Soy milk is a liquid nutritional product suitable for all ages, affordable and of high quality. In the morning, having a bowl of soy milk and a few steamed buns is a traditional eating habit that is both convenient and nutritious. Scholars believe that drinking soy milk has the following benefits, but there are also some contraindications...
Benefits of Drinking Soy Milk:
1. Strengthening the body. Every 100 grams of soy milk contains 4.5 grams of protein, 1.8 grams of fat, 1.5 grams of carbohydrates, 4.5 grams of phosphorus, 2.5 grams of iron, 2.5 grams of calcium, as well as vitamins, riboflavin, etc., which is greatly beneficial for enhancing physical fitness.
2. Preventing diabetes. Soy milk contains a large amount of dietary fiber, which can effectively prevent excessive sugar absorption, reduce sugar levels, and thus prevent diabetes. It is an essential daily food for diabetic patients.
3. Preventing and treating high blood pressure. The soy sterols, potassium, and magnesium in soy milk are powerful anti-sodium substances. Sodium is one of the main causes of the onset and recurrence of high blood pressure. If the amount of sodium in the body is properly controlled, it can both prevent and treat high blood pressure.
4. Preventing and treating coronary heart disease. The soy sterols, potassium, magnesium, and calcium in soy milk can enhance the excitement of the cardiovascular system, improve cardiac nutrition, lower cholesterol, and promote blood flow to prevent vascular spasms. If you can insist on drinking a bowl of soy milk every day, the recurrence rate of coronary heart disease can be reduced by 50%.
5. Preventing stroke. The magnesium and calcium elements in soy milk can significantly lower blood lipids in the brain and improve cerebral blood flow, thereby effectively preventing the occurrence of cerebral infarction and cerebral hemorrhage. The lecithin in soy milk can also reduce brain cell death and improve brain function.
6. Preventing cancer. The protein, selenium, and molybdenum in soy milk have strong anti-cancer and cancer-treating abilities, especially for stomach cancer, intestinal cancer, and breast cancer. According to surveys, the probability of cancer in people who do not drink soy milk is 50% higher than that of people who drink it regularly.
7. Preventing bronchitis. The methionine in soy milk has the effect of preventing smooth muscle spasms in bronchitis, thereby reducing and alleviating the onset of bronchitis.
8. Preventing aging. The selenium, vitamin E, and C in soy milk have great antioxidant functions, which can make the body's cells "rejuvenate," especially for brain cells.
9. Preventing senile dementia, AIDS, constipation, obesity, etc.
Contraindications for Drinking Soy Milk:
1. Avoid drinking uncooked soy milk. Many people like to buy raw soy milk and heat it at home. When heating, they see foam surging and mistakenly think it has boiled. In fact, this is a phenomenon of bubbles rising caused by the expansion of organic substances in soy milk due to heat, not boiling, and it is uncooked. Uncooked soy milk is harmful to the human body. Because soy milk contains two toxic substances that can cause protein metabolic disorders and irritate the gastrointestinal tract, causing poisoning symptoms. The way to prevent soy milk poisoning is to boil the soy milk at a high temperature of 100°C before drinking it safely. If symptoms such as headache and difficulty breathing occur after drinking soy milk, seek medical attention immediately and do not delay to prevent life-threatening situations.
2. Avoid beating eggs in soy milk. Many people like to beat eggs in soy milk, thinking it is more nutritious, but this method is unscientific. This is because the mucoprotein in eggs is easy to combine with trypsin in soy milk, producing a substance that cannot be absorbed by the human body, greatly reducing the absorption of nutrients by the body.
3. Avoid adding brown sugar to soy milk. Although adding brown sugar to soy milk makes it sweet and fragrant, the organic acids in brown sugar can combine with the protein in soy milk to produce denatured precipitates, greatly destroying the nutritional value.
4. Avoid storing in a thermos. Soy milk contains substances that can remove scale from the thermos. Under suitable temperature conditions, with soy milk as a nutrient, bacteria will multiply in large numbers in the bottle, and the soy milk can become sour and spoiled after 3 to 4 hours.
5. Avoid excessive consumption. Drinking too much soy milk at once can easily cause indigestion of protein, leading to discomfort symptoms such as bloating and diarrhea.
6. Avoid drinking on an empty stomach. Most of the protein in soy milk will be converted into heat and consumed by the body, and cannot fully play a nourishing role. Eating starchy foods such as bread, cakes, and steamed buns while drinking soy milk can allow the protein in soy milk to undergo enzymatic hydrolysis more fully with the action of starch, so that nutrients are fully absorbed.
7. Avoid drinking with medication. Some drugs can destroy the nutritional components in soy milk, such as tetracycline, erythromycin, and other antibiotic drugs.