Mooncake for breakfast, eat until stomach cramps
Experts warn that it is best not to eat mooncakes on an empty stomach. 15 September is the Mid-Autumn Festival! Recently, many hospitals’ gastroenterology departments have seen patients who had problems eating mooncakes. The doctor after careful consultation found that they are eating moon cakes when there are such and such misunderstandings – some people will be hungry when the moon cakes to fill the hunger; someone simply after the Mid-Autumn Festival home to eat leftover moon cakes every day as breakfast; some people like to use cold drinks to send moon cakes; there are also some “sugar lovers Some people like to use cold drinks to send mooncakes; there are also some “sugar lovers” who let down their guard when they see “sugar-free mooncakes” and gorge on them.
In this regard, patients with duodenitis or gastritis should not eat mooncakes on an empty stomach, even for normal healthy people, it is best to eat mooncakes as a snack in a semi-empty state; in addition, do not eat with cold drinks, because mooncakes are sweet and greasy, containing high sugar and high fat, after eating cold drinks easy to aggravate the gastrointestinal digestive burden and make the blood viscosity increase; and for “sugar lovers For special patients such as “sugar lovers”, it is best to eat mooncakes lightly.
In addition, in addition to moon cakes, crab, snails, taro, chestnuts, etc. is also the Mid-Autumn festival food, experts suggest that the spleen and stomach deficiencies of the old and young and sick patients to take it easy, otherwise, not only the gastrointestinal easy to “strike”, and even eat out of the disease.
Myth A: Moon cake for breakfast
Every year at Mid-Autumn Festival, many families will have several boxes of moon cakes. Sometimes the moon cake is more, how to consume is also quite worrying. Some people simply use it for breakfast, or as a snack when they miss the main meal. But every time after eating always feel gastrointestinal not refreshing. Director Chen believes that this is because the “timing” of eating mooncakes is wrong. Don’t underestimate a moon cake, someone has calculated that a 4 to 5 double yellow lotus seed paste moon cake, the calories contained in the equivalent of two or three bowls of rice, eat more than the stomach and intestines, of course, have comments.
”In addition, most of the moon cakes are sweeter and more likely to stimulate and increase gastric acid secretion when eaten on an empty stomach, causing acidity, and some people with stomach problems are prone to stomach cramps.” Therefore, Director Chen suggests that it is best to eat mooncakes on a semi-empty stomach, such as as afternoon tea snacks, cut into small pieces and chew slowly, so as to help digestion.
Myth B: Sugar-free mooncakes can be eaten to your heart’s content
Aunt Zhang, who suffers from diabetes, received several boxes of healthy sugar-free mooncakes from her relatives and friends in the past half month. Last week, she let her guard down and ate them to her heart’s content, resulting in a sudden rise in blood sugar, chest tightness, dizziness, nausea and vomiting. In this regard, Director Chen explained that in fact, sugar-free mooncakes can be converted into sugar by certain ingredients. For example, the raw material in the cake contains a lot of starch, these starch in the body will eventually be converted into sugar, too much intake will also cause a rise in blood sugar, so it is recommended that “sugar lovers” eat sugar-free mooncakes can not be too “indulgent” themselves, it is best to test their blood sugar from time to time. It’s best to take blood sugar tests from time to time to give yourself a heads up, and to seek medical attention when you find a bad situation so that your condition can be controlled.
Misconception C: Eating mooncakes while drinking cold drinks
Some people like to eat mooncakes while drinking frozen cola or other soft drinks, juice, think this is very cool and thirst quenching. Director Chen explained that moon cakes are sweet and greasy, easy to “melt” when hot and “condense” when cold, affecting digestion, so it is not advisable to taste moon cakes with cold drinks, otherwise after the light may appear anorexia, abdominal distension, heavy can lead to nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea and other gastrointestinal diseases or induce The mooncakes should not be eaten with cold drinks.
Special reminder: malt water, green tea can help eliminate stagnation around the Mid-Autumn Festival friends and family gatherings, unknowingly eat propped up, stomach full and bloated very uncomfortable, how to do? In this regard, director Chen provided the following two simple “remedial” measures to eliminate stagnation is very useful: 1.
1, take a cut of old dried radish, sliced water to drink.
2, take 15 grams each of malt and grain buds, add a bowl of water and boil it into a bowl of water to drink.
In addition, director Chen recommended eating moon cakes while drinking hot tea, and especially recommended to drink green tea. “Because the moon cake more after baking, eat more feel ‘damp heat’, and green tea is cold in nature, help clear heat and damp.” Of course, flower tea, pu-erh, oolong tea is also OK, mainly depending on personal taste and habits. In addition, want to eliminate stagnation but also appropriate exercise, to speed up the body’s energy consumption.
Six types of people should be cautious about eating mooncakes duodenitis or gastritis patients: mooncakes will stimulate and increase gastric acid secretion, which is detrimental to the condition, such patients especially can not eat mooncakes on an empty stomach.
1. Patients with hypertension, hyperlipidemia and coronary heart disease: Patients with hyperlipidemia should eat less of the egg yolk filling in moon cakes. In addition, eating too many mooncakes will increase blood viscosity, aggravate heart ischemia or even induce myocardial infarction, should be shallow, and should not be eaten in the evening.
2, cholecystitis, cholelithiasis patients: eating more mooncakes will affect the secretion of bile, which can induce acute pancreatitis and cholecystitis.
3, diabetic patients: even if the mooncakes are sugar-free or low-sugar mooncakes, they still contain a lot of starch that can be converted into sugar in the body, so eating more of them will easily raise blood sugar.
4.People with dental caries: the large amount of sugar in mooncakes can cause deepening of cavities and pulpitis, so it is recommended to brush teeth in time after eating.
5, the spleen and stomach deficiency: the elderly and children are the main, these two types of people are not strong digestion and absorption, over-eating moon cakes may cause indigestion, and even induce digestive system diseases.