Bitter gourd, named after its bitter taste, is also called cold melon.

In recent years, bitter gourd has shined brilliantly in the field of beauty and slimming. Many girls who want to be beautiful and slim completely ignore its unbearable bitterness.

The reason is that an ordinary bitter gourd contains 0.4% of weight-loss special ingredients-high-energy lipids. 1998, Dr. Carey in the United States discovered this substance, and it was proved by experiments that taking 1mg every day could prevent the absorption of about 100g of fat and make the waist circumference as thin as 2mm. If you eat 2-4 mg of bitter gourd every day, the most conservative estimate after 30 days is that 12-24 kg of fat in the food you eat is not absorbed by the human body, but 6- 14 kg of fat stored in the waist, abdomen, buttocks and legs is decomposed for absorption and utilization by the human body.

Bitter gourd is also a vegetable used to clear heat in summer. Bitter gourd is rich in vitamins B, C, calcium and iron. Li Shizhen said that bitter gourd has the effects of "dispelling pathogenic heat, relieving fatigue, clearing heart and improving eyesight, benefiting qi and strengthening yang". According to the research, it has obvious hidden blood sugar effect and has certain curative effect on diabetes. It also has certain antiviral ability and anticancer effect.

Bitter gourd cooked food is warm, raw food is cold, and people with spleen deficiency and stomach cold should not eat it raw. In addition, pregnant women should be careful about their diet.

Bitter gourd slimming has always thought that reflection is better, and there are many successful examples of slimming.