1, fruit for preventing constipation
1, banana
Bananas are rich in pectin in dietary fiber, which can promote intestinal peristalsis and make defecation smooth. Sticking to eating a cooked banana before going to bed at night can effectively relieve habitual constipation. Chinese medicine believes that bananas are sweet in taste, cold in nature, and cold in nature can clear the heat in the intestines, and sweet in taste can moisten the intestines and relax the bowels, which is more suitable for the heat mystery caused by gastrointestinal heat accumulation. Symptoms are dry stool, short and red urine, red face and fever, abdominal distension and abdominal pain, dry mouth and bad breath.
2. Apple
Apples are rich in water-soluble dietary fiber: pectin. Pectin can protect intestinal wall, activate beneficial bacteria in intestinal tract and regulate gastrointestinal function, so it can effectively clean intestinal tract and prevent constipation. At the same time, the fiber in the apple can soften the stool and facilitate excretion. In addition, organic acids in apples can stimulate intestinal peristalsis and help defecation.
3. Oats
Oatmeal is rich in dietary fiber, which can keep satiety for a long time, prevent eating too much greasy and salty food, and achieve the effect of losing weight. But also a "natural intestinal cleaner", which helps to prevent constipation.
4. honey
Ancient Chinese medicine pointed out the utility of honey: "Except for upset, constipation, asthenic heat, heartache, taxation, and various drugs, except for many diseases." Honey is rich in vitamins, minerals and enzymes. Enzymes can help the human body digest, absorb and strengthen metabolism. Drinking a cup of honey water before going to bed can effectively prevent constipation.
5.yogurt
The biggest benefit of lactic acid bacteria and probiotics produced during milk fermentation is to regulate intestinal flora, maintain the balance of intestinal function, and prevent constipation and diarrhea.
2. Diet therapy to prevent constipation
(1) honey egg drop soup
Ingredients: honey, sesame oil and an egg.
Exercise:
1. Beat the eggs in a bowl and stir them with chopsticks for later use.
2. Add a proper amount of water to honey and put it in a pot to boil. Beat the eggs in the bowl into egg blossoms, and then add the right amount of sesame oil to the pot.
How to eat: Get up and drink a bowl every morning.
Tip: This soup can tonify deficiency and is suitable for constipation due to intestinal dryness. Honey can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, has the function of regulating the stomach and intestines, can discharge waste in the body and improve constipation.
(2) cassia seed kelp soup
Ingredients: kelp, watercress, ginger, yellow fungus, salt, cassia seed, etc.
Exercise:
1. Wash watercress and cut into sections. Wash the yellow ear with clear water for later use.
2. After pouring proper amount of water into the pot and boiling, add cassia seed and cook for a few minutes before taking it out.
3. Add Huanger, shredded ginger, kelp and watercress together and cook for a while. Season with salt and serve.
How to eat: daily consumption.
Tip: This soup cassia seed has the effect of clearing liver and improving eyesight. Office workers who work in front of the computer for a long time are prone to fatigue and astringency. Eating cassia seed can effectively relieve eye fatigue. If eaten together with kelp and watercress, it can relax the bowels and effectively prevent constipation.
(3) Bamboo shoots and lotus seed soup
Ingredients: green bamboo shoots, fresh mushrooms, vegetarian chicken, lotus seeds, Dutch beans, Ophiopogon japonicus, asparagus, salt and so on.
Exercise:
1. Peel bamboo shoots, put them in, add appropriate amount of water to remove astringency, take them out and slice them with vegetarian chicken, and wash mushrooms and slice them for later use.
2. Put all the cut ingredients into the casserole, add seasoning, cover the pot and pour hot water, and stew for about 40 minutes.
How to eat: daily consumption.
It is suggested that Ophiopogon japonicus and asparagus are cold, and mushrooms and bamboo shoots are high in cellulose, which can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis and prevent constipation. Ophiopogon japonicus and Radix Asparagi can clear away heat and dry dampness, and together they can remove the dryness in the body and discharge the waste in the body. This product is beneficial to moistening lung and clearing deficiency fire.
Warm reminder: women can use these foods to relieve constipation in winter. If constipation is serious, you should pay attention to your daily eating habits, drink more boiled water and do more exercise.
3. What are the hazards of constipation?
1, affecting beauty: constipation patients can produce a lot of harmful toxins due to long-term retention of feces in the intestine and abnormal fermentation, which is prone to acne, facial pigmentation and rash.
2, leading to obesity: toxins lead to edema of the large intestine, slow blood circulation in the lower body, easy to form pear-shaped and fat belly.
3, produce body odor: the accumulation of toxins will cause bad breath and body odor.
4, tasteless diet: constipation can make the abdomen full, resulting in nausea, anorexia, tasteless food.
5, neurasthenia: constipation patients can have symptoms such as irritability, anxiety, insomnia.
6, causing dysmenorrhea: patients with chronic constipation can often cause dysmenorrhea due to long-term pelvic floor muscle stimulation.
7. Decreased libido: Patients with long-term constipation may have decreased libido, leading to male impotence, premature ejaculation, female apathy or lack of orgasm, thus reducing the quality of sexual life.
8. Complications: Constipation patients may be complicated with anorectal diseases, such as hemorrhoids, anal fissure, rectal prolapse, colonic diverticulum, etc. In addition, it is easy to suffer from allergic diseases such as urticaria, asthma, gallstones, headache and scapulohumeral periarthritis.
9. Inducing cancer: In addition, it can also induce breast cancer: harmful toxins of constipation patients continue to stimulate intestinal mucosa, which is easy to cause colorectal cancer and can also induce breast cancer.
10, causing sudden death: Especially in patients with cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension and coronary heart disease, anal anger with severe constipation can make blood pressure rise sharply, causing stroke and even sudden death.