1, taboos for eating watermelon
1, don't eat too much, or you will hurt your spleen and stomach and cause pharyngitis.
Watermelon is a cold product, and it is easy to hurt the spleen and stomach if eaten too much. Therefore, it is advisable for people with spleen and stomach deficiency, indigestion and loose stools to eat less, while eating too much will lead to abdominal distension, diarrhea, loss of appetite, and accumulation of cold and dampness, leading to diseases. Eating too much watermelon at a time will dilute the gastric juice, causing indigestion and decreased 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. Both wind-cold cold and wind-heat cold belong to superficial symptoms at the initial stage, and should be treated by divergent methods to solve the disease from the exterior. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the exterior can not be attacked if it is not solved, otherwise it will make the exterior evil enter the interior and the condition will be aggravated. In the early stage of a cold, eating watermelon is equivalent to taking drugs that clear away heat in the interior, which will lead evil into the interior, aggravate the cold or prolong the cure time. However, when the cold gets worse and there are fever symptoms such as high fever, thirst, sore throat and yellow urine, you can eat some watermelon while taking normal medicine, which will help you recover from the cold.
3. Don't eat watermelons that have been open for too long.
When the temperature is high, watermelons are easy to deteriorate and breed germs after being opened for a long time, which will lead to intestinal infectious diseases when eaten. Therefore, when eating watermelons, attention should be paid to choosing ripe fresh watermelons.
4, people with renal insufficiency should not eat.
Eating a lot of watermelons in a short period of time increases the water in the body, which exceeds the physiological capacity of the human body. However, in patients with renal insufficiency, the kidney's ability to regulate water is greatly reduced, and excessive water entering the body cannot be regulated and excreted, resulting in a sharp increase in blood volume and easy death due to acute heart failure.
5, oral ulcers do not eat.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the main causes of oral ulcers are internal heat due to yin deficiency, disturbance caused by virtual fire, and burning flesh and blood veins. Watermelon has diuretic effect. If people with oral ulcer eat more watermelon, the normal water needed in the body will be discharged through the diuretic effect of watermelon, which will aggravate the state of deficiency of vaginal fluid. Yin deficiency will increase internal heat and aggravate oral ulcer.
6, diabetics need to eat watermelon in moderation.
Watermelon contains about 5% sugar, mainly glucose, sucrose and some fructose, which means that eating watermelon will increase blood sugar. Normal people can keep blood sugar and urine sugar at a normal level because they can secrete insulin in time. People with diabetes are different. Eating too much watermelon in a short time will not only increase blood sugar, but also lead to acidosis and even life-threatening due to metabolic disorder. The amount of carbohydrates (carbohydrates) that diabetics eat every day needs to be strictly controlled. Therefore, if you eat watermelon many times a day, you should reduce the amount of meals and flour products (carbohydrates) accordingly so as not to aggravate the condition. If you eat 25-50 grams of watermelon at a time, it will have little effect on diabetics, so diabetics should pay attention to the right amount when eating watermelon.
7, maternal should not eat more watermelon.
The maternal constitution is relatively weak, and Chinese medicine believes that eating more watermelon will be too cold and damage the spleen and stomach.
It is not advisable to eat watermelon before and after meals because a large amount of water in watermelon will dilute the digestive juice in the stomach, which will affect the digestion and absorption of food, and eating a large amount of watermelon before meals will occupy the volume of the stomach, which will greatly reduce the intake of various nutrients, especially for children, pregnant women and lactating mothers. For people who want to lose weight by dieting, eating watermelon before meals is a good way to reduce food intake.
8. Eat less iced watermelon.
Although eating iced watermelon has a good effect of relieving summer heat on a hot day, it is very irritating to the stomach and easy to cause damage to the spleen and stomach, so we should pay attention to grasping the delicious temperature and quantity. It's best to put watermelons in the lowest layer of the refrigerator. The temperature here is about 8- 10℃, and the temperature is also the best. The amount of watermelon eaten at a time should not exceed 500 grams, and it should be eaten slowly. For people with dental caries (tooth decay) and tooth allergies who will feel acid and pain after cold, and those with poor gastrointestinal function, it is not suitable to eat iced watermelon.
9. Watermelon is a fruit with high sugar content, which can be easily converted into fat, which is not conducive to health.
You can eat less sugary parts of watermelon and choose red and white watermelon skins to eat; Moreover, it is not suitable to eat watermelon after 9: 00 pm, and it is easy to grow a lower abdomen and a small belly; In summer, you can even cook with watermelon skin, such as cold watermelon skin: take watermelon skin with slightly red flesh, remove the outermost hard skin, cut it into small pieces, and then add sugar, salt and various seasonings according to your own taste, which is not only refreshing, but also beautiful and slimming.
10, watermelon must be washed before eating.
After washing watermelon, cut it with a clean knife and eat it. Never cut it without washing the melon and knife. Don't eat melon pulp bitten by mosquitoes, flies, etc., to prevent the disease from entering the mouth.
2. The health-care effect of watermelon
1, supplementing nutrition and moistening skin
Do you know that watermelon can beautify? Watermelon contains a lot of nutrients and vitamins, which is beneficial to human health. At the same time, watermelon can delicate the skin, replenish moisture to the skin, keep the skin away from dryness, and play a moisturizing role.
2. Anti-aging
Fresh watermelon juice and tender melon skin increase skin elasticity, make people younger, reduce wrinkles and add luster.
3, the stool is unobstructed
After eating watermelon, the urine volume will increase obviously, which can reduce the content of bile pigment and play a certain role in treating jaundice.
4. Beauty
Watermelon juice is like a scavenger of human body, which can eliminate the metabolites in the body in time, clean the kidney and ureter, and activate other cells in the body at the same time to achieve the effect of beauty.
5, detoxification
Watermelon peel is rich in nutrition, which contains a lot of glucose, malic acid, sucrase, lycine, fructose, protein amino acids, watermelon amino acids, lycopene and rich vitamin C. It has the effects of diminishing inflammation, lowering blood pressure, promoting metabolism, and expelling toxin.