DaShaShi festival, summer heat, heat wave, people very difficult. At this time, a piece of chilled watermelon, cool and sweet, but also able to eliminate the heat, it is simply a paradise general enjoyment. But eat watermelon in the summer in the end is good? Let's take a look.

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Eating watermelon in the summer is the first choice of many people. Watermelon is cool and thirst-quenching, and can help people to clear the heat, eliminate the summer heat, and make people feel good. At the same time, 94% of the flesh part of the watermelon is water, diuretic effect, can also help digestion. In the watermelon juice, also rich in nutrients needed by the human body, such as sucrose, glucose, fructose, citrulline, alanine, alanine, glutamic acid, arginine, phosphoric acid, malic acid, carotene, vitamin C, as well as a small amount of inorganic salts, which are the most effective in the high-temperature seasons to replenish the human body's water and nutrients needed. Eating watermelon intake of water and inorganic salts through the metabolism into urine, but also to take away excess heat, to achieve the role of summer heat.

Li Shizhen in the "Compendium of Materia Medica" in the benefits of eating watermelon is very detailed, watermelon cold and non-toxic, not only "to quench thirst, relieve summer heat", and "wide in the gas, Li Xiao Shui, treatment of dysentery, relieve the poison of wine, treatment of mouth sores".

Medical books also called the watermelon "natural white tiger soup", white tiger soup is the Chinese medicine treatment of high fever, thirst and other signs of real heat of the powerful prescription, said to eat watermelon can achieve the role of this formula, it can be seen that the degree of importance of medical doctors on it. In today's view, summer heatstroke or other acute heat illnesses such as fever, thirst, urination, sweating, irritability and other signs, can be eaten through watermelon to assist in the treatment.

However, eating watermelon is beneficial to relieve summer heat, but it is not suitable for everyone. Diabetics, people with cold spleen and stomach, people with renal insufficiency and pregnant women and other special people should not eat more watermelon. Especially just out of the refrigerator out of the watermelon, eat more will "hurt the spleen to help wet". Diabetics are best to eat less or not eat watermelon, because watermelon sugar high, eat more will lead to elevated blood sugar; renal insufficiency, the best to eat less watermelon, eat more will cause the burden on the kidneys, and will even induce heart disease.

Pregnant women do not want to eat watermelon, because women in pregnancy weight gain, exercise is reduced, the body secretes a variety of hormones with a variety of roles, which leads to disorders of glucose metabolism, if you eat too much watermelon, watermelon in the high sugar content is easy to cause gestational diabetes. And generally maternal body are relatively weak, eat more will damage the spleen and stomach, maternal spleen and stomach damage will lead to eat less or poor digestion, further affecting the amount and quality of milk, the baby is also indirectly harm.