Chocolate and milk cannot be eaten together.

Liquid milk plus chocolate will cause a chemical reaction between the calcium in the milk and the oxalic acid in the chocolate to generate "calcium oxalate". As a result, calcium, which originally had nutritional value, has become a harmful substance to the human body, leading to calcium deficiency, diarrhea, delayed development of children and adolescents, dry hair, easy fractures, and increased incidence of urinary tract stones.

Precautions for eating chocolate:

1. Chocolate is high in calories and the proportion of nutrients it contains does not meet the needs of children’s growth and development;

2. Japanese research believes that chocolate can prevent dental caries, but due to the high sugar content of general chocolate, it is still easy to cause dental caries;

3. Diabetic patients should eat less chocolate, or they can specially eat light chocolate;

4. Women eating too much chocolate during menstruation will aggravate menstrual irritability and breast pain.

Extended information:

People who should not drink milk:

1. Patients with peptic tract ulcers should not drink milk

Although milk can relieve Gastric acid stimulates the ulcer surface, but because it can stimulate the gastrointestinal mucosa to secrete a large amount of gastric acid, it will aggravate the condition.

2. Patients with iron deficiency anemia should not drink milk

The iron in food needs to be converted into ferrous iron in the digestive tract before it can be absorbed and utilized. If you drink milk, the ferrous iron in the body will combine with the calcium salts and phosphorus salts of milk to form insoluble compounds, which will affect the absorption and utilization of iron and is not conducive to the recovery of anemia patients.

3. People who usually have symptoms such as bloating, excessive farts, abdominal pain and diarrhea should not drink milk

Although these symptoms are not caused by milk, drinking milk will aggravate these symptoms. Therefore, people who usually suffer from bloating, excessive flatulence, abdominal pain and diarrhea should not drink milk.

4. Patients after abdominal surgery should not drink milk

Such patients often have flatulence. Milk contains more fat and casein, which is not easy to digest in the gastrointestinal tract and causes fermentation. Gas can be produced later, aggravating intestinal flatulence, which is not conducive to the recovery of intestinal peristalsis function.

5. Patients with lactobionic acid deficiency should not drink milk

The lactose content in milk is high, but it must be decomposed into galactose and glucose under the action of lactobionic acid in the digestive tract before it can be absorbed by the body. . If lactobionic acid is deficient, abdominal pain and diarrhea will occur after consuming milk.

People's Daily Online - Health: Milk + chocolate cause diarrhea? 8 ways of drinking milk are harmful