Many people like to drink porridge because they think it nourishes the stomach. Actually, it varies from person to person. If you drink it wrong, it will hurt your stomach. For some special people, such as the elderly with weak gastric drive, patients whose gastrointestinal function has not yet recovered after surgery, and patients with atrophic gastritis who have insufficient gastric acid secretion, porridge as a fluid food that does not require much chewing and promotes the secretion of gastric acid can reduce the burden on the stomach, which is really friendly to the stomach. However, if the long-term staple food is porridge, it is not a good thing.

1, only drink porridge without eating will lead to blood sugar spike. As we all know, porridge is porridge, just too much water rice. Porridge is actually a product of rice cooked for a long time. During this period, starch-rich rice is heated at high temperatures for a long time, and the degree of pasteurization is very high. At this time the starch is easily absorbed and digested, so the blood sugar rises very rapidly after drinking porridge.

So, medically speaking, for high blood sugar, three high, diabetic patients, as well as weight loss people, eating porridge is a very unfavorable way to control blood sugar. Because it contains all this easily absorbed sugar, long-term consumption will burden the body's pancreatic islets, and the sugar absorbed from the porridge will stay in the body. Our body doesn't really need that much sugar, too much sugar will only add to the body's burden and the body will eventually hoard it as fat due to too much glucose, which can't be fully utilized. This is why it's not recommended for people trying to lose weight, and it's not recommended for diabetics either.

2, will hurt the digestive system. Chewing action when drinking porridge is less, resulting in less saliva secretion. Saliva contains a variety of digestive enzymes that help food digestion, so less saliva secretion is not conducive to the digestion and absorption of other foods.

3, in fact, rice porridge does not have any nutrition at all, in addition to water is starch, long-term drinking rice porridge is likely to cause malnutrition. If the rice porridge drink too much, his stomach will not take up any other food, especially for small babies, the baby's stomach capacity is already very small, after a bowl of rice porridge there is no place to put those nutritious food.

Gruel doesn't care if you are full, after drinking a bowl of porridge, you find yourself full, but after a while, you are hungry again. A month of just porridge without food. If you can stick to it without snacking, you are likely to have insufficient energy and nutrient intake, which will eventually lead to malnutrition. Of course, if your mouth can't stand the loneliness and you eat more snacks, your weight will soar.