10 things to know when you know how to eat watermelon

Watermelon is a popular nutritious fruit in the summer. But it is not always good to eat watermelons for your health. If you eat a lot and improperly, this fruit is not only beneficial but also harmful to health. So you should pay attention to abstinence and taboo when eating this fruit.

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1. People with diabetes

People with diabetes should eat less watermelon. Watermelon contains 5% of glucose, glucose, sucrose and some other sugars, so eating watermelon increases blood sugar. Ordinary people, due to the timely distribution of insulin glands, cause blood sugar and urinary tract to remain normal. And people with poorly functioning insulin-mediated diabetes should eat watermelon, which will increase blood sugar , if the serious condition can cause metabolic disorders. So people with diabetes should limit their sugar intake every day. If one day of eating too much watermelon, reduce the amount of sugar in other foods to avoid serious illness.

2. People with poor kidney function

Poor kidney function makes the function of excreting water in the body reduce, easily causing edema of the lower limbs and whole body . People with kidney disease if eating too much watermelon will cause water absorption without timely elimination, so too much water stored in the body, blood volume increases, causing rapid edema and easily impaired Acute heart.

Picture 2 of 10 things to know when you know how to eat watermelon People with kidney failure should not eat watermelon

3. People with colds

Oriental medicine assumes that even colds or fever or such early manifestations, must be used to treat diseases or spread from the outside. Watermelon is hot, so eating watermelon can cause serious or prolonged illness.

4. People with stomach ulcers

Peptic ulcer disease is considered by traditional Chinese medicine to be caused by sound distress. Because watermelons are diuretic, people with gastric ulcers who eat a lot of watermelons can make the entire water necessary to restore the ulcer being excreted, the condition becomes longer.

5. Maternity

Eating too many watermelons when pregnant will cause high blood sugar levels .

During pregnancy, many women 's psychology is unstable, physiological changes, the amount of insulin secreted is not enough, causing the effect of blood sugar to decrease, pushing the blood sugar level to high, causing diabetes .

Eating cold watermelons is easy for pregnant women to have abdominal pain and diarrhea. Therefore, pregnant women should not eat too much watermelon, should not eat chilled watermelon, no matter how hot the summer day is.

Picture 3 of 10 things to know when you know how to eat watermelon Pregnant women should not eat a lot of watermelon

6. Before and immediately after a meal

Water content in watermelon can dilute gastrointestinal fluid , eating before and immediately after a meal can affect the ability to absorb food digestion.

At the same time with a large amount of water in the body will account for most of the stomach's storage capacity, causing full feeling, reducing stimulating factors for eating, affecting health (especially health of children and pregnant women).

7. Watermelon should not eat too much

Watermelons are foods that live and cool, eat a lot, can damage the spleen, cause poor appetite, poor digestion, easy to make abdominal distention, go left .

94% of watermelon meat is water, with such a large amount of water it will dilute the gastric juice, causing indigestion and affect digestive function.

Picture 4 of 10 things to know when you know how to eat watermelon Do not eat a lot of cold watermelons

8. Cold watermelon

The hot summer days everyone likes to eat watermelon to cold, but this kind of stimulation is strong with the stomach, vulnerable to spleen. Only put watermelon in the lower compartment of the refrigerator, the temperature is about 8-10 degrees, each time should not eat more than 500 g, eat slowly.

It is best not to eat cold watermelons when people have a toothache, poor tooth decay or gastrointestinal function.

9. Easy to convert into fat

Although watermelon is a good fruit for the skin but due to its high sugar content, it is easy to convert into fat, so girls who are considering weight loss need to consider when choosing this fruit.

10. Watermelon added should not be left for too long

High temperature summer, suitable for bacteria growth. If watermelon has been added for too long in room temperature, it will be polluted by bacteria, leading to digestive disease .