Everyone knows the story of "swallowing dates". But from the perspective of Chinese medicine, eating staple food with soup or blisters is also a kind of "swallowing dates".
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the spleen governs transportation, which means that the spleen transforms food into nutrition and then transports it to various organs and tissues of the body. Spleen is like a processing factory, which processes the semi-finished products chewed by teeth into finished products. If there are defective products or rough products in those raw materials at this time, for example, some foods have not been chewed, then in the process of "reprocessing", the finished products made of these defective products will naturally fail. What's more, it will increase the wear and tear of the machine and cause problems in the spleen and stomach.
Then the children. Some parents like to chew up food before feeding it to their children when their children are young, which is also harmful to the spleen and stomach. Just like when you don't use your limbs, you will gradually become lazy. Eating food soaked in soup is even worse. Because the development of children's spleen and stomach itself is not perfect, if food is not fully chewed, it will not only affect the digestion and absorption of nutrients by the spleen and stomach, but also be detrimental to the development of children's spleen and stomach function.
Speaking of which, some people may ask, is there a difference between soaking rice in water and drinking porridge? Does drinking porridge also hurt your stomach? In fact, soup and rice are essentially different from porridge. Porridge is to melt the nutrition in rice into soup. To put it bluntly, it is grain juice. But soaking in rice is different. It is water and rice. It is difficult to give full play to the nutrition in rice, which is not conducive to absorption.
Modern medicine believes that soaking in water when eating is easy to dilute gastric acid, which causes indigestion. It is found that the longer food is chewed in the mouth, the finer it is ground, which is more conducive to the absorption of nutrients. At the same time, carcinogens such as aflatoxin and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons contained in some foods will also be partially decomposed under the action of saliva, and food soaking does not make good use of this healthy eating habit.
Therefore, those friends who are used to soup and rice or drinking water while eating, for the sake of health, still suggest changing their habits!
As we all know, children often prefer eating to drinking, cooling to heating. This is their physiological phenomenon. In addition, children love to play, have a lot of activities and don't know how to drink water, so many parents easily soak rice for their children to eat in order to let them drink water. For the sake of children's health, it is better to let children's diet return to normal. For example, before or after meals, prepare some soup they like to drink, which is nutritious and can alleviate the water shortage of children.
Besides children, the elderly are another serious victim of soup and rice. The old man is old. If he drinks soup with water, it is easy to make the already weak spleen and stomach "worse". As the functions of various organs of the elderly gradually decline, it is easy to swallow food before chewing when drinking soup and soaking rice. Where can the spleen and stomach stand such a large piece of food? It will naturally accumulate in the spleen and stomach and cannot be digested. For the elderly, you must chew slowly when eating to promote the absorption of nutrients by the spleen and stomach, and don't blindly send meals with soup.