It varies from person to person! Is soy milk suitable for your breakfast?
Soy milk is a liquid nutritional product suitable for all ages, both high in quality and low in price. In the morning, drinking a bowl of soy milk and eating a few steamed buns is a traditional method that is both convenient and nutritious. Scholars believe that drinking soy milk has the following benefits:
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, and vitamins, riboflavin, etc., which is greatly beneficial for enhancing physical fitness.
Drinking soy milk for breakfast? Know the contraindications and pros and cons before deciding
2. Preventing and treating diabetes: Soy milk contains a large amount of dietary fiber, which can effectively prevent excessive absorption of sugar, reduce sugar content, 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 insist on drinking a bowl of soy milk every day, the recurrence rate of coronary heart disease can be reduced by 50%.
5. Preventing and treating stroke: The magnesium and calcium elements in soy milk can significantly lower blood lipids in the brain and improve cerebral blood flow, thus effectively preventing the occurrence of cerebral infarction and cerebral hemorrhage. The lecithin in soy milk can also reduce the death of brain cells and improve brain function.
6. Preventing and treating cancer: The protein, selenium, and molybdenum in soy milk have strong anti-cancer and cancer-treating abilities, especially for stomach, intestinal, 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 often drink soy milk.
7. Preventing and treating bronchitis: The methionine in soy milk has the effect of preventing smooth muscle spasms of the 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", with the greatest effect on brain cells.
9. Preventing and treating senile dementia, AIDS, constipation, obesity, etc.
Although soy milk is nutritious, it also has many contraindications. Friends who like to drink soy milk should pay close attention!
Contraindications for drinking soy milk:
1. Do not drink uncooked soy milk: Many people like to buy raw soy milk and heat it at home. When heating, they see foam rising and mistakenly think it has boiled. In fact, this is the phenomenon of bubbles caused by the expansion of organic substances in soy milk due to heat, not boiling, and it is not cooked. Uncooked soy milk is harmful to the human body. Because soy milk contains two toxic substances that can cause protein metabolism 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 with peace of mind. If symptoms such as headache and difficulty breathing appear after drinking soy milk, seek medical attention immediately. Do not delay to prevent life-threatening situations.
2. Do not beat 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 mucin protein 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 human body.
3. Do not add brown sugar to soy milk: Adding brown sugar to soy milk tastes sweet and fragrant, but the organic acids in brown sugar combine with the protein in soy milk to produce denatured precipitates, which greatly destroys the nutritional value.
4. Do not store in a thermos bottle: Soy milk contains substances that can remove scale from the thermos bottle. Under suitable temperature conditions, bacteria in the bottle will multiply rapidly with soy milk as a nutrient, and the soy milk will become sour and spoil after 3-4 hours.
5. Do not drink excessively: Drinking too much soy milk at once can easily cause indigestion of protein, leading to discomfort symptoms such as bloating and diarrhea.
6. Do not drink 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 some starchy foods such as bread, pastries, and steamed buns while drinking soy milk can make the protein in soy milk undergo enzymatic hydrolysis more fully with the action of starch, allowing nutrients to be fully absorbed.
7. Do not drink with medication: Some drugs can destroy the nutrients in soy milk, such as tetracycline, erythromycin and other antibiotic drugs.
People who should not drink soy milk
1. Patients with acute gastritis and chronic superficial gastritis should not eat soy products to avoid excessive stimulation of gastric acid secretion, which can aggravate the condition or cause bloating.
2. Beans contain a certain amount of oligosaccharides, which can cause symptoms such as belching, bowel sounds, and bloating, so friends with gastric ulcers should eat less. Patients with gastritis and renal failure need a low-protein diet, while beans and their products are rich in protein, and their metabolic products will increase the burden on the kidneys, so they should be avoided.
3. The oxalates in beans can combine with calcium in the kidneys, easily forming stones, which can aggravate the symptoms of kidney stones, so patients with kidney stones should not eat them.
4. Gout is a disease caused by purine metabolism disorders. Soybeans are rich in purines, and purines are hydrophilic substances. Therefore, after soybeans are ground into milk, the purine content is several times higher than other bean products. Therefore, soy milk is not suitable for gout patients.