Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival in China, eat zongzi is one of the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival, to the Dragon Boat Festival, a variety of zongzi attracted people, meat, fruit, jam filling, date filling, chestnut filling and so on a wide range of people do not know which kind of food to eat, and do not know how much to eat enough. In fact, eating rice dumplings also have a lot to say, and daily health is closely related. So how to eat healthy dumplings? Here’s a look. Glutinous rice warm spleen and stomach, dumplings are generally composed of glutinous rice, glutinous rice, also known as rice, is a kind of rice, often used to wrap dumplings or porridge. According to Chinese medicine, its flavor is sweet, warm, able to nourish the body’s vital energy, eaten after the body will be warm, play the role of cold, nourishing the role of the most suitable for consumption in winter. The main function of glutinous rice is to warm the spleen and stomach. So some people who have a deficiency of spleen and stomach qi and often have diarrhea eat, can play a good therapeutic effect. In addition, it can also relieve night sweats caused by qi deficiency, waist and abdominal distension after pregnancy, and shortness of breath after labor injuries. The Chinese medical text “Materia Medica Jing Shu Lun” on the health care effects of glutinous rice made a full description, said glutinous rice is “complement the spleen and stomach, beneficial to the lungs and gas of the grain. Spleen and stomach to benefit, then in (refers to the human stomach) since the temperature, the force of the stool is also solid; warm can nourish the gas, the gas is smooth from the body more heat, spleen and lungs cold people should be.” Over-eating rice dumplings aggravate the burden on the stomach and intestines Rice dumplings can be divided into vegetarian rice dumplings, meat rice dumplings, sweet rice dumplings, salty rice dumplings. Meat dumplings and salty dumplings filled with most of the ham, roast duck, salted egg yolks and other high fat and salt food, eat too much of this type of dumplings will naturally increase the blood viscosity, high salt fillings will stimulate the gastric mucosa, reduce the secretion of gastric acid, aggravate the burden of the stomach to digest food. Sweet rice dumplings filled with bean paste, date paste and other sugary foods, this type of large quantities of food will also be a burden on the stomach. These types of people should avoid or eat less rice dumplings 1, patients with cardiovascular disease: rice dumplings of many varieties, including meat rice dumplings and lard rice dumplings contain more fat, is a greasy food. Suffering from hypertension, hyperlipidemia, coronary heart disease people eat more, can increase blood viscosity, affecting blood circulation, aggravate the burden on the heart and the degree of ischemia, easy to induce angina and myocardial infarction. 2, the elderly and children: rice dumplings made of glutinous rice, viscous, the elderly and children, such as excessive eating, very easy to cause indigestion, as well as the resulting excessive stomach acid, bloating, abdominal pain, diarrhea and other symptoms. 3, stomach, intestinal disease patients: dumplings steamed will release a gelatinous substance, eating will increase the load of digestive enzymes. 4, diabetic patients: dumplings often have a high sugar content of dates, bean paste, etc., eat usually also add sugar and mix, if you do not control, will damage the function of the pancreatic islets, causing the patient’s blood glucose and urinary glucose rise rapidly, aggravate the condition, and even coma, poisoning. With vegetables more conducive to gastrointestinal health Eat rice dumplings at the same time, with vegetables, fruits can help intestines, stomach peristalsis, and can avoid eating rice dumplings caused by intestinal and gastrointestinal indigestion. You can also eat rice dumplings after drinking some of the elimination of food and health tea. In addition, two hours before bedtime is best not to eat dumplings, do not touch a lot of water containing cold fruits and vegetables, such as watermelon, so as not to cause diarrhea or abdominal pain.