Exquisite fresh vegetables are five good helpers for slimming

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American nutritionists advise dieters: Eat more grains and potatoes. Potatoes and sweet potatoes both contain starch, but their water content is as high as more than 70%, and the real starch content is only 20%. They also contain "dietary fiber" that can create a "satiety feeling", so using them instead of staple foods has the advantage of losing weight. effect.

Why are potatoes still regarded as fattening food? One is that people don't cook properly and turn good potatoes into French fries and potato chips. Anyone who has made "potato roast meat" knows that it has a strong oil absorption capacity.

It has been determined that a medium-sized "French baked potato" without draining oil contains only a few kilocalories of heat, but the heat energy contained in French fries reaches more than 200 kilocalories. What makes you fat is not actually the potato itself, but the oil it absorbs. The second is that people don't use potatoes as a substitute for staple food, but treat them as vegetables.

Potatoes contain less heat than staple foods, but more heat than ordinary vegetables. As a result, eating potato vegetables is easier to gain weight than eating green vegetables.

red bean

Also known as red rice beans. It is an edible red bean food that looks like soybeans. Don't mix it with red beans. Red beans contain protein, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, niacin, calcium, iron and other nutrients, and have the function of reducing fat and losing weight. The famous medicinal diet of small bean and red carp soup allows people to have the effect of diuretic, swelling, weight loss and body building when tasting delicious dishes.

pollen

Using pollen for beauty and fitness has become popular around the world. Pollen contains indispensable trace elements for humans, a large amount of protein, sugar, vitamins, carotene, free amino acids and other active ingredients. Its nutritional value is even 7 to 8 times that of milk and eggs. Pollen also contains a highly efficient bioactive substance that can improve the metabolism of human tissues and organs and increase cardiovascular function.

yam

Also known as yam. Modern experiments have found that yams contain amylase digetin, which can decompose protein and sugar, so they have the effect of losing weight and being lighter. But for people with thin bodies, yam contains rich protein and starch and other nutrients, and can also "gain weight". This dual adjustment function makes yam gain the reputation of "body protection messenger".

radish

Also known as vegetable radish. Modern research has found that radish contains several times higher vitamin C than pears and apples. It also contains vitamin B1, vitamin B2, amylase and trace amounts of calcium, phosphorus, iron, etc. Radish can promote bile secretion and facilitate the digestion of fat; it can eliminate the carcinogenic effect of nitrosamines. Therefore, eating radishes regularly will not only help maintain your body, but also prevent cancer and prolong life.

(Internship Editor: Liang Yalin)