The winter climate is cold, with yin flourishing and yang declining. Affected by the cold temperature, the body's physiological functions, appetite, and other aspects will change. Therefore, it is essential to adjust your diet reasonably, ensure adequate intake of essential nutrients, and improve your body's cold tolerance and immune function. How can you eat healthily and safely? Life Expert has specially launched a series of articles on winter diet and health to customize a healthy winter diet for you.
Fruits are one of the healthiest foods in people's minds, and some people even eat several times more fruit than staple foods. But do you know that eating fruit has its rules? Otherwise, not only will you fail to achieve the health benefits, but you may also bring on various diseases.
1. Avoid eating fruit immediately after a meal: Eating fruit right after a meal will not aid digestion; instead, it can cause bloating and constipation. Therefore, it is best to eat fruit 2 hours after a meal or 1 hour before.
2. Avoid eating fruit without rinsing your mouth: Some fruits contain various fermentable sugars that are highly corrosive to teeth. If you don't rinse your mouth after eating, fruit residues can easily cause cavities.
3. Avoid eating too much fruit: Excessive fruit consumption can lead to copper deficiency in the body, which in turn increases cholesterol in the blood and can cause coronary heart disease. Therefore, it is not advisable to eat too much fruit in a short period.
4. Avoid eating unhygienic fruit: Eating fruit that has started to spoil, or fruits like strawberries, mulberries, and sliced watermelon that are not protected from dust and flies and have not been thoroughly washed and disinfected, can easily lead to digestive tract infections such as dysentery, typhoid, and acute gastroenteritis.
5. Avoid disinfecting fruit with alcohol: Although alcohol can kill bacteria on the surface of fruit, it will change the fruit's color, aroma, and taste. The reaction between alcohol and the acids in fruit will reduce its nutritional value.
6. Avoid eating raw fruit without peeling it: Some people believe that the vitamin content in the peel is higher than in the flesh, so they eat the fruit with the peel on. However, what they don't realize is that when fruits suffer from pests and diseases, pesticides are often used to kill them. These pesticides can penetrate and remain in the waxy layer of the peel, so the pesticide residue on the peel is much higher than in the flesh.
7. Avoid using a kitchen knife to peel fruit: Kitchen knives often come into contact with meat, fish, and vegetables, which can bring parasites or parasite eggs to the fruit, leading to parasitic infections in people. Moreover, the rust on the knife and the tannic acid in apples can react chemically, degrading the apple's color, aroma, and taste.