1. Eating watermelons at night aggravates edema
Although watermelons have been favored by many female friends for their excellent effect of relieving summer heat and slimming, it should be noted that it is best not to eat watermelons after 9: p.m., because watermelons contain too much water, and people's organs are in a state of rest at night. Eating too many watermelons at night can not excrete too much water in time. As a result, you will find that the edema becomes more serious when you get up the next day.
2. Eating watermelons at night hurts the stomach
It is best not to eat watermelons before going to bed at night. Eating too many watermelons at night will cause the stomach to become full and indigestible, which will easily hurt the stomach and affect the quality of sleep.
3. Eating watermelons at night makes you fat
Watermelons contain a lot of sugar. If you eat too many watermelons at night, the sugar will be stored in your body, which will lead to a sudden increase in insulin in your body and accelerate the synthesis of fat. In addition, the amount of exercise at night will be reduced, and the fat will only be stored without consumption, so your lower abdomen will grow up slowly.
4. Problems that should be paid attention to when eating watermelon
Watermelon is a cold fruit, and eating too much is easy to hurt the spleen and stomach, so it should be controlled; Eating too much watermelon at a time, the gastric juice is diluted by a lot of water, which easily leads to indigestion and decreased gastrointestinal resistance; Don't eat watermelon at the beginning of a cold to avoid getting worse; Don't eat watermelons if they are opened for too long. Watermelons that are opened for too long are easy to breed bacteria and deteriorate, which can easily lead to intestinal infectious diseases after eating.
5. These people eat less watermelon
Patients with oral ulcer
Oral ulcer is caused by internal heat due to yin deficiency and rising of deficiency fire. Watermelon has the function of clearing away heat and diuresis, and it is easy to excrete water in the body, which leads to more water shortage in the body and causes oral ulcer to be cured for a long time.
6. People with renal insufficiency
Watermelon is rich in water, and it is already difficult for people with renal insufficiency to excrete water from their bodies. If they eat watermelon again, more water will accumulate, which will easily aggravate edema and induce psychological failure in severe cases.
7. People with diabetes
Watermelon is full of water, and the rest is sugar, and watermelon contains fructose, glucose, sucrose and other sugars, which are taboos for diabetics.
8. Newly-born women
Watermelon is cold in nature. Women have just given birth and are extremely weak. At this time, eating too much watermelon is easy to hurt the spleen and stomach.
9. Precautions for eating watermelon
1. Don't eat too much, otherwise it will hurt the spleen and stomach, causing pharyngolaryngitis
Watermelon is a cold product, and eating too much will easily hurt the spleen and stomach. Therefore, it is advisable for people with spleen and stomach deficiency, indigestion and loose stools to eat less, and 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 opened for too long
The temperature is high. Watermelons that have been opened for too long are easy to deteriorate and breed germs, and eating them will lead to intestinal infectious diseases. Therefore, when eating watermelons, attention should be paid to choosing ripe fresh watermelons.
4. People with renal insufficiency should not eat
Eating watermelon in large quantities in a short time will increase the water in the body and exceed 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. Don't eat oral ulcer
The main reasons of oral ulcer 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. People with diabetes need a proper amount of watermelon
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 25-5 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, pregnant women should not eat more watermelons
Pregnant women are weak, and Chinese medicine believes that eating more watermelons will 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 watermelons
Although eating iced watermelons on a hot day is very effective in relieving summer heat, it is very irritating to the stomach and easy to cause damage to the spleen and stomach, so we should pay attention to the delicious temperature and quantity. It's best to put watermelon in the lowest layer of the refrigerator, where the temperature is about 8-1℃, and the temperature is also the best. Don't eat more than 5 grams at a time, and eat it 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 is easy to be converted into fat, which is not good for health.
You can eat less sugary parts in the middle of watermelon and choose red and white watermelon skins to eat. Moreover, it is not suitable to eat watermelon after 9: 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.
1. Watermelon must be washed before eating.
Watermelon must be washed and cut with a clean knife. Never cut the melon without washing the melon and the knife. Don't eat the pulp of the melon bitten by mosquitoes, flies, etc., and beware of the disease from the mouth.