The Lantern Festival, the vast majority of regions Lantern Festival custom is: eating dumplings.

Soup dumplings are rich in nutrients, and its main ingredient, glutinous rice flour, contains fat, carbohydrates, calcium, iron, riboflavin, niacin and other nutrients. At the same time, its regular filling is mainly fruit and dried fruit-based, including sesame, walnuts, peanuts, plus vegetable oil, the nutritional value of the "higher level". Therefore, traditional Chinese medicine has always been regarded as soup dumplings can be complementary to the weak, blood, spleen, appetizing things, modern nutritionists also very much respected the health function of soup dumplings.

But, eat more dumplings will eat out of the disease.

This is because although the glutinous rice can be appetizing, but made into cakes, such as dumplings, delicate texture, should not be digested by the stomach and intestines. The Materia Medica Feng Yuan" also said, glutinous rice if you do sticky cake, sex is difficult to transport, patients do not eat. Dumplings of nutrients, calories and fats and oils due to different varieties of different, have viscous large, high sugar content, high calorie characteristics. Obesity or high cholesterol, hypertension, diabetes and other chronic diseases should be consumed with appropriate control of intake.

These categories of people are not suitable for eating dumplings

Diabetic patients

The dumplings have a high sugar content, the patient, if you want to eat, can make the blood glucose rise sharply, not only will aggravate the condition, but also can induce ketoacidosis.

Ulcer patients

Eating soup dumplings can contribute to the increased secretion of gastric acid, aggravating the stimulation of the ulcer surface, the serious can induce gastric hemorrhage, gastric perforation and so on.

Gastrointestinal dyspepsia

Soup dumplings are made of glutinous rice flour, sticky, not easy to digest, after eating can lead to stomach pain, bloating, belching, acid reflux and even diarrhea.

Patients with acute gastroenteritis

The patient's gastrointestinal tract is in a state of congestion, edema, the patient should eat some rice soup, lotus root powder and other easy to digest food, eating dumplings will increase the burden on the gastrointestinal tract.

Patients with high fever

The gastrointestinal tract of patients with fever is in a state of relative inhibition, so they should eat some easy-to-digest foods such as fluids, or else they will aggravate their condition.

High blood pressure, high cholesterol and gout patients

Both the sweet filling dumplings and savory dumplings contain a lot of fat. Sweet filled dumplings contain a lot of sugar and calories, a large number of consumption, will make the blood sugar out of control, elevated blood lipids, blood viscosity aggravated.

People who have been sick for a long time

This time the patient's appetite has improved, but the digestive function is still weak, excessive consumption of dumplings is not conducive to recovery.

The old and frail

The elderly gastrointestinal function is weakened, the secretion of digestive enzymes and digestive juices is reduced, gastrointestinal peristalsis is slowed down, the emptying time is prolonged, and it is difficult to digest and absorb the sticky food such as soup dumplings. May be caused by the rapid swallowing of Lantern stuck in the throat, resulting in breathing difficulties, or even suffocation death. In previous medical journals there have also been reports of sudden deaths of elderly people who eat more sticky food at night, so it is advisable for the elderly to eat less.

Infants

Children's digestive function is weak, the swallowing reflex is not yet well developed, so when eating dumplings can not eat the whole, to be divided into 1/4 to eat, eat a mouth and then eat the second mouth. It is important to chew and swallow slowly in order to prevent accidents.