Folk dishes to help lose weight you should know
Regularly eating squash, raw radish, corn silk water, lotus leaf water, green bean porridge cooked with squash... can help you lose weight.
Weight is the result of the balance between the amount of energy taken in from food and the energy the body uses for daily activities. If more energy is taken in than is used, the excess energy will be stored as fat.
Overeating combined with lack of activity is the main cause of obesity. Other factors that contribute to obesity include too little sleep, environmental pollution, some psychological disorders that cause overeating, women after each pregnancy and childbirth, taking certain medications, genetic factors, diseases that increase with age...
Obesity is often bad for health, causing discomfort in life, reducing work efficiency, being less agile, and losing beauty. Obesity is a high risk factor for diseases such as high blood pressure, diabetes, coronary artery disease, gallstones, abnormal blood lipids, stroke, sleep apnea..., and the mortality rate is also higher.
There are many ways to treat obesity, with the support of positive lifestyle changes, including diet, physical activity and behavioral factors. Eat less fat, starch, enough protein, vitamins, minerals, increase vegetables and fruits, create proper eating habits.
Oriental medicine has long recognized obesity and divided human body shape into 3 types: fat, tall, and skinny. Lying down for a long time, sitting for a long time, moving too little, the accumulation of qi makes the transportation of nutrients difficult, fat accumulates causing obesity. Internal injuries such as too much joy, too much sadness, too much anger... cause the liver qi to accumulate, the liver and gallbladder lose their regulation, not only affecting the movement of the spleen but also preventing bile from being secreted and absorbed into nutrients normally, fat accumulates inside causing obesity.
Oriental medicine believes that obesity is often a disease of internal deficiency and external excess, the internal deficiency is mainly due to qi deficiency. The disease is in the organs of the spleen, liver, gallbladder, lungs and heart. In mild cases, the patient lives normally. In moderate and severe cases, the patient feels tired, afraid of heat, sweats a lot, and when doing a lot of activities, the heart palpitates and has difficulty breathing, a full stomach, back pain, constipation, headaches, dizziness, decreased sexual desire, and women often have menstrual disorders...
Treating obesity with Oriental medicine requires following three basic issues including changing eating habits with a specific menu; changing lifestyle, exercising the patient by walking, avoiding sitting too much, avoiding lying down too much...; using traditional medicine treatment methods. It is necessary to carefully distinguish each type of disease to combine appropriate treatment, treatment according to the principle of restoring the body's yin and yang balance.
Oriental medicine has many methods to treat obesity such as using medicine, electroacupuncture, thread implantation, ear acupuncture... Many people believe that using Oriental medicine will make them fat, this is unfounded because not all Oriental medicine supplements make people fat.
Traditional weight loss dish
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| Lotus leaves have the effect of reducing fat. Illustration photo. |
Lotus leaves can be boiled to drink or boiled to make porridge.
Regularly eat squash, cook soup or stew, stir-fry.
Boil tea leaves to make strong tea to drink every day.
Eat raw radishes regularly.
Corn silk in sufficient amount, steep in boiling water and drink instead of tea.
Yam cooked into porridge.
One green star apple, 30g mulberry branch, boil in water and drink once a day.
Plantain leaves, dried plantain leaves, 30g each, decoct with 10 willow leaves and drink in one day.
100g seaweed, 100g green beans, cook both into soup, add enough spices, eat once a day.
50g rice, 150g pumpkin, 50g green beans, cook until soft and eat once a day.
100g rice, 30g coix seeds, 20g lotus seeds, cook porridge and eat twice a day.
One chopped fresh lotus leaf, 100g rice, 100g mung beans, cook porridge to eat in a day. If fresh lotus leaves are not available, dried lotus leaves can be used but must be soaked in water to soften before use.
Powdered hawthorn, take 6g each time, 3 times a day, or use 18g of hawthorn powder, boil and drink like tea during the day.
30g cockscomb flower, 15g gardenia seed, 30g millet seed, decoct and drink in one day.
DoctorLe Than
Deputy Director of Quang Nam Provincial Hospital of Traditional Medicine