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Myth: Drink rice congee to nourish the stomach.
In the past, it was advocated that the diet of patients with gastric diseases was mainly porridge. In fact, the porridge was swallowed without chewing, not fully stirred with saliva, and the amylase in saliva could not be preliminarily digested. At the same time, the porridge contained more water, which diluted the gastric juice in the stomach, which all became the reasons why the porridge was difficult to digest. In addition, the capacity of the stomach is relatively increased by drinking porridge, and the heat supplied is less, which not only increases the burden of the stomach to a certain extent, but also is relatively insufficient in nutrition. Therefore, patients with stomach diseases should not drink porridge every day. As long as dry rice is chewed slowly, it will not only be harmless to the stomach but will promote digestion and be beneficial to health.
Myth: Drinking rice congee cold can cure you.
Most colds are caused by virus infection. At this time, the body is in a state of stress, the consumption of sugar, protein, fat and so on increases, and fever and sweating will also discharge more electrolytes.
At this time, if you only eat rice congee and vegetables, on the one hand, protein and fat are not supplemented enough, and your resistance is reduced, so you can't resist the virus, which is easy to aggravate or delay your illness. The diet is too light, the electrolyte intake is insufficient, especially the blood potassium is low, and people will feel tired. Therefore, you need to supplement nutrition when you have a cold. Considering your poor appetite at this time, you can choose digestible and nutritious food. Lean meat porridge and fish porridge are good choices.