5 horrible eating habits of health that most Vietnamese people have

Eat food first, eat later

This is a habit of many people. It sounds simple, but it causes a lot of health problems.

Dr. Nguyen Lien - Nutrition Department of Bach Mai Hospital said that eating food first and then eating rice especially for children is absolutely not recommended.

Such a habit of eating is not scientific because they are the cause of chronic diseases like gout. When eating food before protein in the food will immediately turn into uric acid. Meanwhile, uric acid is a gout agent. When this substance is not excreted out of the body, they will cling to the joints and build up gradually.

In addition, if you eat food first, it will cause boredom of rice, eat less rice so there is not enough starch, causing nutritional imbalance. This is also the reason many children now eat a lot of protein-containing foods and still suffer from malnutrition.

Eat rice soup

Eating rice soup is a common habit of many Vietnamese people. The soup into rice can make us feel easier to swallow and delicious. However, according to experts, eating rice soup is affecting some parts of the body, even causing disease.

The first reason is that the water will dilute the gastric juice, making the food in the stomach not yet digested into the small intestine, easily causing digestive diseases. Soup helps us easily swallow food but it makes rice and food slips into the stomach without being chewed well. This causes the stomach to work more and longer, which can lead to stomach pain.

In addition, eating rice soup also creates a feeling of false fullness and less nutritional value

When chewing food, the enzymes in saliva secrete to support the digestion and absorption of food, which is very beneficial for health. On the contrary, when the soup is cooked with the same soup, the digestive fluid is diluted by the water, thus reducing the absorption of nutrients, creating a feeling of fullness but less nutrition.

This is especially dangerous for young children. Eating rice soup makes children quickly full but lack of nutrients. Long term will form reflex lazy to chew, adversely affect the development of jaw muscles in children.

Eat cold rice

The habit of taking advantage of cold rice by many housewives is easy to cause illness because eating cold rice for too long will be very easy to get sick.

When rice is left too long or improperly preserved, the person eating must be very susceptible to digestive disorders, food poisoning with typical manifestations of nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, fatigue .

In addition, the rice is cold, rice steamed many times will lose a lot of nutrients. Do not heat the rice more than 2 times, because the warming process will lose the substance in the rice.

Specialists recommend that you should only eat hot rice or hot, freshly cooked rice. If the food is not finished, the rice must be stored in the refrigerator, not more than 24 hours. Before bringing cold rice to warming or preparing other dishes, check carefully whether the rice has a strange smell or color.

Eat white rice, look beautiful

Dr. Doctor Do Thi Phuong Ha, National Institute of Nutrition, said that the types of rice look very white and beautiful because of careful observation. However, this has inadvertently lost the nutrients in rice bran class as the most B vitamins are vitamin B1, fiber .

So we should choose rice that is not milled too closely for daily meals.

In addition to white rice, we can sometimes "exchange meals" with brown rice. Brown rice is rice that has not been thoroughly milled, still has rice bran outside the grain. Compared to white rice, brown rice contains higher nutritional content and has been shown to work to prevent, support and treat diabetes.

Eat fruit, drink tea right after eating

Vietnamese people often have the habit of drinking solid tea after a meal because they believe that green tea helps the mouth clean and helps support digestion.

However, this is an anti-scientific job. Tea leaves contain tannins. When this substance is combined with food that makes up compounds that exclude the digestive system, the food is difficult to absorb, increasing the risk of constipation.

Experts also do not encourage you to eat fruits right after eating. They explained that food after being put into the stomach will have to be stored for one to two hours before being fully digested. Load more fruits after eating rice, the stomach is easily overstated.

Moreover, fruits contain a large number of acids, sugars, glucose, fructose, starch . making the digestive system work harder.