1, health hazards of bacon
1. Fat and cholesterol are easy to exceed the standard. Bacon sausages are mostly processed from pork. Most of the water is lost during air drying, while harmful substances such as fat and cholesterol are "concentrated", which means that we consume too many of these harmful substances while enjoying delicious food. If we indulge our appetite too much, it will easily lead to excessive fat and cholesterol.
2. Excessive salt intake can easily induce hypertension. In the process of curing bacon and sausage, in order to prevent meat from spoilage, we all need to add a lot of salt, so it is easy to exceed the standard when eating. Winter is the season with high incidence of hypertension. If you eat pickled products in large quantities, it will increase your blood pressure, so it is not recommended for middle-aged and elderly people and patients with abnormal blood pressure.
3. Beware of carcinogens. Preserved or smoked foods such as bacon and sausage contain carcinogens such as benzopyrene and nitrite, and are prone to digestive tract cancers, such as esophageal cancer and gastric cancer. So these foods can only be eaten at the table. Don't eat too much just because they are delicious.
4. Beware of food additives. In fact, the bacon sausage made by traditional handicrafts is not a big problem. However, we must be careful about the bacon and sausage products on the market today. In order to make them look good and delicious, some businesses often add food additives, such as preservatives and pigments, especially the products produced by some small workshops, which have many health risks.
2. Who shouldn't eat bacon?
1. Pregnant women
Preservatives are added to bacon during fruit curing. If eaten in large quantities, it will affect the health of the fetus, and bacon contains a lot of fat and salt. If pregnant women eat too much, it is easy to cause edema, which can seriously lead to hypertension during pregnancy. So it's best to eat less or not.
2. Children
Bacon is salty, generally with high salt content and high sodium content. If it is absorbed too much, it will increase the burden on the kidneys. Because the child's kidney function itself is not mature, it is best to eat less salted bacon.
3. Patients with hypertension and heart disease
Eating high-salt bacon is easy to increase blood pressure and increase the occurrence of vascular diseases. Bacon contains a lot of saturated fat and belongs to a high-fat and high-cholesterol diet. Excessive intake will cause vascular embolism and cause blood pressure fluctuation, so eat less.
4. Patients with gastrointestinal diseases
Bacon is a delicate food, which is not easy to digest. Many of them are sold in the open air and easy to accumulate dust. It is easier to get moldy when the weather is bad. If cooking is improper or washing is not clean, it is easy to cause gastrointestinal discomfort, especially for people who already have gastrointestinal diseases. Eating bacon will aggravate the condition.
5. Patients with hemorrhoids and constipation
People with hemorrhoids, if they eat too much bacon, will lead to too much salt intake, which will easily increase the blood pressure of venous plexus of hemorrhoids and aggravate the pain and bleeding of hemorrhoids. For people with constipation, eating bacon is not easy to digest, and it is easier to aggravate constipation and increase the difficulty of defecation.
6. Patients with kidney disease
People with poor kidneys should avoid salty food. Excessive sodium chloride will accumulate in vitro, leading to edema and increasing the burden on the kidneys and heart.
7. Obese patients
Bacon is neither fat nor delicious. It is a high-calorie and high-fat food. Obese people eat more bacon, which is undoubtedly worse, aggravating the accumulation of body fat, and the obesity situation will be more serious.