I believe that many friends in the circle of friends and family groups, have read these food and other news and articles, and its content is often written very appalling. Some half-believing people, even if they are suspicious, would rather believe that they have it or not because of the importance of health and life.
It is the wide circulation of these articles that makes them deeply rooted in the thinking of many Chinese people, and even some families paste the "food xiang ketu" bought in the market at home as a "golden rule" for three meals a day...
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The term "food phase" originated from traditional Chinese medicine dietary therapy, but it does not appear alone in modern nutrition or other related monographs.
As early as 1935, Professor Zheng Ji, the founder of the Chinese Nutrition Society in mainland China, under the pressure of public opinion on "banana taro with food poisoning", selected 14 groups of "Xiangke foods" that were most widely circulated by the people, and carried out targeted human and animal experiments, and the results showed that everything was normal and there was no sign of poisoning.
Subsequently, at the 315 evening party, Fan Zhihong, associate professor of the College of Food Science and Nutritional Engineering of China Agricultural University, officially refuted the rumors, and took crabs and tomatoes as an example, effectively confirming that "food phase grams" is a rumor!
On the contrary, paying too much attention to whether food is "compatible" will affect the diversity of food we consume, which is really not a wise choice.
As CCTV once said when debunking rumors: "Talking about toxicity aside from the dose can only be alarmist." People often ignore the dose to talk about toxicity, use individual cases to draw conclusions, but also ignore the personal constitution, eating methods and other reasons, and put the "crime" on the head of the food phase.
In fact, the "mixed eating" accidents in history are more likely to be caused by the following reasons:
- Food is not clean: food is not clean, heating is not thorough, germs will take the opportunity to invade the human body, causing diarrhea and other symptoms.
- Harmful food ingredients: for example, fresh broccoli contains colchicine, sprouted green potatoes contain dragon annulin, etc., these foods are inherently toxic, not "phase gram" excess.
- Improper way of eating: a large number of raw food, food is not fried, food remains spoiled for a long time, etc., are harmful to the human body.
- Lactose intolerance: Multiple surveys have shown that the proportion of lactose intolerant people in China is greater than 80%. Most people have diarrhea when they drink milk alone, let alone mix it with other foods.
- Irritable bowel disease (IBS): Irritable bowel is a common functional intestinal disorder. No matter what you eat during the attack, you may have abdominal discomfort.
- Allergic reactions: Dietary problems that occur occasionally, such as seafood allergies, peanut allergies, and egg allergies, are also easily mistaken for "food phase grams".
It's just that the ancients lacked accurate cognition of food, coupled with the relatively simple causal logic, it is easy to escalate individual cases into a universal law, and many folk "Xiangke" foods have been "wrongly blamed" because of this.
Coffee is a good thing, with the dual effect of refreshing the brain and soothing the nerves, compared to smoking, alcohol and other addictive behaviors, it is indeed a good choice.
Similarly, cigarettes also have a certain refreshing function, and many mental workers who need to concentrate for a long time tend to "double-pronged". As everyone knows, it is the classic combination of coffee + cigarettes that buries much health risks to the body.
According to relevant research:
Drinking coffee while smoking can damage arterial health and easily cause temporary hardening of the aortic blood vessels. If the aorta is long-term double damage from cigarettes and coffee, it will cause great damage to the entire blood supply system, resulting in a greatly increased risk of heart disease and various cardiovascular diseases.
In addition, caffeine and nicotine are prone to chemical reactions, which will cause mutations in some tissue cells in the human body, and the possibility of cancer will be magnified by about 4 times.
Many people have the habit of drinking milk, especially when they are sick, while wanting to supplement nutrition, they have to take medicine again, so they drink milk as water mixed with medicine.
It has to be said that in the face of certain drugs, milk is indeed a good choice, such as:
- Phenolbenzamine, quinidine, promethazine, etc., milk can act as a protective film, reduce drug stimulation, avoid gastrointestinal bleeding;
- Some fat-soluble vitamins (such as vitamin E) can also be taken with milk, which can effectively reduce the corrosiveness of vitamin E to the mucosa of the gastrointestinal tract and promote the absorption of vitamin E.
However, not all drugs can be taken with milk, quinolones (xxfloxacin), tetracyclines, cefixime, ceftriaxone and other antibacterial drugs, gastric mucosal protective drugs, drugs for the treatment of osteoporosis, etc., once mixed with milk to drink, it is equivalent to eating in vain.
Because after milk enters the digestive tract, a thin film is formed on the gastric mucosa, which hinders the absorption of the active ingredient of the drug by the gastric mucosa. At the same time, when the drug and milk come into contact, a membrane will also be formed on the surface of the drug, so that the active ingredients of the drug cannot be released normally.
Regardless of the organic matter in the drug, and the calcium and iron in the milk will not react, the formation of insoluble substances, reduce the efficacy, the dissolution of these two layers of film alone, it takes more time, easy to miss the best time for drug absorption, thereby reducing the efficacy of the drug.
Therefore, when you are not sure whether it is appropriate, it is best not to drink milk during the medication, let alone use milk to take the drug. Not to mention losing money, sometimes it will damage the body!
Many people hate the bitterness of drugs and will use juice to take it, but is this really good? Let's take the grapefruit juice that people talk about the most as an example.
Grapefruit contains some furancoumarin compounds that have a significant inhibitory effect on the CYP3A4 enzyme and P-glycoprotein in the human body. It is in this way that the possibility of "poisoning" the human body is greatly increased:
CYP3A4 is the most important enzyme for drug metabolism. According to statistics, about 70% of prescription drugs will be "harmless treatment" in the liver, kidneys, intestinal mucosa and other parts of the human body, and the main force is CYP3A4. Once this enzyme is "bound" by foreign substances, causing the "detoxification" process of the drug in the body to be blocked, it will further exacerbate the toxic side effects.
P-glycoprotein (P-gp) is a "pump" in intestinal epithelial cells. It can re-"exile" substances that are harmful to the human body and are "mistakenly absorbed" into the intestines and excreted with feces. Once this "pump" is shut down urgently, the discharge of harmful substances (including drugs) that have been absorbed is reduced, which will inevitably lead to increased toxic side effects of drugs.
Especially when taking antihypertensive drugs, lipid-lowering drugs, and immunosuppressants (organ transplant anti-rejection drugs), you should try to avoid eating grapefruit, orange, grapefruit and other fruits with high furancoumarin content.
In the hot summer, many people will come to a squat seafood with beer at midnight, but uncle must remind you: if you are a patient with hyperuricemia, it is impossible!
The production of gout is closely related to uric acid. Under normal circumstances, purine metabolism produces uric acid, uric acid will be excreted from the urine through the kidneys, but if too much hyperpurine food such as seafood, animal offal, meat, etc., will increase uric acid, then if you add beer, the problem will be even greater!
First of all, alcohol is an important factor in increasing the risk of gout, and a large amount of alcohol will accelerate the production of uric acid; Secondly, the metabolites of alcohol will compete with uric acid for the passage of discharge, affecting the excretion of uric acid.
Once there is too much uric acid, or the body's passage to excrete uric acid is not smooth, it will accumulate a lot in the body. Accumulated to a certain concentration, uric acid will crystallize and precipitate. These crystals occur at the joints and can lead to gout, excessive accumulation and the risk of kidney stones.
In addition, drink alcohol should not be taken with medication.
Finally, once again, we remind everyone not to lose sight of the real problem because of the "food phase".
For other normal foods, we need to avoid those that do not match our own constitution (allergies, lactose intolerance, etc.), to ensure that the food itself is harmless, cleaned before meals, fully cooked during meals, and avoided for a long time after meals; According to the scientific dietary guidelines, with moderate dosage and balanced diet, you can eat nutritious and healthy under the combination of patterns!
Specifically refer to the 2022 "Balanced Diet Pagoda for Chinese Residents":
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