Bigu is a popular healthy weight loss method on the Internet at present, which advocates fasting grain for a period of time or even fasting completely. It usually lasts for a few days to dozens of days. Many people think it can improve the detoxification function of the body, improve sub-health, treat diseases and so on.

Bigu is one of the traditional health preserving ways of Taoism. There are three kinds of traditional methods: convinced, natural and taking medicine. Persuaded to avoid the valley mainly through hunger strike and breath adjustment (breathing); Natural crossing the valley means that after meditation, you have enough internal qi, so you naturally don't think about eating and drinking, and sometimes you can drink some water. This phenomenon is natural crossing the valley; Taking medicine to avoid cereal is to adjust the body function by taking other complementary foods (nuts, Chinese herbal medicines, Bigu pills, Bigu soup, etc.). ) instead of eating the staple food (grain).

However, is it really beneficial to health to use extremely low calories, just sugar water or fruits with a small amount of carbohydrates, or even to completely fast? Can you really lose weight healthily? What's the harm to your health?

This is harmful to your health and is not worth advocating.

The reason for the ancient popularity was the lack of food. In order to maintain social stability, the ruling class strongly advocates fasting. In modern society, due to food surplus, many people have cardiovascular diseases such as diabetes and obesity because of excess nutrition and energy. As a means to control food and energy intake, we naturally get prosperous soil.

In view of the fact that in real life, some people feel that their health has really improved because of the practice of fasting food. Mainly because the process of crushing helps to reduce part of body fat, the decline of body fat will naturally improve the health problems caused by excessive body fat, such as hyperlipidemia, hyperglycemia, fatty liver and so on. However, in the long run, the loss of body muscles caused by fasting with low calories and only low carbohydrates can not be ignored.

"To evaluate the quality of a way to lose weight, the most critical indicator is whether it can minimize the loss of body muscles." A good way to lose weight should be to reduce body fat and maintain or even increase body muscle rate. Muscles are very important to the human body. The normal operation of various organs of the body, including the skeletal muscles of the heart, kidneys and limbs, requires the participation of muscles. Excessive muscle loss may also damage these functional organs and accelerate aging. From this point of view, all kinds of fasting behaviors such as crossing the valley are extremely harmful to the body and are not worth promoting.

You need to find professional guidance to lose weight.

First of all, we should choose a regular hospital for physical examination. After excluding secondary obesity (obesity caused by insulinoma, acromegaly and other diseases), if we need to take a very low-energy diet to lose weight, we must do it under the guidance of professional doctors and clinical nutritionists. Otherwise, it will not only bring long-term harm to the body, but also lead to sudden death.