"Three hundred lychees a day, do not quit being a Lingnanian", it is the season of a large number of lychees on the market, but some people have caused dizziness, convulsions and vomiting "lychee disease" because of eating a large number of lychees. What to pay attention to when eating lychees, let's listen to the doctor's words.
Excessive consumption of lychee appears dizziness, palpitation, sweating, etc. are symptoms of hypoglycemia, in the past everyone has always believed that this is the curse of lychee's high fructose, according to the latest research results of the famous medical journal "Lancet", the culprit causing "lychee disease" is actually another cause.
Liu Hongyi, deputy chief physician of the Department of Endocrinology of Yunnan Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine: "It is traditionally believed that lychees contain a lot of fructose, which will cause insulin to rise after eating, and fructose decomposes slowly, so there will be hypoglycemia. But the new study suggests that there are two substances in lychees that lower blood sugar, especially in immature lychees, which are more abundant, so it inhibits the rise in blood sugar after eating. ”
These two hypoglycemic substances are alpha methylenecyclopropylglycine and hypoglycinate A.
Some people like to eat a lot of lychees, and then stop eating after eating, so that after the blood sugar is reduced, they can not get timely sugar supplementation, which can easily induce "lychee disease". Some people whose body has less sugar storage, such as children and people who are frail and sick, are more likely to be recruited.
Liu Hongyi, deputy chief physician of the Department of Endocrinology of Yunnan Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine: "It is generally recommended to eat lychees before meals, and after eating, it is still necessary to eat, the general amount is 100 grams to 300 grams, that is, about five to ten, generally no problem." ”
At the same time, lychees belong to foods that have a relatively large impact on blood sugar, so doctors recommend that diabetics are best not to eat lychees.
Reporter: Zheng Qiuxia Zhu Hongguang
Editor: Dong Yanping