The vast majority of human problems are self-caused.

Spend a lot of money to get pregnant first, and then spend a lot of money to get rid of the swimming ring on your stomach.

Whether you sweat in the gym or take diet pills, injections, classes, you can eat anything to lose weight.

Among various popular methods to lose weight, fast food is a very popular one in China in recent years.

Simply put, fast food means eating less or not on any two days of the week and enjoying delicious food on the other five days.

To put it bluntly, this is actually the European and American version of "Pigu".

Followers of this theory believe that fasting can regulate human metabolism and eliminate toxins accumulated on other days.

However, a recent study by the German Cancer Institute and the University of Heidelberg shows that compared with other dieting methods, a light diet has no special advantages.

Many raiders and books about fast food will tell readers that fast food can improve metabolism and rebuild health instead of rebounding.

However, the German Nutrition Society warned that fasting is not suitable for long-term weight management, and there is not enough evidence to support the long-term health effects of fasting.

Previously, only a few small-scale studies thought that fasting had a certain positive effect, so the German Cancer Research Center thought it necessary to conduct a larger-scale study to observe the long-term effects of fasting.

In the research they organized, there were 150 overweight or obese volunteers, and the time span was more than half a year.

At the beginning of the experiment, volunteers were randomly divided into three groups.

The first group adopts the traditional diet, that is, reducing energy intake by 20% every day.

In the second group, they used to eat fast food two days a week, but the total energy intake per week also decreased by 20%.

The third group, as the control group, did not interfere with the diet, but only gave them a balanced diet according to the advice of the German Nutrition Society.

Over the next 38 weeks, the researchers recorded their weight and other health indicators.

The final result may surprise believers who eat lightly.

Although the body weight, visceral fat, waist fat, fatty liver and other indicators of the volunteers in the first and second groups have all improved, there is no difference between fasting and traditional diet control, and there is no difference in other biochemistry, metabolism and gene expression between the two diets.

But the good news is that the researchers used "magnetic resonance imaging" to analyze the body fat distribution of volunteers, and the results are encouraging.

No matter what kind of diet, even if the body weight is only reduced by 5%, visceral fat can be reduced by 20% and liver fat can be reduced by more than one third.

In fact, according to some recently published research results, the way of dieting doesn't seem so important. The key is to choose a control scheme and follow it.

For example, the research results of low-carbon water and low-fat diet are similar to the above research, and there is no significant difference between them.

Of course, for some people, fasting seems to be a relatively good way.

After all, controlling diet every day requires strong self-discipline, and overweight and obese people often lack self-discipline.

Instead of this, it is better to be ruthless, control your desires for two days, and enjoy the food normally for the remaining five days.

As for which way you should go, I have no answer. I'm not fat anyway.

But German researchers gave their answers.

"Just do it!"

"Action is the best answer!"