well as common single excess syndrome types such as dampness syndrome, heat syndrome, stasis syndrome and their clinical manifestations.