Many people often feel uncomfortable in their stomachs. In order to nourish their stomachs, they choose white porridge and rotten noodles that are easier to digest. Can porridge and noodles really “nurture the stomach”?
Whether it is acute or chronic gastritis, or other stomach diseases such as gastric ulcer, the gastric mucosa will be slightly or severely damaged in the process of the disease[1].
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Although there are many reasons for the disease[2], in order to minimize further damage, in special periods such as the attack period and the remission period, eat soft, easy-to-digest white rice porridge, noodles, etc. Food is really “just needed”.
However, as long as the special period has passed, you should pay more attention to gradually replenishing nutrition to enhance the defense ability of gastric mucosa and overall physical fitness. Soft and easy-to-digest food is obviously beneficial to Stomach health is not good.
1. Rice Porridge
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The nutrients are mainly carbohydrates and water. Dietary fiber, B vitamins, minerals and other nutrients are insufficient. Single nutrition is not good for stomach health.
Improvement Tips
You can add more grains, such as corn grits, millet, oats, etc.
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2. Noodles
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The protein content is higher than that of rice, but it is also mainly carbohydrates, and other nutrients are also lost, and the nutritional value is limited.
Improvement Tips
As long as there is no obvious discomfort in the stomach, you can add some ingredients such as minced vegetables, minced meat, eggs, tofu, etc. to the noodles to balance the nutrition.
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3. Soda crackers
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Contains certain alkaline components of sodium bicarbonate, which can neutralize excessive gastric acid to a certain extent, but the nutritional value is relatively low, similar to noodles, and generally soda biscuits contain a lot of added oil , salt, and even some added sugars, all of which are bad for your health.
Soda crackers do more harm than good, so it’s best to eat them sparingly.
4. Baked Mantou
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Steamed bread is made by fermenting wheat flour and flour. The fermentation process can decompose part of the starch into sugars with smaller molecules, which can reduce the content of phytic acid and other components that are not conducive to digestion. High temperature roasting can further gelatinize the starch, which is more friendly to the stomach from this perspective.
However, once the stomach can accept other foods, it still needs to be eaten with a variety of foods, and baked buns can only be part of the staple food.
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5. Toast
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Baking bread is similar to baking steamed bread, but many breads contain a lot of oil, salt and sugar, which are not good for health. You can make your own bread or try to buy less oil, salt and sugar. bread.
Of course, it is only eaten as part of the staple food, but it is still necessary to enrich the variety of food.
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6. Vegetarian
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Big fish and meat will indeed increase the burden on the stomach, and a vegetarian diet in a short period of time can reduce the burden on the already “tired” stomach.
However, a long-term vegetarian diet needs to pay attention to reasonable matching, otherwise it will easily lead to malnutrition, such as insufficient intake of iron and vitamin B12.
A nutritionally adequate vegetarian diet is not good for stomach health in the long term.
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There are 6 magic weapons to protect the stomach every day[3].
1. Eat regularly
Try to keep regular and quantitative meals, you can eat smaller meals more often, and don’t overeat.
2. Not superstitious about soft foods
Stomach is a disused organ. Eating soft, semi-liquid and liquid food for a long time will weaken its ability to digest and process food.
Therefore, unless there are special circumstances, the choice of food should give priority to coarsely processed, fresh and healthy ingredients, such as fresh fruits and vegetables, original nuts, etc.
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3. Eat a varied diet
Generally speaking, patients have no food taboos except for acute exacerbation of stomach disease, symptoms of stomach disease that have not yet completely improved, or food allergies and food intolerance. Sufficient nutrition is required for a healthy stomach. , grains, vegetables, fruits, meat, milk, nuts and beans should be eaten in moderation.
4. Eat gradually
For foods that are prone to bloating, you can eat gradually from less to more, and don’t eat too much at one time. Such as sweet potatoes, purple potatoes, buckwheat, beans and other grains; broccoli, cabbage, edamame, bitter gourd and other vegetables; almonds and other nuts, and so on.
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5. Make hard food soft and sticky before eating
For example, to make multi-grain rice and multi-grain porridge, it is necessary to soak the hard grains in advance, and choose an electric pressure cooker to make it as soft and glutinous as possible.
6. Chew slowly
If you eat slightly hard food, you need to pay more attention to chewing it carefully, so that the food can fully contact the gastric juice and reduce the burden on the stomach.
7. Stay away from some foods
Do not drink too much coffee, alcohol, gas-producing beverages (such as cola), strong tea, etc.
Contributing Author: Zheng Feifei| Registered Dietitian
Reviewer: Shi Zhengli| Nutrition Technician, Department of Nutrition, Beijing Friendship Hospital
References
[1] Gu Jingfan, Du Shouping, Guo Changjiang. “Modern Clinical Nutrition” Second Edition [M]. Beijing: Science Press, 2009. 477-481.
[2]Kusters J G , Vliet A H M V , Kuipers E J . Pathogenesis of Helicobacter pylori Infection[J]. Clinical Microbiology Reviews, 2006, 19(3): 449-490.
[3] Digestive Disease Branch of Chinese Medical Association. Consensus opinion on chronic gastritis in China (2017, Shanghai) [J]. Chinese Journal of Digestion, 2017, 37(11): 721-738 .
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