Lose weight quickly by not eating starch? May cause chronic diseases

Text: Zhang Zhongyuan and Zhang Weijun

■ Director Zhang said: "It is not suitable for everyone. Eating too much meat will increase the burden on the body and cause chronic diseases."

All living things in the world are made up of proteins in varying proportions, and humans are no exception. Almost all cells, tissues and organs contain protein, even bones and endocrine hormones that are invisible to the eyes, which shows its importance. In addition to being a building block of the body, protein also has the function of "stimulating energy". Eating it will make people feel energetic and full of vitality. In addition, many nutrition experts advocate the intake of more protein, so many people equate "protein" with "health" and eat a lot of it. But is this really the case?

"Protein" is listed as one of the three major nutrients along with "fat" and "carbohydrates". The common feature of the three is that "after being burned by the body, they will produce calories and become energy, which enables us to have body temperature and maintain life."

There is also a wonderful relationship between these three. Carbohydrates are mostly used directly as energy. If there are too many and cannot be used up, they will be converted into fat and stored as backup energy. When the body lacks energy, fat is converted back into carbohydrates to be burned as energy. As for protein, although it is mainly needed for the structure of our body, it can also be converted into carbohydrates and burned for use as energy when the body lacks energy.

From this it can be seen that almost all nutrients can be converted into each other, except when the human body lacks protein, which cannot be replaced by other nutrients and can only be supplemented through food. However, if you eat too much, it cannot be converted into a certain form for storage and can only be metabolized as waste in the body. The metabolic process is extremely costly and requires the use and consumption of too many resources in the body.

Eating too much protein can burden your body and cause chronic diseases

Perhaps many people will ask: "The body's cells are renewed every day, don't we need to supplement more protein?" In fact, the body's cells are renewed fastest from infancy to adolescence. During this period, you can indeed supplement more protein, but it must be in moderation. If you are an adult, your growth and development have long stopped and you only consume a small amount of protein every day, so you don't need a large amount of supplementation.

Protein can be divided into animal and plant sources. The latter is the best choice for nutritional supplementation. However, most modern people get their protein from animal ingredients. The saturated fatty acids and special amino acids contained in animal ingredients can easily cause metabolic diseases. If we eat too much animal protein, the human body cannot use it, the nitrogenous waste in the blood increases greatly, the liver is overburdened, the detoxification ability is reduced, the blood is filled with toxins, and chronic diseases are caused.

What's more, once you eat too much protein, the enzymes secreted by the digestive system are often insufficient, resulting in indigestion. These proteins decay in the intestines, erode the intestinal walls and cause damage and leakage. Bacteria enter the blood through the leakage and finally circulate throughout the body. In order to fight the enemy, immune cells become abnormally active, causing inflammation or allergies, or even infection, which will ultimately weaken our immune ability and allow cancer cells to easily invade our bodies. What’s even more frightening is that the body will produce too many acidic metabolites, which will overload the kidneys and interfere with the body’s acid-base balance, making Taiwan’s proportion of dialysis patients the highest in the world.

Adults should consume about 5 servings of protein per day, preferably in the morning or at noon

According to body weight, about 1 gram of protein is needed for every 1 kilogram. Assuming that Mr. Wang weighs 60 kilograms, he needs to supplement about 60 grams of protein a day, and about 5 servings will be enough. The so-called one portion is about one egg, a cup of milk (soy milk), one or two pounds of meat, a piece of tofu or three slices of dried tofu, etc. For growing teenagers, this amount can be increased to 8 to 10 servings. In each meal, it is best for plant protein to account for 4/5 and animal protein to account for 1/5. You can choose food according to your personal needs and preferences.

Also, please note that no matter which type of protein it is, it is best to eat it at breakfast or lunch, and dinner should be mainly starchy foods. Because protein has a stimulating effect and can boost vitality, it is suitable for daytime work needs; starch has a stabilizing and calming effect, it is suitable for eating at night and can improve sleep quality.

In addition, many people would ask me, how should they calculate their protein intake if they have to eat out for all three meals? Here is a simple combination method (see the table below) to ensure that the intake of animal and plant protein in each meal never exceeds the standard.

Protein diet increases the risk of cancer

In addition to being careful about how you consume protein, it should not be used as a tool for weight loss. The popular "protein weight loss method" emphasizes eating a lot of meat to reduce the carbohydrate content in the diet, and not eating vegetables, so that the body burns a lot of protein and fat. This will consume more body energy than burning carbohydrates and achieve the effect of weight loss.

Since the protein weight loss method does not require starvation, has quick results and allows the user to enjoy delicious food, many people are flocking to it. However, eating too much meat is equivalent to taking in a large amount of animal protein. Although you may become thinner the more you eat, it is easy to cause cardiovascular disease and blood acidification. In addition, if you do not eat vegetables, the lack of natural antioxidants can easily increase the possibility of cancer. Therefore, it is recommended that you do not sacrifice your health for the sake of temporary beauty, as the body's backlash is often unexpected.

If you are not sick or an athlete, there is no need to deliberately supplement with high-protein nutritional supplements.

In addition, many young people or cancer patients who eat too much meat will deliberately buy commercially available "high-protein" supplements for nutrition, which is very bad. Basically, the protein intake of cancer patients is mostly above the standard. If they supplement with high-protein foods at this time, it would be like adding fuel to the fire, which is very dangerous.

In addition, because high-protein nutritional supplements are mainly composed of milk protein, soy protein and other ingredients, for people with poor kidney function, if they consume too much, it can easily increase the burden on the kidneys and cause kidney damage.

Generally speaking, unless you are a postoperative patient or an athlete, you do not need to supplement protein or high-protein nutritional supplements in large quantities to avoid adding burden to your body.

This article is excerpted from: Five Generations of Traditional Chinese Medicine "Part 2" 50 Tips for Health Preservation and Detoxification: "Constitution" determines your health, debunking 17 health myths, and using 20 natural food supplements to "cure illness"!