Due to socializing between friends and socializing at work, dinner parties are a very common phenomenon, but there are also many things to pay attention to when dining together. If the diet is improper, it is also very detrimental to health. What are the dietary misunderstandings? What’s the best way to have a meal together that’s best for your health? There are many misunderstandings about dinner parties. Let’s learn more about the specific situations below.

1. Misunderstandings about dining at dinner parties

1. Preference for spicy and heavy flavors

Griddle, boiled, dry stir-fried and other spicy fried foods, although the taste It's good, but contains a lot of grease. And cooking with strong flavors can increase the risk of bacterial food poisoning.

2. Drink alcohol or carbonated drinks before meals

Drinking on an empty stomach will absorb alcohol faster and make people more likely to get drunk. At this time, alcohol will greatly irritate the stomach and easily damage the stomach. Mucous membrane. Carbonated drinks not only have low nutritional value, but also hinder the gastrointestinal digestion and absorption of food.

3. Order cold dishes with a lot of meat

Cold dishes taste fresher and can balance the problems of excessive fat and excess protein in the main dish, but meat cold dishes cannot do this. It has no effect, and it is easy to breed bacteria and cause food poisoning.

4. Drink salty soup after a meal

Many people drink soup at the end when dining out, and it is often salty soup. A large number of dishes already provide a lot of salt and fat. If you drink salty soup, it will inevitably increase the salt and calories.

5. Only eat vegetables and not staple food

This is a habit of many people when they are outside. They often do not take the initiative to eat staple food, but eat a large amount of protein on an empty stomach and lack of protein. Carbohydrate foods are not only unhelpful for digestion, but the protein in them will also be wasted.

2. Ways to have a healthy dinner party

1. Start with the fruit platter. Fruit contains a large amount of fructose and glucose. For non-diabetic patients, eating fruit before meals can be absorbed by the body faster and increase blood sugar concentration. The crude fiber of fruits will also make the stomach feel full, which can help control appetite.

2. Use grain soup to moisten the intestines first. After eating the fruit, drink some grain soup. Drinking soup before meals can not only further increase the feeling of fullness, but also help moisturize the intestines and stomach. It can not only reduce the irritation of the intestines and stomach caused by alcoholic drinks, but also help everyone's digestion when tasting the delicious food later.

3. Vegetarian food plays the leading role, and fish becomes the “big meat”. It is more beneficial to health to have vegetarian meals as the main meal in the evening. Firstly, it prevents excessive intake of high-fat diet. Secondly, the plant dietary fiber in vegetarian dishes helps gastrointestinal motility and prevents constipation, which is one of the important causes of intestinal cancer. Compared with other meat dishes, the protein contained in fish is complete protein. The amount and ratio of essential amino acids contained are most suitable for the needs of the human body and are easily digested and absorbed by the human body. Fish is rich in magnesium, which has a good protective effect on the cardiovascular system. The fat in fish is mostly composed of unsaturated fatty acids, which can lower cholesterol.

4. "Steamed" and "boiled" delicacies are healthier. Compared with cooking methods such as stir-frying, deep-frying, and braised, steamed meals contain much less fat, and the nutrients in the dishes are less destroyed. In addition, although braised dishes are sweet in taste, their salt and sugar content are higher than those of steamed dishes, so long-term and regular consumption is not good for health.

Dear guests, remember not to overindulge yourself when dining out. Eat properly and have a healthy meal to enjoy yourself!

3. Precautions for drinking

1. Avoid drinking on an empty stomach.

2. Avoid drinking liquor and soda together, otherwise the alcohol will volatilize throughout the body and produce a large amount of carbon dioxide, which will cause serious damage to the stomach, intestines, liver and kidneys.

3. Avoid drinking wine to keep out the cold. Drinking one or two glasses of white wine on a cold day seems to warm your body against the cold, but little does anyone know that this is only a temporary superficial phenomenon. Because the human body's heat is mainly supplied by sugar, protein and fat, wine does not produce much heat energy in the human body. The reason why it feels warm when it enters the body is because the ethanol in the wine stimulates blood vessel dilation and blood circulation. "Speed, like this On the contrary, it will speed up the heat dissipation in the body. If you do not keep warm in time, it will easily cause colds and frostbite.

Four. It is unscientific to say that "drunkness can be cured by smoking". Smoking while drinking is more harmful, because the ethanol in alcohol stimulates the blood circulation system and accelerates blood vessel dilation, thereby increasing the absorption of harmful substances such as nicotine in cigarettes, and the harm will be doubled.

5. Avoid drinking strong tea to relieve hangover. Drinking too much alcohol will cause people to feel thirsty and upset. It is incorrect to think that drinking a lot of strong tea can stimulate the appetite and detoxify from hangover. The caffeine will combine with the ethanol in the wine to produce a synergistic effect. Instead of being able to relieve hangover, it will aggravate the degree of drunkenness and have the opposite effect.

6. Avoid drinking alcohol when taking certain drugs. Blood vessel effects. For example, drinking alcohol while taking sedatives such as trichlorpromide, perphenazine, and metronidazole can easily cause nausea, vomiting, dizziness, gastrointestinal disorders, etc., because these drugs will cause the oxidative metabolism of ethanol. Be inhibited. Do not drink alcohol while taking furosemide, Youjiang, Mencola and other drugs. Otherwise, the above symptoms will also occur if you drink alcohol while taking sleeping pills, which will cause the central nervous system to be suppressed and cause coma. .

Drinking alcohol while taking antipyretic analgesics such as aspirin and sodium salicylate can cause nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, and even gastrointestinal bleeding; drinking alcohol while taking oral medications such as Jiangtangling, Youjiangling, and insulin injections can also cause Leading to severe hypoglycemia or dizziness; drinking alcohol while taking myotidine, diuretic acid, furosemide, and thiazide drugs may also cause symptoms of vomiting, dizziness, unsteady walking, incoherent speech, and drowsiness. Therefore, avoid drinking alcohol while taking the above drugs.

7. Do not drink alcohol when suffering from gastrointestinal bleeding, gastroenteritis and gastric perforation, hypertension, coronary heart disease, active hepatitis, cirrhosis, upper respiratory tract infection, open tuberculosis and other diseases. , otherwise the ethanol in the wine will stimulate the human body, aggravate the symptoms and cause other diseases to be complicated. People with other inflammatory diseases should also avoid drinking alcohol. 8. Avoid mixing liquor and beer. Because the gastric mucus of the human body has a certain resistance to the penetration of alcohol, beer can clean the gastric mucus of the human body, making it easy for alcohol to penetrate into the human body. Therefore, mixed drinking of liquor and beer can easily make people drunk.

9. Avoid using soda to relieve drunkenness. Some people think that soda water is a refreshing drink and can be used to relieve hangover. This is unscientific. Because soda will cause alcohol to spread in the human body, accelerate the body's absorption of alcohol, and aggravate alcohol poisoning. At the same time, soda also produces a large amount of carbon dioxide, which can cause damage to the stomach, liver, and kidneys. 10. Avoid drinking realgar wine. There is a folk custom of drinking realgar wine in our country. It is mistakenly believed that drinking realgar wine can disinfect, cure diseases and strengthen the body. However, from a scientific point of view, this is unscientific and harmful rather than beneficial. Because realgar is a mineral containing arsenic sulfide, which contains harmful substances such as mercury and arsenic, it can only be used externally and is not suitable for oral administration. Otherwise, it is very easy to be poisoned. The "arsenic box" that can kill people is the oxide of arsenic.

11. Avoid taking a bath after drinking alcohol. When people take a bath after drinking, a large amount of glucose stored in the body will be consumed, causing the blood sugar content in the body to drop, leading to a drop in body temperature. At the same time, alcohol inhibits the normal physiological activity of the liver, hinders the recovery of glucose storage in the body, causes body fatigue, and can cause severe hypoglycemic shock.

12. Avoid having sex after drinking. According to scientific research, after a man drinks a lot of alcohol, 20% of the sperm in his semen will be underdeveloped. If his wife becomes pregnant during intercourse, 26% of the fetuses will have congenital malformations. Women should also avoid drinking too much before and after marriage to prevent irregular menstruation, amenorrhea, and variation in egg production. If a pregnant woman drinks alcohol frequently, it will cause adverse consequences such as miscarriage, premature delivery, dystocia, stillbirth, etc. There is a warning in Chinese medical books about "do not enter the house after drinking".

13. Avoid drinking rice wine cold. Rice wine is made from glutinous rice containing starch as raw material, and is brewed by the synergistic action of many mixed cultured molds, yeasts and bacteria. During the brewing process, there are still trace amounts of methanol, ether, aldehyde and other organic substances, which are harmful to the human body. Therefore, when drinking rice wine, it is best to heat it before drinking it, so that these trace organic substances can change with the temperature during the heating process. Elevating and evaporating is beneficial to health.