A healthy diet should not only eat flour and rice for a long time, but also eat it with miscellaneous grains; Different coarse cereals have different medicinal properties and different nourishing effects. Many people don't know what miscellaneous grains to eat for their health. Did you eat right?
Different grains have different effects.
Xiaomi: Have a good sleep and strengthen your stomach.
Millet can benefit kidney and stomach, clear away heat and tonify deficiency, soothe the nerves and strengthen the stomach. Millet is rich in tryptophan and is easily absorbed by people. Tryptophan can promote the secretion of serotonin and is a good food for sleeping and strengthening the stomach.
Sorghum: nourishing and protecting the liver
Chinese medicine believes that sorghum has the function of strengthening the spleen and stomach. Animal experiments have proved that sorghum has the function of nourishing and protecting liver. Children with weak spleen and stomach and indigestion should bake sorghum noodles in a pot and cook them into porridge. Children should eat less, generally not more than half a face at a time.
Coix seed: detoxification and bone strengthening
Coix seed is rich in dietary fiber, which can promote our intestinal peristalsis, help digestion, prevent constipation, and clarify the toxins produced by our bodies. Prevent intestinal diseases. Eating coix seed regularly can also inhibit the contraction of skeletal muscles in the body and enhance the development of bones. Reducing muscle spasms can also delay bone aging and make our bones healthier.
Euryale ferox: preventing aging
Euryale ferox is rich in starch, which can provide heat energy for the human body, and contains a variety of vitamins and carbonaceous substances to ensure the nutrients needed in the body. Gordon Euryale seed preparation "Eight Immortals Cake" has obvious effect of prolonging life.
Oats: lowering blood fat
Studies have shown that β -glucan in oats can reduce low-density lipoprotein cholesterol in blood; In addition, the glycemic index of oats is low, which helps to control blood sugar. Oats can also prevent constipation and intestinal cancer.
Wheat: strengthening the spleen and nourishing the heart
Wheat is sweet, flat and slightly cold, and has the effects of invigorating spleen and kidney, nourishing heart and calming nerves. People who are upset and insomnia can cook porridge with wheat, rice and jujube. Wheat bran contains high dietary fiber, which can prevent and treat hyperlipidemia, diabetes, atherosclerosis, hemorrhoids, senile constipation and colon cancer.
Buckwheat: Lowering blood sugar
Buckwheat is rich in dietary fiber and flavonoids, especially in China's specialty buckwheat, the content of flavonoids and rutin is very high. Rutin is the main component of drugs for preventing and treating diabetes and controlling postprandial blood sugar elevation. Therefore, buckwheat and tartary buckwheat are especially suitable for diabetics.
Purple rice and black rice: eye protection
Purple-black coarse cereals such as purple rice and black rice are generally rich in anthocyanins, which have antioxidant effect, can prevent fat oxidation and maintain eye vascular health.
Brown rice: lowering blood fat
Brown rice retains a lot of dietary fiber, which can promote the proliferation of intestinal beneficial bacteria, accelerate intestinal peristalsis, soften feces, and prevent constipation and intestinal cancer; Dietary fiber can also combine with cholesterol in bile to promote the discharge of cholesterol, thus helping patients with hyperlipidemia to lower their blood lipids.
Corn: lowering cholesterol
Sweet in taste and flat in nature, it has the functions of strengthening the spleen and promoting diuresis, stimulating appetite and improving intelligence, calming the heart and promoting blood circulation. Linoleic acid in corn oil can prevent cholesterol from depositing on blood vessel wall, which has a positive effect on preventing hypertension and coronary heart disease. Moreover, corn has the function of diuresis and lowering blood sugar, which is especially suitable for diabetics.
Mung beans: clearing away heat and toxic materials
From the point of view of traditional Chinese medicine, mung bean is cold, so it has the function of clearing heat and detoxifying. From the point of view of nutrition, the health care function of mung bean comes from its antioxidant components, such as flavonoids, tannins, saponins, etc., which have the function of clearing heat and detoxifying.
Red beans: clear the heart and nourish the heart.
Chinese medicine believes that red beans can clear away heat and promote diuresis, reduce swelling and detoxify, clear away heart-fire, replenish blood and soothe the nerves, and also supplement nutrients such as potassium, magnesium, phosphorus, zinc and selenium for the body. Li Shizhen called red beans "the valley of the heart". Red beans can not only clear the heart, but also make up for hard work. At the same time, red beans and crude fiber are rich in substances, which help to reduce blood fat, blood pressure and improve heart activity.
Black beans: tonifying kidney and promoting blood circulation
Black beans are sweet and flat, and have the effects of tonifying kidney, strengthening body, promoting blood circulation and diuresis, and detoxifying, and are especially suitable for people with kidney deficiency. Can people with low back pain and tinnitus caused by kidney deficiency take 50 grams of black beans and 500 dogs? G, cook together, add various seasonings and eat.
These five kinds of people should not eat more miscellaneous grains.
1, people with digestive problems
People with digestive problems (such as gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer) are not suitable for eating whole grains, because these ingredients are rough and have physical friction on the gastrointestinal tract, which will cause wound pain. People who are prone to flatulence are uncomfortable when they eat too much.
Reminder: People with gastrointestinal diseases should not eat too much buckwheat, because buckwheat is prone to indigestion; You can also consider eating soybeans to avoid flatulence.
2. People with anemia and calcium deficiency.
The high content of phytic acid and oxalic acid in cereals will inhibit the absorption of calcium, especially iron. Therefore, people with calcium deficiency and anemia should eat wisely. For example, milk can't be eaten with rice from whole grains, so calcium can't be absorbed.
In addition, the blood matrix iron contained in red meat is not affected by phytic acid, but most elderly people dare not eat red meat. If they blindly eat whole grains for health, it will be very bad. Some people have been unable to improve anemia because they eat too much whole grains.
So do women. If they have anemia problems and like to eat miscellaneous grains, they must supplement red meat. Half of the meat in a day must come from red meat.
3. Patients with kidney disease
Patients with kidney disease need to eat refined white rice instead. Because of the high content of protein, potassium and phosphorus in coarse cereals, it is easy to eat more as a staple food, which is unbearable for patients.
Zhang Wuben, who is in charge of the diet health of patients with chronic kidney disease in the hospital, said that from time to time, when patients are on the verge of renal dialysis crisis, they will go home and quickly abandon white rice and eat whole grains to revive their health; Results After three months of follow-up, the blood test showed that the patient's potassium and phosphorus suddenly soared, and it was only after careful inquiry that the patient was misled by cleverness.
4. Diabetic patients
People with diabetes should control the intake of starch, even if they eat whole grains, they should also control the amount.
Moreover, although whole grains help to lower blood sugar because they have enough fiber, medical staff encourage diabetics to eat them. But once diabetes complicated with nephropathy changes, you can't eat whole grains at this time, and you have to go back to eat polished rice, which makes many patients very confused.
5, gout patients
Eating more beans in gout patients will lead to an increase in uric acid, and the intake of beans in grains will be minimized.