Today, let's talk about it. Old people like to eat raw onions and garlic. Is eating more good for their health?
Of course, eating too much is not good. Eating more is a challenge for ordinary people, not to mention the elderly. What's more, it's still raw, which is more exciting. Another point is that eating this kind of food, the taste in your mouth is unpleasant, which affects the mood of people around you too much.
Let's be specific.
First, the benefits of garlic
Fight cancer. Sulfur-containing compounds in garlic mainly act on the "start-up stage" of tumorigenesis, and prevent normal cells from transforming into cancer cells by enhancing detoxification function, interfering with the activation of carcinogens, preventing canceration, enhancing immune function, blocking the formation of lipid peroxidation, and resisting mutation.
Antibacterial and anti-inflammatory. Garlic is a natural plant containing antibiotics, and its bactericidal ability is110 of penicillin. It has obvious inhibitory and killing effects on staphylococcus, meningitis, pneumonia, streptococcus, diphtheria, dysentery, typhoid fever, paratyphoid fever, mycobacterium tuberculosis, Vibrio cholerae and other pathogenic bacteria.
Reduce blood fat. Studies have shown that in areas where each person eats 20 grams of garlic every day, the mortality rate of cardiovascular diseases is significantly lower than that in areas where there is no habit of eating raw garlic, so regular consumption of raw garlic also has antihypertensive effect.
Lower blood pressure. Hypertension is a very common disease, and there are many patients among middle-aged and elderly people in China. Taking antihypertensive drugs is of course the best way to control blood pressure, but garlic also has the effect of lowering blood pressure. Eat more at ordinary times!
People who shouldn't eat garlic
Patients with diarrhea due to spleen deficiency. Raw garlic is very exciting. Eating less in peacetime can promote digestion. However, if you eat garlic when suffering from non-bacterial enteritis or diarrhea, strong stimulation will aggravate the congestion and edema of intestinal mucosa, promote exudation and aggravate the condition.
Weak and hot. The ancients thought that eating more garlic would dissipate people's qi and blood, and Materia Medica from the New recorded that "garlic is pungent and toxic, causing phlegm burning, dispersing qi and consuming blood, and it is not suitable for those who are weak and hot to touch their lips". Therefore, people with poor health and weak qi and blood should pay attention.
abstract
Garlic is very suitable for the elderly, because it can lower blood sugar and blood pressure, and it can also resist bacteria and cancer, which can be said to be some functions that the elderly need very much. Although there are these good effects, enough is enough, and the amount of food should be determined according to your body. In addition, drinking a cup of tea after eating can remove the odor in your mouth.