If you plan to lose weight, you'd better not eat nuts and lotus root starch. These two foods contain a lot of starch, nuts and a lot of fat, and they are both relatively high-calorie foods. Excessive calorie intake will lead to weight loss failure. If you want to lose weight, you must limit your daily diet and control the total amount. On the premise of the same calories, try to reduce the intake of high-fat, high-calorie diet. Diet control is the first step. If you want to lose weight without rebounding, you need to cooperate with exercise. Exercise should be done step by step and according to your abilities. To achieve a certain intensity of exercise, exercise time can achieve the effect of losing weight.

nutritive value

1. Clearing heat and cooling blood: Lotus root is cold, which has the effect of clearing heat and cooling blood and can be used to treat fever; Lotus root is sweet and light, which is especially beneficial to people with fever, thirst, epistaxis and hemoptysis.

2. Purging bowels and stopping diarrhea, invigorating spleen and appetizing: Lotus root contains mucin and dietary fiber, which can be combined with cholate in human body, cholesterol and triglyceride in food, so that it can be discharged from feces, thereby reducing the absorption of lipids. Lotus root gives off a unique fragrance, and also contains tannin, which has certain functions of invigorating spleen, stopping diarrhea, stimulating appetite, promoting digestion, stimulating appetite and strengthening the body, and is beneficial to the recovery of people with poor appetite.

3. Benefiting blood and promoting granulation: Lotus root has high nutritional value, is rich in trace elements such as iron and calcium, and is rich in plant protein, vitamins and starch, which has obvious functions of invigorating qi and blood and enhancing human immunity. Therefore, Chinese medicine calls it: "the Lord nourishes the spirit, benefiting qi and tonifying deficiency."

4. Hemostasis and blood stasis: Lotus root contains a lot of tannic acid, which has the effect of contracting blood vessels and can be used to stop bleeding. Lotus root can also cool blood and disperse blood. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it can stop bleeding without leaving blood stasis, which is a good diet for fever.

Edible efficacy

1. Lotus root is sweet and flat, and can be eaten raw or cooked. Mainly used for treating heat thirst, removing blood stasis and promoting granulation.

2, cooked lotus root is warm and sweet, beneficial to the stomach and spleen, nourishing blood and tonifying, and stopping diarrhea.

3. Indications are cough due to lung heat, dysphoria and thirst, diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, loss of appetite and various blood syndromes.