Review: Foods to Avoid in the Morning
Three Types of Foods You Should Never Eat for Breakfast
One, avoid drinking large amounts of cold beverages: A significant temperature difference can strongly stimulate the gastrointestinal tract, leading to sudden cramps.
Two, avoid eating bananas on an empty stomach: Besides containing sleep-promoting potassium, bananas are also rich in magnesium. Eating them on an empty stomach can cause a sharp increase in magnesium levels in the blood, and magnesium is one of the elements sensitive to heart function.
Three, avoid eating pineapple on an empty stomach: Pineapple contains strong enzymes that can damage the stomach lining when consumed on an empty stomach. Its nutrients can only be better absorbed after a meal.
Quick Tip: Also avoid drinking vinegar or eating garlic on an empty stomach in the morning. Drinking vinegar on an empty stomach can lead to excess stomach acid and harm the stomach; allicin can irritate the gastric mucosa and intestinal walls, causing stomach cramps. Knowing the dietary taboos for the morning, you should take action immediately to find a suitable stomach-nourishing plan. Here are a few recommendations for you to choose from:
Morning Stomach-Nourishing Soup
Ingredients: 50g red dates, 20 silkworm cocoons with pupae, an appropriate amount of sugar.
Method:
One, put the washed red dates and silkworm cocoons in a pot, add 800g of water.
Two, after boiling, reduce the heat and simmer slowly for 15 minutes.
Three, strain the liquid into a large bowl and add sugar to taste.
Benefits: Nourishes the stomach and spleen, the soup is sweet and delicious, and moistens the lungs and promotes fluid production.
Eating Method One: "Leftover Breakfast"
Breakfast Content: Leftovers, such as fried rice with leftovers, or noodles boiled with leftovers.
Reasons for Popularity: Many mothers cook extra for dinner and the next morning, they make fried rice for their children and family, or simply reheat the leftovers. This breakfast is convenient, varied, and almost equivalent to a main meal, usually considered nutritionally complete.
Expert Comments: After being left overnight, vegetables may produce nitrites (a carcinogen), which can harm human health.
Suggestion: Try not to eat leftover vegetables; if you use other leftover foods for breakfast, be sure to store them properly to prevent spoilage; food taken from the refrigerator must be thoroughly heated.
Eating Method Two: Fast-Food Breakfast
Breakfast Content: Various types of Western fast food.
Reasons for Popularity: Western fast food like hamburgers and fried chicken wings has long been a dietary preference for fashion-conscious people. Moreover, many fast-food chains now offer dedicated breakfast menus, such as a hamburger with coffee or milk, black tea, which is convenient, quick, and tasty.
Expert Comments: This type of high-calorie breakfast can easily lead to obesity, and long-term consumption of fried food is also harmful to the body. If you have Western fast food for breakfast, lunch and dinner must consist of low-calorie foods. Additionally, this type of Western breakfast is nutritionally unbalanced, being high in calories but often lacking in vitamins, minerals, fiber, and other nutrients.
Suggestion: If you choose Western fast food for breakfast, add fruit or vegetable soup to maintain nutritional balance and ensure the intake of various nutrients. It is also best not to consume it long-term.
Eating Method Three: Traditional Style Breakfast
Breakfast Content: Fried dough sticks (youtiao) and soy milk.
Reasons for Popularity: Many people have been accustomed to eating youtiao with soy milk since childhood, guided by their grandparents. They are not only used to the taste but also have an emotional attachment to it over the years.
Expert Comments: Youtiao is a high-temperature fried food, similar to baked cakes, egg cakes, and pan-fried dumplings, all of which have a high oil content. Nutrients are destroyed after high-temperature frying, and carcinogenic substances may also be produced. Furthermore, youtiao is high in calories and the oil is difficult to digest. Coupled with soy milk, which is also a medium-fat food, the oil content of this breakfast combination is significantly excessive and is not suitable for long-term consumption.
Suggestion: Breakfast must include vegetables or fruit. It's best to eat youtiao with soy milk infrequently, no more than once a week. On those days, lunch and dinner must be as light as possible, avoiding fried, pan-fried, or stir-fried foods, and supplement with more vegetables.
Eating Method Four: Snack Breakfast
Breakfast Content: Various snacks, such rice crackers, cookies, chocolate, etc.
Reasons for Popularity: Many people keep a supply of snacks at home for unexpected needs. In the morning when time is short, they often grab snacks for breakfast, which is convenient and quick.
Expert Comments: It's fine to have some cookies, chocolate, or other snacks when you're hungry, but using them to replace the most important meal of the day, breakfast, is very unscientific. Most snacks are dry foods, which are not conducive to digestion and absorption for the body in a semi-dehydrated state in the morning. Moreover, snacks like cookies are mainly made from grains. Although they can provide energy in a short time, they can also make you feel hungry again soon, causing blood sugar levels to drop significantly by noon. Eating snacks for breakfast can easily lead to malnutrition, a decline in physical fitness, and make one susceptible to various diseases.
Suggestion: It is not advisable to replace breakfast with snacks, especially too many dry foods. Breakfast should contain sufficient moisture. If your breakfast for the day is too dry, you can add a cucumber.
Eating Method Five: On-the-Go Breakfast
Breakfast Content: Breakfast bought from the roadside, eaten while walking, with hands, feet, and mouth all in motion... a full-body workout.
Reasons for Popularity: The mornings of the working class are often rushed, especially for those who live far from their workplace. Breakfast is often had on the go. Foods like steamed buns, tea eggs, "Roujiamo" (Chinese hamburger), and "jianbing guozi" (savory crepes) sold near residential entrances or bus stops are their first choice. They buy a portion and eat it while walking...
Expert Comments: Eating while walking is bad for gastrointestinal health and不利于 digestion and absorption. Furthermore, street food often has hygiene risks, and it's possible to get sick from what you eat.
Suggestion: If you choose to eat from a street stall for breakfast, first pay attention to hygiene, and it's best to buy it home or eat it at the office. Try not to eat breakfast on your way to work to avoid harming your health.
Eating Method Six: "Nutritious" Breakfast
Breakfast Content: Nutritious foods like fruits, vegetables, eggs, and milk, but lacking staple foods that are "not highly nutritious."
Reasons for Popularity: This type of breakfast is generally popular with women because staple foods are the main source of calories, and calories are the enemy of slender women and those on a diet... So, they want to eat all kinds of highly nutritious foods while reducing calories.
Expert Comments: Many people mistakenly believe that staple foods only provide calories and have nothing to do with nutrition. In fact, carbohydrates are also a part of nutrition and are extremely important for the human body. Without sufficient caloric intake, the body will automatically break down and release energy. Long-term avoidance of staple foods can lead to malnutrition and weaken various body functions. Additionally, yogurt and acidic-flavored fruits like tomatoes, bananas, snow pears, plums, and apricots, as well as fruits with coarse fiber, are not suitable to be eaten on an empty stomach.
Suggestion: You should increase your intake of staple foods like bread and steamed buns, which are grain-based foods.