Eating lettuce salad won’t make you fat? Cold stomach may lead to obesity

People with spleen deficiency and lung qi deficiency should not drink raw drinks. Raw and cold food will promote spleen dampness and make the lung qi weaker. In autumn, it is easy to cause allergic rhinitis, and in winter it is easy to suffer from cough, asthma, tracheitis and bronchitis.

Clearing up myths about eating raw vegetables

The 49th difficulty of the Chinese medicine classic "Nanjing" says: "If the body is cold and drinks cold drinks, the lungs will be damaged." Westerners like to drink smoothies and eat raw salads. They throw avocado and raw broccoli, lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, spinach sprouts, wheat grass, alfalfa sprouts, celery, carrots, etc. into a fruit and vegetable blender and blend them into a cup. Or add them to lettuce to create a healthy dish that claims to contain fiber, enzymes, vitamins and minerals. Sprinkle some cheese on it and it even has protein. Perhaps most nutritionists would agree with this combination, and perhaps only Chinese medicine practitioners would be picky about such an appetizer.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that eating raw and cold food will cause stomach cold, which will lead to lung cold or kidney yang deficiency, and women will also suffer from uterine cold. The coldness of the body causes stagnation, which is not conducive to the metabolism of water, causing water to gather and become phlegm, which causes the lungs to fail to descend and result in coughing, wheezing, shortness of breath, chest tightness, and abdominal distension. The general public may think that Chinese medicine is nitpicking or alarmist, wondering how come so many foreigners are fine after taking it. But the reality is that too many of my patients suffer from hypothyroidism, indigestion, seasonal respiratory allergies, asthma, and obesity because of their superstitious belief in such health concepts.

These patients are of all races, including white, black, yellow and brown. Cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli, cabbage, Chinese cabbage, mustard greens, white radish, watercress, and kale contain goitrogens, which can inhibit thyroid function and cause goiter. Many green leafy plants contain high amounts of oxalic acid, which can inhibit the absorption of calcium and other minerals and cause stones. After cooking and heating, the goiter will be destroyed and some oxalic acid will be broken down, greatly reducing the harm to the body and making it safer than drinking raw food.

Will drinking raw drinks and eating lettuce salad not make you fat?

If you think that drinking vitality drinks and eating lettuce salad will not make you fat, you are really wrong. Because when the temperature of the stomach is too low, it cannot digest food. The stomach must keep moving until the temperature in the stomach reaches a constant level of body temperature before it can begin to digest the raw and cold food in the stomach. If you often eat raw and cold food, you will deplete the energy of your stomach until the temperature in your stomach is too low to digest food. This is what Chinese medicine calls "stomach cold."

At this time, the digestive function is already weak. In order to survive, the body must lend more energy to the stomach to digest food and maintain survival needs. Therefore, the body temperature has to start to drop and the metabolism slows down to save energy consumption. At this time, the secretion of thyroid hormone begins to decrease, and finally you realize that your physical condition has become prone to obesity. Even breathing can make you fat. This is what Western medicine calls "hypothyroidism."

Traditional Chinese medicine calls fat people "people with a lot of phlegm." "Phlegm" blocks the respiratory tract and is the root cause of coughing and asthma. Therefore, avoiding eating raw or cold food and preventing the formation of phlegm is one of the basic concepts of lung care.

This article comes from the Human Think Tank "Seven Detoxification Myths Corrected by Food Forest"