Who should not eat watermelon?

Consuming too much watermelon at the same time will cause the body to face many dangerous problems.

Dr. Truong Hong Son, Director of Vietnam Institute of Applied Medicine said that besides many benefits, when we eat too much watermelon, we will face the following conditions:

1. Gastrointestinal disorders : Eating can be bloated, flatulence, loss of appetite, cholera, because the spleen is damaged when too many of these fruits are loaded. Therefore, people with weak intestines due to age or pathology should not eat watermelon.
2. Harmful to patients with gastric ulcers : Watermelon contains a lot of water, has a diuretic effect. Eating a lot of watermelon will increase the urinary system, losing the amount of water needed to make the ulcers hard to recover.

Eating too much watermelon is not healthy.

1. Causing bloating and nausea : The side effects of lycopene antioxidants contained in watermelon are causing flatulence, dyspepsia, nausea if large amounts of this substance are taken into the body and not absorbed. . Therefore, when vomiting and nausea are present, you should stop eating watermelon again and take timely detoxification.
2. Easy to cause heart attack : Although the effect of watermelon is to stabilize heart rate, help prevent cardiovascular diseases thanks to abundant potassium. Eating too much watermelon causes too much potassium to disrupt the heart rhythm and central nervous system, causing abnormal heart attacks.
3. Causing kidney damage : When eating a lot of watermelons, the amount of water entering the body is high, causing the kidneys to operate at high frequency, which can cause kidney damage and lead to kidney diseases. Besides, watermelon also reduces blood sugar when eating too much. This disrupts the production of harmful insulin to the kidneys.
4. Reduced blood pressure : Watermelon works to lower blood pressure, so it's good for people with high blood pressure, but if you eat too much, excessive blood pressure is also a big concern to your health.

The time should not eat watermelon

Do not eat watermelon in the evening.

1. Before and immediately after a meal : Water content in watermelon may dilute digestive juices in the stomach, 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).
2. Evening : Sugar in watermelon is fructose. Studies have long found fructose although not significantly increasing blood sugar, but it increases appetite.

Who should not eat watermelon?

1. People with stomach pain : Watermelon is weldable, so people with stomach pain who eat a lot of watermelon are more likely to suffer from stomach damage.
2. People with colds : People with colds, especially at the time of illness, if you eat a lot of watermelon, are not good for your health because the watermelon is weldable, which can make the body become cold, making the disease longer.
3. People with diabetes : Watermelon contains a lot of sugar, the more red and sweet the melon, the higher the sugar content. Patients with diabetes who eat watermelon too much will cause kidneys to overburden.
4. People with kidney dysfunction : People with kidney dysfunction if they eat a lot of watermelons will cause the body to store water, difficult to excrete, causing edema, leading to uncomfortable bloating, in addition to increasing risk of acute heart failure.

Pregnant women and women who have just given birth should not eat watermelon.

1. People with mouth ulcers : When they have mouth ulcers, many people mistakenly think that if they eat a lot of watermelon, they will quickly recover from illness and help their body heat quickly. However, watermelon has a diuretic effect, causing the body's water to be excreted, causing a lack of water in the oral cavity, making the disease longer.
2. Pregnant women and women who have just given birth : Pregnant women will often have lower levels of insulin, affecting the function of stabilizing blood sugar. If you eat too much watermelon, your blood sugar is high, not good for pregnant women. When a mother has just given birth, she should not eat watermelon due to its weak base, easy to get cold, and watermelon is welded easily, causing abdominal pain and diarrhea.
3. Elderly : Older people often suffer from heart and stomach diseases, especially in hot summer days. This person should not eat too much watermelon to avoid affecting stomach, heart, kidney function.