Shanghai, 23 Feb (Reporter Chen Jing) In the hearts of Chinese, the 15th Lantern Festival of the first lunar month is the end of the Spring Festival holiday, and watching lanterns and eating Lantern Festival is a traditional program.
How to eat Lantern Festival healthily? Zhang Ming, director of the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine of Shanghai Chest Hospital, said in an interview on the 23rd that don't treat the Lantern Festival as a main meal, let the Lantern Festival become a "supporting role"; When eating Lantern Festival, you can pair it with some crude fiber and foods that promote digestion.
The expert said that Lantern Festival and glutinous rice balls are high-calorie, high-sugar foods, and also contain oil, but lack vitamins, fiber and other nutrients. The gastrointestinal tract function is weakest when you wake up in the morning, so eating Lantern Festival for breakfast can easily cause indigestion, acid reflux, heartburn and other symptoms, affecting the day's work and life. After boiling, many nutrients such as trace elements and nutrients in the Lantern Festival are dissolved in the soup. Therefore, you can't forget to drink soup when eating Lantern Festival, and this is the truth that folk often say "original soup turns into original food".
He reminded the public that when eating Lantern Festival, they can eat some foods that promote crude fiber and digestion, such as celery, hawthorn, raw radish, etc. Because crude fiber will promote the peristalsis of the stomach and intestines, reduce the possibility of stomach discomfort caused by eating Lantern Festival, and also help promote the digestion and absorption of oil.
What are the taboos for eating Lantern Festival? Zhang Ming said that patients with gastric ulcers and duodenal ulcers: it is best not to eat too sweet food, so as not to increase gastric acid secretion and aggravate the irritation of the ulcer surface. If you have symptoms such as abdominal pain, you should see a doctor in time**, and recheck the gastroscopy if necessary; Patients with acute gastroenteritis: their gastrointestinal tract is in a state of congestion and edema, and patients should eat some easily digestible foods such as rice soup and lotus root flour, which will increase the burden on the gastrointestinal tract; Patients with poor gastrointestinal digestion can cause stomach pain, bloating, belching, acid reflux and even diarrhea after eating. Patients with gastroesophageal reflux: It is recommended not to eat or eat less glutinous rice, sweet potatoes, nuts, chocolate, and coffee foods. Because these foods may cause decreased sphincter function or delayed gastric emptying in the gastroesophageal junction area, foods such as zongzi, rice cakes, lantern festivals, and wine should not be eaten.
On the same day, the reporter also interviewed Yang Fan, the attending physician of the Optometry Center of the Shanghai Eye Disease Prevention and Treatment Center. The expert bluntly said that during the Lantern Festival, a high-oil, high-sugar, and high-fat diet will bring great challenges to the blood sugar management of diabetic patients, and if the blood sugar is out of control, the occurrence or development of diabetic retinopathy will bring a huge threat to the patient's eye health. Yang Fan said that diabetic retinopathy is one of the most common ocular microangiopathies in diabetes. The fundus of the disease is mainly manifested as microhemangioma, exudation, neovascularization, macular edema, and in severe cases, fundus hemorrhage, retinal detachment, etc., which greatly threatens the vision of patients. (ENDS).