"Eat lamb race ginseng in winter, let's go, let's go down to the restaurant!" Lao Zhang met Lao Zhao on the street today and asked him to go to the restaurant to eat mutton.
"Don't, lamb is cancerous and can't be eaten." Old Zhao rejected him with a serious face.
"We've eaten lamb Chinese for thousands of years, and we haven't seen anyone with cancer?" Having said that lamb is a big supplement, isn't eating lamb just enough to supplement your body? Lao Zhang continued to exhort.
"I just had lung cancer surgery in the first half of the year, but I don't dare to eat hair, what should I do if I recur?" After Lao Zhao said this, he was afraid of being dragged to eat mutton, so he quickly ran home with his legs.
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Lamb can be said to be a perfect match in winter, especially in the winter solstice, many people like to have about three or five friends, around a pot to eat lamb, delicious and cold. But some people think that lamb is nutritious, and some people think that eating lamb regularly will cause cancer, who is right and who is wrong?
First, eat lamb race ginseng in winter? Is lamb a nutritious product?
The saying of "eating mutton in winter" can be traced back to the "Compendium of Materia Medica": lamb warm in the deficiency, tonic in the middle of the qi, appetizing fitness, beneficial to the kidney qi, nourishing the eyes, curing fatigue and cold, five labors and seven injuries. In the view of traditional Chinese medicine, mutton tastes sweet and warm, and has the effect of complementing deficiency, dispelling cold, and warming qi and blood.
When the weather is cold, stew a bowl of clear soup sheep, melt in the mouth, and the more you eat, the warmer it is. The effect of lamb to drive away cold, but is it really better than "ginseng"? The American Food Technology Association Yun Wuxin said that there is currently no scientific evidence to confirm the "winter eating lamb race ginseng". As for the effect of lamb to drive away the cold, it is mainly the rich protein in lamb. In fact, not only lamb, as long as it is eaten hot and is rich in high protein, will have a "cold repellent" effect. From a nutritional point of view, lamb, as a kind of red meat, not only contains high-quality protein, but also contains iron, zinc and other elements, which are easily absorbed by the human body, but its nutritional value is not much better than that of pigs and beef.
Second, red meat is a carcinogen, lamb is also carcinogenic?
In the choice of home-style meat ingredients, the most common red meat is pigs, cattle and sheep.
Due to the "hearsay" of recent years, many people will think that red meat = unhealthy. So, what exactly is red meat? How should I differentiate?
In fact, red meat is a customary saying in nutrition, which generally classifies meat that is red in the raw state or darkened after cooking as red meat. Red meat is red because the myoglobin contains heme and is intimate with oxygen, and the flesh presented is pink and blood-colored.
Red meat is unhealthy and is related to its carcinogenicity. A study in the international journal BMC Pharmaceuticals proves that neu5Gc molecules in red meat may increase the risk of cancer.
Researchers from the Morse Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego, designed transgenic mice lacking Neu5Gc to mimic humans, and then fed the mice Neu5Gc, which developed systemic inflammation and increased the formation of spontaneous tumors by as much as 5 times.
This study also makes the World Health Organization more "confident" to list red meat as a carcinogen. In the future, when playing hot pot, you can't shout fat cows and fat sheep rolls?
Third, can the lamb really not be eaten?
The International Agency for Research on Cancer lists red meat as a Class 2A carcinogen, a substance with a "high probability" of carcinogens. Associate Professor Ye Yanbin of the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University pointed out that although class 2A carcinogens have high carcinogenicity, they are limited to finding sufficient evidence in animal experiments and are not enough evidence for humans. The harm of carcinogens to the human body is reflected in the long-term impact, and it is not carcinogenic at a time of contact.
Red meat is the main source of high-quality protein, and rich in vitamin B1, B2, A, D and other trace elements, but also to meet the human body's needs for zinc, iron, if it is possible to cause cancer, put an end to eating red meat, will "choke food" to break the original balance of dietary structure, but let the body fall into unhealthy eating habits.
Fourth, is it necessary for cancer patients to avoid mutton?
Mutton supplement is regarded as a "hair object" by the Chinese people. Many cancer patients believe that eating "hair" can stimulate cancer cells, which is not conducive to controlling the disease. The term "hair" does not exist in Western medicine, and even Yu Rencun, a state-level famous old Chinese medicine doctor and chief physician of the oncology department of Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said that he had been practicing medicine for many years and had not seen a single patient with a tumor recurrence because he had eaten hair.
In terms of nutritional needs, after tumor patients obtain nutrition, their positive effect is positive. Therefore, cancer patients should be able to eat, eat well, and eat more under the condition of ensuring nutrition as much as possible. Ensure that daily energy, protein, vitamins, dietary fiber are ingested, rather than developing a "picky eating" habit.
Instead of rejecting red meat because it may cause cancer, we should learn to eat meat healthily. Try to choose fresh meat and cook it in a stewed way. While eating meat, it is also necessary to accompany vegetables and fruits, and pay attention to meal collocation. The benefits of proper red meat are far greater than the risk of cancer.
Resources:
[1] "Lamb, the first meat of winter"! With "Three Nine Days" Lamb Supplement Raiders" attached. Life Times.2021-01-08
[2] "Pigs, beef and mutton have become carcinogens? What the hell is going on here". The whole people are more true-Tencent News.2018-02-04
[3] "The WHO lists red meat as a secondary carcinogen, and scientists have identified the culprits". World Science.2020-10-30
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