Summer is the second season among the four seasons and is the hottest season of the year in the northern hemisphere. In my country, it is customary to regard the Beginning of Summer as the beginning of summer. Meteorologically, summer is postponed to about 25 days after the Beginning of Summer. The ancients regarded April, May, and June of the lunar calendar as summer; today, people regard June, July, and August of the Gregorian calendar as summer.

In summer, the body consumes a lot of water. The body tissues originally contain a lot of water. At this time, as the water is consumed, the body will naturally lose weight.

The main reason why the body loses weight in summer is that the digestive function is affected. The summer heat is so intense that most people don’t have a good appetite. This is because the heat dulls people’s nerves, relaxes the muscles of the gastrointestinal tract, weakens their ability to contract, and weakens their digestion ability, which affects the digestion of food and nutrition. absorption. If you consume a lot of food but don't replenish enough nutrients, you won't gain weight naturally.

In addition, hot summer makes people feel depressed, sweat more, drink more water, eat more fruits and eat less. Old people often say, how can melons, fruits, plums and dates be used as food? However, people have lost their appetite due to the heat and can only eat some fruits to satisfy their hunger.

In addition, in summer, the days are long and the nights are short, the heat is unbearable, people cannot rest well at night, drinking too much water dilutes gastric juices, and eating fruits can also easily affect people's ability to eat on time, etc. These can all affect People's digestive function thus affects the absorption of nutrients. Many friends are still fat in autumn and winter, but they lose weight obviously in summer. This is what people often call "bitter summer".

Bitter summer means that after entering summer, due to the rising temperature, the appetite decreases and the food intake is significantly reduced compared with other seasons, accompanied by low fever, physical fatigue, lack of energy, and low work efficiency. and weight loss.

Bitter summer is not actually a disease, but severe cases can take vitamin C and vitamin B under the guidance of a doctor to help adjust autonomic nerve function and eliminate the symptoms of bitter summer. In fact, this is also the reason why people lose weight in summer.

In summer, when people lose weight, they need to supplement nutrition, but they must not eat too much hot food, such as mutton. Modern medicine believes that the stimulation of summer heat puts the nerve center in a state of tension and changes the activity level of endocrine glands, resulting in poor digestion, poor appetite, and an unwillingness to eat.

Therefore, it is best to eat more light and less oily food in summer, which will be easier to digest. However, food that is too greasy is not suitable, because greasy food will reduce gastric juice secretion and cause gastric emptying. slow down.

In the hot and humid season, eating more heat-clearing and dehumidifying foods can help prevent the body from being troubled by dampness and heat, and is very helpful in relieving summer heat and promoting fluid production. Relatively speaking, it is better to eat less fried and hot food.

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