Is drinking corn silk tea or coix seed water a magic drink for weight loss? Doctor: Reducing fat and promoting metabolism is the Bible for weight loss

Korean girls have a variety of ways to lose weight, especially in recent years there has been a trend of drinking affordable slimming tea, which is said to reduce edema and is therefore popular. Walking down the street, you can see corn silk tea, the "magic water", being sold everywhere, including tea bags and bottled corn silk tea. Similarly, barley water is often mentioned in the same breath as an anti-edema drug. Do these two really have such magical effects? Will I be able to lose weight successfully by eliminating edema? Is there a possibility of gaining weight again? Let’s hear the advice from domestic weight loss doctors.

Traditional Chinese Medicine: Corn silk has the effects of diuresis, swelling, liver cleansing and gallbladder promoting

Corn silk, also known as "dragon's beard", is a Chinese medicinal material with a sweet taste and a neutral nature. It has the effects of diuresis, swelling reduction, liver cleansing and bile promoting. Clinically, it has been found that it is helpful in preventing and treating atherosclerosis, hyperglycemia, hyperlipidemia, etc., as well as helping to prevent habitual abortion, edema during pregnancy, and milk blockage in women. In addition, corn silk is often combined with other Chinese medicinal materials. For example, adding corn silk to chrysanthemum tea can help lower blood pressure, or adding dandelion, polygonatum, rose, etc. can help relieve nephritis, remove dampness and toxins, and regulate blood sugar. The nutritional components of corn silk include edible acid, malic acid, bitter sweet glycoside, polysaccharides and other ingredients.

As for whether it is really effective to use corn silk tea as a national affordable drink to reduce edema and lose weight at the same time? Liu Boen, executive director of the Taiwan Obesity Education and Prevention Association and a weight loss specialist, said, let’s first understand what edema is? When the subcutaneous cavity becomes swollen due to abnormal accumulation of body fluid, it is called edema, which is particularly obvious in people with edema-type obesity. Most of the time, it is because the diet is too salty, which leads to too many sodium ions in the body and causes edema.

Drinking corn silk tea to remove water from the body may cause electrolyte imbalance

Although corn silk tea can reduce edema, people who want to reduce edema and lose weight by drinking this tea may be greatly disappointed! Because the excretion of water from the body is only temporary, you must be careful that it may cause electrolyte imbalance. For example, some people think that taking diuretics can easily eliminate edema, but they don’t know that it may cause an imbalance of sodium, potassium and other electrolytes in the body.

Generally, obese patients, after being measured by a body fat machine, mainly show high levels of fat and water. Many people's weight remains high after dieting or exercising. For example, from the body fat measurement chart, it can be found that the water has replaced the fat, so the weight has not been reduced.

Only reducing water weight does not mean successful weight loss. Losing fat and promoting metabolism is the real success.

There are also many weight loss remedies on the market that claim to help you lose weight quickly. In fact, these products only make the body lose water. If you drink a few more drinks, you will gain weight again. Therefore, this fake weight loss method cannot reduce fat. Only by losing fat and promoting metabolism through the correct methods can you truly lose weight successfully and avoid the risk of gaining weight again!

Weight loss physician Liu Bowen reminds that because corn silk tea has a diuretic effect, if it is consumed in large quantities or frequently, it can also cause electrolyte imbalance, resulting in symptoms such as hypokalemia and hypotension syndrome. Patients with heart disease and renal dysfunction should pay special attention.

Drinking coix seed water can reduce edema? Pay attention to hidden sugar and don't take too much

In traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions, it is also mentioned that drinking coix seed water has the function of reducing edema, and some people even use it for weight loss. In fact, the function of coix seed is to help clear away heat and dampness, and its ingredients also contain oleic acid and linoleic acid, which can help lower blood lipids. It may be helpful for people with edema-type obesity, but because the sugar content in coix seed is not low, if used in excess, it will increase the risk of hyperglycemia. Therefore, patients with diabetes should not use it in excess.

[Notes from a weight loss doctor]:

For people who are losing weight, changes in weight are a very sensitive issue, but the real meaning of losing weight is to lose fat, not just water. However, if edema-type obesity is caused by eating too much sodium-salt food, it is not a healthy physiological reaction. Therefore, in order to lose weight successfully without gaining weight again, you must increase your basal metabolic rate to consume excess fat. Of course, calorie control also plays an important role. To lose weight successfully, in addition to diet control, you must also combine it with an appropriate amount of exercise, which is the only way to lose weight.