Carina Lau's sweet potato detox diet: not encouraged by slimming experts

For many mature women, an extra piece of fat on the body is the beginning of pain. Hong Kong star Carina Lau, 48 years old this year, lost weight by eating sweet potato detox meals. Her weight dropped from 59 kg to 45 kg, and then to 14 kg, which aroused heated discussion among fans. However, nutritionists believe that rapid weight loss will have many negative effects on the body and is not worth encouraging. A balanced diet and plenty of exercise are the only way to lose weight correctly.

Hong Kong star Carina Lau (pictured) lost weight by eating sweet potato detox meals, and her weight dropped from 59 kg to 45 kg, which sparked heated discussion among fans. (Photo/taken from Carina Lau's Facebook)

It was revealed that in order to maintain her perfect figure, Hong Kong star Carina Lau once ate a sweet potato detox meal for 4 days a month to achieve weight loss. According to media reports, Carina Lau started eating a small bowl of rice, 2 small sweet potatoes, and 2 kinds of vegetables at 5:30 in the morning, and most importantly, she absolutely could not eat any meat in between. She insisted on eating sweet potato meals 4 days a month for half a year, and her weight dropped rapidly and she lost weight successfully.

Nutritionist Wang Zinan from Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital questioned the effectiveness of the sweet potato detox meal in rapid weight loss. He said that currently in the records of nutrition, he has not heard of the so-called sweet potato detox meal, and clinical studies have not proven that such a diet can achieve the effect of rapid weight loss. Although eating in this way will not cause immediate harm to the human body, it will cause harm to the body in the long run, mainly due to unbalanced nutritional intake.

Sweet potatoes contain dietary fiber, which can lower cholesterol and help with bowel movements

In fact, sweet potatoes are easy to grow, have high yields, and have high nutritional value. Sweet potatoes are also rich in dietary fiber, which can combine with bile acid to reduce the synthesis of cholesterol, thereby achieving the effect of lowering cholesterol. At the same time, sweet potatoes can help stimulate intestinal motility and promote defecation.

It is recommended that people occasionally eat a sweet potato as a substitute for breakfast to help with bowel movements. Because the human body has gone through a night of rest and metabolism, the gastrointestinal tract is already in the best stage for emptying. At this time, eating sweet potatoes rich in dietary fiber can indeed help eliminate stool in the body. But in fact, as long as you eat fruits and vegetables containing dietary fiber for breakfast, you can achieve this effect.

Sweet potatoes are high in nutritional value and are best eaten plain.

Since sweet potatoes are rich in dietary fiber and have high nutritional value, most people choose to include sweet potatoes in cooking. However, the taste of sweet potato itself is very delicious. Therefore, when preparing healthy recipes for hospitalized patients, they are often steamed to try to bring out the flavor of the sweet potato itself. However, for patients with chronic diseases such as diabetes, the intake should be limited.

In addition, people can try cutting sweet potatoes into pieces and adding them to white rice to cook them into sweet potato rice, which is also very good to eat together. If you want to add some variety, you can press the steamed sweet potatoes into sweet potato puree. If you put it into commercially available mochi wrappers, it will become sweet potato mochi, or you can make it into sweet potato spread and spread it on toast. It is also a great delicacy to eat together.

Sweet potatoes are rich in dietary fiber and have high nutritional value. They can lower cholesterol and help bowel movements.

[Nutritionist's Tips]:

Sweet potato is also a staple food in nutrition. Although it has high nutritional value and is very beneficial to the body. But on the other hand, because it is rich in starch, 100 grams of sweet potato contains about 120 calories. Therefore, when eating, you must pay close attention to the amount you consume to avoid overeating, so as not to consume too much starch, resulting in excessive calories and the risk of obesity.