A PERSON with cholelithiasis can suddenly exasperate his or her disease by eating too much moon cake.

　　Too much moon cake can also cause acute pancreatitis, which is generally accompanied by fierce abdominal pains.

　　Since moon cakes contain a lot of sugar and fat, they can aggravate such ailments as high blood pressure, hyperlipidemia and coronary disease, by increasing blood viscosity and decreasing blood flow to the heart. They can in extreme cases provoke heart attacks.

　　Moon cakes, like all things sweet, can increase the sugar content in the blood of a person with diabetes.

　　There have been cases where diabetic patients went into comas after eating moon cakes.

　　And finally, moon cakes speed up secretion of gastric acid. Therefore, those who have stomach troubles may feel great pain after eating them. Increasing secretions of gastric acid can also deter the healing of duodenal ulcers.