Chicken is a familiar and relatively harmless food. Chicken is easy to eat and digest. According to Chinese Medicine, chicken has a sweet taste, warm nature, and has the effect of nourishing the middle burner, replenishing essence and marrow. This type of food can be used for cases of weakness, weight loss, fatigue, poor appetite, indigestion, diarrhea, edema, low milk production after childbirth, diabetes…
Chickens come in a variety of breeds such as fighting chicken, pheasant chicken, cockfighting chicken… You can prepare many delicious dishes from the main ingredient being chicken meat.
Although chicken meat brings many health benefits, there are also some people who should not eat this type of food.
People who should not eat chicken meat
– People with kidney stones
Chicken meat is a food with a high protein content, which can increase the amount of oxalates in the urine, increasing the risk of kidney stones. Therefore, chicken meat is not an ideal food for people with kidney stones.
– People who have just undergone surgery
According to folk experience, eating chicken meat after surgery can cause swelling, inflammation, pus, slow wound healing, and easy infection.
– People with chickenpox
People with chickenpox should avoid eating chicken meat, especially the chicken skin, as this type of food can cause itching in the chickenpox blisters and can leave scars.
– People with liver problems
People with liver diseases should restrict their intake of chicken meat. This food has a hot nature, which worsens the heat deficiency situation in the liver and aggravates the disease condition.
– People with digestive problems
Chicken meat is a nutrient-rich food, but people with digestive problems should limit their consumption because consuming too much chicken meat can lead to indigestion. Even for normal individuals, eating a lot of chicken meat will make the digestive system work for many hours to process all the food absorbed by the body.
Other notes when eating chicken meat
It is advisable not to eat chicken meat with basil leaves as it can cause bloating and indigestion. If consumed regularly, it can lead to constipation.
Limit the consumption of chicken skin and neck as they are not beneficial to health. Chicken skin contains a lot of fat and high cholesterol levels. In particular, the skin on the neck contains certain excretory glands. These glands contain toxins that can cause diseases in the body.
In addition, you should also limit the consumption of chicken intestines. This part has tender meat and a greasy taste, but it is the place where excretory glands are concentrated. Processes of bacterial absorption and toxin excretion take place here. Harmful substances accumulate in this part and turn it into a “warehouse” of various pathogens.