Myth one, strong tea and vinegar can solve the wine “deep feelings, a bite, shallow feelings, lick a lick!” Many people will drink more wine at social functions, and also accumulate a lot of methods of relieving alcohol, the two most common methods of relieving alcohol: strong tea and vinegar to relieve alcohol. In the eyes of Chen Siqing, an expert from the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine’s Chinese Medicine Culture and Science Rounds, these methods are harmful. The reason why these methods are misleading and harmful is that after alcohol is absorbed in the digestive tract, 90 percent of it is degraded in the liver. Alcohol is first converted into acetaldehyde by the liver’s alcohol deaminase, and then by aldehyde deaminase into acetic acid, and finally decomposed into water and carbon dioxide out of the body, generally speaking, this process takes 2-4 hours. And after drinking a lot of strong tea, theophylline in tea can act faster on the kidneys and produce diuretic effect. So that the conversion of alcohol into acetaldehyde has not yet had time to decompose again, it is discharged from the kidneys, so that the kidneys are stimulated by a large number of acetaldehyde, affecting kidney function. In addition, drinking vinegar can solve alcohol is also an illusion. The composition of wine is ethanol, and vinegar contains acetic acid, which is commonly called vinegar essence. When ethanol and acetic acid meet, they cannot neutralize each other, but produce a kind of ethyl acetate through chemical reaction, which is volatile and irritating. Originally, because of drinking a lot of alcohol, alcohol stimulates the mucous membrane of stomach and intestine, makes the stomach and duodenum congested, and at the same time, stomach acid secretion is too much, and pancreatic juice is produced in large amount. If you drink vinegar at this time, it will promote the secretion of gastric acid, and under the double stimulation of wine and vinegar, it will make the stomach and intestine congestion more obvious, thus inducing gastritis, pancreatitis, peptic ulcer, etc., and even causing gastrointestinal bleeding. Myth two, get up in the morning, to cup of honey water Nowadays, many people are used to get up in the early morning on an empty stomach a glass of water. In this regard, the Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine Guang’anmen Hospital Food Therapy Nutrition Department Director Wang Yi said that the people often choose different kinds of water to drink, mainly including plain water, light salt water, light tea water, lemon water, honey and drinks and other categories, but these drinks are not all suitable for morning drinking, different groups of people should choose different water. Some people think that cool plain water is best to drink in the morning. There is no big difference between hot and cold, but people with a cold spleen and stomach, people with a weak stomach or people who are not comfortable drinking cold water should choose warm water to drink. In addition, some constipation patients will drink the first cup of water in the morning light salt water, Wang Yi reminded, hypertension, kidney disease and other patients advocating a low-salt diet, it is best not to drink light salt water; and some people even drink light salt water or eat coarse grains still can not improve the constipation, to pay attention to what causes constipation. He also reminded, honey water is not advocated morning and evening as the first and last cup of water, “honey water is not a simple water molecule, can not play the role of morning hydration; at the same time honey water in the body to carry out the process of sugar metabolism, when drinking on an empty stomach will increase the burden on the body.” Myth 3, eat grains and cereals every day is good for the body Nowadays, many people consume coarse grains and feel healthy, but Wang Yi believes that this also depends on the individual, for the elderly to eat in moderation and diversity. Wang Yi said, for example, an old man bought 25 kinds of grains at the same time in the supermarket, mixed them together and ground them into powder, and took them with water every day for two months, thinking that this is diversification, but in fact it is not. The human gastrointestinal is dependent, if you take this for a long time is equivalent to a, because the gastrointestinal has tolerated. So what we call diversification should be a period of time to choose a variety of food, every other time to choose another, constantly changing. We all have to master the principle of varying from person to person when choosing. Myth 4: Fatty liver is the result of eating meat Not long ago, it was reported that every four Nanjing people have a fatty liver patient. Many people with fatty liver tend to pay attention to eating less meat and drinking less alcohol, but they tend to ignore eating less sugar, especially the sugar hidden in soft drinks. Because research shows that liver disease is not only a consequence of obesity or fat absorption, sugar is also one of the culprits of the disease. Don’t think that smoking and drinking are addictive, but eating sugar can also be addictive. This is because sugar addiction is a dual effect. On the one hand, sugar affects the hormones in the body, so that the brain can not send a signal of satiety, the more you eat, your stomach is full but still want to continue to eat; on the other hand, the impact of sugar on the hormones in the body is also manifested in the brain will not stop sending signals to ingest sugar, just like the addiction to cigarettes and alcohol, people who eat sugar will love to eat more and more sugar. In this sense, sugar is far more harmful than fat and calories.