It tastes salty and cold, and enters liver, stomach and kidney meridians. Herbal Dietotherapy says kelp can make people thin. Modern research has proved that kelp can really eliminate blood lipids and reduce the deposition of fat on the heart, blood vessels and intestinal walls, especially for obesity caused by hypothyroidism.

Five common diet foods

Adzuki bean:

Sweet and sour in nature, it enters the spleen, heart and small intestine, and has good diuretic, detumescence and detoxification effects. Using adzuki beans to lose weight, especially for obesity with edema, has a good effect.

Five common diet foods

Yam:

Sweet in taste and flat in nature, the Compendium of Materia Medica holds that yam can "benefit kidney qi, strengthen spleen and stomach, stop diarrhea, resolve phlegm and promote fluid production", and many nourishing prescriptions contain yam. According to modern scientific analysis, the advantage of yam is that it contains a lot of mucin, which can prevent fat from depositing on the cardiovascular system, maintain vascular elasticity, reduce subcutaneous fat accumulation and avoid obesity. If you have indigestion, you can cook yam, lotus seeds and Euryale ferox with a little sugar.

Five common diet foods

Wax gourd:

Sweet and light in taste, slightly cold in nature, capable of inducing diuresis and resolving phlegm, and clearing away heat and toxic materials. "Dietotherapy Materia Medica" says: "If you want to be fat, don't eat." Because most obese people have heat in their bodies, the effect of relieving qi and clearing heat of wax gourd is helpful to lose weight and can be taken in large quantities for a long time.

Five common diet foods

Tea:

Has the effects of clearing head, relieving polydipsia, resolving phlegm, promoting digestion, and promoting diuresis. Moreover, modern western medicine has proved that caffeine contained in tea can excite the central nervous system, increase body consumption and promote diuresis and metabolism. Pu 'er tea and oolong tea have the best weight-loss effect, and are known as weight-loss tea.