Female stars eat oatmeal porridge and drink lemon water for three meals to lose weight... Doctor: If you want to be a long-legged and slender-waisted beauty, you need to know these landmines

Recently, a beautiful star passed away suddenly. She was recognized as a "beauty witch" with long legs and a slim waist in the entertainment industry. How she maintained her slim figure seems to have become a hot topic again. Like many female stars, she also shared that she likes to control her weight by drinking oatmeal and lemon water. However, bariatric doctors say that if these methods are used to lose weight for a long time, there may be some costs.

Lower BMI may lead to unexplained underlying disease risk and even a shorter life expectancy

What should you pay attention to when losing weight so as not to step on landmines? For example, for a girl who weighs 50 kg and is 167 cm tall, her body mass index (BMI) is 17.9, which means she is on the thin side. Many Chinese and foreign celebrities and models seem to want to maintain a BMI as low as possible in order to be more eye-catching on screen. However, the National Health Service recommends that adults' BMI should be maintained between 18.5 (kg/m2) and 24 (kg/m2). For most people, a BMI between 21 and 22 is considered a healthy weight, but if it is less than 18 or lower, there will be health problems.

It is reminded that a lower BMI may lead to a risk of unexplained underlying diseases and may even lead to a shorter life expectancy. Healthy weight loss also requires an assessment of body fat percentage. After all, sarcopenia is a topic that is easily overlooked by modern people. Therefore, it is not just about losing weight, but also about increasing muscle mass to have an eye-catching body shape and conform to the principles of health.

Female celebrities lose weight by eating oatmeal porridge and drinking lemon water for dinner. Doctors: It must be moderate so as not to consume too much starch.

If you want to lose weight, in addition to maintaining a healthy BMI, in terms of diet, many female celebrities have shared their methods of eating oatmeal and drinking lemon water for meals. Liu Bowen, executive director of the Taiwan Obesity Education and Prevention Association and a weight loss specialist, said that eating oats as a staple food does have some nutritional advantages. For example, dry oats absorb a lot of water during the cooking process, and the dietary fiber in them can prolong the feeling of fullness. Oats are also good carbohydrates with a low glycemic index. They can reduce appetite and anxiety, and give us full energy, making it less likely for us to feel sleepy after a meal.

In addition, some research literature reports on oats also show that eating oats in moderation and for a long time can effectively lower blood lipids and cholesterol and help prevent cardiovascular diseases. However, it should be noted that the time and type of eating oatmeal are very important. If you want to replace regular meals with oatmeal, you must eat it in moderation so as not to consume too much starch. Otherwise, if you only focus on lowering cholesterol, you may increase too many calories and triglycerides.

Female stars do sit-ups before going to bed to reduce belly fat. Doctor: Diet still needs to be controlled

As for losing weight through exercise, some female stars will share ways like doing sit-ups before going to bed every day, and lifting their calves to slim the lower abdomen and prevent edema. Dr. Liu Boen said that long-term sit-ups to train the abdominal muscles may have some effect on slimming the lower abdomen, but if the daily diet calories are not controlled well, excess fat will still be stored in the abdomen.

Female stars sit and lift their calves to slim down their calves. Doctor: Pay attention to your heels landing first when you walk.

In addition to slimming down the lower abdomen as the main goal of local weight loss, the calves should also be considered. Many female stars often worry about their carrot legs. Generally speaking, there is not much fat in the calves. However, people who want to be thinner still insist on doing so and therefore specifically train the calf gastrocnemius muscles. Because the calf muscles are mainly composed of the medial gastrocnemius, lateral gastrocnemius and soleus, most of the treatments for radish legs focus on these three muscles.

Most people think that sitting with their legs raised high and pressing the soles of their feet down can slim their calves. In fact, such movements may not necessarily have a significant effect. After all, there are many factors that cause hypertrophy of the calf gastrocnemius muscles, such as genetic genes, poor posture, and even wearing high heels for too long, which are all common causes of hypertrophy of the gastrocnemius muscles. If you want to improve the problem of gastrocnemius hypertrophy, it is recommended that you walk with your heel touching the ground first, not your forefoot, and try to avoid walking with your feet turned inward or outward. Of course, you can also do leg-lifting and stretching exercises to increase the length of muscle fibers, or massage the local area appropriately. These will all help improve the problem of carrot legs in your calves.