Office workers, how to bring healthy lunch boxes without hurting your stomach
Nowadays, many office workers have the habit of bringing lunch. Most of them prepare meals the night before, store them in the refrigerator, and bring them to work the next day to eat. According to the saying that "the risk of gastric cancer is 3.6 times higher after eating overnight meals", under the decomposition of bacteria, the nitrates in the food will be reduced to nitrites, which are carcinogenic and cannot be removed by heating. Injury and destruction of the gastric mucosa may lead to gastric ulcers, atrophic gastritis and even gastric cancer.
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Current clinical observations show that the cause of gastric cancer is the result of long-term, synergistic effects of multiple factors, and is related to living habits , diet type, environmental factors, genetic factors, mental factors, and also related to chronic gastritis, gastric polyps, gastric mucosal dysplasia, post-operative gastric remnant, and long-term Helicobacter pylori infection. A single risk factor is not enough to induce cancer.
Eat less but it is not impossible to eat overnight meals
If food is stored at 0-4 degrees Celsius for no more than 20 hours, it is less likely to spoil. The possibility of stomach problems caused by eating such a bento is very slim and can be ignored. Just like when we travel by plane, radiation is inevitable, but this amount of radiation is not enough to cause illness.
Eat less overnight meals, but it’s not absolutely forbidden. Researchers from the Food Inspection Institute of the Product Quality Inspection Institute of the Fujian Provincial Bureau of Quality Supervision once refrigerated vegetables, braised pork, braised fish, and rice in crisper boxes for half an hour and four hours respectively. , 9-hour, 24-hour detection. It was found that these meals contained less than 1 mg/kg of nitrite. The nitrite content of meat stored at room temperature for 4 hours is also less than 1 mg/kg. The national limits for nitrite content are: 4 mg/kg for vegetables, 3 mg/kg for fresh meat, and 3 mg/kg for rice.
From a health perspective, overnight vegetables, especially overnight vegetables, not only have low nutritional value, but are also prone to spoilage. Vegetables all contain nitrates, and the order of content from high to low is: petioles, leaves, stems, roots, flowers, potato tubers, bulbs, fruits, and seeds. In other words, vegetables such as beans, cucumbers, tomatoes, and onions have very low nitrate content, while vegetables such as spinach, leeks, and celery contain relatively high nitrates and are prone to spoilage. When overnight meals are contaminated, bacteria can multiply, causing gastroenteritis and even food poisoning.
With the accelerated pace of life, many people have some stomach problems, such as common atrophic gastritis. Some patients worry that atrophic gastritis will turn into cancer. In fact, only 1% of patients may transform into gastric cancer, and autoimmune atrophic gastritis is more likely to develop into gastric cancer. Early gastric cancer is often asymptomatic or has only mild symptoms, such as upper abdominal pain, loss of appetite, stomach distension, acid vomiting, and sudden weight loss. When clinical symptoms are obvious, the disease is already in an advanced stage. Therefore, if you want to detect the condition early, you should insist on regular physical examinations. Especially for people over 40 years old, annual physical examination at a regular physical examination center is one of the effective prevention methods.
Healthy bento rules
1. It is best to cook the rice fresh in the morning. The storage time of leftover rice should be shortened to 5 to 6 hours as much as possible, and it should be heated thoroughly before consumption. Leftover rice can easily cause food poisoning, but most leftover rice looks normal and makes people careless.
2. After the dishes are cooked, let them cool naturally and then cover them with a lunch box and put them in the refrigerator. However, seafood, green leafy vegetables, and cold dishes can easily deteriorate after being left overnight, so it is best not to eat them the next day.
3. Keep the food you bring separately, otherwise bacteria will easily grow.
4. It is recommended to use glassware to reduce chemical reactions.
5. Stir-fry the vegetables you want to bring to half-cooked or half-cooked during cooking to prevent further damage to their nutrients when heated in the microwave the next day.
How to eat lunch in summer without hurting the stomach?
Summer lunch should enjoy different delicacies according to your body type. If you are partial to yang deficiency, you should often cook some soup, and if you are partial to yin deficiency, drink more yogurt with fruit. . In terms of fruits, doctors suggest that people with partial yang deficiency should bring more tropical fruits, including mango, pineapple, raisins, lychees, loquats, durian, etc., which are beneficial to replenishing qi and blood and activating meridians.