It's spring in bloom again, and people who love beauty have started to lose weight again. The "light food", which focuses on health, nutrition and less oil, is sought after by many people, and it can be seen in restaurants and on major take-away platforms. Recently, the reporter found that some merchants have also launched a one-week light food package that can be packaged and delivered to the door. With no exercise and lazy people reducing fat as a gimmick, it has been popular among many young people.
Yesterday, Jiangcheng experts said that the "one-week light-food package" will have much lower health benefits than fresh food because the total amount of vegetables and staple food is not enough. Long-term consumption will easily lead to substandard nutrition intake and endanger health.
Pingping, a 33-year-old female white-collar worker, often goes out to eat with her friends. After a long time, her figure becomes very round. Recently, the weather in Wuhan warmed up, and it was time for clothes to change seasons. She turned out the thin coat in spring and found that the clothes became very tight and looked very bloated. So she made up her mind to lose 7.5 kilograms before summer comes.
on the recommendation of a friend, she bought a light food package in an online shop for a week. At first, she felt that light food tasted good and she felt full after eating, but at night, her stomach was always growling with hunger, trouble sleeping. After insisting on a light meal for two days, she found that she lost 1 kilograms and was more energetic. She not only insisted on eating light food every day, but also increased her exercise. She skipped rope 1,111 times every night, and Pingping lost 2.5 kilograms in a week.
In the following week, she continued to stick to light food and exercise to lose weight, but her weight did not change significantly for several days. She thought it might be that she didn't have enough exercise, so she increased the amount of skipping rope to 1511, and she still gritted her teeth when she was exhausted. One day, just as she was sweating all over, she suddenly felt short of breath, her eyes were black and she felt a little dizzy. She immediately stopped to rest, drank a glass of juice and rested for a long time before recovering her strength. After that, Pingping became anorexia, constipation, and even some trance. So she went to a hospital near her home. After the doctor understood the condition, he suggested that she stop eating light food temporarily and made a nutritional recipe for her. After eating according to the recipe for a few days, Pingping's appetite was much better and his condition improved.
Most of the nutrition combinations of light food packages are not up to standard
Recently, the reporter found on the e-commerce platform that the prices of light food packages of various brands range from more than 111 yuan to 1,111 yuan a week, and gimmicks such as "You can lose weight without going hungry, exercising and dieting", "Controlling calories without rebounding" and "losing 8 to 15 kilograms a month" have become the biggest selling points of such products.
According to the customer service staff, the weekly light food package consists of chicken breast, beef, bread, miscellaneous grains, vegetables, konjac powder, etc. The daily diet menu is matched by professional nutritionists, with balanced nutrition and low calories. When the reporter asked whether the storage and transportation process was safe, the customer service staff said that the storage and transportation of the weekly light food package was safe and reliable, and the food was vacuum packed and could be stored at room temperature, which would not cause food deterioration under normal transportation.
can you really lose weight by eating light food for a long time? Regarding the worries and concerns of some citizens, Cai Honglin, chief physician of the Nutrition Department of Union Medical College Hospital affiliated to Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, said that due to the insufficient total amount of vegetables and staple foods in a week, the health benefits will be much lower than that of fresh food, and long-term consumption will cause nutrition intake. Not up to standard.
Scientific weight loss should focus on reducing fat. The diet of reducing fat requires low energy and high nutrition, while the ingredients of light food packages are often low energy and low nutrition, which does not meet the requirements of reducing fat diet. Short-term consumption of light food can easily lead to dizziness, hypoglycemia, constipation and other adverse symptoms, while long-term consumption can lead to physical decline, decreased immunity, decreased bone density, early osteoporosis, menstrual disorder, early menopause and so on.
Cai Honglin emphasized that weight loss should be carried out step by step in a scientific way, and we should not rush for success. There is no tailor-made menu for online light food packages. If citizens want to lose weight through diet, they should tailor healthy recipes under the guidance of professional nutritionists, and at the same time cooperate with a good lifestyle to lose weight scientifically.
Huang Liwen, deputy director of clinical nutrition department of Tianyou Hospital affiliated to Wuhan University of Science and Technology, believes that short-term eating light food can reduce weight, but long-term eating is not good for health. Because vacuum packaging may contain some additives, protein food is easy to breed bacteria in the process of storage and transportation, laying a hidden danger for health.