Office workers who have picky eating habits are prone to edema! Nutritionist Chen Yijuan: 3 types of water-draining diets to fight edema-type obesity

Are you also suffering from edema? Office workers eat out for all three meals, and the flavors tend to be oily, salty, and spicy, with more meat and less fruits and vegetables. In addition, due to long periods of sitting and lack of exercise, it is difficult for the body to metabolize water, which can easily lead to edema-type obesity. Nutritionist Chen Yijuan suggests that a balanced diet is good for health. Regular and moderate intake of high-potassium, diuretic, and iodine-containing fruits and vegetables can increase fiber to help gastrointestinal motility and accelerate the excretion of excess water, allowing weight loss to be achieved faster.

Unbalanced diet, long periods of sitting or standing, and little exercise are the main causes of edema in office workers

Nutritionist Chen Yijuan said that office workers who always eat out for three meals a day often inadvertently eat picky eaters, eat too much processed food, animal protein and fat, and eat too few fruits and vegetables, which leads to a serious imbalance of sodium and potassium ions in the body, affects the body's circulation, and causes the whole person to become swollen and fat.

In addition, office workers who often drink alcohol, eat too much fatty, sweet and greasy food, eat heavy taste such as too salty or too spicy food, use drugs improperly, sit or stand for long periods of time, lack of exercise, high stress, hormonal imbalance, and eat too much cold or raw food can easily affect the body's metabolism and cause excess water retention and edema.

Office workers who always eat out for three meals a day often inadvertently eat picky eaters, eat too much processed food, animal protein and fat, and eat too little fruits and vegetables, which leads to a serious imbalance of sodium and potassium ions in the body, affects the body's circulation, and makes the whole person start to become swollen and fat.

To fight edema-type obesity, don't miss these 3 types of drainage diet

In addition to adjusting a healthy lifestyle and diet, exercising and sweating is a good way for office workers to fight edema-type obesity. Exercise can accelerate the heart rate, dilate blood vessels, increase systemic circulation, and increase urine output, thereby eliminating excess salt and water and helping to reduce edema.

Regarding diet, nutritionist Chen Yijuan recommends moderate supplementation of fresh foods and fruits and vegetables that are "high in potassium", "diuretic" and "containing iodine".

1. High-potassium vegetables and fruits: including mushrooms, spinach, broccoli, celery, beetroot, alfalfa sprouts, grapefruit, bananas, tomatoes, apples, etc., can promote the excretion of sodium and help eliminate edema.

2. Diuretic fruits and vegetables: including winter melon, cucumber, watermelon, leek, orange, pomegranate, grape, perilla, etc.

3. Iodine-containing foods: such as kelp, shrimp and other foods, can improve blood circulation in the lower body.

Grapefruit can promote the excretion of sodium and help eliminate edema.

★Fruit detumescence drink

• Ingredients: half a banana, 5 cherry tomatoes, and an appropriate amount of watermelon.

• Method: After preparing the ingredients, cut the watermelon into pieces, put all the ingredients into a juicer and add 200 to 300 ml of boiling water, squeeze into juice and drink.

★ Barley and Winter Melon Soup

• Ingredients: 60 grams of coix seed, 600 grams of winter melon, 10 grams of Poria cocos, 6 red dates, and 2 slices of ginger.

• practice:

  1. Lightly scrub the winter melon skin, remove the seeds, cut off the green skin, and cut into pieces for later use. Cut the winter melon rind into small pieces and keep the seeds for later use.

  2. Wash coix seed, poria cocos and red dates with water and set aside.

  3. Put coix seed, wax gourd peel, wax gourd seeds, poria cocos, red dates and ginger slices into a pot, add appropriate amount of water and cook until the coix seed is cooked, then add wax gourd pieces and continue cooking. When the wax gourd is cooked, season and serve.

• Reminder: Cooking wax gourd peel and seeds together can increase the diuretic function, and then remove them after cooking to increase the appearance.

【Health Tips】

Although the above-mentioned foods can help with urination and reduce edema, a diet that only favors one type of food is very unhealthy. Nutritionist Chen Yijuan reminds us that no matter how nutritious or good a food is heard to be for the body, we should still eat in moderation and not be picky eaters. A nutritionally balanced diet is the most important and healthiest.