Excessive Eating Tofu Will Be Hazardous To Health

Cause indigestion

Tofu is rich in protein. If people eat too much one time, it will not only hinder the body’s absorption of iron, but also easily lead to protein indigestion, resulting in abdominal distention, diarrhea and other uncomfortable symptoms.

Cause kidney function decline

Under normal circumstances, Most of plant proteins after eat into the body will finally become nitrogenous waste through the metabolism, and excrete out of body by the kidneys. When people get old, the kidney’s ability to excrete waste will be decreased. If they don’t take care of diet at this time and eat too much tofu and intake excessive vegetable protein, it will produce more nitrogenous waste, increase the burden on the kidneys and decline the renal function which is bad for health.

Cause atherosclerosis

U.S. medical experts point that soy products contain much methionine, which can be converted to enzyme under the action of the cysteine. Cysteine will damage endothelial cells in the arterial wall, and easy to make cholesterol and triglyceride deposition in the arterial wall to promote the formation of atherosclerosis.

Cause iodine deficiency

The soy which are made to tofu contains a kind of substance called saponin, which not only can prevent atherosclerosis, but also promote excretion of iodine in the human body. Long-term excessive eating tofu can easily lead to iodine deficiency, and leading to iodine deficiency disease.