Choosing desserts can also help you stay healthy.

Our people have a saying "disease comes from the mouth", if you eat improperly, you will get many diseases. Desserts also affect people's health, stature, temperament, emotions and spirit.

Eat on time and have fun to keep children healthy - Illustration photo

Eat right and be happy

MSc. Le Quoc Thinh, lecturer of pharmacy at Thanh Do University, said that everyone knows that eating and drinking not only determines survival but also has a great impact on health, stature, temperament, emotions and spirit of people. Eating and drinking improperly can sometimes cause illness.

To "live long", the problem is that we should know the method of eating according to the health-preserving method, that is, choosing food and eating methods suitable for health, age, and illness to achieve the goal of preventing and treating diseases, ensuring health, living long, and living a useful life.

Doctors have proposed a very simple and reasonable diet that anyone can do.

- Eat on time and happily : Master Thinh analyzed that family meals are of special importance. Meals must take place in an exciting, quiet, cozy, and happy atmosphere to help food be digested well and absorbed more easily.

Respect meal times and distribute food appropriately for each meal. For Vietnamese people: Breakfast is the main meal (6-7am) accounting for 30% of the daily diet; Lunch (11-12pm) 25% and afternoon (5-7pm) 25%.

Some families often take breakfast lightly, eat just to get it over with, or even skip breakfast. This is a mistake that should be avoided. In fact, breakfast provides energy for the most important life activities because the time from 8-10 am is the most effective working time.

- Do not eat more than needed: Food must be diverse, including both animal and plant foods. For Vietnamese people, food choices depend on each person's preferences, as long as it is reasonable.

The menu should be changed regularly to balance the five flavors, and to have enough nutrients and trace elements. Food should not exceed the body's needs. You should eat slowly and moderately, only eat when hungry and never eat too much.

Eat plenty of fresh fruit and choose healthy desserts.

Should eat lots of ripe fruit and fresh green vegetables - Photo TTO

Eat desserts wisely for good health

Desserts are light dishes to end each main meal with small portions of sweets such as cakes, jellies, sweet soups, fruits or maybe drinks....

Studies have shown that desserts often have a sweet or refreshing taste that helps trigger the release of endorphins - a substance that creates a pleasant feeling in the brain hemisphere. Therefore, not only after meals but whenever people are stressed or pressured, desserts can make us feel comfortable and happy.

- Eating bananas in the morning is good for the nerves, healthy bones and joints, and good for the heart: If you are still a bit hungry in the morning after eating, have a ripe banana for dessert. Ripe bananas (banana, plantain) have a natural sugar content of 20%, protein (2.7%), and protein-forming amino acids are arginine, leucine, lysine, methionine, tryptophan, and valine.

In addition, ripe bananas also contain trace elements and vitamins A, B1, B2, B6, C - organic acids and enzymes that are good for the body.

According to Oriental medicine, ripe bananas are sweet and very cold, have the effect of clearing heat, moistening the lungs, stopping coughs, laxatives, and detoxifying. Ripe bananas are a source of nutrition that helps develop and balance the nervous system, helps bone growth and protects the body against disease, good for people with poor digestion, hemoptysis, high blood pressure, heart edema, and nephritis.

- Eating pineapple at noon helps with digestion and blood clotting: After lunch, if you are still a little hungry, having a piece of pineapple for dessert is very good. If you cannot eat it, squeeze the juice and drink it. Pineapple has the ability to quench thirst, produce body fluids and aid digestion thanks to bromelain, a strong protein-hydrolyzing enzyme that can digest meat and fish.

The effects of bromelain are similar to those of papain and pepsin. In addition to its digestive properties, bromelain also helps reduce inflammation, swelling, and bruises.

- In the afternoon, eat papaya, good for the liver, detoxify, calm the nerves: In the afternoon, if you are still a bit hungry after eating, have a small piece of papaya for dessert. Ripe papaya has many nutrients. In addition to 80% water, it also contains glucid, protein and lipid. It has vitamins A, E, C...

Ripe papaya also contains carotenoids, mainly cryptoxanthin, carotenoid, beta-carotene and cryptoflavine, which have the effect of cooling the liver, laxative, expectorant, detoxifying, reducing swelling and sedating.

Doctor Dinh Minh Tri, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ho Chi Minh City, said that after the age of 50, the more you eat these 4 fruits, the healthier you will be, control blood sugar, improve your heart, and strengthen your bones and joints.

- Avocado boosts immunity and is good for digestion : This fruit provides healthy fats, reducing the risk of obesity and heart disease after the age of 50. People who regularly eat avocados have lower body weight and smaller waistlines.

One avocado can provide half of your daily fiber needs, which helps lower cholesterol and blood sugar levels. Fiber also feeds the beneficial bacteria in your gut, boosting your immune system and improving your overall health.

- Lemons prevent kidney stones and reduce blood sugar: Lemons are a fruit found in the Mediterranean diet and the diet of the Blue Zones, where people live the longest in the world. One lemon contains 50% of the recommended daily amount of vitamin C, which helps fight signs of aging and protect the heart.

The citric acid in lemons helps prevent the formation of kidney stones. Lemons have a low glycemic index, which helps reduce blood sugar levels and promote more efficient metabolism.

- Cherries control blood pressure and cardiovascular system: Cherries contain many anti-inflammatory substances, help reduce muscle and joint inflammation, soothe osteoarthritis and gout. This fruit is rich in vitamin C, maintains the immune system and healthy skin.

Cherries are rich in fiber, B vitamins, manganese, copper, magnesium and vitamin K, which can help regulate blood pressure, control cholesterol and reduce the risk of heart disease.

- Dates control blood sugar levels: Adding foods rich in potassium to your diet helps relax blood vessels, prevents high blood pressure, and is good for the heart.

This dried fruit contains a significant amount of fiber, magnesium, copper, manganese, vitamin B6,... providing many health benefits such as easier digestion, beneficial for controlling blood sugar levels.

Dates have a low glycemic index and can be used as a sweetener instead of refined sugar in a healthy diet.

A good drink to use is fresh tea, drunk all day long. Drink hot to quench thirst and stimulate digestion. Diuretic thanks to caffeine, theophylline and potassium salts.

Fresh tea has a detoxifying effect thanks to tannin, increasing vitality. Drinking fresh tea mixed with 3 slices of fresh ginger helps warm the spleen and stomach, prevent cardiovascular disease, and stimulate the nerves. Fresh tea has many antioxidants and anti-aging properties. Do not drink at night because it will cause insomnia.

Source: https://tuoitre.vn/chon-thuc-pham-trang-mieng-cung-co-the-giup-song-khoe-20250103215529687.htm