After entering the hot summer, people often feel thirsty and anxious, especially after exercise. In order to get temporary coolness, some people will use the method of drinking more or quick cold drinks to quickly relieve the cooling. As everyone knows, while you are enjoying comfort, our health is slowly being seriously hurt.
Some people drink cold drinks quickly, and after drinking, they will feel severe pain in temples, eyes and other parts. This is because cold drinks stimulate the nerves in the head. Drinking cold drinks continuously and quickly will cause the blood vessels in the throat to contract, leading to blue lips, tight teeth, and even trembling and difficulty breathing. In addition, eating too much cold food can also stimulate gastric mucosal spasm, leading to abdominal pain, diarrhea, cold sweat, vomiting and other symptoms.
Eating too many cold drinks will dilute the gastric juice, affect the digestion and absorption function, stimulate the intestine, make the gastrointestinal peristalsis hyperactive, shorten the time of food staying in the small intestine, affect the absorption of nutrients in food, and thus lead to the decline of human resistance. Especially people with acute gastrointestinal diseases should eat less or not. Chinese medicine also pays attention to "heat is not burning, cold is not gloomy", warning people that hot food should not be too hot and cold food should not be too cold.
Medical research shows that in summer, the yang in the body is outside and the yin is inside. Patients with chronic bronchitis, emphysema, cor pulmonale, asthma, arthritis, etc. Usually sensitive to cold stimuli. If they eat too much cold drinks at this time, it is bound to further damage the yang, leading to the recurrence of old diseases.
Everything should be measured. Drinking a cold drink and eating a cold and refreshing ice cream on a hot summer day can really make people feel comfortable. While feeling cool, don't let the cool pleasure hurt your body. So, don't drink cold drinks too fast and too much for the sake of being quick. For your health, please choose the "moderate" level.
Tips: It is pointed out that people should not eat cold drinks immediately after sweating. Because when sweating, people's body temperature will rise and their pharynx will be congested. At this time, if you eat cold drinks, the gastrointestinal tract and pharynx will cause diarrhea or sore throat due to sudden cold stimulation = Therefore, when sweating, you should dry your sweat first, and it is best to drink a cup of warm tea before eating cold drinks. However, it should be noted that drinking drinks cannot replace drinking water, and it is better to drink tea to relieve summer heat. Hot tea is an ideal drink in summer.
Teach you a trick: cold drinks should not be consumed excessively, because cold drinks contain substances with high heat energy such as sugar, which can easily lead to obesity.
Drinking cold drinks in hot summer should be the same as drinking hot soup, savoring carefully and drinking slowly.
Don't drink cold drinks at roadside stalls. When purchasing, carefully check the production date and shelf life, try to choose products with close factory date, and use brand-name soft drinks or popsicles with caution.
Ordinary juice drinks have no sediment; Bottled drinks should not leak; There should be a fragrance after opening the bottle; Fresh milk is milky white, with uniform milk quality and milk fragrance; No precipitation, clots and impurities. Therefore, we must pay attention to these aspects when choosing cold drinks.
Appendix Generally speaking, the intake of a cold drink should be around 150ml.