What is a meal replacement stick? Meal replacement bars and energy bars are just product names. They usually claim that the product has the characteristics of high satiety, high fiber, low calorie and low fat, and is suitable for dieters. But they actually belong to cakes, chocolates and chocolate products, as well as puffed foods, such as chocolate pies, biscuits, cereal bars, brown rice rolls and so on.
Can a meal replacement stick lose weight? Meal replacement sticks may not be able to lose weight. Different meal replacement products have different nutritional components and cannot be generalized. Take the meal replacement stick as an example. 4 1g meal replacement stick contains 186 calories, 9g fat, 22g sugar, 2.9g protein and 2.7g dietary fiber. Judging from this set of data, its calorie is indeed lower than that of a meal 100-700 kcal, but its fat content accounts for 15% of the recommended daily limit, and sugar accounts for half of the daily limit, which is not conducive to weight loss. Moreover, if the protein content is less than half an egg, malnutrition may occur after long-term consumption.
Is the meal replacement stick effective for losing weight? Meal replacement sticks with low calorie, high protein, high dietary fiber, low sugar and low fat are beneficial to lose weight, and if you feel full, you can keep hungry for more than 3-4 hours, so the weight loss effect is better. But if it is composed of nutrients like the above example, the weight loss effect will not be good.
How to choose 1 and choose a big brand to ensure that the label information is consistent with the actual nutritional composition.
2. Look at the nutrient composition table, and choose products with calorie less than 300 kilocalories, fat less than 5 grams, and sugar less than 10 grams; The content of protein is better than 10g, and the dietary fiber is more than 3g, so the meal replacement stick has a good weight loss effect.
3, choose a small weight, which is conducive to controlling intake.
4, pay attention to the functional meal replacement stick, if there are extra nutrients in peacetime, then pay attention to the total amount of nutrients ingested to avoid exceeding the standard.
How to eat a diet meal replacement stick First of all, it is not recommended to replace dinner with a diet meal replacement stick, because it is difficult for ordinary meal replacement sticks to meet people's nutritional needs. Only when there is no time to eat, or when you need to replenish energy after exercise, you can eat meal replacement sticks. Secondly, when eating meal replacement bar, we should increase the intake of vegetables and fruits, and have a balanced diet and balanced nutrition.
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