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How to eat seafood more healthily

Asked by:Linda

Asked on:Apr 10, 2026 07:00 AM

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  • Blyth Blyth

    Apr 10, 2026

      Seafood looks tender and easy to digest, but digesting the protein in it requires the stomach to secrete a large amount of gastric acid and pepsin, which also increases the burden on the pancreas to produce trypsin. If there is no staple food before eating seafood, it will force the body to use protein as energy, greatly increasing the burden on the liver and kidneys; and the protein cannot be fully utilized by the body, but is "burned" for decomposition for energy. At the same time, because seafood has a strong satiety, high water content, and low fat, it also contains low energy. After eating seafood, you will often feel hungry before the next meal, making the body feel tired. If you drink a bowl of hot porridge first, you can supply carbohydrates to your body first and promote the secretion of digestive juices. Then you will feel much better if you eat an appropriate amount of seafood.

      For those with gastrointestinal weakness and those who are prone to eating seafood diarrhea People with pain can drink some warm glutinous rice porridge or brown rice porridge to warm their stomach first. Adding potassium-rich whole grains, potatoes, etc. to the porridge can promote the excretion of uric acid. Therefore, drinking whole grain porridge, potato porridge, vegetable porridge, etc., and eating an appropriate amount of seafood is beneficial to gout patients.

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