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How to lose weight in wet and cold constitution
Cold-dampness constitution includes exogenous wind-cold and endogenous cold-dampness. Exogenous cold and dampness: exogenous cold and dampness, blocked qi and blood circulation, with joint bone pain as the common symptom; Endogenous cold and dampness: cold and dampness are trapped inside and damage spleen yang, or spleen and kidney yang deficiency and cold and dampness stay inside, with cold limbs, abdominal pain and diarrhea or edema as common symptoms. The foods that people with wet and cold constitution absolutely need to eat less and eat more if they want to lose weight are these:

(1) Cold foods: fruits, watermelons, tomatoes, kiwis, coconuts, etc. Vegetables: bitter gourd, bamboo shoots, sauerkraut, asparagus, etc.

(2) Avoid eating raw food: When the weather is cold, you usually avoid eating raw and cold foods such as lettuce salad and sashimi.

(3) Ice products and cold drinks: popsicles, ice cream, iced drinks and desserts. Eat less.

(4) Too sweet food: Eating too sweet food is not only easy to be obese, but also affects the body's water metabolism.

Foods that can be eaten more when it is cold and humid:

(1) You can eat more warm or flat foods, such as yam, lotus seeds, Chinese cabbage, sweet potato, milk, hawthorn, fungus and red dates.

(2) Food to relieve coldness: melon, loofah and other melons have the effect of eliminating edema, but they are too cold. You can add some ginger to neutralize the coolness.

(3) Harmony between hot and cold: hot food and cold food are cooked together, or hot food is eaten at one meal and cold food is eaten at the next meal.

(4) Drink Coix seed+mung bean+red bean water: Coix seed and mung bean have a good diuretic effect, but they are also cold. When cooking, it is best to cook with red beans (for 30 minutes), and only drink soup, not eating ingredients!

(5) Mutton stove: Mutton, Angelica sinensis and ginger slices are cooked together to make a nourishing mutton stove, which can be eaten 1 time every week, which can improve the cold constitution.

Note: Bad living habits will significantly increase the risk of cancer in people with cold constitution. If you smoke for a long time, you are more likely to get lung cancer; If you don't pay attention to drinking water hygiene and always eat spoiled food, you are more likely to get gastric cancer.