One. You can eat beans to lose weight.
Because beans are relatively low in fat and rich in dietary fiber, proper consumption of beans can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis and accelerate digestion, thus preventing constipation. Effectively discharge the toxic substances remaining in the body, play the role of cleaning the stomach, thus playing an active and effective role in losing weight.
Moreover, beans have a good detumescence and diuretic effect, which is especially suitable for friends who are prone to edema. By eating beans, it can play the role of detumescence and diuresis and accelerate human metabolism. Thereby consuming excess fat in the body, preventing fat accumulation and avoiding obesity caused by edema.
At the same time, beans can also reduce the blood sugar content of human body to a certain extent, thus inhibiting the absorption of sugar in food. It can effectively play a positive role for friends with hyperglycemia or hypertension. In addition, beans can strengthen the spleen and nourish the stomach, which can protect the stomach for some friends who use dieting to lose weight.
2. Nutrients of beans
As early as in Compendium of Materia Medica, there were records about beans, and the evaluation was very high. Among them, there is a saying that "regulating qi, tonifying kidney and stomach, harmonizing five internal organs, regulating nutrition and health, and producing sperm", which shows the great nutritional value of beans. Besides these nutritional values, what are the functions of beans?
1. There are many nutrients in beans, including vitamin B, vitamin C and some plant proteins. And these substances play a very important role in the human body. It can calm the nerves, regulate the digestive system, and eliminate the fullness of the chest and diaphragm. Chinese medicine also believes that beans have the effects of preventing and treating acute gastroenteritis, vomiting and diarrhea, quenching thirst and strengthening spleen, benefiting qi and promoting fluid production. Moreover, beans are sweet and have the effect of tonifying kidney and stopping leukorrhagia, which is especially suitable for people with indigestion, abdominal distension, kidney deficiency and increased leucorrhea caused by spleen and stomach weakness.
2. Beans are sweet and have the effect of tonifying kidney and stopping leukorrhagia.
The environmental pollution in modern society is enormous. When the free radicals in the human body are produced too much or cleared too slowly, it will accelerate the aging of the body and induce many diseases. Studies have shown that beans have a strong scavenging effect on hydroxyl radicals, which may be related to their rich carotene, vitamin E, ascorbic acid and trace element selenium. The results of comparative study show that long beans (such as cowpea) have stronger scavenging ability on hydroxyl radicals than short beans.
Although beans have such high nutritional value, because they are low-fat foods, moderate drinking will be very beneficial to lose weight. But losing weight is not only achieved by this kind of food, but also by exercising more and paying attention to other diets, so as to truly achieve the effect of losing weight.
Three. Efficacy and function of beans
1, invigorating spleen and regulating stomach
Beans are rich in plant protein, B vitamins and dietary fiber, which can maintain the normal secretion of digestive glands and intestinal peristalsis, promote digestion and absorption, and stimulate appetite. Eating beans regularly can regulate the digestive system, prevent acute gastroenteritis, strengthen the spleen to quench thirst, invigorate qi and promote fluid production, and tonify the kidney to stop diarrhea.
2, diuretic swelling
Beans are sweet and flat, which are not only good for the spleen and stomach, but also have the effects of eliminating summer heat and dampness, promoting diuresis and reducing swelling. Beans contain a lot of carbohydrates and amino acids. Eating beans in summer can prevent heatstroke, moisten dryness and induce diuresis, and can also treat loose stool who eats less and women who have excessive leucorrhea.
3. It can resist tumor.
Beans contain a lot of vitamin C, which can promote the synthesis of human antibodies and improve the antiviral function of human body. The seeds of beans can make human body produce tumor cell antibodies, which can prevent cancer cells from harming human body. Therefore, eating beans often has a certain inhibitory effect on cancer cells.
4. Applicable people
The general population can eat beans. It is a good food for both medicine and food, and has a good relieving effect on anorexia and acute gastroenteritis. Pregnant women and lactating women can achieve a good nutritional supplement effect by eating beans, because beans contain a variety of nutrients needed by the human body, but they should not eat too much, otherwise it will lead to flatulence, so people with abdominal distension should not eat beans.