New Express News (Reporter Xiao Ping correspondent Chen Qikun) "I lost seven pounds a week! There is no other way but to eat Chinese absorbent cotton every day! " Recently, a post entitled "I lost seven pounds a week" was very popular in Baidu. In addition to the high click-through rate and nearly a thousand replies, many people who are keen on losing weight have followed suit. However, the reporter learned from gastroenterologists in some big hospitals in Guangzhou yesterday that it may be a dangerous attempt to lose weight with absorbent cotton, which may even lead to intestinal obstruction and stomach obstruction! "Cotton to lose weight" is very popular. A young girl with the net name "198009 1 1" posted a post on Baidu "Lose Weight", which caused quite a stir. According to her, she has a cup of soybean milk for breakfast, absorbent cotton and water for lunch and two cucumbers for dinner every day. As a result, her weight was reduced from 57 kg to 50 kg in a week. At first, eating cotton to lose weight made many netizens stunned and unbelievable. "19809 1 1" described the process of eating cotton in detail in the subsequent reply: "The first time I put cotton in my mouth, I, I vomited at that time. But now I am used to it. I eat cotton with water. Don't make it too big, or you will really throw up. You have to tear it into small pieces to swallow it. Eat less at first, as long as you feel full. In fact, cotton is just fiber, which contributes to gastrointestinal peristalsis, and it is easy to feel full without heat. Moreover, high-fiber food is good for the intestines and can take away the stool. Today is the fifteenth day for me, but my spirit and body are very good. There are also side effects, one is that the mouth is weak, and the other is that the stomach will keep purring, probably because the fiber is reorganizing the stomach. As far as I know, the famous anti-Japanese general Yang Jingyu made a living by cotton in his cotton coat. " Xiao Xue's suggestion: Tracing back to the source, liquidate the four major pharmacies that are prone to obesity. I haven't heard of anyone buying cotton. The reporter visited Jianmin, Neptune and other pharmacies yesterday and found that medical absorbent cotton is not rare and cheap. You can buy a pack for one or two yuan, which is very convenient. But the clerk said that he had never heard of anyone buying absorbent cotton. Professor Liao Zhener, director of the Department of Gastroenterology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, said that this "eccentric weight loss method" was unheard of and the weight loss effect could not be evaluated. But it can be predicted that eating absorbent cotton will damage the digestive system. Xiao Xue recommended: wrap plastic wrap to lose weight. Professor Liao told reporters that the main component of absorbent cotton is cellulose. Unlike plant fiber, cellulose cannot be decomposed and absorbed in human body. A small amount can be excreted with stool, but if it is eaten for a long time, it will gather in the stomach. Cellulose can not be absorbed into the stomach, which is easy to cause gastric obstruction. After the stomach expands, eating can cause vomiting and nausea. Once it enters the intestine and causes intestinal obstruction, food cannot be discharged, and the mechanical method of "vomiting up and blocking down" may achieve the effect of "losing weight" in a short time. But at this time, it has already paid a health price: severe gastric dilatation and intestinal obstruction cause digestive system dysfunction, excretion and absorption disorders, and human electrolyte disorder, which may be life-threatening. I suggest you lose weight in a normal way, not in this way.