Does drinking milk in summer make you hot?
April 13, 2023
Milk is the oldest natural beverage, known as "white blood", milk is rich in minerals, calcium, phosphorus, iron, zinc, copper, manganese, molybdenum, milk is the best source of calcium for the human body, and the ratio of phosphorus to calcium is very appropriate, carp human absorption of calcium. The actual truth is that you will get fire from drinking milk in summer?
Is it true that drinking milk in the summer can cause fire?
You can't get fire from drinking milk in summer. This is because from a nutritional point of view, milk contains protein, fat, minerals and water, these components do not lead to the "fire" factors in Chinese medicine theory. And milk contains more than 85% water, which is also a good source of moisture in summer. The reason why milk is "on fire" in summer is that they are in a state of dehydration, immune deficiency or gastrointestinal discomfort when they drink milk, mistakenly thinking that it is the milk that is causing the "fire".
People who are not suitable for drinking milk in summer
People who are frequently exposed to lead
The lactose in milk can promote the absorption and accumulation of lead in human body, which can easily cause lead poisoning. Therefore, people who are often exposed to lead should not drink milk, and can drink sour milk instead, because the lactose in sour milk is very little and has mostly turned into lactic acid.
Reflux esophagitis patients
Milk has the effect of lowering the pressure of the lower esophageal sphincter, thus increasing the reflux of gastric or intestinal fluids and aggravating esophagitis.
Patients after abdominal and gastrectomy surgery
The lactase in the patient's body will be affected and reduced. After drinking milk, lactose cannot be decomposed and will ferment in the body, producing water, lactic acid and a large amount of carbon dioxide, making the patient bloated. During laparotomy, the intestinal canal is exposed to air for a long time and the intestinal mesentery is stretched, which delays the recovery of intestinal peristalsis after surgery, and the gas produced in the intestinal cavity due to swallowing or fermentation cannot be discharged in time, which will aggravate abdominal distension, and abdominal pain and increased intra-abdominal pressure may occur, and even distension and cracking of the suture and incision of the abdominal wall may occur. After gastrectomy, milk containing lactose will rapidly pour into the small intestine because the gastric sac left after the surgery is very small, making the lactase, which was already insufficient or lacking, even more insufficient or lacking.
Patients with cholecystitis and pancreatitis
Digestion of the fat in milk must supply bile and pancreatic enzymes, and milk increases the burden on the gallbladder and pancreas, with the result that symptoms are exacerbated.
Those who usually have symptoms such as bloating, excessive farts, abdominal pain and diarrhea
Although these symptoms are not caused by milk, they can be aggravated by milk consumption.
Contraindications to drinking milk
Boiling milk on a low flame
The fire will cause the vitamins in the milk to be damaged by the oxygen in the air, while boiling milk over a high fire is easy to overflow, so when the volume of milk expands, you should immediately leave the fire, and then put it back on the fire to boil, so repeatedly three or four times, so that not only to maintain the nutrients in the milk, but also to kill the pathogenic microorganisms in the milk.
Prolonged direct sunlight on milk
Milk is exposed to direct sunlight for a longer period of time so that the sun will relentlessly destroy the nutrients in the milk and even make it spoil. Sunlight exposure for 2 hours, half of the riboflavin in milk will be lost and riboflavin is converted into fluorescent riboflavin by sunlight can further destroy vitamin C. So milk should be protected from light, not to mention prolonged exposure to sunlight.
Drinking milk with sugar
Many people add sugar to the milk when it is boiled, thinking that this will make the sugar dissolve as soon as possible, not knowing that putting sugar in the heating is a very unscientific practice. Because milk contains lysine and sugar contains fructose, these two substances will form a bond at high temperatures - fructosyl lysine. The substance cannot be digested and absorbed by the body, destroying the nutritional value of the protein, and worse, it may also have some toxicity to the human body, so do not put sugar in the milk when it is heated. If you want to drink sweetened milk, you can add sugar after the milk has cooled slightly.
Milk and fruits with high fruit acid content together
Milk is broken down in the stomach by the action of pepsin and pancreatic enzymes, and then enters the small intestine to be absorbed. If milk is eaten with fruits such as oranges that are high in fruit acids, the proteins in the milk and fruit acids and vitamin C will undergo complex biochemical reactions and coagulate into blocks, which will affect the digestion and absorption of the proteins in the milk and vitamin C in the oranges, and there will be abdominal distension, abdominal pain and diarrhea and other adverse reactions, so it is not worth the loss to eat them together.
How to eat milk nutritionally
Milk porridge
Ingredients: 250 ml of fresh milk, 60 grams of rice, sugar in appropriate amounts.
Directions: First boil rice until half-cooked, remove the rice broth, add milk and cook it into porridge with a gentle fire, add sugar and stir, dissolve it fully.
Efficacy: It can nourish deficiency, strengthen the spleen and stomach, and moisten the five organs. It is suitable for weakness and strain, deficiency of qi and blood, deficiency after illness, old age and weakness, malnutrition and other diseases.
Milk and jujube soup
Ingredients: 500 ml of milk, 25 grams of jujube, 100 grams of rice.
Directions: First cook rice and jujube together into porridge, then add milk and boil it.
Effect: It can nourish qi and blood, strengthen the spleen and stomach, and is suitable for overworked body deficiency and qi and blood deficiency.
Papaya milk
Ingredients: papaya half, red dates, dried cinnamon, brown sugar
Directions: Boil a pot of boiling water, put the right amount of dried cinnamon and red dates to boil first, then cut the papaya into small pieces and put them into the pot of boiling water, add two spoons of brown sugar, when the papaya is cooked to a soft, rotten degree, add the right amount of milk to the pot, and the food in the pot will be boiled once again.
Efficacy: papaya milk has the effect of anti-aging beauty, breast augmentation and skin care, calming the liver and stomach, soothing the tendons and activating the muscles.
Banana milk shake
Ingredients: 50ml of milk, one banana
Directions: Cut the banana into small pieces, pour it into a blender with 50ml of milk, and then start the blender.
Effect: Banana shake is rich in protein, carbohydrates, calcium, potassium, phosphorus, iron, zinc, vitamin C and other nutrients. Bananas are known as the "fruit of wisdom" and contain almost all vitamins and minerals, so it is easy to take in all kinds of nutrients from bananas. They are also very well digested and absorbed, and together with milk, they have an educational effect on children and are good for brain development and bone growth.