Although many women skip breakfast for weight loss and body shaping, it must be pointed out that breakfast is very important for everyone. Breakfast provides the most important nutrients for the body for the day, so it must be eaten. But is every type of breakfast suitable for women? Of course not. Some breakfasts, if consumed improperly, can be very harmful to a woman's body.
1. Excessively cold fruit and vegetable juices
Many women like to drink fruit and vegetable juice in the morning. Although it can provide direct nutrients from fruits and vegetables and clean up waste in the body, everyone overlooks the most important key point: the human body always prefers a warm environment. When the body is warm, microcirculation is normal, and the transportation of oxygen, nutrients, and waste is smooth.
Therefore, when eating breakfast, you must not drink fruit and vegetable juice, iced coffee, iced juice, iced black tea, mung bean soup, iced milk, etc. first. In the short term, you may not feel any discomfort, but in fact, it will make your body gradually weaker. Why is that?
Breakfast should be eaten hot to protect the stomach's vital energy (wei qi). In Traditional Chinese Medicine, wei qi is actually a broad concept that not only refers to the stomach organ itself but also includes the digestive and absorption abilities of the spleen and stomach, acquired immunity, and the function of muscles.
Because in the morning, the yin qi from the night has not yet dissipated, and the temperature of the earth has not yet risen. The body's muscles, nerves, and blood vessels are still in a constricted state. If you eat and drink cold food at this time, it will surely cause all systems in the body to constrict even more and blood circulation to become more unsmooth. Perhaps when you first start eating and drinking cold food, you don't feel any discomfort in your stomach, but as time goes by or as you get older, you will find that you can't absorb the essence of food, it feels like you're never full, or your stools are always loose, or your skin is getting worse and worse, or you always have a phlegmy feeling in your throat, you catch colds often, and minor ailments are constant. This is because the stomach's vital energy has been damaged, and the body's resistance has been weakened.
Cosmetic experts suggest: The first food in the morning should be hot congee, hot oatmeal, hot goat milk, hot tofu pudding, hot soy milk, sesame paste, Chinese yam congee, or fresh fish slice congee, and then eat it with vegetables, bread, sandwiches, fruits, pastries, etc.
2. Too spicy food
For the same reason, the stomach in the morning should try to avoid stimulation. Overly spicy food is obviously harmful to the stomach, which is absolutely a major taboo for breakfast.
3. Milk is not suitable for women with excessive internal heat
Because milk can easily produce phlegm and cause allergies, women with poor respiratory, digestive, or skin conditions, or those living in humid climates for a long time, should try to drink less.
4. Unheated leftover meals
It is often seen that some women, in a hurry to save time, just grab the leftover food from the night before for a quick bite in the morning. This is a very bad situation. Leftover food, after being stored for a night, undergoes some microbial changes that lead to the growth of harmful bacteria, making it easy for "illness to enter through the mouth."
5. Cooked cured meats as breakfast
This is obviously consistent with the principle mentioned above. 90% of cooked foods need to be reheated before eating, also to prevent the growth of bacteria. In addition, it is best to eat cooked food that you have cooked yourself, because even if the food bought from the market tastes very good, it is difficult to guarantee its freshness.