What can’t you eat during fasting?

Bigu fasting is a very common way of health preservation nowadays. Literally speaking, bigu fasting means not eating. For most people, it takes a process to go from three meals a day to not eating for several days. The process in between is actually what people often call the most basic bigu fasting. People at this stage can actually eat some food to relieve the symptoms, but not everything can be eaten.

What can't you eat during fasting?

tomato

It contains a large amount of pectin, persimmon phenol, soluble astringent and other ingredients, which can easily react chemically with stomach acid, increase the pressure in the stomach, cause gastric dilatation and stomach pain, or form gastric stones. This is especially likely to happen when tomatoes are mixed with milk or soy milk and consumed together. The human body should eat some easily digestible, nutritious liquid food when on an empty stomach, but tomatoes are a single nutrient, containing only vitamins, fiber and water. Eating them on an empty stomach not only hinders the absorption of the stomach, but also cannot meet the physiological needs of the body. Therefore, tomatoes should not be eaten on an empty stomach.

milk

Milk contains a lot of protein. If you drink it on an empty stomach, the protein will be "forced" to be converted into heat energy and consumed, and it will not have any nutritional or nourishing effect. The correct way to drink it is to eat it with snacks, bread and other flour-containing foods, or drink it two hours after a meal, or before going to bed.

hawthorn

Hawthorn contains a large amount of organic acid, fruit acid, hawthorn acid, etc. Eating it on an empty stomach will cause a sharp increase in gastric acid, causing strong irritation to the gastric mucosa, causing the stomach to develop and cause pantothenic acid. If you are prone to stomach pain, eating hawthorn on an empty stomach will aggravate the pain.

Tea

Tea is an alkaline food. Drinking tea on an empty stomach will dilute stomach acid and inhibit the secretion of gastric juice. It will not only cause gastrointestinal discomfort and loss of appetite, but also because drinking tea on an empty stomach can easily lead to excessive intestinal absorption. The biological alkaloids such as * contained in tea can cause symptoms of "tea drunkenness" such as panic and dizziness. Strong tea contains a lot of tannic acid, which can easily cause constipation and fail to help with fat burning and detoxification.

What are the benefits of fasting?

1. Detoxification:

Many human diseases are caused by harmful substances in the environment inside and outside the human body. The stool in the human body sometimes weighs more than ten kilograms and stays on the wall of the large intestine for a long time. Both Chinese and Western medicine regard constipation as the root cause of all diseases. To cure the disease, you must first eliminate the old stool. Detoxification and fasting are a "spring cleaning" of the whole body to completely clear the "warehouse".

Feces is the most filthy thing. If it accumulates in large quantities, the foul gas will come out of the lungs and cause asthma, and will be excreted from the skin and cause eczema. Long-term self-poisoning can cause nervous tremors, mental fatigue, and is prone to complications such as headaches, back pain, fatigue, insomnia, and allergies.

The study found that right intestinal occlusion leads to right cerebral hemorrhage, while left intestinal occlusion leads to left cerebral hemorrhage. Obstruction of the transverse colon will cause the blood vessels in the corpus callosum that connect the left and right brain to dilate, leading to mental abnormalities.

2. Weight loss:

The main purpose of fasting is not to lose weight, but it is the safest and most effective way to lose weight. Normally, people mainly rely on sugar metabolism for energy. After 2-3 days of fasting, the sugar in the body is depleted, and fat metabolism is naturally started, and the body enters the fasting state. The functional order of lipid metabolism is as follows: fat is transported to the liver via the blood, cut and metabolized in the liver, and further converted into energy.

Therefore, the order in which fat is metabolized during the fasting period is: blood lipids - visceral fat - subcutaneous fat - protein. All kinds of waste in the blood and internal organs and tissues are raw materials for converting energy. Therefore, fasting to lose weight will first reduce fat, and then reduce the belly.

After fasting for weight loss, you will not become a juicy peach, look haggard, or have more wrinkles. Instead, you will have firm muscles, smooth skin, rosy white skin, and be radiant.

3. Regulate the spleen and stomach:

The spleen and stomach are not only the source of nutrition, but also the main source of toxins. After the toxins are discharged, not only the absorption capacity of the stomach and intestines is enhanced, but also the efficiency of the digestive system is improved, and nutrient absorption also becomes vigorous.

During the period of fasting, the spleen and stomach hibernate. On the one hand, they get sufficient rest. On the other hand, fasting is equivalent to returning the spleen and stomach to zero and returning them to the gastrointestinal state of a baby. This return to zero includes the recovery of intestinal flora and spleen and stomach function.