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Eat sweet potatoes to lose weight or gain weight?
Eating sweet potatoes in moderation is good for losing weight.

But you can't lose weight by eating more sweet potatoes. What our bodies need is balanced nutrition. No matter what food it is, it should be eaten reasonably.

From the perspective of weight loss, sweet potato is the most helpful for weight loss: because it contains more dietary fiber, the increase of fiber can effectively stimulate the intestine and promote defecation.

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Sweetpotato (English: sweetpotato), scientific name: sweet potato. ), also known as sweet potato, red taro, sweet potato, sweet potato, sweet potato, sweet potato, sweet potato (north), sweet potato (local multi-language), sweet potato, sweet potato, sweet potato.

Sweet potato belongs to the family Convolvulaceae of the genus Panicum, which is more than 2 meters long and lies on the ground. Its leaves are usually wide oval, 4- 13 cm long and 3- 13 cm wide. Corolla pink, white, lavender or purple, bell-shaped or funnel-shaped, 3-4 cm long, and capsule ovoid or oblate.

Sweet potato is rich in protein, starch, pectin, cellulose, amino acids, vitamins and various minerals, and has the reputation of "longevity food". The sugar content reached 15%-20%. Has anticancer, heart protecting, emphysema and diabetes preventing, and weight reducing effects. Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica in Ming Dynasty recorded that "sweet potato can tonify deficiency, strengthen spleen and stimulate appetite, and strengthen kidney yin", and said that people who eat the sea live longer. Chinese medicine regards sweet potato as a good medicine.