Physicians said that sweet potatoes can help the human body digest and replenish energy, and are rich in fiber, which can promote defecation and help the body detoxify. According to research, eating sweet potatoes every day can also greatly reduce the risk of lung cancer. (Schematic Diagram/Shutterstock) Sweet Potato (Drawing/China Times News Network)
If you love to eat sweets but are afraid of hurting your body, TCM doctor Yu Yawen suggested that you might as well eat sweet potatoes instead, because sweet potatoes can help the body digest function and replenish body energy, and sweet potatoes are rich in fiber, which can promote defecation and help the body detoxify; Eating sweet potatoes can also greatly reduce the risk of lung cancer. But she also reminded that sweet potatoes should not be eaten together with persimmons, because the combination of the two ingredients will produce gastric persimmon stones, which may cause gastric bleeding or gastric ulcers.
Yu Yawen said on her Facebook page that sweet potatoes are the champion of the top 10 best vegetables selected by the World Health Organization, and their functions are super powerful. “Compendium of Materia Medica” pointed out that sweet potatoes are sweet and mild in nature, can tonify deficiency and fatigue, strengthen energy, and strengthen kidneys Yin can help the body’s digestive system, increase the body’s absorption of nutrients, strengthen body functions, and restore the weakened body to health. If the stomach and intestines are weakened and the strength declines, roasted sweet potatoes are most effective for physical recovery.
Sweet potatoes contain a lot of dietary fiber, which can promote gastrointestinal motility and effectively solve constipation problems, so it can help the body detoxify. Yu Yawen also said that according to the National Cancer Institute of the United States, as long as you eat 100 grams of sweet potatoes, pumpkins, and carrots a day (100 grams in total), you can greatly reduce the risk of lung cancer. The study pointed out that sweet potatoes are rich in anticancer substances β-carotene and gangliosides, and eating sweet potatoes every day will reduce the risk of lung cancer by half.
But she also reminded that when you eat sweet potatoes, you should avoid eating them with persimmons, because persimmons contain tannins and pectin, and the sugar contained in sweet potatoes will be fermented in the stomach, which will increase the secretion of gastric acid and react with it, resulting in precipitation Agglomeration and hard lumps can cause gastric persimmon stones, and in severe cases, it may even cause gastrointestinal bleeding or gastric ulcer.
2023-09-07 01:25:26
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