Not eating staple food is regarded as a shortcut to weight loss by many women who do not want to exercise. In their view, they can lose weight without eating carbohydrates. However, recently, a Japanese weight loss guru who advocated skipping staple foods died suddenly of heart failure. The method of losing weight by skipping staple foods has once again been questioned. Can you lose weight successfully without eating staple food? Will not eating staple food for a long time cause harm to the body? Which staple foods, or how to eat staple foods, can help you lose weight and stay healthy at the same time?
People who lose weight often hear this advice: As long as you don’t eat meals or sweets, and just eat vegetables and meat, you can lose weight. The theoretical basis used by those who promote this dietary concept is that people are more likely to be satisfied when eating high-protein and high-fat foods, and their food intake will decrease. At the same time, due to insufficient carbohydrates, fat cannot be fully \”burned\” and protein will be decomposed quickly. Therefore, it is difficult for the body to fully utilize the protein and fat eaten, and the \”waste\” of nutrients will promote weight loss. Many people who follow this approach actually experience short-term \”success\” with sustained weight loss over three months. However, as long as they start eating staple food again, their weight will rebound all the way, even exceeding the previous level.
If you don’t eat enough, it will accelerate the aging of the human body due to repeated hypoglycemia or metabolic disorders. This is because women who only eat fruits and vegetables may suffer from anemia, amenorrhea, ovarian atrophy, and even edema due to protein malnutrition and insufficient iron supply.
As for the behavior of not eating staple food and only eating meat, it is also very harmful. In order to lose weight, I do not eat staple food for breakfast, but only eat a cup of milk and an egg. Although it is high in protein and rich in calcium, it is also an unbalanced breakfast because of the lack of staple food. A nutritious and balanced breakfast can improve the body\’s metabolism and restrain the desire to eat snacks. Therefore, skipping breakfast or eating less is not good for your health, nor is it conducive to losing weight.
Insufficient staple food, animal fat metabolism is incomplete when carbohydrates are insufficient, and even a large amount of fat in the body is decomposed. Fat decomposition will produce metabolic products such as ketone bodies. If excessive production is carried out, it may be harmful to the body. Cause certain harm to the body. In addition, insufficient intake of staple food can easily lead to slow brain response, imbalance of the body\’s nutritional structure, and lead to what Chinese medicine calls deficiency of qi and blood. From the perspective of Western medicine, long-term high-fat and low-carbohydrate diets can lead to endocrine and metabolic diseases, such as decreased insulin function, decreased secretion, decreased insulin sensitivity, and ultimately induce metabolic syndromes such as dyslipidemia and hyperglycemia.
Develop a regular and moderately balanced dietHabits can lay the foundation for weight loss. Only in this way can you lose weight and become healthier. The first requirement for a balanced diet is to ensure that cereals are the mainstay. Whether you are dining out or eating at home, you should ensure a certain amount of staple food in every meal. A healthy adult should have at least 220 to 250 grams of staple food every day, which is about two and a half bowls of a normal rice bowl. Since staple foods such as rice and noodles are now processed very finely, dietary fiber and vitamin B1 are lost. Therefore, staple foods should not only be refined rice and fine noodles, but also should be appropriately increased in coarse grains, which is often said that staple foods should be matched in thickness. For example, before cooking rice, add about 1/3 of millet, corn crumbs, oatmeal, etc. to the rice. When some families buy rice and put it in buckets, they put in about 1/4 of the above whole grains. This is more convenient and will not be forgotten every time they cook rice. You can also add pumpkin, sweet potato or other whole grains to the rice, or only eat half the usual amount of rice and noodles, and eat corn, sweet potato or whole grain porridge with it. Coarse grains are high in dietary fiber and have low glycemic index and glycemic load, which are of great benefit to weight control and blood sugar control.
The main cause of obesity is that the total energy of food intake is higher than the energy consumed by body life activities for a long time, which leads to the accumulation of more and more fat in the body, leading to obesity. On the contrary, if you increase exercise to increase consumption, and at the same time appropriately reduce total energy intake, including fat, carbohydrates and proteins, and control it in a balanced manner, it will be more conducive to weight control and health maintenance. If you take an extreme diet route and cause nutritional imbalance, you will ultimately lose more than you gain – obesity and health will be lost.
