Can eating raw eggplant help you lose weight? How to use eggplant to lose weight

Many people have seen some posts saying that eating raw eggplant can help lose weight, but is it scientific? Today I will tell you about it:

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Cooked eggplants love oil, but raw eggplants don’t

At present, many citizens like to eat raw eggplants with sauce as breakfast. Some people eat one raw eggplant a day, and some eat one raw eggplant every morning and evening. Especially the elderly believe in this, thinking that it can help lose weight and reduce blood fat, because eggplants "eat oil". The popular way to eat raw eggplants online is to cut the long eggplants into strips, add green peppers, cucumbers or lettuce according to personal preferences, mix with soy sauce, vinegar, sesame paste, and eat it every day, which will play a role in cleansing the intestines and reducing fat, and at least cure constipation.

Can eggplant really help you lose weight? Wang Changjun, a vegetable expert from the Provincial Ecological Society, told reporters that among all vegetables, eggplant must be put with more oil, otherwise the eggplant will feel very astringent and bitter and not tasty. This is probably the origin of the saying that eggplant absorbs oil. But it is a bit unreliable to say that eating eggplant raw can absorb oil. Eggplant can absorb oil when it is cooked, and it absorbs oil at high temperature. If you put the eggplant in an environment of 37℃, even if you let it soak in oil, it will not absorb so much oil at all - and the gastrointestinal temperature of people is 37℃, not more than 100℃ for cooking. Therefore, it is incorrect to say that eating eggplant raw can remove oil from the human intestine.

"Some people will feel dizzy and nauseous if they eat too much of this," Wang Changjun said. Eggplant is cold in nature and contains solanine. People with poor physical constitution or those who are allergic to this kind of food will feel uncomfortable if they eat too much. In addition, eggplant cannot be eaten raw, as it may cause abdominal pain and diarrhea.

Doctor: This statement is "nonsense"

Wang Ting, director of the Health and Rehabilitation Department of Nanjing Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, said with a smile that weight loss has nothing to do with the type of food, but with the calorie intake. Regularly eating low-calorie foods such as vegetables is indeed easy to lose weight, but if you insist that eating raw eggplant can help you lose weight, it is a bit far-fetched.

Zhu Yidan, director of the gastroenterology department at the Jiangsu Provincial Hospital, told reporters that she had never heard of this statement. Eggplants only contain cellulose, a small amount of protein, and a large amount of water. They also contain some antioxidants, and they do protect the cardiovascular system, but there is no scientific basis for saying that eating raw eggplants can help you lose weight. After listening to the reporter's retelling, a doctor directly said that this method was "nonsense" and misleading consumers. Losing weight is a systematic project. If you can lose weight by just eating a certain food raw, then why should all the obese people in the world worry so much?

Doctors also warn that not all vegetables can be eaten raw. Some vegetables can easily cause poisoning if eaten raw. If you feel numbness in your lips after eating raw eggplant, you need to be alert. Eggplant can be pickled, boiled, roasted, steamed and braised. It is delicious with or without meat, but try not to eat it raw.

In fact, similar weird weight loss methods become popular almost every once in a while. Wang Ting told reporters, "There are probably hundreds of them, and they are basically just tricks. Some are even superfluous. In fact, there is no secret to losing weight. The key is to solve the relationship between calorie intake and calorie consumption."

[Some weird weight loss tricks]

Orange quick weight loss: for breakfast, have a tomato, a hard-boiled egg, and a cup of freshly squeezed orange juice; for lunch, have a bowl of steamed egg, a bowl of tomato soup, and a fresh orange; for afternoon tea, have a cup of freshly squeezed orange juice; for dinner, have a tomato, a hard-boiled egg, and a fresh orange.

Repeated chewing method: try to chew the food into liquid state and then send it to the stomach.

Brush to get a good figure: Brush your tongue with a soft-bristled toothbrush before and after each meal, so that you can feel full even if you eat half the normal amount.

"Tofu + milk": Many celebrities believe in this way of weight loss.

Eat apples to lose weight: Eat only apples for three meals a day, and do not eat other foods within three days.

Eat bitter melon raw to lose weight: Eat two or three bitter melons raw every day