Is porridge the worst staple food? Harvard study: Is it credible that people who drink porridge for a long time live longer?

Ms. Wu is 32 years old this year. When she was a child, the family conditions were not good. She was always hungry and full, and her stomach became not very good because of this. Recently, I heard people say that if you want to nourish your stomach, you can drink porridge, so she developed the habit of drinking porridge every morning.

In the first few days, Ms. Wu did feel that her stomach was much more comfortable, so she firmly believed in the saying of "drinking porridge to nourish the stomach". However, after insisting on this habit of drinking porridge for a month, Ms. Wu found that she frequently felt bloating and pain in her stomach, and sometimes she felt tired and lost a lot of weight.

After going to the hospital for a gastroscopy, it was found to be chronic gastritis, and the habit of drinking porridge every day even worsened the symptoms of gastritis. Ms. Wu is very puzzled. Didn't you say that drinking porridge nourishes the stomach?

The doctor said that drinking porridge is easy to digest, but if the stomach acid has no food to digest, it will irritate the gastric mucosa and cause stomach discomfort. And porridge contains a lot of water, drinking porridge regularly will weaken the digestive function and even make the stomach inert, which is not good for the stomach.

1. Porridge is the "worst staple food". Can't you have porridge for breakfast?

Zhang Wenhong's remarks on white porridge once caused heated discussions-"Children are not allowed to drink porridge for breakfast" "You should drink less porridge when you are sick"... Is white porridge really the worst staple food?

Although white porridge is nutritious, it is just that the nutrition is relatively simple, mainly carbohydrates, and the content of protein, dietary fiber, vitamins, etc. is relatively low .

And Zhang Wenhong's view of "don't drink porridge for breakfast" is actually well-founded-the nutrition that porridge can provide is mainly carbohydrates, and what teenagers and patients need most is nutrition and protein. , especially breakfast should be richer, and eggs and milk are more recommended than white porridge.

Of course, in addition to not being able to meet nutritional needs, drinking white porridge in the morning actually has these disadvantages:

One is that white porridge is the staple food with the fastest blood sugar rise, especially for people with diabetes. Breakfast will undoubtedly increase the blood sugar of patients, which is not good for stabilizing blood sugar.

The second is that it may lead to the deterioration of gastric function . White porridge is a warm liquid food, and eating soft and rotten food such as white porridge can easily make the stomach inert. If this happens for a long time, it may even lead to the deterioration of gastric function.

In addition, many people always like to drink porridge with pickles and other pickles. Pickles and pickles contain a lot of sodium. Eating porridge with pickles for a few days may cause excessive sodium in the body , and pickles and pickles are used as pickled foods. Eating too much is not beneficial.

2. Is porridge still drinkable? Harvard study: Drinking porridge can prolong life

Since white porridge has a single nutritional component, can this white porridge still be drunk?

Scholars at Harvard University have spent more than ten years researching the relationship between drinking porridge and health, and finally found that eating 28g of coarsely ground grains a day, such as a small bowl of porridge, can reduce the risk of death and heart disease by 5% and 9% .

It is a fact that the nutrition of porridge is single, but this does not mean that porridge should not be eaten for breakfast at all, it is just that you should pay attention to the matching when drinking porridge.

Li Ying, deputy director of the Nutrition Department of Xuanwu Hospital of Capital Medical University, explained that you can have porridge for breakfast, but it is definitely not nutritious enough to drink porridge alone. It is recommended to mix it with eggs and lean meat .

In addition, if the porridge is low in nutrition, it can be "modified", such as adding miscellaneous grains to make eight-treasure porridge, millet porridge, etc., or you can sprinkle minced meat or shrimp, fish fillets, chopped vegetable leaves, etc. will go further.

Another very important point is that although white porridge is easy to digest, it is not suitable for everyone. The following people are not suitable for drinking porridge:

• Diabetics: Drinking plain porridge can lead to a rapid rise in blood sugar;
• Patients with reflux esophagitis: drinking porridge can easily cause gastric reflux;
• Patients with gastroptosis: Drinking porridge may aggravate gastroptosis.

3. Is drinking porridge nourishing or hurting the stomach?

Some people say that white porridge is easy to digest and will not increase the burden on the stomach, so it can nourish the stomach, but some people say that white porridge is not nutritious, and frequent consumption of porridge will hurt the stomach. Therefore, does porridge, a food, nourish or hurt the stomach?

As a semi-liquid food, white porridge is easy to digest and absorb for children, the elderly, and postoperative patients. It can reduce the burden on their stomachs and nourish their stomachs. However, some people are not suitable for drinking porridge, because drinking porridge will cause stomach hurt.

One is people with poor gastrointestinal function, such as people with stomach discomfort symptoms such as heartburn and acid reflux. Drinking porridge at this time can easily aggravate the discomfort of heartburn and acid reflux. In addition, porridge is semi-liquid, and it is easy to cause gastroesophageal reflux The problem.

The second is people with metabolic problems , such as diabetics. Drinking porridge can easily increase the gallbladder in their stomachs, and porridge is a staple food with a high glycemic index. Drinking porridge will cause their blood sugar to rise rapidly, resulting in excessive fluctuations in blood sugar. Not conducive to blood sugar stability.

Generally, healthy people can still drink porridge, but there are still two issues that should be paid attention to when drinking porridge.

1. It is not advisable to " eat while it is hot "

The human esophageal mucosa is very delicate. If you often drink very hot porridge, it is easy to suffer from repeated burns and continue to proliferate. It may even lead to subsequent insensitivity to hot food. Over time, it will cause esophagitis, which cannot be cured for a long time , and will also increase the incidence of esophageal cancer. risk.

2. It should not be served with pickled vegetables

The content of sodium salt in pickles is relatively high. Long-term consumption of pickles can easily damage the gastric mucosa. In addition, there are carcinogens nitrite in pickles, which will form nitrosamines when they enter the stomach. Over time, gastric cancer may occur .

In addition to white rice, porridge is also a very common staple food on the daily table, but for most people, the nutrition of porridge is not comprehensive enough. It is recommended that if you want to choose white porridge for breakfast, it is best to match it with meat, egg and milk. Only a diversified diet can meet the daily nutritional needs.

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