What are the health risks of gluttony in summer? Can eating cold food in summer cool off the heat?

The weather in summer is too hot, especially in the coming week, there will be widespread high temperature weather in China. High temperature makes people feel uncomfortable. Many people are gluttonous in summer, blowing air conditioners all night and staying in air-conditioned rooms during the day. So what are the health risks of gluttony in summer? Can eating cold food in summer cool off the heat?

1, the health hazard of being greedy and cool in summer

1, spleen and stomach are the first victims.

In summer, if you eat too much cold drinks and food, the gastric mucosa and intestinal mucosa will be stimulated to spasm, which is likely to lead to perforation for a person with gastric ulcer or duodenal ulcer. In addition, eating too much cold food can also cause loss of appetite. Chinese medicine believes that the spleen and stomach are the foundation of the day after tomorrow and the source of qi and blood transformation. If the spleen and stomach are damaged, the qi and blood will be insufficient, which is not conducive to the growth and development of children.

2, gluttony is easy to cause cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.

Cold food or cold drink can make blood vessels contract, thus making myocardial blood supply insufficient, which may lead to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Especially for patients with hypertension, hyperglycemia, arteriosclerosis and diabetes, it is especially dangerous.

3, greed is easy to lead to puffiness.

In summer, the humidity is very high. If you eat too much cold food and cold drinks because you are greedy for cold, it will cause phlegm and dampness. People seem to be a healthy and strong person, with strong external strength and weak internal strength, but in fact, their hearts are empty. The specific symptoms of phlegm-dampness are: love sweating, excessive phlegm, sticky mouth, chest tightness, sticky stool and so on.

4, iced watermelon hurts the stomach the most.

Iced fruits are very popular in summer, but eating fruits just taken out of the refrigerator is very harmful to the stomach, especially watermelons, because watermelons are very cold, and because everyone eats a lot. Therefore, it is better to put the iced fruit for a while before eating, which is healthier.

Except watermelon, banana, apple, mangosteen, melon, cantaloupe and so on. They are all cold fruits. If they have been refrigerated, everyone must put them aside for a while before eating.

Bamboo mats are the easiest to catch cold.

In summer, the choice of mat is very important and needs to be made according to everyone's physique and needs. According to the degree of coolness, they are: bamboo mat, straw mat and flax mat. If you are frail old people, children, pregnant women, or people with arthritis, colds and gastrointestinal diseases, choose linen mat or straw mat, which is not as cold as bamboo mat.

6. Excessive air conditioning can easily lead to air conditioning disease or facial paralysis.

In summer, people like to stay in oil-cooled rooms or turn on electric fans. As we all know, if you blow too much cold air or stay in a cold room with too low temperature for a long time, people are prone to catch cold, dizziness, fatigue, loss of appetite and other air-conditioning diseases. If you blow your face against an air conditioner or an electric fan, you may even have facial paralysis.

2. Misunderstanding of greed and coolness in summer

Myth 1 Eat a lot of cold food

In hot summer, eating cold food is the most commonly used method to relieve summer heat, especially ice cream, cold drink and iced watermelon, because it is cool and refreshing. Many people have a bad appetite in summer and often take a big iced watermelon instead of dinner. Because of this, TCM health experts pointed out that watermelon itself is cold, people usually eat more at a time, and the loss of human yang is also greater. If you eat too much cold food at this time, it will cause serious damage to people's yang.

Myth 2: Take a bath immediately after exercise.

Proper exercise in summer can expel some "cold evil" and "wet poison" from the body, but the heat and sweat after exercise are often unbearable, and many young people will take a bath to cool down. But this will allow more' cold evil' to enter the body.

It takes a process for the human body to adapt to the temperature. It will stimulate the human body from high temperature to low temperature, not to mention taking a bath with cold water. Punching with cold water or even washing feet after exercise will make wet and cold enter the body.

Myth 3: Rest is too greedy.

On summer nights, many people stroll in the street with bare arms; Sleep with the air conditioner on all night; Even feel too hot in bed, just spread a mat on the floor. These are common behaviors of people. But many people don't know that these behaviors can easily make the body cold and damage the yang.

In summer, when people sleep, their basal metabolism slows down, their thermoregulatory function declines, and their body resistance weakens. At this time, turning on the air conditioner and sleeping on the floor will make it easier for cold pathogens to enter the body, so don't blindly pursue coolness.

Myth 4 Different groups of people don't need special care.

In summer, we often find such a problem: when a family eats the same food, the elderly and children may suffer from indigestion and cold in the spleen and stomach, while other family members are not serious. Sometimes air conditioning is also blown at home, and women are more likely to catch a cold than men.

To this end, health experts pointed out that people's physical fitness is different, so their ability to resist the cold is also different. Generally, the young and middle-aged people have a relatively heavy yang, while the elderly and children have a slightly poor physique and are vulnerable to "cold evil".