Food is the most important thing for the people. As a nation soaked in food culture, we have always been attached to the topic of [eating]. Even many people place all aspects of their lives on [eating]: how to eat to become smart, beautiful, delay aging and prevent diseases. Food materials are often publicized as panacea, and food with [health care] function is worth several times immediately. Urban legends about [out-of-season] [out-of-season] eating methods that cause diseases are widely circulated.
How to eat and eat what is indeed a science. Eating is the foundation of health, but is it not feasible to rely on eating what to solve health problems?
Dietotherapy alone? Definitely not!
Let’s analyze the radish with special nutritional value.
First, the nutritional value of radish is general.
First of all, the main nutritional value of radish is average.
The general nutritional value is mainly summarized from three major energy substances (carbohydrate, protein and fat) as well as vitamins, minerals and dietary fiber. According to the database query of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, every 100g of white radish contains 1.86 g of sugar, of which 1 g is glucose and the remaining 0.8 g is mainly fructose. Protein is only 0.68 g; The fat content is 0.1 g.
From the point of view of providing energy, white radish completely lost to Coca-Cola, which contains up to 11 grams of sugar per 100g. However, white radish, as a vegetable, does provide a lot of water (95.27/100g) and dietary fiber (1.6/100g); When it comes to vitamins and minerals, it has both, but compared with other kinds of vegetables and fruits, white radish is simply mediocre.
Secondly, radish is far less nutritious than broccoli.
Let’s compare the nutritional value of white radish and [King of Vegetables] broccoli in a list:
Obviously, white radish has lost to broccoli in providing energy, vitamins and minerals. If white radish is used as the main vegetable for a long time, it is likely to cause some vitamin deficiency.
Second, there is no clinical evidence for the [disease resistance] effect of radish.
After looking at the basic nutritional ingredients, let’s look at the so-called [special nutritional value], that is, whether radish has the function of [helping to resist diseases].
For example, 4-methylthio-3-butenyl sinapin, which is mainly found in radish seeds and seedlings, is said to have some [antioxidant] effects. Other extracts from radish have also been found to have some effects in some studies.
Wait a minute, this does not mean that radish itself has one effect or another.Because, only cell tests and animal tests cannot be counted!
It turns out that the effect of the extract is usually tested on [cell lines], and a small amount is also tested on mice, that is, the results are all from laboratories. In humans, it does not necessarily have the same effect.
In fact, thousands of compounds have shown certain specific effects in cell and animal experiments. After strict screening, less than 1% may be able to enter clinical trials against human beings. Among them, less than 1% of the compounds can survive in strict clinical trials.
Don’t say it’s radish, most of the flowers and plants in the world, all kinds of minerals have been studied in this way. Faced with so many things, do we all eat fiercely to solve the problem? In fact, the vast majority of them cannot pass clinical trials, and the results of cell and animal experiments cannot be used as evidence of [having some effect].
Three, identify health care articles bluffing tricks
1. [Heroes Don’t Ask Source] Magic Effect
One of the major features of such health care articles is that At the beginning, he threw himself into writing a pile of [health effects], However, he did not give any reasons, never gave any references, and in fact he could not find them at all. It was really [heroes don’t ask where they came from]. If he didn’t have certain health expertise, he might be stunned. If you attach a few more chemical names of extracts that look like Gao Da Shang, it seems that you will be [scientific] at once, and you will be omnipotent.
2. All symptoms of chronic diseases can be won at one stroke regardless of the cause.
It is really strange that a simple white radish can treat almost all symptoms of digestion, respiration, urinary system and cardiovascular system. These articles usually advocate [treating the root causes but not the symptoms], which will not refuse all kinds of symptoms and will never ask the cause of the disease. Anyway, all the white turnips and sticks will be taken down.
I would like to ask, radish is already so magical, so is broccoli better? If broccoli is used [to cure diseases], can you eat less each time and plug half a kilo of radish without one breath?
3. Who is responsible for delaying the illness if you just eat radish and don’t take medicine?
For a series of symptoms listed in this article, some can be considered as very common non-specific symptoms.
For example, [tonsillitis], under normal circumstances, people are very familiar with it, can handle it on their own, have a good rest, and even heal themselves.
However, for some symptoms that indicate serious diseases, we really can’t just eat radish.
(1) Dyspepsia
The so-called [dyspepsia, poor appetite] may only be caused by eating a bad stomach, catching a cold, or even being in a bad mood. But what if these symptoms last for a long time? For example, if it is the middle-aged and elderly people, their appetite is very poor and their nutrition has been unable to keep up with them. At this time, it may be the manifestation of potential diseases. They need to go through the regular examination of the hospital and rule out many possibilities. Eating radish alone without seeing a doctor is likely to delay the time of diagnosis and treatment and cause irreparable regret.
(2) Edema
Another example is [edema]. If this symptom suddenly appears, it often indicates some major diseases, such as kidney problems or thyroid problems. I am very responsible to tell you that turnips do not cure kidney diseases or thyroid problems!
(3) Urinary calculi
The article also claims that radish can [treat urinary calculi]. For this kind of thing, it may be necessary to ask those patients who are being sent to the emergency room due to urinary calculus pain, whether they are willing to take an injection to relieve pain and then undergo surgery at an optional time, or whether they will eat another half kilo of radish every day and other recoveries that will never come.
(4) Hypertension
Since hypertension has become a common disease, health advocates will naturally not let it go. Of course, white radish also has the effect of lowering blood pressure.
You can’t see how many people stopped taking drugs without permission because they believed in the unreliable [hypertension therapy] in the traditional media, resulting in a rebound and sharp rise in blood pressure. In light cases, they were hospitalized to resume taking drugs, and in heavy cases, they were injured to death. Such cases are too numerous for doctors and are not worth mentioning.
However, readers who are eager for health information may not have seen or really understood the ferocity of the disease.
IV. Summary Full of Complaints
With the advent of the mobile Internet era, This useless information is just a move, [Health experts] continue to advocate these seemingly simple methods, It conveys outdated ideas and spreads worthless and even poisonous information. Although it is said that eating radish is harmless, it ties eating radish with curing diseases, which is closely related to human life, and silently poisons a family we cannot see. I would like to ask the people who wrote these articles whether they are really ignorant or pretend to be ignorant.
Author: Alien Rookie