Yesterday, Jiangcheng experts said that due to insufficient vegetables and staple foods, the health benefits of the "one-week light food package" will be much lower than that of fresh food. Long-term consumption can easily lead to substandard nutrition intake and endanger health.
Female white-collar workers are depressed because of excessive light diet.
Pingping, a 33-year-old female white-collar worker, usually goes out for dinner with friends. After a long time, her figure became very round. It's getting warmer in Wuhan recently, and it's time for clothes to change seasons. She turned out the thin coat in spring and found that the clothes became tight and looked bloated. So she made up her mind to lose 7.5 kilograms before the arrival of summer.
On the recommendation of a friend, she bought a light food package in an online shop for a week. At first, she thought the light food tasted good and felt full after eating it, but at night, her stomach was always growling with hunger and it was difficult to sleep. After two days of light food, she found herself thinner 1 kg and more energetic. She not only insisted on a light diet every day, but also increased her exercise, skipping rope 1000 times every night, and Pingping lost 2.5 kilograms in a week.
The following week, she continued to adhere to a light diet and exercise to lose weight, but her weight did not change significantly for several days. She thought it might be because she didn't do enough exercise, so she increased the amount of skipping rope to 1500. Exhausted, she still gritted her teeth. One day, just as she was sweating all over, she suddenly felt short of breath, her eyes were black and she was 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 advised her to stop eating light food for a while and made a nutritious recipe for her. After eating according to the recipe for a few days, Pingping's appetite increased greatly and his physical condition improved.
Most of the light food packages are not up to standard.
Recently, the reporter searched on the e-commerce platform and found that the prices of weekly light food packages of various brands ranged from 100 yuan to 1000 yuan, and gimmicks such as "You can lose weight even if you are not hungry, exercise and diet", "Controlling calories without rebounding" and "Losing 8 to 15 kg a month" became the biggest selling points of such products.
According to the customer service staff, the one-week light food package consists of chicken breast, beef, bread, miscellaneous grains, vegetables and konjac powder. 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 Zhou Qing's food packaging and storage were 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 conditions.
Can eating light food for a long time really reduce weight? Regarding the concerns and worries 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 lead to insufficient nutrition intake. Not up to standard.
Scientific weight loss should focus on reducing fat, and 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 the diet of reducing fat. Short-term consumption of light food can easily lead to dizziness, hypoglycemia, constipation and other adverse symptoms, while long-term consumption will 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 scientific and step by step, and we should not be eager to achieve 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 consumption of light food can reduce weight, but long-term consumption 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.