What are the misunderstandings about pumpkin weight loss?

Pumpkin is actually good for your health, but because pumpkin is a cold food, eating too much will lower blood sugar and promote insulin secretion, so it helps to lose weight. However, doing so for a long time will also cause certain damage to the body. So if you want to use pumpkin to lose weight, you should also pay attention to supplementing it.

1. Misconceptions about using pumpkin for weight loss. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, pumpkin is a cold food. Eating more pumpkin can lower blood sugar and promote insulin secretion, which can help you lose weight. However, it can cause certain damage to the body, so you need to take proper supplements after losing weight.

2. Pumpkin can be used as a staple food during a diet to lose weight, because pumpkin contains ingredients that can lower blood sugar and promote insulin secretion, which helps to lose weight.

3. The reason why pumpkin is used as a staple food for weight loss is that the calories in pumpkin are lower than those in rice.

4. Pumpkin helps in losing weight because it is rich in dietary fiber, which can increase a strong sense of fullness, promote digestion, and promote smooth bowel movements. Pumpkin can also protect the digestive tract mucosa, has a certain effect on digestive tract ulcers, and can bind cholesterol and prevent arteriosclerosis. This is because the pumpkin fruit contains 7%-17% pectin, which has strong adsorption capacity and can bind to and eliminate bacteria and their toxic substances in the human body.

5. Physiologically active ingredients such as bioalkali, fenugreek alkali and pumpkin seed alkali can catalyze the decomposition of carcinogenic nitrosamines, which is beneficial for excreting toxins from the body and improving cellular immunity.

6. The unsaturated fatty acids contained in pumpkin can facilitate defecation and urination, which is helpful for weight loss.

7. Low-calorie satiety weight loss method, eating pumpkin can help you lose weight faster.