(Ecns.cn)—The hungry person is usually not choosy about food, in fact is most likely to grab any snack available to quell the pangs.
However, there are certain readily available foods that are definitely not suitable for an empty stomach, and many may be a surprise to you.
First, because candies are easily digested they instantly raise the blood sugar to a degree the human body must work hard to handle. Sugar is an acidic food that disturbs the acid-base balance in the human body, and one of the possible outcomes of overindulgence in sweets is a tendency to get eye diseases.
Second, milk taken on an empty stomach provides more heat than nutrients. The proper way to use milk to reduce hunger is to eat your dessert first – namely the custards or puddings that use it as a base. Your daily intake of liquid milk is best scheduled at least two hours after meals or before bedtime. Likewise, yogurt is only suitable on a full stomach.
Thirdly, cold drinks of any kind often irritate the stomach and intestines, which make them a particularly bad choice for the starving person. If drunk frequently when you feel hungry, cold beverages can cause abnormal enzymatic reactions and make you prone to the diseases that result from the resulting imbalance. Women with such a habit can expect period disorders.
Fourth, persimmon is high in pectin and tannic acids that react with your gastric acid and begin to gel and even harden. The most severe outcome is stones.
Fifth, like the persimmon, tomatoes on an empty stomach can produce stones.
Sixth, bananas are on everyone's list of healthy snacks it seems, but the choice turns out not to be such a good one. Bananas are rich in magnesium which can upset the magnesium and calcium balance in the human body. Hence, eating bananas on an empty stomach can trigger cardiovascular troubles.
Seventh, hawthorn berries have been misunderstood to be a very digestible food and therefore good for those whose stomach is fragile. Well, that's partly true- only when eating them after a meal. Ingestion of hawthorn berries before meals, with their wealth of organic, tartaric, maslinic and citric acids, increases the gastric acid load in the stomach, resulting in gas production and acerbic fluids.
Eighth, oranges are not suitable for starving people for the same reasons as howthorn berries.
Ninth, soy-bean milk is especially popular in East Asia, but not good for an empty stomach either. The nutrient load of soy-bean milk cannot be digested without other food, thus people become ill if they drink it before eating.
