What will happen to people who don't eat dinner? In addition to becoming thinner, can you bear the other three consequences?

Xiaoli is a sophomore. She is usually very dissatisfied with her figure. She made up her mind to lose weight as soon as she entered college.

During her weight loss period, she basically skipped dinner after exercise and became very hungry at around eleven o'clock in the evening, so she usually went to bed early. Later, there were cases where people didn't exercise at night and still didn't eat dinner. As time went on, they often had stomach pains in the middle of the night and even fainted twice.

"My weight has indeed reached my target value now, but I obviously feel that my body is not as good as before, and I often get sick and cold. This makes me feel very regretful, but there is no medicine for regret in the world."

Xiaoli, who has personally practiced losing weight without eating dinner, also advises everyone not to diet and lose weight when there is nothing wrong. It may be too late to regret it until some bad changes occur in your body.

1. What changes will happen to your body if you don't eat dinner?

A team from Southern Medical University once conducted an experiment. Researchers conducted an experiment on 139 obese people with a BMI of 28 to 45 for one year.

The subjects were randomly divided into two groups. Group A underwent a time-limited, energy-restricted diet, eating only from 8 to 16 o'clock every day, and the total calorie intake was controlled, that is, the group who did not eat dinner; Group B underwent unlimited time intake, but controlled overall calories. The results of

found that the diet pattern of Group A did have a certain weight loss effect, but the overall weight loss effect was not much different from that of Group B. On the contrary, the diet pattern of Group A was more difficult to adhere to. With professional guidance and supervision, 15% of the subjects still chose to quit halfway. If they chose to use this method to lose weight on their own daily basis, the probability of failure would only be higher.

In this regard, the researchers said that the key to losing weight is actually to eat less, skip dinner but not control your dietary intake at other times, and it is difficult to achieve weight loss. On the contrary, skipping dinner for a long time may bring the following threats to health: ① Inducing stomach disease. Our stomach is a rhythmic organ. Not eating dinner will leave it on an empty stomach for a long time. Gastric acid and bile may be in the body. Reflux may cause corrosion of the gastric mucosa and increase the chance of developing peptic ulcers. And bile accumulates in the gallbladder for a long time, which may also induce gallstones.

② Weight gain without dinner can indeed achieve good weight loss results in the early stage, but under the influence of the body's basic metabolic rate, it may soon enter a plateau period. In this case, if you only need to eat more or return to normal three meals, there is a high chance of weight regaining immediately.

③ Muscle loss research found that people who restricted food lost an average of 0.64kg of muscle over 3 months, while people who restricted calories lost an average of 0.17kg of muscle.

Simply put, skipping dinner is not recommended for ordinary people. What really needs to be done to lose weight is to control overall calorie intake. Blindly skipping dinner is likely to bring some unnecessary side effects to the body.

2."It saves money", or the only benefit of skipping dinner depends on skipping dinner to lose weight. The only benefit you get in the end may be saving dinner money. You may not know that the harm caused by skipping dinner may far exceed the so-called "weight loss effect."

What may be the harm of skipping dinner?

1. On the contrary, it may gain weight. A study published by researchers at Harvard Medical School in the international journal "Medical Metabolism" pointed out that skipping dinner may lead to increased appetite, poor diet quality, and changes in gene expression in fat tissue, which may ultimately make people fat.

2. Immune system disorders Not eating dinner can easily lead to insufficient nutrient intake in the body, which in turn reduces resistance and may increase the risk of illness.

3. If your mood deteriorates, you will definitely feel hungry if you don't eat dinner, which may cause a lot of fluctuations in people's emotions. The fact that many people often say that they are so hungry that they want to hit someone may not be alarmist. And falling asleep under a strong sense of hunger may greatly reduce the quality of sleep, forming a vicious circle.

4. Increase the risk of diabetes The eating pattern of one meal at a time may cause disorder in the function of islet cells, which in turn leads to an increased risk of diabetes.

5. Affecting the health of the gallbladder, the gallbladder contracts and excrete bile only after food is ingested. Not eating dinner may cause bile to be stored in the gallbladder for a long time, which may easily precipitate solid substances such as cholesterol and induce stones.

3. These three groups of people may be able to consider skipping dinner. Although not eating dinner may bring a series of adverse effects on health, for some special groups of people, they may choose not to eat dinner.

First, people who consume too much calories at lunch have already covered the calories they need throughout the day, so they may choose not to eat dinner to avoid excessive calorie intake; second, people who are overweight, the most important thing when losing weight is to control their weight. You can choose not to eat dinner to limit the total calorie intake, but be careful not to use this method for a long time; The third

is for people who fall asleep early at night. They can consider postponing lunch time and skipping dinner. However, it is necessary to ensure that the body has sufficient calories and nutrients, and avoid eating one less meal and causing insufficient nutrition intake to threaten health.

4. Learn these 3 points, dinner is healthier. For most people, dinner must be eaten, but you must also pay attention to eating correctly! These details about dinner are something everyone needs to know.

First of all, don't overeat dinner. It is generally recommended to keep it at around 5 minutes full. What does it feel like to be 5 minutes full? I feel like I'm about to eat well, but my craving for food has dropped, so I need to stop chopsticks in time.

Secondly, it is recommended that the food for dinner should be mainly light, as a meal to check for deficiencies in the three meals. If the protein intake is insufficient during the day, you can eat some meat at dinner; if the intake of coarse grains is insufficient, you can eat some coarse grains at dinner. It is best to ensure the combination of thickness and thickness. Third, the

is recommended to choose dinner time between 5 and 7 p.m. to avoid eating too late and causing the gastrointestinal tract to work overtime while sleeping.

Dinner is a very important part of three meals. For ordinary people, it is not recommended to blindly remove dinner, otherwise it will have unnecessary effects on the body and lose the gain.

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