After the improvement of living material conditions, there are many types of meat and all kinds of favorite meat. Lamb is one of them. The most common thing people eat hot pot is mutton. Lamb is rich in nutritional value and can bring many benefits to the body.
From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, mutton is a warm food . If consumed appropriately, mutton can warm the kidneys and nourish the yang, strengthen the spleen and qi, and strengthen the muscles and bones. Not only that, mutton can drive away cold and relieve breast milk for pregnant women.
Although eating mutton appropriately can bring benefits to your health, some people think that mutton is a catalyst for cancer. So is there any scientific basis for this statement?
Eat mutton to ginseng? Is mutton a good nutritional product?
"Compendium of Materia Medica" records: Mutton warms the middle and replenishes deficiency, nourishes the middle and replenishes qi, promotes appetite and strengthens kidney qi, nourishes gallbladder and improves eyesight, treats deficiency and coldness, and five labor and seven injuries. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, mutton tastes sweet and has the effects of to complement , which can remove cold and warm qi and blood.
Many people like to eat mutton, which lacks warmth and has very ideal results, but current medical research has no scientific evidence to confirm that "eating mutton in winter is like ginseng". As for the effect of mutton to drive away cold, it is mainly the rich protein in mutton.
Lamb itself is red meat. It not only contains high-quality protein, but also contains rich iron and zinc elements. It is very easy to be absorbed by the human body, but its nutritional value is far less than that of beef and pork.
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Since ancient times, my country has been using red meat to obtain nutrition and calories. Red meat mainly includes mutton, pork, beef, etc. However, nowadays, people are no longer as hungry as in ancient times. Most of them are very open and often eat big fish and meat. Such eating habits have led to the emergence of many chronic diseases, so many people believe that eating red meat will have an impact on the body.
Experts conducted research on this and found that there is indeed carcinogen in red meat, but no human research and clinical data analysis have been conducted, so this conclusion cannot be made public. Many people said after reading it that they will never dare to eat pork, beef or mutton again. This idea is wrong.
Although experts have conducted similar research, there are no clinical experiments and no accurate answers are given, so there is no need to worry. Appropriate intake is still OK. If you have a bad habit of eating a lot of meat for a long time, it will inevitably bring harm to the body, because after meat enters the human body, it needs to be digested through the stomach and intestines, absorbing the nutrients in the meat cannot be delivered in time, which will also affect the blood circulation in the body for a long time and the blood circulation speed will slow down.
There are many High blood pressure and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular patients have quit eating meat for a long time because they understand that eating meat for a long time without eating vegetables will inevitably lead to many diseases coming to their door. In addition to the long-term eating of meat can lead to diseases, the following types of meat can also harm your health.
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processed meat
The so-called processed meat is mainly meat foods processed by air-dried, marinated, smoked, etc. In order to improve its taste and extend the shelf life, merchants will add additives and preservatives during the production process, resulting in nutrient loss. The key is that the content of nitrite exceeds the standard, and after entering the human body, it is converted into ammonium nitrite , which is a first-class carcinogen that invisibly increases the risk of intestinal cancer.
warm barbecue
Nowadays, the temperature is getting lower and lower, and many people prefer to eat high-temperature barbecue. The young people seem to be unable to stop all year round. It is also particularly tempting to serve the fragrant barbecue on the dining table, but high-temperature barbecue has a certain risk of carcinogenicity. From time to time, the temperature exceeds 400 degrees, a ingredient called heterocyclic ammonia will be produced. Heterocyclic ammonia Heterocyclic amine is roasted. Black substance meat will produce this type of carcinogen when it is not completely burned during the barbecue process, which will enter the human body to induce lung lesions.
Fried meat
Do you like to eat hamburger fried chicken and chicken fillets? After high-temperature frying, unique seasonings are added to taste crispy and are loved by young people. However, after high-temperature frying, the food will be oxidized and decomposed to produce some oil oxides, which are rich in polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons oil carcinogenic ingredients, and also include some benzopyrene . Frequent consumption will have adverse effects on the body.
Overall, to prevent cancer cell lesions, we must start from daily necessities. We should eat more fresh fruits and vegetables, eat less unhealthy meat, and actively exercise to prevent diseases, so as to effectively reduce the occurrence of cancer.
