Advantages and disadvantages of eating lettuce
Eating lettuce can provide rich nutrition for human body and promote human digestion. Lettuce contains protein, carbohydrates, vitamins, calcium, phosphorus, iron, potassium, zinc, iodine, fluorine, nicotinic acid, cellulose and other nutrients. The milky liquid contained in lettuce can promote the secretion of digestive enzymes, accelerate gastrointestinal peristalsis, promote gastrointestinal digestion of food, and reduce loss of appetite and indigestion. Fresh lettuce contains a lot of dietary fiber and water, which can promote intestinal peristalsis, accelerate food digestion, help defecation and prevent constipation. Nicotinic acid contained in lettuce can stimulate insulin secretion, and has the functions of lowering blood sugar and relieving blood sugar, so it is a dietetic health food for diabetics. Lettuce contained in lettuce stems and leaves tastes bitter, but it can stimulate gastric juice secretion, promote digestion and stimulate appetite.
Taboos for eating lettuce
There are some taboos in eating lettuce. If you are a patient with spleen and stomach deficiency or eye disease, you should avoid eating it, otherwise it will lead to aggravation of the condition and is not conducive to the recovery of the body. Lettuce is rich in nutrients, including carotene, vitamin C, sugar, protein, iron, etc., which can increase human nutrition and can also be eaten cold or stir-fried. Don't eat too much lettuce. Eating too much makes your eyes burn. The poison on people was solved with ginger juice. Not suitable for eating with cheese and honey. People with cold constitution are not suitable for eating. Patients with gout, urinary calculi and eye diseases are not suitable. Lettuce is rich in nutrition, but we should pay attention to it. Lettuce is cold, which may cause menstrual disorder and irregular menstruation for menstrual women and aggravate dysmenorrhea symptoms. Lettuce is a cold food, which can also stimulate the secretion of gastric juice, and it will be colder for people with deficiency-cold constitution or poor spleen and stomach. Lettuce is a vegetable with high potassium and low sodium. Every100g of lettuce contains 212mg of potassium and 36.5mg of sodium. Potassium is an essential element to maintain human life, which can dilate arteries, reduce peripheral vascular resistance, promote urinary sodium excretion, reduce cardiovascular burden, reduce arterial wall thickening in patients with hypertension, and achieve the purpose of lowering blood pressure. People with hypertension and arrhythmia often eat fresh lettuce, and the effect is remarkable.
Can gout eat lettuce?
Can't eat. Lettuce has the functions of dredging meridians, clearing away heat and diuresis, and benefiting five internal organs. Lettuce is low in carbohydrate and purine, which has no adverse effect on gout. The key to gout treatment is to limit the intake of high purine foods, such as seafood and alcohol, especially beer, bean products, animal offal, meat, hot pot, broth and other foods, which are easy to increase uric acid levels and induce acute gout attacks, so it is necessary to control gout. It is recommended to have a light diet, less oil and salt, and drink plenty of water every day to promote uric acid excretion. It is recommended to go to the rheumatology and immunology department of a regular hospital in time. Gout patients should try not to eat foods with high purine content. Besides lettuce, it is not recommended to eat vegetables with high purine content such as spinach, mushrooms and bean sprouts. Gout patients can eat more fresh vegetables with low purine content, such as white gourd and Chinese cabbage.
Causes of allergic reaction of lettuce.
Skin allergy means that the skin is very fragile and cannot be adjusted when the external environment changes. And there are uncomfortable feelings and skin allergies, which belong to unhealthy skin. Lettuce is actually a vegetable that we often eat in our life, but many people are allergic to lettuce, so people with skin allergies should pay attention to these dietary problems. Only in this way can they help themselves to prevent allergies better. Skin allergy will bring a lot of troubles to your skin, especially itching and pain, which will affect your life to some extent. Therefore, it is also important to treat and prevent allergies. I hope everyone can fully understand where the allergens in their bodies are, so as to better prevent this allergic phenomenon.