Why is it dangerous to eat cooled meat
'27.05.2021'
Source: Rambler
Many of us like to eat cold meat for breakfast, while others prefer to take it with them to work: it’s convenient and you don’t need to be warmed up to have a quick bite right at the workplace. It seems that meat in any form is useful and nutritious, but in fact it is not.
Eating cold food, the more cooled meat, is harmful to our body, writes Rambler. Such a habit can lead to serious health problems and specifically with the digestive system.
The fact is that our stomach digests the hot food the fastest. But cold meat is too hard for the digestive system. Because the stomach cannot process the cooled food and at first is forced to warm it up literally. These conclusions scientists came at the beginning of the last century.
“You can start lunch with frozen raw oysters, then have hot soup, and then switch to ice cream and wash it all down with scalding coffee. But the temperature of the stomach will not change even by half a degree, "- wrote New York professor William Gilman Thompson in 1905 in his book" The Practical Diet. "
He conducted a series of experiments with patients, during which with the help of special devices he measured the temperature of the stomach immediately after food got into it of different temperatures.
Modern experts support Thompson's findings. Mark Mattar, an assistant professor of medicine at a Georgetown hospital in the US District of Columbia, told Everyday Health that warm food is the key to normal functioning of the digestive system. He recalled that our grandmothers always advised to drink hot soup or tea for cramps and pains. This is no coincidence: hot food helps the muscles to relax and soothes the stomach, and also has a beneficial effect on the mucous membranes.
Mattar is convinced that cold food causes discomfort in our bodies. As a result, the reaction to it can be very different: from constipation to severe diarrhea.
“For example, I like to defrost cold water and drink it. But if my wife follows my reception, she will have a stomach ache, ”said Mattar, citing an example of the harmful effects of cold on our digestion.
It should be remembered that it is best to eat meat, the temperature of which reaches at least 37 degrees (and better 40). Then your digestive system will not waste time and energy to heat up the food and will start processing it immediately. As a result, all the beneficial substances will enter the blood, proteins will properly split, and your intestines will not be forced to take whole chunks of food.
