How about soup? Experts suggest that it is beneficial to drink a small amount of soup with meals. Because the water in the body is balanced, you can ensure that you secrete enough digestive juice when you eat, which will increase your appetite and help digestion. However, don't drink while eating, and don't send meals with water or soup. This is a very bad habit. The correct way should be to drink water several times an hour before meals, with a small amount of 200 ~ 300 ml at a time and once every ten minutes. The water you drink on an empty stomach only stays in your stomach for a few minutes, and soon it will enter the small intestine, be absorbed into the blood, and be replenished to the tissues and cells of the whole body in about an hour.
Advantages of drinking soup before meals Drinking a bowl of soup before meals can promote saliva secretion, moisten the digestive tract, reduce food intake, help control appetite and maintain a healthy weight. Just this bowl of soup. I don't know if you have found out what soup we often drink before eating. A bowl of thick milk soup. The reason why it is thick is because it has been simmered for a long time. But the soup is milky white, mainly composed of emulsified fat particles and soluble protein. If you drink a bowl of thick milky white soup before eating, your fat intake may exceed the standard, and your salt intake may be excessive. Because milky white soup will be salted in the production process, otherwise the soup will be tasteless and difficult to swallow. For people with obesity and hypertension, drinking a bowl of this soup before eating is undoubtedly worse. Friends who want to lose weight will probably get fatter and fatter.
Precautions for drinking soup before meals Pay attention to the correct time and quantity of soup. As the saying goes, "soup before meals is not as good as medicine", in fact, this statement is reasonable. When eating, food passes through the mouth, throat, esophagus and finally reaches the stomach, which is like a passage. Drinking soup before eating is equivalent to unblocking this passage and allowing dry and hard food to pass through without irritating the digestive tract mucosa. The time to drink soup is about 20 minutes before meals, or you can drink soup slowly and in small quantities.
Although drinking soup before meals is good for health, it does not mean that the more you drink, the better. Generally speaking, you can drink more breakfast properly, because people will lose more water in the morning after a night's sleep. It is advisable to drink half a bowl of soup before lunch and dinner, especially at night, otherwise frequent nocturia will affect sleep.
1 Choose different soups according to different situations, and it is most suitable to drink broth in the morning, because broth is rich in protein and fat, which can be digested in the body for 3-5 hours, so as to avoid people's hunger and hypoglycemia in the morning 10- 12.
2. Drinking different soups in different seasons can prevent seasonal diseases. For example, it is advisable to drink mung bean soup in summer and mutton soup in winter.
Fat people are suitable for drinking a bowl of vegetable soup before meals, which can satisfy their appetite and help them lose weight. People who are thin can strengthen their physique by drinking soup with high sugar and high protein.
4. Pregnant women, lactating women, the elderly and children can drink half a bowl of bone soup before eating to supplement the calcium needed by the body. Note that patients with fractures should not drink bone soup.