Shanghai's lantern fire, buy to queue for an hour or two! Doctor: "Yang Kang" eat less, try not to fry

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Lantern Festival

The Lantern Festival is a traditional festival in China, and it is one of the most important customs for people to celebrate the festival by eating the soft and sweet Lantern.

These two days, the Lantern Festival is “hot”: the Mei Xin Dim Sum store on North Shaanxi Road has to queue for at least an hour and a half to buy dumplings, the Ningbo Dumpling store in the Yuyuan scenic area is hard to find, some snack stores can sell 60,000 Lanterns a day, and some people buy 20 boxes… …

As you can see, Lantern is a favorite of Shanghai people, but Lantern is a high sugar, high calorie food, filling not only sugar, but also fat, so do not eat without taboos. What are the health effects if you eat too much Lantern? How can we eat them properly and reasonably?

Yu Minhao, deputy chief physician of gastrointestinal surgery at Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, said that the raw material of lantern is glutinous rice, which is a kind of sticky food with slippery taste and difficult to digest and absorb. After eating it is more difficult to mix and crush it by stomach peristalsis, so the intestine and stomach will accelerate contraction and secrete more gastric juice to digest it, thus leading to symptoms such as abdominal distension and acid reflux.

“In order to improve the taste of the Lantern, the Lantern filling often add a lot of sugar, lard and other ingredients, these will further promote the secretion of gastric acid, increasing the burden on the pancreas, stomach, small intestine, liver, gallbladder and other digestive organs, increasing the risk of diabetes, hyperlipidemia and obesity.”

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Which groups of people are not suitable for eating Lantern?

Experts said that patients with diabetes, hyperlipidemia, pancreatitis, intestinal obstruction, poor digestion, patients with a history of major abdominal surgery, the elderly, “Yang Kang” after the digestive function has not yet recovered people are also not suitable to eat more Lantern. Otherwise, it will aggravate their basic diseases and bring adverse reactions such as abdominal pain, bloating, constipation, acid reflux and heartburn.

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How can we enjoy

How to enjoy traditional food like Lantern?

Yu Minhao introduced, the main cooking methods of Lantern are boiling and deep-frying, deep-frying method will inevitably consume more fat, so try not to eat fried Lantern, if you must try the taste of fried Lantern, you can choose the air fryer and other cooking. Because of the single nutritional composition of the lantern, it is not easy to digest, so it should not be used as a staple food, and should not be eaten before bedtime, but can be eaten with low-calorie vegetables and fruits.

In addition, it is recommended that people with underlying diseases and the elderly should not eat more than 3-4 Lantern each time, while reducing the intake of high sugar and greasy food on the same day, and if you feel unwell, go to the hospital in time.