Contents:
- Medical Video: What'll Happen If You Stop Eating Junk Food for 7 Days
- The bad impact of breaking fast with fried foods
- Long-term impact if you often eat fried foods
- Healthier fried alternatives for breaking fast
Medical Video: What'll Happen If You Stop Eating Junk Food for 7 Days
One of the habits of Indonesians when breaking fast is to eat fried foods, ranging from bakwan, risol, fried tempeh, fried tofu, and others. Fried into a mandatory menu for Indonesians when breaking fast. If there is no fried food in the iftar menu, it feels a bit strange. However, behind the delicacy, stored bad effects on health if you break fast with fried foods.
The bad impact of breaking fast with fried foods
The fat content in the oil in fried foods makes fried foods difficult to digest, especially when fried foods are the first food eaten after fasting.
Just imagine, when an empty stomach after fasting all day, the stomach must digest the fat in fried foods. Of course, the digestive tract works harder to digest the fat. Because it is difficult to digest, the process of digesting fried foods will take a long time and can disrupt and inhibit the digestive tract to digest other nutrients.
Because fried foods are longer digested, the stomach does not feel full quickly. As a result, you will add more fried food again and again and cause too much food. Sometimes you may not realize how many pieces you eat fried. After stopping eating fried foods, then you will feel your stomach is full and full.
Breaking fast with fried foods can lead to complaints that are felt differently by each person. If you have a sensitive digestive tract, fried foods can stimulate increased stomach acid which can cause heartburn (feeling of heat or burning around the upper abdomen). The saturated fat content in fried foods can cause stomach acid to rise.
In addition, it is difficult to digest fat and very little fiber content in fried foods can cause constipation or constipation. Some of you may also feel an itchy throat after eating fried foods. This is because there is an acrolein content in fried foods which causes itching. This acrolein is formed in oil that has been used many times.
The main factor that causes unhealthy fried foods is actually the cooking oil used to fry it. The impact of fried foods on health depends on the type of oil or fat used for frying, how to fry (what is the method) deep fried or pan fried), how many times has the oil been used for frying (the less used is the better), and how much salt is added to the fried food.
Long-term impact if you often eat fried foods
Fried is known to contain bad fats for the body. Trans fat in fried foods can increase levels low-density lipoprotein (LDL) or commonly known as bad fat, and reduce levels high-density lipoprotein (HDL) or good fat in the body. Saturated fats and trans fats in fried foods can accumulate and cause plaque formation in arteries in the body. These plaques can inhibit blood flow and can develop into causes of heart disease and stroke.
Apart from heart disease and stroke, eating fried foods can also trigger cancer. Changes in the chemical structure of fried oil occur because of oxidation, which also changes the structure of nutrients in food. Food loses vitamins and minerals when fried, and turns brown because carbon minerals burn when cooking.
Frying food at high temperatures can lead to the formation of a number of carcinogens, such as acrylamide (found in foods high in fried carbohydrates, such as french fries), heterocyclic amines, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (chemicals that form when meat is cooked in high temperature). Frequent consumption of fried foods can trigger cancer cells to develop in the body, especially prostate cancer in men.
Healthier fried alternatives for breaking fast
To prevent this from happening, you should control your fried foods from now on. If you want to eat fried foods, you should cook them yourself. Fried bought outside usually uses oil that has been used repeatedly so that it can trigger the formation of substances that are harmful to the body and health.
It's a good idea to try other food alternatives rather than breaking fast with fried foods. Some examples of healthier appetizers besides fried foods, such as compote, sweet cakes or wet cakes, various kinds of fruits, pudding, dumplings or dimsum.
