1. Can you lose weight by eating yam?
Eating yam can lose weight.
Yam contains a lot of dietary fiber components, as well as some mucus components, including a mannan substance, which belongs to hemicellulose. After eating, it will absorb water and swell, resulting in a feeling of fullness. So eating yam has a certain weight loss effect.
2. Can you eat more yam to lose weight?
You can't eat more yam to lose weight.
Yam not only contains more dietary fiber, but also contains a lot of starch. A small amount of this food can reduce weight, but a large amount of it will lead to too much starch intake and too much sugar intake will lead to obesity.
3. How to eat yam to lose weight?
(1) steamed yam
Put the yam in a pressure cooker, and steam for 15 minutes from the beginning, or steam in a steamer, and steam for 5~ 10 minutes after the water is boiled. The length of time mainly depends on personal taste. Some people like crispy food, others like noodles, which will be steamed for a while.
(2) Fried yam with auricularia auricula
Ingredients: Auricularia auricula, Chinese yam, Lycium barbarum, onion, ginger, garlic, salt, monosodium glutamate, oyster sauce, pepper, starch, etc.
Exercise:
1. Soak the auricularia auricula in warm water for 30 minutes, peel and slice the yam, add the raw flour and mix well.
2. Put oil on the fire, stir-fry the yam until the surface is slightly yellow, take it out, leave the bottom oil in the pan, add onion, ginger and garlic to saute, add fungus, medlar and pepper to stir fry, add salt and oyster sauce to taste, add yam to stir fry evenly, and then add a little monosodium glutamate.
4, eat yam to lose weight precautions
1. Yam contains a lot of starch, so people who eat yam to lose weight should not eat more to avoid obesity.
2. Yam contains a certain amount of foreign protein, which may be allergic. Therefore, people with allergies are not suitable for eating more.
5. Yam is suitable for people to eat.
1, people with weak spleen and stomach
Chinese medicine believes that yam is flat and sweet, has the effects of strengthening the spleen, nourishing the stomach and helping digestion, and is a dual-purpose product for nourishing the spleen and stomach. Therefore, people with weak spleen and stomach, tired from eating less and diarrhea can eat more yam. From the perspective of modern science, yam contains amylase, polyphenol oxidase and other substances, which can promote digestion and improve gastrointestinal function. There are many ways to eat yam, such as cooking yam with rice, millet and red dates. Make coarse cereal porridge or thin soft rice, grind yam into powder and mix it with rice flour, which is similar to the eating method of lotus root starch, or steam yam to make blueberry yam. Need to be reminded that people with dry stools and qi stagnation in the stomach should not eat yam.
2. Diabetic patients
Mannan in yam can regulate sugar metabolism and slow down the absorption of blood sugar, so yam is a good diet for diabetic patients. It is worth noting that the starch content of yam is higher than that of ordinary vegetables. Eat less staple food after meals and control blood sugar.
3. Patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases
Yam is rich in vitamins and minerals, which is beneficial to the health of the heart and brain. Active ingredients such as glycoprotein and mannan contained in fresh tubers can also effectively prevent blood lipids from depositing on blood vessel walls, thus playing a role in preventing arteriosclerosis.
4. People who want to lose weight
Yam is low in fat and rich in soluble dietary fiber. After absorbing water, the volume expands, which is easy to increase people's satiety and has a good auxiliary effect on controlling appetite and slimming.
5, lung deficiency cough
Yam contains saponins, mucus and other active substances, which have the functions of benefiting lung qi and nourishing lung yin, so yam can be used as an auxiliary treatment for cough due to lung deficiency.