What’s more frightening than eating too much during the Chinese New Year is that the foods you thought were fat-reducing may actually be useless…

The New Year is coming soon

There must be a lot of people whose dinner parties are full.

Focus on a fun

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But before the New Year, I planned to eat this and that

I really had a holiday, and even planned a few meals.

You will find that you are getting more and more unable to eat

I just want to eat something to get rid of the fat...

In fact, the most commonly mentioned way to remove oil is tea, but it really doesn’t remove oil!

If everyone understands scraping oil, it means:

Help you take away the fat you eat, reduce fat absorption and avoid weight gain.

I guess everyone will be disappointed. To realize such a wish, drinking tea is really of no use at all.

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Tea does contain many ingredients, such as tea polyphenols, caffeine, minerals, and even a small amount of vitamins.

However, these ingredients can neither delay fat absorption nor promote fat excretion. Their greatest effect is probably to make you more alert after a meal and less prone to sleepiness.

Many people may wonder: Since drinking tea cannot remove fat, why does drinking tea after a meal make the stomach feel more relaxed? Or even make you feel "hungry"?

It is not that tea has the effect of "scraping off fat", but that the caffeine in tea makes the central nervous system more excited. For some people who are sensitive to caffeine, the stomach may also be affected by this, causing more gastric acid to be secreted.

So, it's just that the process of stomach emptying becomes faster, making us feel hungry more easily, but the fat we eat is still absorbed into the body.

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Of course, if everyone understands "scraping off oil" as drinking a cup of tea to change the taste of your mouth, then it doesn't matter, drinking tea or drinking boiled water is the same.

I advise you not to think about the kind of food that is as delicious as "dishwashing liquid" in your dreams, because it doesn't exist.

However, if you want to reduce the guilt after overeating and eat more "positively" and healthily, there is a way.

The most important thing is to adhere to one principle - increase the intake of dietary fiber during the diet.

There are two types of dietary fiber: insoluble and soluble, both of which offer several benefits when you eat and drink:

Insoluble dietary fiber: can stimulate intestinal contraction and peristalsis, speeding up stool excretion;

Soluble dietary fiber: pectin and other ingredients can bind to cholesterol and play a role in lowering cholesterol. It can also slow down gastric emptying and reduce glucose absorption, which helps to reduce the increase in blood sugar after a meal.

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In addition, another benefit of dietary fiber is that it can increase a certain sense of fullness and make you eat less greasy food.

What should we do specifically? According to the characteristics of dietary fiber, when you eat greasy food, you can refer to the following diet:

● When consuming greasy food, eat more fresh green leafy vegetables and fruits , both of which are rich in dietary fiber. For example, you can eat a portion of vegetables when eating hot pot.

● Eat staple foods, and mix more than half of the coarse grains with refined white rice and flour , such as oatmeal porridge, quinoa rice, buckwheat noodles, etc. Eating staple foods is to occupy part of the stomach capacity and reduce the total intake of greasy food, and on the other hand, it is also to ensure balanced nutrition.

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Here are some foods rich in dietary fiber that you can recommend to everyone. When you are eating and drinking, you can leave a place for them on the table according to your conditions:

Cereals: barley, wheat, buckwheat, quinoa, oats, etc.;

Miscellaneous beans: chickpeas, broad beans, kidney beans, red beans, adzuki beans, etc.;

Fungi and algae: dried matsutake, dried bamboo fungus, dried white fungus, dried black fungus, dried mushrooms, etc.;

Vegetables: dried bamboo shoots, magnolia slices, beetroot, pumpkin, lotus root, etc.;

Fruits: cherries, dates, Korla pears, pomegranates, coconuts, mulberries, etc.

Having said so much, the most effective way is to arrange your diet reasonably, don’t overeat, and eat less.

People are happy during the New Year holiday, but all the sins are borne by the stomach and the flesh on the body, which is not worth it.

Statement: This article is a medical-related educational popular science article. It does not involve specific treatment methods or medical behaviors and cannot replace hospital visits.

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