Are the side effects of the Copenhagen diet big?
1. Can you lose weight without eating staple foods?
To answer this question, you don't need a high level of professional knowledge. You just need to think about it from a historical and geographical perspective. Thirty years ago, China used large bowls to eat and large sea bowls to hold noodles, but at that time people were very thin. Nowadays, the rice bowl is getting smaller and smaller, but people have more and more fat on their stomachs. Looking at the world, European and American countries rarely eat staple foods. Many people have even lost the concept of staple foods long ago, but they are very fat, more than Japan, South Korea, and Southeast Asian countries that eat staple foods seriously every day. Therefore, it does not require any professional knowledge to understand that there is no inevitable connection between eating staple foods and getting fat; eating less staple foods may not make people lose weight.
2. Are there any side effects of the Copenhagen diet that does not eat staple foods?
As the main source of carbohydrates, staple foods are the main source of carbohydrates. What impact will it have on health if they are not consumed for a long time? Will it affect women's beauty? There are still people who worry that they will become stupid if they don't eat staple foods. Is there such a saying?
Life without eating staple foods is very low in terms of quality of life. Foreign studies have found that most people can persist in eating a diet with less oil and salt; but if they do not eat starchy staple foods and sugary fruits at all, people find it difficult to persist in the long term. From a nutritional point of view, this diet is also nutritionally unbalanced, and if it continues for a long time, it may bring health damage in various aspects.
Just think about it and you know that people's gastrointestinal tract always needs to be filled with certain ingredients. If the carbohydrates in the diet are too low, what do people eat? If you replace the staple food with fish and eggs to satisfy your hunger, it will inevitably be a high-protein and high-fat diet. Such a diet can easily cause electrolyte disorders, hypotension, fatigue, arrhythmia, ketosis, hyperuricemia, gout, osteoporosis, kidney stones and kidney dysfunction. At the same time, long-term high-fat, low-carbohydrate diets will inhibit insulin secretion, reduce insulin sensitivity, and ultimately promote the occurrence of diabetes.
After most women stopped eating staple foods, they did not add animal foods and soy products, or just added low-carbohydrate foods such as vegetables, tomatoes, and cucumbers. This can lead to hunger, a serious decline in protein intake, and a lack of multiple vitamins and minerals.
Many women find that after not eating staple foods for a period of time, their skin deteriorates. The original delicate and smooth skin color no longer exists, and it becomes coarse, loose and dull. When combing my hair, I found that my hair fell off more and more, and my originally soft and beautiful hair became dry or greasy. Because too low carbohydrates will cause "ketosis", and even breathe out will smell like rotten apples. Among those women who only eat vegetables and fruits, some people suffer from anemia, amenorrhea, ovarian atrophy, and even edema disease due to poor protein nutrition and insufficient iron supply.
Many women also found that after skipping staple foods, their memory significantly decreased, their brain thinking ability also suffered, and some found that they began to lose sleep. Family friends found that they had strange tempers, irritable emotions, and difficulty communicating. In fact, this was also a major side effect of the diet without eating staple foods.
3. The Copenhagen diet is not advisable. A healthy way to lose weight is to not only enjoy the delicious food of the staple food, but also lose weight.
To lose weight healthily, what is a reasonable dietary structure? For women who lose weight, how much staple food should they consume in a day, what are the concerns about the selection and collocation of varieties, and the choice of cooking methods?
Healthy weight loss requires only reducing fat, sweets and white rice, rather than rejecting all carbohydrate foods. None of the nutrients needed for life must be less or even increased to promote the decomposition of fat, maintain beautiful skin, and enhance women's charm and vitality. Reasonable choice of staple foods can not only reduce the energy (calories) in a meal, but also increase the supply of nutrients without causing hunger. Only by adopting such a staple food strategy can we achieve benefits and harmlessness, and achieve both slimness and beauty.
There are many nutritionists in Western countries who advocate a "grain-free diet". The Copenhagen Diet is one of them. In fact, it does not prevent people from eating any carbohydrate foods, but encourages people not to stick to the staple food made of polished white rice and refined white flour., explore more sources of starch and let yourself choose foods with higher nutritional value and slower blood sugar rise to supplement starch. Because only such starchy foods can have a better feeling of satiety, better prevent chronic diseases, and provide more nutrients and anti-aging ingredients.
Research has found that soft and white bread, white steamed buns, white rice and porridge, as well as various biscuits, desserts, and sweet drinks are all foods that make people less likely to be full after eating and easier to get hungry after eating. Not only are they low in nutritional value, they also make it difficult to control appetite. Such food is naturally very unfavorable for weight control. Epidemiological studies have found that compared with people who regularly eat coarse grains, people who eat more white grains have a greater chance of gaining weight with age.
During weight loss, the intake of staple foods does need to be appropriately reduced, but it does not mean not eating one bite. It is recommended that women with less physical activity eat 3 taels of grains a day during weight loss (1 tael of grains is equivalent to half a bowl of rice). But if you eat less staple foods, you will be hungry. What should I do? This requires making decisions on the ingredients.
Eat the same amount of starch and the same amount of energy. If you change the ingredients of the staple food to beans, coarse grains and potatoes, the effect will be very different. A series of studies have shown that replacing part of the white rice flour with starch beans can greatly improve the feeling of satiety and make people feel hungry for hours after eating it. For example, if you drink a large bowl of white rice porridge, you will be hungry in less than 2 hours; while drinking the same large bowl of porridge made with red beans and oatmeal, you will have the same amount of dry matter, but you will not be hungry for 4 hours. Eating a white steamed bun made of 100 grams of white flour will not feel full at all; while eating a whole-wheat steamed bun made of 80 grams of whole-wheat flour will make you feel more full than a white steamed bun made of 100 grams of flour. What about nutrients? If you eat these staple foods made of beans and coarse grains, based on the same amount of starch, the vitamins B1, B2, potassium, magnesium and other nutrients are several times that of white rice!
For those who already have excessive staple foods, especially those whose triglycerides have been elevated and those with fatty liver, more attention should be paid to controlling the amount of white staple foods. On the one hand, coarse grains, beans and potatoes are used to replace some of the white staple foods, and on the other hand, they should eat more vegetables to fill the food volume and improve the feeling of satiety.