Why can't you eat cold food during the dog days?

The beginning of the dog days means the beginning of the hottest period of the year. The weather is usually hot during the first few days of the dog days. Since it is a hot summer day, many people will definitely want to drink a bottle of cold drink, take a few bites of iced watermelon or eat a piece of cold ice cream to relieve the heat. But in fact, these are all bad. Some health experts point out that you should not eat cold food during the dog days. I believe many people still don’t know why you should not eat cold food during the dog days. So what are the dangers of eating cold food during the dog days of summer? Let’s find out together.

1. Damages Yang energy.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the dog days are when the human body's yang energy is at its peak. Eating cold foods at this time can easily cause harm to the body, deplete the body's yang energy, and damage the spleen and stomach organs. Therefore, parents forbid children to eat ice during the dog days.

2. Cause damage to the spleen and stomach.

The temperature is hot during the dog days of summer. At this time, the body temperature rises. Eating ice will dilute the gastric juice, stimulate the intestines, promote intestinal peristalsis and excitement, reduce the time food stays in the small intestine, affect the body's absorption and utilization of food, and cause damage to the spleen and stomach.

3. Drinking too much cold drinks can cause indigestion.

Drinking too much cold drinks will cause the blood vessels in the gastric mucosa to contract, and the secretion of gastric juice will decrease. The intestines will speed up their peristalsis under the stimulation of cold, affecting the absorption of nutrients, and causing indigestion, abdominal pain, diarrhea and other phenomena.

4. Eating too much cold food will affect your appetite.

Excessive intake of cold foods such as popsicles and ice cream can damage the gastric mucosa, leading to a decrease in appetite. Long-term cold stimulation to the stomach may also lead to stomach problems. Especially during the dog days of summer, eating cold drinks can easily damage the stomach.

5. A lot of cold food can cause colds

. Eating too much cold food or drinking too much cold drinks will cause the throat mucosa to shrink due to the cold, thereby reducing the resistance, allowing bacteria lurking near the throat to take advantage of the opportunity to enter, easily causing colds and other diseases.

6. Eating too much ice can cause menstrual pain.

Women must be careful during the dog days. Scientific research has found that when cold drinks enter the stomach, the endometrial blood vessels of women will contract strongly, leading to a sharp drop in menstrual volume, and even symptoms such as amenorrhea and dysmenorrhea. Therefore, women must not be greedy for cold during their menstrual period!