1, will eating watermelon make you fat?
Watermelon will get fat if you eat too much.
The water content in watermelon is high, and almost 90% of the whole watermelon is water. But we should know that about 5% of the remaining watermelon is sugar. If you eat too much watermelon, a lot of sugar contained in it can easily be converted into fat and accumulated in the body, making people gain weight.
2. Eat a long belly at night
It is not advisable to eat four hours before going to bed at night. If you still eat watermelon, it is easy to make people have a small belly. Because eating before going to bed will promote the increase of insulin level in the body and further accelerate the body's synthesis of fat. Coupled with the reduction of human activity at night, the consumption of synthetic fat is less, so it is easy to accumulate in the abdomen and have a small belly.
3. How to eat watermelon without getting fat?
Eating watermelon doesn't make people gain weight. Learning to eat watermelon correctly can still make people gain weight less easily.
(1) Control the amount of watermelon eaten.
Watermelon belongs to fruit, and fruit occupies a certain share in the balanced nutrition of the human body every day, so eating watermelon can help meet the needs of the body for nutrients obtained from fruit. Generally speaking, you can eat 2~3 pieces of watermelon every day, but if you eat too much, you will gain weight.
(2) control the time of eating watermelon
The time to eat watermelon is particular. If you eat watermelon before meals, don't think it will make you feel full. On the contrary, the large amount of fructose contained in watermelon will cleverly avoid all this, making you eat like a pig without affecting your appetite at all. Therefore, it is best to eat watermelon 1 piece after meals or 1 piece during afternoon tea. In addition, as mentioned above, you should avoid eating watermelon at night, if you don't want to have a small belly.
4. Is the watermelon diet feasible?
It is feasible to lose weight by using watermelon. But pay attention to the choice of red and white watermelon skin. Because watermelon skin not only does not contain high sugar in watermelon meat, but also contains a variety of enzyme components that can help promote fat decomposition in the body, which can make people thinner and thinner.
5, cold watermelon skin
Practice: first remove the outermost hard skin of watermelon, then wash it, take red and white watermelon skin, and cut it into thin strips or small blocks; Then put the sliced watermelon peel in a bowl, add a proper amount of sour mushrooms, chicken essence, sugar, salt, sesame oil, etc. and stir well.
6. Who should not eat?
1, oral ulcer
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that oral ulcer is caused by accumulation of heat in spleen and stomach and excessive fire due to yin deficiency. One of the major functions of watermelon is diuresis. If people with oral ulcers eat more watermelon, it will promote the discharge of water in the body, aggravate yin deficiency and internal heat. At the same time, watermelon contains more sugar, which will hinder the healing of oral ulcers.
2. Pregnant women should be careful when eating watermelons.
Compendium of Materia Medica records that watermelon, also known as cold melon, is sweet, cool and nontoxic. Eating too many melons makes people feel uncomfortable. Because of its special physiological reasons and physical problems, eating more watermelon will lead to excessive cold and damage the spleen and stomach, which is not conducive to the baby's production.
3. It is not advisable to eat watermelon before meals.
Watermelon contains a lot of water. If ingested before meals, a lot of water will dilute the digestive juice in the stomach and cause indigestion.
4. You should not eat watermelon when you have a cold.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that colds can generally be divided into two types: wind-cold colds and wind-heat colds. Wind-cold common cold is caused by the invasion of wind-cold qi and the failure of lung qi. Wind-heat cold is caused by wind-heat invading the exterior and lung qi disharmony. The initial conditions of both belong to exterior syndrome, and watermelon has the function of clearing heat and diuresis. Eating watermelon when catching a cold will aggravate the condition.
5. People with renal insufficiency should eat less.
People with renal insufficiency have a reduced ability to regulate water in the body, and it is difficult to discharge excess water in the body, which is often accompanied by edema. Watermelon contains a lot of water, which will increase the burden on the kidney, aggravate edema and even induce acute heart failure.
6, diabetics eat less.
Watermelon contains a lot of sugar. If diabetic patients eat watermelon in large quantities, their blood sugar will increase, but they can't adjust well because of insulin secretion. In some cases, they may even be poisoned because of metabolic disorder.