The practice of eating more meat and fortifying foods during confinement instead of vegetables "is because people rarely ate meat in the old days and were often poorly nourished, so they tried to make up for it during confinement," Yang Ling Ling says. If modern-day women follow blindly along, they may eat too much meat and end up constipated or having to spend a lot of money to lose weight afterwards.
以傳統月子多吃肉、進補、少吃蔬果為例，「那是因為以前的人天天吃菜、難得吃肉，常常營養不足，才要藉月子來補償一下」，楊玲玲也指出，如果現代女性習焉不察，結果吃太多肉造成嚴重便秘、或是坐完月子就得花大錢減肥，就得不償失了。