What is the harm of eating too much watermelon

Juicy and sweet watermelon is a must-eat fruit in the middle of summer. However, watermelon is not edible for everyone, and even those who can eat it must pay attention to scientific ways to eat it.

Diabetics Watermelon contains about 5% sugar, and it is mainly glucose, sucrose and some fructose, which means that eating watermelon will cause blood sugar to rise. Normal people can maintain blood sugar and urine glucose at normal levels because they secrete insulin in time. Diabetics are different, eating too much watermelon in a short period of time will not only increase blood sugar, but also cause acidosis and even life-threatening due to metabolic disorders in more severe cases.

The amount of carbohydrates (sugars) that diabetics eat every day needs to be strictly controlled, so if you eat watermelon multiple times a day, you should reduce the amount of meals and flour products (carbohydrates) accordingly to avoid aggravating the condition.

Patients with renal insufficiency Patients with renal insufficiency have a greatly reduced ability to drain water from the body, so they often have edema of the lower extremities or the whole body. If such patients eat too much watermelon, they will intake too much water and cannot discharge the excess water in time, resulting in excessive storage of water in the body and increased blood volume, which not only aggravates edema, but also easily induces acute heart failure. Therefore, patients with renal insufficiency should eat less or no watermelon.

The early stage of cold medicine in the motherland believes that whether it is a wind-cold cold or a wind-heat cold, its initial stage is a symptom, and the divergence method of letting the disease and evil be solved from the surface should be adopted. It is also believed that attacking it before the table is solved will aggravate the condition. And watermelon has the effect of clearing heat, so eating watermelon at this time will make the cold worse or prolong the course of the disease.

Canker Sores In traditional Chinese medicine, canker sores are considered to be caused by yin deficiency, internal heat, and fire deficiency. Due to the diuretic effect of watermelon. If people with mouth ulcers eat more watermelon, the water needed for mouth ulcer recovery will be excreted too much, thereby aggravating yin deficiency and internal heat, making the course of the disease prolonged and not easy to heal.

Maternal constitution is relatively weak, and traditional Chinese medicine believes that eating more watermelon will cause too much cold and damage the spleen and stomach.

It is not advisable to eat before and after meals Because a large amount of water in watermelon will dilute the digestive juices in the stomach, eating before and after meals will affect the digestion and absorption of food, and eating a large amount of watermelon before meals will occupy the volume of the stomach, so that the intake of a variety of nutrients in the meal is greatly reduced, especially on the health of children, pregnant women and nursing mothers. For those who want to go on a diet, eating some watermelon before meals is a good way to reduce food intake.

Watermelon should not be eaten too much Because watermelon is a "raw and cold food", anyone who eats too much will hurt the spleen and stomach, resulting in poor appetite, indigestion and decreased gastrointestinal resistance, causing bloating and diarrhea.

Pregnant women eat less, the sugar is too high, and they are prone to gestational diabetes.