New Year’s Eve meals lack dietary fiber, which will send your stomach and intestines into alarm! Nutritionist: Supplement 3 kinds of health foods to help regulate nutrition

If you eat too much meat and fish during the Chinese New Year, be careful of your stomach and intestines! When the Lunar New Year comes, the happiest thing for every family is to gather around the dinner table and enjoy delicious food. Common delicacies during the Chinese New Year such as Buddha Jumps Over the Wall, braised pork knuckle, and hot pot are high in oil and salt, and it is easy to consume too many calories without realizing it. In addition, various New Year goods such as dried fruits and nuts are also high in salt and sugar. In addition, because the market is closed during the Chinese New Year, it is difficult to buy vegetables, so it is easy to consume too much calories and lack dietary fiber during the Spring Festival, which puts too much burden on the body. Not only is it easy for people to gain weight, but indigestion is also likely to occur.

Nutritionist Chen Shiyun from Beitou Health Management Hospital reminds the public that in addition to adhering to the basic "three lows and one high" healthy eating rules during the New Year holidays, namely low oil, low salt, low sugar and high fiber intake, in order to solve the problem of difficulty in purchasing fruits and vegetables, it is also possible to supplement with suitable health products as nutritional supplements and regulators. The following also lists 3 types of health foods that are suitable for nutritional supplements during the New Year holidays.

Supplement 3 kinds of health foods to help regulate nutrition

Eating too much high-fat and high-salt food during the New Year holidays can easily lead to nutritional imbalance. It is recommended to moderately supplement the following three kinds of health foods as nutritional supplements:

1. Fish Oil

Fish oil has many benefits. It is rich in Omega-3 high-quality fatty acids, which can improve heart and eye health, and also fight inflammation and depression. Especially during the New Year holidays, it is very suitable to eat fish oil to help regulate cholesterol and triglyceride levels, increase good cholesterol and lower triglycerides to maintain heart health. Nutritionist Chen Shiyun reminds that fish oil will be more effective if taken with food, and it is recommended to take fish oil after meals.

However, it is worth noting that fish oil sounds like it has many benefits and meets everyone's health needs, but fish oil has the property of inhibiting blood clotting. It is not recommended for people who are taking anticoagulant drugs, have coagulation dysfunction, are pregnant women before delivery, or are about to undergo surgery to consume fish oil.

During the Chinese New Year, it is very suitable to eat fish oil to help regulate cholesterol and triglyceride levels, increase good cholesterol and lower triglycerides to maintain heart health.

2. Probiotics

During the Chinese New Year holidays, due to dietary patterns, digestive system problems are prone to occur, such as indigestion and constipation. At this time, it is very suitable to take an appropriate amount of probiotics every day to help improve the state of the digestive tract, change the ecology of the bacterial flora, maintain gastrointestinal health, and promote intestinal absorption, digestion, and defecation.

Nutritionist Chen Shiyun added that there are quite a lot of probiotic products on the market, and the strains and functions may also vary. If the main purpose is to aid digestion during the New Year holidays, it is recommended to choose strains containing Bifidobacterium, Lactobacillus rhamnosus, Rett B, Casei, Lactobacillus acidophilus, etc., which can help improve functional gastrointestinal problems or diarrhea problems.

3. Red yeast rice health products

The culture of food supplements in Chinese culture has a long history, and eating red yeast rice is very common, such as red yeast rice meat, red fermented tofu, and red yeast rice biscuits. In traditional Chinese medicine, it is recorded in the Compendium of Materia Medica that its main functions are "digestion and blood circulation, strengthening the spleen and drying the stomach, treating dysentery and diarrhea", which means that it can help improve the circulation and digestive system.

Monacolin K, an active ingredient in red yeast rice, has been found in many studies to inhibit cholesterol synthesis. In 1999, the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition published an experimental statistical data showing that after each person ate 2.4 grams of red yeast rice powder per day for 8 weeks, the low-density lipoprotein (LDL), which is often considered to be bad cholesterol, was significantly reduced.

Most red yeast rice health supplements on the market are compound formulas, most commonly a combination of red yeast rice and natto. Nutritionist Chen Shiyun reminds us that it is better to choose products that contain coenzyme Q10. This is because when the human body metabolizes red yeast rice, it reduces the synthesis of coenzyme Q10. Q10 is responsible for the effective functioning of the cell energy supply system in various important energy-consuming organs, and is also an important antioxidant.

However, nutritionist Chen Shiyun reminds that red yeast rice health products are not recommended for some groups of people. For example, people who are taking lipid-lowering or anticoagulant drugs, or patients with liver and kidney diseases, pregnant women, or breastfeeding women are not recommended to consume red yeast rice-related health products.

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