In the hot summer, watermelon sellers can be found all over the streets. It's good to eat watermelon in summer, but it will cause many health problems. What are the health problems caused by eating more watermelons? Please take a look with sihai.com and check the 10 taboos of eating watermelons in summer.
1. Don't eat too much, otherwise it will hurt the spleen and stomach and cause laryngitis
Watermelon is a raw and cold product. If you eat it too much, it is easy to hurt your spleen and stomach. Therefore, if you eat it too much, it is better to eat it less. If you eat it too much, it will cause abdominal distention, diarrhea, loss of appetite, cold accumulation and dampness, leading to diseases. If you eat too much watermelon at a time, a large amount of water in the watermelon will dilute the gastric juice, resulting in indigestion and gastrointestinal resistance.
2. Don't eat watermelon at the beginning of a cold
Don't eat watermelon at the beginning of a cold, otherwise it will aggravate the cold or prolong the cure time. Whether it is a cold or a cold with wind and heat, it belongs to superficial disease at the initial stage, and should be treated by dispersing the pathogenic factors from the surface. According to traditional Chinese medicine, if the exterior is not solved, it cannot attack the interior. Otherwise, it will cause exterior evil to enter the interior and aggravate the disease. In the early stage of the cold, when the pathogenic factors are on the surface, eating watermelon is equivalent to taking the medicine of qinglire, which will lead the pathogenic factors into the cold, aggravate the cold or prolong the cure time. However, when the cold aggravates the fever such as high fever, thirst, sore throat, yellow and red urine, you can eat some watermelon while taking normal medicine, which is helpful for the recovery of the cold.
3、 Don't eat watermelons that have been opened too long
High temperature, watermelon open for a long time easy to deteriorate, breeding bacteria, eating will lead to intestinal infectious diseases. Therefore, eating watermelon should pay attention to the selection of mature fresh watermelon.
4. Do not eat if you have renal insufficiency
A large amount of watermelon in a short time increases the body water content, which exceeds the physiological capacity of the human body. However, in patients with renal insufficiency, the ability of the kidney to regulate the water is greatly reduced, too much water entering the body can not be regulated and discharged from the body, resulting in a sharp increase of blood volume, which is easy to die of acute heart failure.
5. Do not eat ulcers
According to traditional Chinese medicine, the main causes of oral ulcer are yin deficiency, internal heat, disturbance of deficiency fire and burn of blood and flesh. Watermelon has diuretic effect. If people with oral ulcer eat watermelon more, they will discharge some of the normal water needed in the body through the diuretic effect of watermelon, which will aggravate the state of deficiency of Yin fluid. Deficiency of Yin will increase the internal heat and aggravate the oral ulcer.
6. Appropriate amount of watermelon for diabetes patients
Watermelon contains about 5% sugar, mainly glucose, sucrose and some fructose, that is to say, eating watermelon will increase blood sugar. Because normal people can secrete insulin in time, they can keep blood sugar and urine sugar at normal level. But the diabetes patient is different, eats too many watermelons in the short time, not only the blood sugar will rise, the condition is more serious also may cause the acidosis because of the metabolic disorder, even endangers the life. The amount of carbohydrates (sugars) that diabetes patients eat every day needs to be strictly controlled. Therefore, if watermelon is eaten many times in a day, the number of meals and flour products (carbohydrates) should be correspondingly reduced to avoid aggravating the disease. If you eat 25-50g watermelon at a time, it has little effect on diabetic patients, so diabetic patients should pay attention to appropriate amount of watermelon.
7. Puerpera should not eat more watermelon
Puerpera's physique is relatively weak, Chinese medicine believes that eating more watermelon will be too cold and damage the spleen and stomach.
It is not suitable to eat before and after meals because a large amount of water in watermelon will dilute the digestive fluid in the stomach, and eating before and after meals will affect the digestion and absorption of food, and eating a large amount of watermelon before meals will occupy the stomach volume, which will greatly reduce the intake of many nutrients in the meal, especially the health of children, pregnant women and nursing mothers. For people who want to lose weight through diet, eating watermelon before meals is a good way to reduce food intake.
8. Eat less ice watermelon
Although the effect of eating ice watermelon in hot days is very good, it can stimulate the stomach and easily cause spleen and stomach injury, so we should pay attention to the delicious temperature and quantity. It's best to put the watermelon on the bottom of the refrigerator. The temperature here is about 8-10 ℃, which is also the best temperature and taste. The amount of watermelon should not exceed 500g each time, and it should be eaten slowly. It is not suitable to eat ice watermelon for those who have caries (cavities) and those who will feel acid and pain when they are cold, as well as those who have poor gastrointestinal function.
9、 Watermelon is a fruit with high sugar content. It is easy to be converted into fat, which is not good for health
You can eat less sugar in the middle of the watermelon, and choose the red and white watermelon skin to eat; and after nine o'clock in the evening, it is not suitable to eat watermelon, easy to grow a small stomach and stomach; In summer, you can even use the watermelon skin for cooking, such as cold mix watermelon skin: take the watermelon skin with a little red pulp, remove the outer hard skin, cut it into small pieces, and then add sugar, salt and various seasonings according to your own taste, not only refreshing, but also beauty and weight loss.
10. Watermelons must be washed before they can be eaten
Watermelon must be washed, cut with a clean knife for eating. Do not cut without washing the melon and knife. Do not eat the pulp that has been bitten by mosquitoes, flies, etc. just to prevent diseases from entering from the mouth.
Watermelon, as the best fruit to quench summer heat and thirst, is naturally loved by many people in summer, but when eating watermelon, the above taboos must also be careful at all times.