Men can lose weight by eating more seaweed foods

Men with successful careers socialize more often and often have big fish and meat, which inevitably leads to big bellies and thick necks. It's not a big deal to have an ugly body shape. The problem is that when people get fat, high blood lipids, high blood pressure, and fatty liver often follow. These problems bring pain and trouble to life. How can a smart wife nurse her fat husband? Cooking more seaweed food is one of the tricks.

The so-called seaweed refers to commonly used domestic vegetables such as kelp, seaweed, and undaria pinnatifida. There is a colloidal substance called alginic acid in many seaweed, which is also called alginic acid because it is mostly found in brown seaweed. When seaweed is soaked in water, there will be a layer of sticky gel on the surface, which is alginic acid.

An important factor leading to elevated blood pressure is the imbalance of the trace elements sodium and potassium in the human body. Because of eating salt, people need to eat some sodium every day, but they may not be able to replenish enough potassium.

Therefore, many people, especially people with hypertension, are often in a state of low potassium and high sodium. Being able to supplement potassium and reduce sodium to the human body is obviously a useful way to prevent and treat hypertension.

The alginic acid in seaweed is actually a mixture of metal ions such as potassium, calcium and magnesium. Alginic acid has a property that it separates from metal ions such as potassium, calcium, and magnesium in an acidic environment, and combines with metal ions in an alkaline environment.

Then, after seaweed enters the human stomach, under the action of gastric acid, alginic acid releases the metal ions such as potassium contained therein. But because alginic acid cannot be digested and absorbed by the stomach, it continues to travel through the human body.

After alginic acid enters the intestine, because the intestine is alkaline, it has to look for metal ions to bind. Since people eat salt every day, the intestine has the most sodium ions, so alginic acid binds to sodium ions in large quantities and seals them. Wrap it firmly until it is excreted. From this point of view, eating seaweed is just the right way to replenish potassium and remove excess sodium.

In addition, alginic acid can also lower cholesterol in the human body. First of all, after alginic acid enters the digestive system, its gum will wrap up part of the cholesterol, making this part of the cholesterol unable to be absorbed. Secondly, people digest and absorb fat by relying on bile acids secreted by themselves. The more bile acids, the more fat they absorb.

Some bile acids are reabsorbed and utilized by the intestinal wall after decomposing fat. The colloid of alginic acid permeates the intestinal wall, which can hinder the reabsorption of bile acids and reduce the amount of bile acids in the digestive tract.

At this time, the human body will automatically synthesize new bile acids to supplement them, and the raw material for synthesizing bile acids is cholesterol in the liver. This means that in order to synthesize bile acids, a large amount of cholesterol in the liver will be consumed, and the cholesterol content in the blood will also be reduced.

By hindering the absorption of cholesterol and promoting cholesterol consumption in the liver, alginic acid plays a good role in lowering blood lipids.

Of course, the benefits of seaweed are not limited to these. It also contains rich amino acids, minerals, vitamins, etc. necessary for the human body. Seaweed foods are very delicious whether they are salad or made in soup. (Internship Editor: He Lili)