Eating fruit indiscriminately can lead to unconsciousness？ !
□ Tadpole Jun
From spring to summer, fruits from all walks of life come as scheduled. If someone says at this time, you may not eat fruit. Do you believe it? However, some people really get sick because they can’t eat fruit, and some even have symptoms of unconsciousness and nonsense. What’s going on here?
Maybe you should know how to eat fruit.
"Eating litchi will get angry" is common sense?
Recently, litchi has been on the market. Many people love litchi and know the saying: "One litchi has three fires." Because eating too much litchi will really make you feel thirsty, and in severe cases, there will be oral ulcers, so people usually think that "eating litchi will really get angry."
In fact, eating too much litchi will cause dry mouth or oral ulcer, not because of excessive internal heat. The main reason is that litchi is a high-sugar fruit. High sugar will make your mouth in a hypertonic state, which will make you feel thirsty. At the same time, because litchi pulp is easy to plug in the teeth, high-sugar residues will also bring nutrients to bacteria in the mouth, leading to a large number of bacteria proliferation, causing oral ulcers, and even accompanied by symptoms such as gingival inflammation and swelling and pain.
In addition, excessive consumption of litchi can also lead to "litchi disease".
The main clinical manifestations of "litchi disease" are hypoglycemia, accompanied by symptoms such as pallor, dizziness, palpitation, hunger, sweating and fatigue. This is because litchi contains a lot of fructose, and it takes some time for fructose to enter the body and be converted into glucose. Insulin starts to consume glucose in the blood after eating litchi, and eating too much litchi increases satiety and affects the intake of other foods, resulting in hypoglycemia.
If you have mild symptoms such as dizziness, fatigue and sweating after eating a lot of litchi in a short time, you can take glucose water or white sugar water first, and then go to the hospital in time.
Therefore, doctors will suggest that adults should not consume more than 10 lychees a day, and 5-6 lychees are enough for children. Don’t eat too much.
Eating sugar cane without drinking water, almost insane?
During the Spring Festival last year, it suddenly became popular to eat sugar oranges. It was reported that a short video anchor showed off a basket of sugar oranges bought by her mother and ate them all, but he was delirious and was taken directly to the hospital.
Not long ago, another news about mental disorder caused by eating oranges and sugar cane was hotly searched: a 40-year-old long-distance truck driver in Huizhou City, Guangdong Province, ate a lot of sugar cane every day for a week to quench his thirst. As a result, he was delirious and had symptoms of gibberish. His family rushed to the hospital for treatment. Fortunately, due to timely treatment, the man was fine.
According to the doctor’s description, the man suffered from the above symptoms due to eating a lot of high-sugar fruits, insufficient drinking water during long-distance running, and excessive loss of water in his body, which led to his body being in a state of high sugar and hyperosmotic.
The so-called hyperglycemic hyperosmotic state refers to the syndrome that the blood sugar is greater than 33.3mmol/L, accompanied by high plasma osmotic pressure and severe dehydration without obvious ketosis tendency. Hyperglycemia and hyperosmotic state is also called nonketotic hyperosmotic diabetic coma in clinic. It refers to the patient’s body is under stress, and the insulin secretion in the body is relatively insufficient. At this time, the insulin anti-regulation hormone secretion is greatly increased, and the liver sugar is released rapidly, resulting in severe hyperglycemia. Hyperglycemia leads to hypertonic hyperglycemia, which will lead to mental abnormality, which is also one of the serious acute complications of diabetes, and even has the risk of death.
This kind of emergency usually requires a lot of fluid replacement, intravenous application of insulin and sedatives and other rescue and treatment measures. Therefore, doctors remind "sugar friends" that the daily intake of fruits and types should be strictly cautious. Once symptoms such as dry mouth, excessive drinking and emaciation appear, blood sugar changes should be monitored in time.
Distinguish between "high sugar" and "low sugar"
Fruit is obviously beneficial to the human body, but why does it hurt the body?
Based on the problem of sugar content, let’s first get a general understanding of the classification of fruits and how we should "eat fruits scientifically".
Fruits can be divided into low-sugar fruits and high-sugar fruits. Low-sugar fruit refers to the fruit with less than 10 grams of sugar per 100 grams of fruit. Including lemon, watermelon, orange, grapefruit, peach, plum, apricot, loquat, pineapple, strawberry, cherry, cucumber, tomato, etc., the lowest sugar content is lemon; High-sugar fruits refer to fruits with a sugar content of more than 10 grams per 100 grams of fruits, and can be divided into the following two categories: fruits with a sugar content of 11-20 grams per 100 grams of fruits, including bananas, pomegranates, melons, oranges, apples, pears, grapes, lychees, mangoes, etc. Fruits with sugar content higher than 20g per 100g of fruit include persimmon, cantaloupe, winter jujube and hawthorn.
Research shows that the sugar content in sugar orange is about 10%-11%, that is to say, every 100 grams of sugar orange contains about 10-11 grams of sugar. The sugar content of sugarcane is even higher, which is 17%-18%. Therefore, both of them are high-sugar fruits.
How to eat fruit scientifically?
In fact, the sugar mentioned here is mostly sucrose, glucose, fructose, etc. This kind of sugar is easily digested and absorbed by the body, so people’s blood sugar will increase significantly in a short time after eating. Therefore, how to grasp the amount, time, types of fruits and ways of eating is very knowledgeable.
So how do you eat fruit?
The first is to grasp the time of delicious fruit. Generally speaking, it is better to eat fruit between two meals (such as 10 am or 3 pm), so as to avoid overloading the pancreas with too much carbohydrates at one time. Generally speaking, it is not recommended to eat fruit immediately before or after meals.
The type of fruit you eat should also be selected according to your physical condition. For example, if people with sugar control needs (diabetics), they should choose fruits with relatively low sugar content and slow blood sugar increase; If you are hypoglycemic, you can eat more high-sugar fruits to supplement your body’s sugar. For details, please refer to the above fruit classification.
The second is the amount of fruit eaten. No matter how delicious the fruit is, it should be controlled. Don’t stop eating it. According to the Dietary Guidelines for China Residents published in 2021, the specific values of fruit intake of each age group are as follows: the intake of children aged 1-3 is 100-150g/day; The intake of children aged 4-6 is 150g/day; The intake of children aged 7-10 is 150-200g/day; The intake of children and adolescents aged 11-14 is 200-300g/day; The intake of teenagers aged 14-17 is 300-350g/day; The intake of adults over 18 years old is 200-350g/day; The intake of the elderly over 65 years old is 200-300g/day. Eating properly according to this amount should be relatively healthy.
Finally, the way to eat fruit is suggested not to juice as much as possible, and it is better to eat fresh fruit directly. After the fruit is squeezed into juice, on the one hand, many nutrients will be lost during the juicing process, for example, vitamin C will be destroyed by oxidation, and on the other hand, a lot of dietary fiber and minerals will be wasted if the pomace is lost. So drinking juice looks healthy, but it’s not.
Of course, the most important thing to remind everyone is that everything should adhere to the principle of moderation. This should be the secret of staying healthy forever.
(Source Tadpole Staff)