Do people who drink Congee for a long time live longer? To drink Congee healthily, the key is to achieve these five points
2024-09-23
Many people choose to drink Congee when they are ill. Hot Congee water can really make people feel comfortable. Some people say that Congee can nourish the stomach. People with stomach diseases should often drink Congee. Others say that Congee has a certain relationship with mortality. People who drink Congee for a long time live longer. Is this true? Do people who drink Congee for a long time live longer? In a study conducted by Harvard University, researchers followed 100000 people for 14 years and found that drinking a bowl of Congee made of 28 grams of whole grains every day could reduce the mortality rate by 5% and the risk of cardiovascular disease by 9%. Ten years after the completion of this study, the researchers conducted follow-up visits with 26000 participants who had already passed away. These deceased subjects almost avoided cardiovascular disease. It is worth reminding that the Congee mentioned in this study is not white porridge in our cognition, but Congee made from coarse cereals. In life, compared with Congee, white porridge is not so healthy. Can drinking Congee after illness keep you healthy? White porridge is very digestible, but if you want to rely on it to support your body after illness, nutrition is far from enough. The nutritional structure of white porridge is relatively simple, most of which are carbohydrates and water. The content of protein is only 1.11%, and the content of fat and dietary fiber is even smaller. Drinking Congee for a long time helps to nourish the stomach? In fact, Congee cannot nourish the stomach. Congee, as a liquid food, hardly needs to be grinded after entering the stomach and is easily digested, so the stomach does not need to work much. But in the long run, drinking Congee is not good. If you use it before or after use, the digestive function of the stomach will become worse and worse, which is not conducive to health. Our stomach has a strong self-healing ability, and it does not need to be fed by drinking Congee every day. It cannot be denied that some patients with gastric diseases (such as gastric mucosal injury, gastric ulcer, etc.) can achieve the effect of nourishing their stomach by drinking Congee. However, some patients with gastric diseases are not suitable, such as patients with gastroesophageal reflux. Congee is fluid, which will aggravate gastroesophageal reflux after drinking it. Therefore, it is not advisable to drink Congee to nourish the stomach without a clear diagnosis of the type of stomach disease. "Compared with other foods, Congee is soft and rotten, and less irritating to the stomach. Therefore, it is beneficial to drink Congee for people with severe stomach diseases and patients with acute gastritis, but Congee for a long time is another matter." Some experts pointed out that more water in Congee will dilute gastric juice, and Congee often occupies a large volume, which is easy to cause stomach expansion. Both of them will degrade or weaken the digestive function of the stomach. Moreover, if the stomach adapts to this soft and rotten food for a long time, it may not be easy to accept or adapt to other types of food. In addition, if you often drink Congee without chewing action, it will inhibit the secretion of salivary amylase, which will not only reduce the digestibility of food in the mouth, increase the burden on the stomach, but also affect the digestion and absorption of food in the stomach and intestines. How to drink Congee healthily? Whether eating at home or eating out, the following five points are crucial for healthy drinking of Congee: Congee Congee with a moderate amount of water and large volume can easily occupy the stomach volume. If you drink a large bowl of Congee, you may not eat much other food, which may lead to unbalanced nutrition intake. Therefore, try not to eat too much Congee for breakfast. A small bowl will leave room for other food for your stomach and intestines. Try not to put salt, sugar, alkali salt and sugar, which are harmful to health, and alkali will destroy the B vitamins in Congee. Therefore, try not to add sugar, salt and alkali when cooking Congee. To cook Congee with high nutritional value, we should not only cook white porridge. It is suggested that when cooking porridge, we should try a variety of ingredients. We should not always be limited by traditional ideas to cook white porridge, so that we can eat Congee more delicious and healthy. Pay attention to reasonable collocation when eating Congee. Congee with balanced nutrition is only a staple food. Don't eat Congee only with pickles, Mantou, Youbing (Deep-fried round and flat dough-cake), deep-fried dough sticks. It is not only nutritious (almost only provides energy), but also easy to cause excessive sodium intake. When eating Congee, you must pay attention to the match, and match with some vegetables, such as cold spinach, boiled kale, etc; Let's have some high-quality protein rich foods, such as milk, shredded tofu, vegetarian mixed dishes, braised beef, white shrimp, and some fruits, which will be much healthier. When drinking Congee, we should pay attention to "date stone perforation". When the elderly and children drink Congee, we should also pay attention to the beans, date stones and other hard things in Congee. Especially jujube pits, they are usually thin and long, with a hard texture and very sharp ends. If accidentally swallowed, they can easily puncture the gastrointestinal tract, causing perforation, suppuration, massive bleeding, and even endangering life. (New Society)
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