Deadly mistakes to avoid when losing weight with squash

Winter melon has the effect of eliminating excess water in the body, reducing fat, losing weight, and keeping a slim waist for women, but if you don't know how to use it effectively, it will have the opposite effect.

Winter melon is not only a nutritious food but also has many uses in medicine and beauty. Since ancient times, winter melon has been recorded in the secret beauty recipes of beauties and concubines.

According to traditional medicine, squash is often used to treat respiratory diseases with cough and phlegm due to heat, diabetes, edema due to kidney disease, liver disease, edema during pregnancy...

Winter melon, also known as green squash, powdery squash... is a fruit used as a fresh vegetable and is very popular for making jam. Winter melon is mostly water and does not contain lipids. Every 100g of winter melon contains 0.4g of protein, 2.4g of glucid, 19mg of calcium, 12mg of phosphorus, 0.3mg of iron and many vitamins such as Carotene, B1, B2, B3, C...

Although squash has many health benefits and uses, we must know how to use and eat squash properly, otherwise it will bring many serious consequences to health.

Winter melon has the effect of eliminating excess water in the body, reducing fat, keeping a slim waist for women, but some of you often eat winter melon raw or blend raw winter melon to get the juice to drink like a smoothie, which is not recommended. Because raw winter melon has a very high soapy property, in the past, in weaving villages, people often took advantage of this property of winter melon to use raw winter melon juice to bleach fabrics instead of bleach. Therefore, if you eat winter melon raw or drink raw winter melon juice blended like a smoothie to beautify, you should not because the soapy nature of raw winter melon will cause illness to your digestive system.

When squash is cooked with wine to make squash paste or is thoroughly cooked, the soapy properties are almost completely lost, so it is okay to regularly eat well-cooked squash or drink boiled squash water.

The following suggestions help you choose the right weight loss:

To lose weight with squash, you should still maintain your normal breakfast and lunch regimen, choosing a balanced menu rich in green vegetables and fruits to increase vitamins and fiber, helping to increase metabolism and burn excess energy.

For dinner, before 7pm, you can use squash completely instead of rice. You can eat boiled squash, steamed squash and drink squash broth or you can prepare some other dishes from squash to change the taste such as squash soup with ginger, squash soup with shrimp, squash stir-fried with garlic (with very little oil).

At first, if you are not used to it, you can eat squash as a main dish with rice, soup... Then, when you are used to it, gradually eat squash instead of rice completely to lose weight effectively.

You only need to eat squash 3-4 times a week instead of rice in the evening. Each time you eat like that, you should only eat a maximum of 500g of boiled squash and 1 liter of boiled water. If you are still hungry, you can eat more fruits and other green vegetables. People with low blood pressure should not lose weight with squash because it can easily lower blood pressure. In particular, you should not eat raw squash. Many girls do not understand the benefits of squash, so they eat raw squash or squash juice without knowing that this will damage your digestive tract.

Some remedies from squash:

Lesson 1:

500g squash (remove skin and seeds), 1.5 liters of white wine, 500ml of honey, 1 liter of water. Cut the squash into pieces, add to the wine and water mixture and simmer for about six hours until there is about a bowl of water left, then remove and mash.

Grind well and filter through cheesecloth until smooth. Pour the filtered pumpkin into the pot, add honey and cook for about 2 hours, stirring constantly. To check if the paste is ready, apply a little paste on your hand, rub it until it is not too sticky. When the paste cools, put it in a jar, cover it tightly and use it every night to rub on your face.

Effect: Moisturizes the skin, makes the skin smooth, bright pink, less oily, removes blackheads and whiteheads.

Lesson 2:

500g squash, 500g watermelon, enough white sugar. Peel the squash, remove the seeds, wash thoroughly. Remove the seeds from the watermelon. Cut both into pieces, use a juicer or crush them to extract the juice, add a little white sugar to dissolve, divide into several servings to drink during the day. This juice has a cooling effect and is very good for overweight and obese people.

Lesson 3:

500g squash, peel, remove seeds, wash thoroughly, then slice and put in a juicer to extract juice (or crush, put in a clean cloth bag and squeeze to extract juice), add a few grains of salt to dissolve, divide into several drinks a day. Effects: Quench thirst, lose weight, beautify skin, prevent acne, itching, prickly heat./.

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