Summer eating watermelon of eight major taboo!

Juicy and sweet watermelon is people in summer every day will eat of the fruit.

However, watermelon not everyone can eat, even to eat also must pay attention to the science of cooking. Some patients, or in some cases, it is best not to eat.

1. diabetes

Watermelon is about 5% of sugars, and mainly glucose, fructose, sucrose and part of that is due after eating watermelon hyperglycemia.

Normal people will promptly produce insulin, glucose, glucose maintained at normal levels. While diabetes were different, in a short time to eat too much glucose watermelon, not only will rise, the heavier it may occur as a result of acidosis metabolic disorder, or even life threatening. Diabetics eat carbohydrates (sugars) is the need for strict control, so if one day more than once ate watermelon, reduced meal and flour products (carbohydrates), to avoid aggravating condition.

Tip: for diabetics, the control diet is very important.

Second, renal insufficiency,

Renal insufficiency patients discharged from the body, features significantly reduce moisture, thus experiencing lower limbs or body edema.

Such patients to eat too much watermelon, from intake too much water, and can not be timely to drain excess water, causing the water in the body of excess stocks, increase in blood volume and, therefore, not only to aggravate edema, and easily-induced acute heart failure. Therefore renal insufficiency patients to eat or not eat watermelon as well.

Third, at the beginning of a cold

Chinese medicine believes that both cold colds or the flu, its initial winds are part of the table cards should be used for disease pathogen from the table and the solutions of divergent treatment methods.

And think before if the table is not solution will increase the severity of the attack. While there are clearance in hot water-melon, so this time eating watermelon will make a worse or extend the course.

4. oral ulcer

In oral ulcers in traditional Chinese medicine is considered internal heat, caused by the scrambling.

Since watermelon has diuretic effects. If oral ulcer who eat watermelon, stomatitis restoration needed moisture is excessive discharge, thus increasing the heat Yin deficiency and to make the course stretches, it is difficult to heal.

Five, maternal

Maternal body weaker, Chinese medicine believes that eating watermelon too cold and loss and stomach.

6. not before and after meals

Because in a lot of water watermelon will dilute stomach's digestive juice, before and after meals will affect food digestion and absorption, and before eating large amounts of watermelon and will occupy a volume of the stomach, making dinner ingesting of nutrients in greatly reduced, especially for children, pregnant and lactating women's health.

And want to pass on a diet to lose weight is to eat watermelon before is a way to reduce food intake.

Seven, watermelon not eating too much

Because the watermelon belong to the "cold dish", a person eat much will hurt and stomach, causing poor appetite, indigestion and gastrointestinal immunity decrease, causing abdominal distension, diarrhea.

8. eat ice watermelon

Although the hot day eating ice watermelon anti-summer works well, but the excitement of the stomach, spleen and injury prone, it should be noted that grasp the delicious temperature and volume.

It is best to put watermelon in the lowest of the refrigerator storage room, here the temperature is around 8-10 ° c, the temperature of the best wines, the amount of each eat no more than 500 grams, and want to eat slowly. For dental caries (tooth decay) and contract will be acid, pain dental hypersensitivity, and gastrointestinal function is not good to not eat ice watermelon.

(Edit: Justin Lin, internships)