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Can you eat bean curd with stomach trouble? Reminder: If you want to keep a good stomach, it is recommended to eat more of these 4 foods

In recent years, the vast majority of people have irregular diet and lifestyle, which leads to more and more people suffering from stomach diseases. Many people don't take it seriously when they have stomach problems. They usually just take painkillers or stomach drugs to relieve them, but if you put them off for a long time, a small problem can become a big one.

By wu haoPublished 3 years ago 8 min read

In recent years, the vast majority of people have irregular diet and lifestyle, which leads to more and more people suffering from stomach diseases. Many people don't take it seriously when they have stomach problems. They usually just take painkillers or stomach drugs to relieve them, but if you put them off for a long time, a small problem can become a big one.

Especially in this society, people's living standard and economic ability have been improved, the diet will also change, often eat spicy, stimulating, greasy, high-fat and high-calorie food, coupled with the vast majority of people often stay up late at night, so further stimulate the stomach, leading to the stomach is getting worse and worse.

According to the statistics of the World Health Organization, in recent years, the incidence of stomach in the world is as high as 80%, and the number of patients suffering from stomach disease in China is as high as 120 million, stomach disease has become a disease problem faced by most people.

In the face of so many stomach problems, people in order to protect the stomach, can make a lot of efforts, recently there is a rumor that eating tofu will cause certain damage to the stomach problem, so many patients with stomach problems have to cancel tofu and other food on the table. Is tofu really bad for your stomach, as the rumor has it? How can ability nourish stomach healthily?

In response to the question, "Can you eat tofu if you have stomach problems?" Before we get to that, let's look at what our stomachs do.

First, the function and role of the stomach to understand

When it comes to the stomach, our first thought is to digest and store food. So what is the function of our stomach? In fact, the stomach has four major functions and roles: food storage, digestion and absorption, secretion and defense against foreign bodies.

First, store food. Stomach is an empty sac-like structure, especially like a large container, which can store food, water, etc. When eating, the stomach muscles will produce reflex relaxation, so that food can be left in the stomach for digestion.

Second, digestion and absorption. The gastric juices in the stomach contain digestive enzymes that chemically digest food through gastric peristalsis and gastric acid secretion.

Third, secretion. There are glands in the mucosa of the stomach that secrete digestive juices. When food enters, the parietal cells secrete hydrochloric acid to help secrete it.

Fourth, defense against foreign bodies. The mucus barrier of the stomach, gastric acid can secrete lymphoid tissue, can prevent the invasion of pathogenic microorganisms and foreign bodies.

In a word, it is the role of the stomach that we can live a normal life. After understanding the four major functions and effects of the stomach, let's return to the theme, in the end can there be stomach disease to eat tofu? Let's find out with the doctor.

Two, stomach disease can eat tofu?

As a nutritious food with a long history, tofu has been loved by Chinese people since ancient times. The raw material of tofu is soybean, which is made into soybean milk, and then solidified into soybean milk. The solidified tofu water is poured out under certain circumstances, thus forming the current situation of tofu.

Tofu contains vitamins and minerals, fat, a variety of trace elements and rich high-quality protein, appropriate consumption of tofu in daily life, for the health of the body and nutritional supplementation is can play a very good effect.

In addition, brine is added in the process of making tofu, so the content of calcium and magnesium in tofu is relatively high. According to the experiment, every 10g of tofu contains 1.64mg of calcium. If you want to supplement calcium, tofu can be said to be one of the worthy choices.

Since tofu has so many nutrients, it also has a lot of benefits for the human body, can people with stomach problems eat tofu in the end? The answer is: people with stomach diseases can eat tofu, of course, or pay attention to appropriate consumption of tofu.

Because tofu is particularly soft, it is suitable for digestion and absorption in the stomach. It is for this reason that people with stomach diseases can properly eat some tofu in their daily life, which can not only promote the digestion and absorption of the stomach, but also supplement the nutrition needed by the body. However, doctors do not recommend patients with stomach diseases to eat too much tofu, for the following reasons:

First of all, tofu contains a large amount of plant protein. Compared with animal protein, plant protein has a higher molecular weight. Therefore, eating a large amount of tofu will increase the burden of gastrointestinal tract in the process of gastrointestinal tract, resulting in indigestion.

Secondly, people with bad stomach, if they eat too much tofu, will be fermented in the process of gastrointestinal digestion, which may lead to gastrointestinal flatulence, and then diarrhea, abdominal pain and other symptoms.

Moreover, for patients with chronic atrophic gastritis, due to the absorption disorder of gastrointestinal mucosa, will lead to iron deficiency anemia. If you eat a lot of tofu, tofu can affect the absorption of iron, which can worsen the symptoms of anemia.

In conclusion, patients with stomach problems can eat some tofu appropriately, but must pay attention to the amount of tofu intake, not recommended to eat too much tofu.

In addition, patients with stomach diseases need to pay attention to their diet all the time, avoid eating spicy, greasy, stimulating food, avoid excessive drinking, and eat some easily digestible food. At the same time, we should pay attention to rest, not stay up late, drink warm water, and strengthen exercise appropriately.

We know what foods are bad for our stomachs, but do you know what behaviors are also bad for our stomachs? Let's take a look at it and see if you've been hit.

3. What behaviors can damage the stomach?

Now the pace of life in this society is slowly getting faster, many people get up in the morning hurry to go to work, develop the habit of not eating breakfast, in fact, not eating breakfast is the most likely to cause stomach disease.

In fact, the stomach will secrete gastric acid as usual every morning. If you often do not eat breakfast, there will be not enough food in the stomach to digest, which is easy to disrupt the digestive law of the stomach, thereby causing gastrointestinal diseases, such as stomach pain, stomach distension, nausea and other symptoms.

I believe that many people now like to exercise after meals, thinking that exercise can speed up the digestion of food. But improper exercise after meals can also lead to stomach problems.

Because after a meal needs a large amount of blood supply to the stomach for digestion, if this time for vigorous exercise, will lead to stomach blood insufficiency, and the appearance of indigestion or stomach cramps and other symptoms, over time will produce stomach disease.

Doctors recommend a moderate walk after a meal, but not exercise until at least half an hour later.

In fact, there are a lot of friends have the habit of drinking, no matter beer, liquor, red wine, as long as it is a happy will drink a little wine. But did you know that alcohol consumption is also a predisposing factor for gastric cancer?

The main ingredient of alcohol, I guess you all know, is ethanol, which is also known as alcohol. Alcohol will enter the stomach through the mouth, resulting in gastric mucosal damage, gastric mucosal ulceration, congestion, edema and other symptoms.

Alcohol, tobacco, alcohol, alcohol must also be inseparable from tobacco. Nicotine contained in tobacco will also cause irritation to the gastric mucosa, but also reduce the prostate content in the gastric mucosa, thereby losing the protective effect on the gastric mucosa, especially easy to aggravate the symptoms of gastritis.

From this point of view, the above behavior will cause damage to the stomach, which will lead to stomach disease, and even gastric cancer. As the saying goes, "illness comes from the mouth."

What foods should we eat to make our stomachs healthier?

Keep these 4 foods in mind and your stomach will be healthy

❶ yam

As one of the food we often eat, yam is also a kind of medicine. Its nutritional value is relatively rich. Because yam contains rich dietary fiber and starch, can be conducive to stomach digestion, won't cause a lot of burden to stomach.

But if you have flatulence symptoms, yams are not appropriate. Although yams can help with digestion, but people with weak spleen and stomach, or try to eat less to avoid constipation.

❷ apple

Apples are high in vitamins, unsaturated fatty acids and protein. And the crude fiber content of apples is particularly rich, eat some apples properly every day, can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, help gastrointestinal digestion, so as to play a stomach-nourishing role, eat more apples can also prevent constipation and dry stool and other problems.

In addition, because the nutritional value of apples is relatively rich, eat not only can supplement the body needed nutrition, but also can enhance the body's immunity.

❸ millet gruel

When it comes to nourishing the stomach, the word "millet porridge" will come to most people's minds, which is why it is the most popular type of porridge. The iron content of millet in millet porridge is more than 2 times that of rice, and the vitamin B1 content is 1.5 to 3.5 times that of rice, indicating that millet porridge is rich in nutrients. As a liquid food, millet porridge can pass quickly into the gastrointestinal tract and does not require chewing.

When the millet porridge enters the gastrointestinal tract, it will be broken down into glucose and absorbed by the body, which reduces the burden on the stomach, thereby rapidly promoting gastric acid secretion, helping the stomach digest and absorb food, and improving blood sugar.

❹ milk

Normal temperature milk is to the stomach has protective effect. Milk contains protein, after drinking milk will enter the stomach, can neutralize the stomach secreted gastric acid, thus can form a protective film on the surface of the stomach, so can prevent other irritating food to cause damage to the stomach mucosa.

For patients with less gastric acid secretion, if you want to drink milk, you can choose to drink it within half an hour after eating breakfast, which helps to promote stomach digestion.

However, some people are lactose intolerant and may have an upset stomach after drinking milk. In this case, milk or other types of dairy products should be prohibited.

Five, the summary

In a word, the health of the stomach organ is very important for our human body. In addition to taking medicine on time, we should also do a healthy diet and proper physical exercise, and keep an optimistic attitude, which will be more conducive to the health of the stomach.

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