Eating the right starch can help you lose weight! This red bean and white fungus soup helps you control calories

Many people's way of losing weight is to quit eating starch, as if starch is the culprit of all weight loss problems. Therefore, they refuse starchy foods such as white rice and noodles, and even think that these foods are useless carbohydrates. Nutritionists say, "Eating starch won't make you fat, but eating the wrong starch will easily lead to obesity!" It is best to eat resistant starch to reduce fat storage and successfully lose weight!

Stop blaming starch! Obesity is caused by calories > consumption

Eating starch will make you fat, it’s unfair to say that starch will make you fat! When the human body's calorie intake is greater than its consumption, fat will be stored in the body and the person will become obese. This has nothing to do with whether or not one eats starch. Therefore, to determine whether you will gain weight or not, you need to pay attention to the total calories you consume throughout the day, rather than just looking at how much starch you eat.

People cannot completely stop eating starch for a day. Not only will it cause a calorie deficiency, but the body will easily use muscles composed of protein to burn. If it accumulates over a long period of time, not only will a large amount of muscle be lost, but the nutrition will also be unbalanced. Nutritionist Cai Yixuan said: "Eating starch will not make you fat, but eating the wrong starch will easily cause obesity!"

Refined starch is one of the main causes of obesity. Foods with a high glycemic index (GI value), such as bread, toast, cakes, rice cakes, etc., can easily cause blood sugar to rise rapidly, stimulate the secretion of large amounts of insulin, and further promote lipid accumulation.

Don't eat starch, a common side effect is gallstones

In fact, staple foods are the type of food with the highest carbohydrate content. Carbohydrates are an important source of energy for the human body. If you do not eat starch for a long time, you may lose weight. However, if you strictly abstain from starch, it is easy to consume excessive protein and lipids due to lack of satiety, which poses a potential health risk.

Very low-calorie diets are mainly suitable for obese patients with a body mass index (BMI) greater than 30. This method is suitable for people who urgently need to lose weight to improve obesity-related diseases such as diabetes, hypertension and hypercholesterolemia. The most common side effect for people who use this method to lose weight is gallstones, which may be caused by rapid weight loss leading to bile retention. In addition, it is not recommended for the elderly, teenagers, children, pregnant women, breastfeeding women and some patients with chronic diseases (such as cancer).

Take more "resistant starch" to help lose weight

How should we eat starch? Nutritionist Cai Yixuan said that it is recommended to choose more "resistant starch" foods, because resistant starch is more difficult to digest and absorb, so the actual calories absorbed are lower than ordinary starch. In addition, resistant starch can delay blood sugar absorption and provide a sense of fullness, and satiety is the key to reducing excess calorie intake. Therefore, people who want to lose weight are advised to eat foods with higher resistant starch content.

Good sources of resistant starch include unprocessed whole grains, buckwheat, quinoa, corn, red beans, mung beans, cooked and cooled sweet potatoes or potatoes, lotus roots, leftover rice, cold rice, sushi rice, etc.

Eating red beans can reduce edema, increase satiety and help lose weight

In particular, many women like to eat red beans, believing that red beans can reduce edema. In addition, red beans contain B vitamins, which are higher than other staple foods such as rice and wheat. They are essential coenzymes for the metabolism of nutrients in the body. Compared with other staple foods such as white rice, oats and wheat, red beans have a much higher protein content and a lower lipid content.

Most commercially available red bean soups are cooked with large amounts of red beans, purple rice, coix seeds, millet and other staple foods plus sugar. If you are not careful, you will consume too much starch. Therefore, you can try replacing other staple foods in the red bean soup with white fungus, which will not only increase your sense of fullness but also reduce your calorie intake.

【Red bean and white fungus soup】

Ingredients: 1 cup of red beans, 1 dried white fungus, appropriate amount of red dates, 6 cups of water, appropriate amount of honey, and a little salt.

practice:

1. Wash the red beans and soak them for 3 hours. Soak the dried black fungus in water and tear it into small pieces.

2. Put red beans, dried black fungus and red dates into the rice cooker and add water (if you like it thinner, add 1 to 2 cups of water).

3. Press the porridge cooking button and simmer for half an hour after it is cooked.

4. Finally, add honey and salt according to your preference to make the warm and low-calorie Acacia Tremella Soup.