Autumn and winter are the nourishing seasons. Many people prefer to eat some warm and tonic foods at this time, and lamb has become one of the best choices. In this season, they like to make lamb soup or roast lamb, because lamb belongs to Warm tonic, meat products not only have high protein content, but also have relatively low fat content. The taste of lamb is much better than pork.

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The nutritional value of lamb:

Lamb is rich in protein, fatty carbohydrates , and also contains vitamin a, thiamine, riboflavin, vitamin C, niacin, and a variety of minerals. The protein in lamb contains 8 essential amino acids for the human body, as well as others. Amino acids.

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What are the health benefits of eating lamb in autumn and winter?

1. Warm and nourish the spleen and stomach

For people with deficiency and coldness of spleen and stomach, eating mutton properly in autumn and winter can warm the spleen and stomach to improve the problem of physical deficiency and cold, so that you can easily spend the autumn and winter seasons and make your body warmer.

2. Warm and nourish liver and kidney

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that mutton has the effect of nourishing the kidneys. Appropriate consumption of mutton in autumn and winter can also better enhance kidney function. At the same time, the protein in mutton can also promote liver tissue repair.

3. Enhance resistance

Lamb meat is delicate and easier to be digested and absorbed by the human body. It can also meet the body's demand for protein. In autumn and winter, the temperature is cold, and the human body is easy to catch cold. Eating some lamb can resist the cold air and enhance the resistance.

4. Warming and replenishing qi and blood

In autumn and winter, the climate is cold, and many people are prone to cold hands and feet and insufficient blood circulation. In fact, this is a manifestation of poor blood circulation. Eating more lamb in autumn and winter can also be better. Warming and nourishing Qi and blood improves, and cold hands and feet keep cold and keep warm.

But when some middle-aged and elderly people listen to health-preserving lectures, they heard that middle-aged and elderly people cannot eat too much lamb in autumn and winter, otherwise lamb will block blood vessels and cause vascular diseases. Is this true?

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Lamb is easy to block blood vessels? Can middle-aged and elderly people still eat lamb?

The rumors about mutton clogging blood vessels have to start with the food processing industry.

In the food processing industry, there is a substance called trans fatty acid , which is added to food to make the food taste crisp and is a processing raw material for food processing plants.

However, trans fatty acids are of no benefit to human health. The WHO estimates that approximately 540,000 deaths are related to trans fatty acids each year. In recent years, the WHO has also launched the "trans-trans fatty acid action" . It is intended to eliminate the harm of trans fatty acids to humans.

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What is the relationship between trans fatty acids and lamb?

Sheep is a kind of ruminant, and it is the producer of natural trans fatty acids, which means that lamb contains trans fatty acids.

Lamb produces trans fat during cooking, so there is a saying that lamb clogs blood vessels.

However, mutton contains natural trans fat. Proper intake is harmless to the human body, and the trans fat content in mutton is not high, so eating mutton properly will not block blood vessels.

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Can middle-aged and elderly people still eat lamb?

Although there are trans fatty acids in lamb, the content is not high, and proper intake is harmless to the human body. We can't just see the trans fat of lamb, but also understand the nutritional value of lamb.

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For middle-aged and elderly people to prevent cardiovascular disease, these foods really can’t be eaten

High-sugar foods

Excessive intake of high-sugar foods will not only affect the body's metabolic system and increase the burden of islets, but also easily cause diabetes

Diabetes will continue to affect the blood vessel and metabolic system. The late stage of diabetes is more likely to cause cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases . For middle-aged and elderly people, they should eat less high-sugar foods.

High-salt food

Eat less food with high salt content. Salt contains a lot of sodium ions, which will affect the acid-base balance and electrolyte stability in the body.

If you take too much, it can easily cause high blood pressure, make blood vessels hard and brittle, continue to damage blood vessels, induce atherosclerosis, and increase the risk of coronary heart disease and stroke .

High-fat foods

Many delicacies in life are fried foods. These foods contain a lot of trans fatty acids, which can also provide a lot of calories to the body and cause great damage to the organs.

Instead of not eating lamb, stay away from these high-fat and high-fried foods.