Dietitians strongly recommend fasting to effectively control weight. Nutritionist Su explained that it is feasible to fast and lose weight, because according to the current research, we know that everyone needs 12 ~ 14 hours on average from eating the last meal to running out of glucose and liver sugar. Once you run out of energy in your body, your body will go into a state of burning fat, which is why it is recommended that the fasting time last at least 16 hour or even longer.
However, someone must have had this experience. After fasting, there was a problem of hypoglycemia, so they had to bite the bullet and stop working. Dr. Lai Ruixin believes that Chinese medicine will first find out the cause of high blood sugar. People who are prone to unstable blood sugar must pay attention to balanced nutrition, not just restricting diet.
"When coarse grains reach more than 50%, you should eat everything, not much, but food, meat, eggs, milk, fruits and vegetables. Excessive diet control will cause hidden hunger, but it will do harm to the transport function of the body. He said.
Description: Fasting is a good way to lose weight, but it is also easy to get hungry. Image source: unsplash changes the order of eating: vegetables, protein, starch, fruits. He said that food intake must be diversified, with whole grains as the main food and more coarse grains, fruits and vegetables. Eat proper nutrition and avoid all processed foods.
Meal order can also effectively stabilize blood sugar. Let's start with vegetables. Vegetables (including mushrooms and seaweed) that can help suppress the sharp rise of blood sugar can be eaten first. Then, eating protein's main course includes meat, seafood, soybeans or dairy products, and then eating rice, bread, pasta, potatoes and other carbohydrates will raise blood sugar. Finally, eat fruit.
"I often advise patients to eat fruit after meals, which will alleviate the rapid rise of blood sugar produced by fruits, because most of the sugar in fruits belongs to monosaccharides and is absorbed quickly. Eating fruit before meals will make fructose quickly absorbed, leading to a rapid increase in blood sugar. Lai Ruizhen said.
Caption: Eat vegetables first, then protein, and finally eat starch/Photo source: pexels If you must eat the staple food, you can change it to pumpkin rice. Pumpkin has a characteristic that it is rich in trace element cobalt. Cobalt is an essential trace element for human islet cells to synthesize insulin. Proper intake can help us normalize insulin secretion, thus lowering blood sugar.
In addition, the pectin rich in pumpkin can combine with excess cholesterol in the human body, which helps to prevent arteriosclerosis caused by cholesterol imbalance, so it is recommended to throw the pumpkin out and cook it together when you want to eat it. Help to stabilize blood sugar, and there will be no sudden hypoglycemia and sudden need to eat.