Get rid of sweets-related edema. Red beans can relieve cravings and promote diuresis

Most women love sweets and always have a glass of sugary drink or a piece of cake after meals. However, Chinese medicine believes that eating sweets for a long time will damage the spleen and stomach function, cause moisture to accumulate in the body, form edema, and is often accompanied by symptoms such as poor metabolism, cold hands and feet, and weak qi and blood. At this time, you might as well follow the red bean weight loss method that has been popular among women recently. Red beans can not only reduce edema, but also solve the trouble of cravings.

Red beans are rich in dietary fiber and folic acid, and have diuretic, anti-edema, drainage and blood-enriching effects. They have recently become a new favorite for weight loss.

Red beans are diuretic and help lose weight, and celebrities become fans

If you want to improve the problem of excessive moisture and edema in the body, you should try to avoid heavy-tasting foods in your diet, because these foods will add a lot of seasonings, are high in calories, and stimulate appetite, causing people to stuff food into their mouths unknowingly, making it difficult not to gain weight in the long run.

For obesity caused by dampness or edema, you can give priority to foods such as winter melon, loofah, coix seed, and red bean in your daily diet. They can help with diuresis, reduce edema, and achieve the effect of weight loss. Among them, red bean has a wide range of uses. It can be taken as a snack, a drink, or added to a meal. In recent years, it has become the new favorite of the anti-edema diet. Even Choi Seung-hyun (Top) of the Korean group Big Bang, mainland actress Gao Yuanyuan, and Japanese star Fukuyama Masaharu are fans of red beans.

Red beans are rich in nutrients and can be paired with coix seeds to increase drainage

Nutritionist Zhao Hanying said that red beans are rich in iron, folic acid, etc., and have the effects of diuresis, anti-edema, drainage, blood tonic, improving blood circulation, and making the complexion rosy. If you want to enhance the effect of reducing edema, it is recommended to pair red beans with coix seed, because coix seed contains enzymes, dietary fiber, vitamin B, antioxidants, etc., which can help drain water, promote diuresis, and even make the skin translucent and smooth.

In addition, red beans are rich in fiber, which can stimulate gastrointestinal motility. During the period of weight loss, many people will have problems with bowel movements due to changes in eating habits. Moderate intake of red beans can help prevent constipation.

Red beans are only suitable for edema in the lower body and are not very helpful for obesity in the upper body or face.

[Recommended recipe: Red bean and barley soup]

• Ingredients: red beans, coix seeds, water.

• practice:

  1. Wash the red beans and coix seeds, soak them in clean water for about 4 hours, and when the beans swell and soften, put them directly into the rice cooker. Add 1 to 1.5 cups of water to the outer pot and simmer.

  2. After the rice cooker turns on, continue simmering for 15 minutes until the red beans and coix seeds are soft.

Red bean soup is more suitable for weight loss without sugar

Most people are accustomed to adding sugar when drinking red bean soup, but if you want to effectively reduce swelling or lose weight, sugar-free red bean soup is more suitable. This is because red beans themselves contain calories. If the high calories of sugar are added, the original meaning of eating red beans to lose weight may be lost. In addition, eating too much sweets can easily cause a feeling of fullness and discomfort, which may aggravate the discomfort for people with weak spleen and stomach.

If you find sugar-free red bean soup difficult to swallow, you might try adding red dates to the soup. Red dates have a natural sweetness, which makes the sugar-free red bean and barley soup easier to drink. Red dates are also rich in calcium and iron. When combined with red beans and barley, they can help women replenish blood and improve the body's ability to withstand cold.

Can I also use the red bean weight loss method?

It should be noted that red beans only have an auxiliary effect on weight loss, and exercise is still needed to achieve the desired effect; red beans only help eliminate edema in the lower body, and have little effect on edema in the upper body or facial swelling, and have a good diuretic effect, so people who have frequent urination problems should try to eat less. In addition, red beans are a staple food with a high carbohydrate content. When eaten, they should be replaced with rice at an equal calorie content to avoid excessive consumption of red beans, which will backfire and make you fat instead of thin.