Expert: Eat less staple food during weight loss, instead of not eating it.
From ancient times to the present, people in China have always been eating with grains as the staple food, which is just the opposite of the diet with meat and high protein in Europe and America. Some dieters actually feel weight loss after trying a diet without staple food, so can they really lose weight without staple food?
Sun Jia, deputy director of the Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, zhujiang hospital, Southern Medical University, told online editors of family doctors that not eating staple food does have a certain effect of reducing fat, but this way of losing weight needs to be standardized by professionals, otherwise it will easily lead to adverse consequences. In the process of losing weight, normal people advocate eating less staple food instead of not eating staple food.
"Cereal food contains a variety of vitamins, especially rich B vitamins. If you don't eat staple food for a long time, even if you eat enough other foods, there will still be problems of insufficient energy and carbohydrates in nutrition. Carbohydrate is an essential productivity nutrient for human body. In addition, it also plays an important role in forming various tissue structures and important living substances, detoxifying, preserving protein and resisting ketogenesis. Not eating staple food can really make you lose weight in a short time, but in a short time, there may be some bad situations such as hypoglycemia, ketosis, memory loss, delayed menstruation, overeating and so on. Therefore, don't ignore the risk and pain of this weight loss method and try it rashly. It is easy to lead to a rapid decline in the body's basal metabolic rate, which leads to an easy rebound in weight. " For some dieters who reduce their daily energy intake to a very low level, there may be hair loss, memory loss, sugar withdrawal reaction, irregular menstruation and so on.
Sun Jia suggested that when you lose weight, you should advocate eating less staple food instead of not eating staple food. Specifically, if you usually eat a bowl of rice for dinner, you can reduce it to half a bowl of rice when you lose weight; Secondly, in terms of staple food types, advocate the matching of staple food thickness, such as adding oats and sweet potatoes when cooking, or choosing soba noodles.