Recently, several ladies have asked the author a similar problem: “Chinese medicine says that my blood deficiency, Western doctors say that I have iron deficiency anemia, not to mention running, no effort to walk. I heard that eating jujube, blood, beauty, I every day Eat a few red dates or drink a cup of red dates thick paste. However, after eating for 3 months, the results of hemoglobin determination have not changed. What is wrong with this? Is it wrong to say that jujube and blood are wrong?"
Another girl reported that she was severely anaemic. I heard that brown sugar supplemented with menstruation, so she drank a cup of brown sugar water every morning and evening. One semester may have passed and the effect is not obvious. “Isn’t the former woman confined her blood to eat brown sugar?â€
Indeed, anemia has always been a topic of more concern to women. The proportion of anemia is not low among girls who are dieting to lose weight, mothers who are pregnant, to menopausal women, or even female athletes. A result of a survey of the health of a university student showed that the anaemia rate of female college students is about 20%. In some regions, maternity institutions have found that the rate of anaemia in pregnant women can be as high as 30% or more. Menopausal women are sallow and sallow, and it is not uncommon for them to be called "Huanglianpo".
So, can eating dates and drinking brown sugar water really solve the problem of anemia?
Before this, we first understand the causes of anemia in the human body and what are the dates and brown sugar.
In addition to genetic factors, drug factors and other pathological factors caused by anemia, most women anemia is caused by two reasons: First, blood loss, and second, malnutrition.
The so-called blood loss, in addition to the disease within the bleeding, including mainly traumatic blood loss, hemorrhoids bleeding, excessive menstrual bleeding and so on. It is common for women to have too much menstrual bleeding. Not only do a small number of young women have this condition, but due to uterine fibroids and menopausal problems, middle-aged women suffer from anemia due to excessive blood loss every month. Some people even have hemoglobin levels below 60 mg/l, and their face is sallow, No effort was made to walk upstairs.
In this case, although the diet does not lack protein and iron, if the problem of blood loss is not solved, the rate of hematopoiesis cannot keep up with the rate of blood loss, and hemoglobin is always in a state of “losing income,†and the problem of anemia cannot be improved. . Therefore, treatment of diseases that cause blood loss is the fundamental solution to anemia. In many middle-aged women after the removal of uterine fibroids, the problem of blood loss no longer appears, hemoglobin soon returns to normal, and his face is rosy again. Some women think that surgery will be "injured" and have been slow to do so. No matter if you eat jujube or drink brown sugar, you will not be able to solve the problem. Anemia is getting worse and worse, but the result is "injury."
No blood loss, but anemia caused by malnutrition, can be divided into two aspects to discuss. On the one hand, the digestion and absorption function is low, and on the other hand, the diet is irrational.
Many women lose weight because of long-term diet or irregular diet, resulting in decreased gastrointestinal function, or loss of appetite, or eat something to block in the stomach, often flatulence in the abdomen. In this case, the nutrients in food, especially trace elements such as iron and zinc, are insufficiently absorbed and there is not enough iron to make hemoglobin. The indicator is anemia and the face looks yellow and dark. As long as the treatment of gastrointestinal diseases, and adequate rest, relax, you can resume normal digestion and absorption, anemia problems will be resolved, his face will gradually become smooth.
For such problems, eating jujube and drinking brown sugar water is not the main solution. According to China's traditional health theory, jujube has a certain "spleen" effect, which means that it is somewhat beneficial to improving digestion and absorption. However, its role is still relatively small, and it is not a substitute for traditional Chinese and western medicine treatment of gastrointestinal diseases and various daily life maintenance measures. Therefore, no doctor treats indigestion with jujube alone. Even if many indigestion people eat more jujube, it will cause abdominal distension and increase the burden on the digestive system.
If there is no problem with digestion and absorption, the main reason for iron deficiency anemia is often that the diet is irrational, and the supply of essential nutrients such as iron, zinc, protein, and B vitamins is insufficient. At this time, doctors and nutritionists recommend the preferred "blood" food, often not jujube and brown sugar, but red animal viscera and red meat, but also recommended vitamin C supplement.
In our traditional health care, there are also the sayings of “fleskin and affectionate thingsâ€. In fact, blood, viscera, lean red, and red in human blood are all derived from the iron pigment called "heme." The hemoglobin is embedded in a special protein that constitutes the red hemoglobin and myoglobin in the human body. Heme can be directly absorbed by the digestive tract, and the absorption process is almost undisturbed by other food factors and is highly efficient. If anemic women eat the blood, internal organs, and meat of other animals, they can simply “take in†the heme and use it to make their own haemoglobin, which is more convenient.
It is easy to know the amount of heme in food. Just look at the color. In the raw state, the deeper the red color, the higher the content. For example, the liver, spleen, and kidneys are red in color and have the highest levels of heme and iron. The iron content per 100 g of chicken liver is as high as 9.6 mg, and the iron content per 100 g of pig liver is 22.6 mg. The red color of burdock and leg is particularly deep, and the iron content is higher than that of pink pork. Chicken leg meat, chicken neck meat is reddish, chicken breast is almost white, so the chicken's breast has lower heme content. Therefore, eating red meat is an important measure for women to prevent anemia.
So, is jujube and brown sugar a good source of iron? Although not as good as red meat, they are a good iron supplement in plant foods. The use of vegetal iron is a bit trickier. It is necessary to change the insoluble iron into a soluble state and then absorb it into the blood and use it to synthesize the heme. In this process, there are many obstacles such as phytic acid, oxalic acid, phosphoric acid, dietary fiber, etc. The absorption and utilization efficiency is far less than that of the heme in red meat. Fortunately, if there is a lot of vitamin C to help, the rate of iron absorption in vegetarian diets will increase.
The main ingredient of jujube is sugar, which accounts for about 70%-80%. Its iron content is about 2-3 milligrams per 100 grams, and the contents of substances that interfere with iron absorption such as oxalic acid, phytic acid and the like are few. Other dried fruit is also a good source of iron, such as dried longan, raisins and so on. Because they are sweet and very popular with women, they are good snacks between meals. They can also be eaten in sweet foods and noodles, such as jujube soup, jujube cake, raisin rice pudding and jujube longan rice pudding.
More than 95% of brown sugar is sucrose. Compared with sugar, its nutritional value is indeed much higher. This is because brown sugar retains the mineral nutrients contained in sugar cane, and sugar has nothing but sucrose, which is a fat-promoting ingredient, and has nutritional value. Almost can be described as "one poor and two white." The iron content per 100 grams of brown sugar is 2 milligrams, which is equivalent to jujube.
However, a healthy adult woman who regularly receives monthly menstruation requires 20 milligrams of iron per day. If you only rely on jujube or brown sugar, you need to eat 1,000 grams, which is two catties. This is obviously impossible. Even if you eat half, it will make you gain weight.
Here, the conclusion is very clear.
- In the presence of iron deficiency anemia, we must first clarify the causes and eliminate the causes of the disease, such as blood loss, poor digestion and absorption, and excessive dieting.
-- In order to supply enough protein, iron, and other nutrients needed for hematopoiesis, you must eat enough protein and iron. The best measure is to eat 1-2 dark red meat ingredients each day. The heme iron rich in these ingredients is particularly well absorbed, and they are also a good source of B vitamins and zinc.
- In order to help the iron in plant foods to better absorb and use, each meal is supplemented with 1-3 tablets of vitamin C (one tablet of 100 mg) while eating. Also consume enough fresh fruits and vegetables.
- Jujube, longan, and raisins are one of the sources of iron. They are also good snacks and sweets. Eating a little daily is a beneficial supplement, but it cannot be used as a major measure to solve the problem of anemia.
- If you must add sugar seasoning, brown sugar is a better choice than white sugar, women with no problem in blood sugar control can eat in the right amount every day, but it is not iron supplements.
The final advice is that if the clinical diagnostic criteria for anemia have been met, medical care should be sought as soon as possible, and a full dietary adjustment should be made to ensure the nutritional supply of protein and iron. Severe cases require the use of drugs for treatment, and the effect is faster than dietary adjustments. Do not think that drinking brown sugar water, eat a few jujube can be easily resolved. The legend of iron supplements such as edible fungus and kelp is even more inconceivable, because they contain a large amount of soluble dietary fiber, resulting in a lower utilization rate of iron.