Article 87: Lipid-Lowering and Slimming Fruit and Vegetable Juices (Part Two) and Medical Overview

Ingredients: 1 bottle of milk (about 250 ml), 6 grams of brick tea, 1 gram of refined salt.

Preparation: Heat a pot over high heat, add 300 ml of water, bring to a boil, add the chopped brick tea, reduce heat to low and simmer for 5 minutes. Filter the liquid through clean gauze and return it to the pot. Dissolve the salt in milk, then pour it into the tea liquid. Bring to a boil and it is ready to drink. Take twice a day, morning and evening.

How to consume: Drink as desired.

Efficacy: Clears heat and detoxifies, nourishes deficiency and lowers lipids.

Ingredients: 1 apple, 200 ml yogurt, 20 g honey.

Preparation: Wash the apple peel thoroughly, chop it (with the peel on), and put it into a household juicer. Blend for 1 minute. Collect the apple juice and mix it thoroughly with yogurt and honey.

Dosage: Take twice daily, morning and evening.

Efficacy: Nourishes deficiency and replenishes qi, invigorates blood and lowers lipids.

Ingredients: 100 ml of fermented goat milk, 30 g of hawthorn.

Preparation: Wash and chop the hawthorns, put them in a clay pot, add 500 ml of water, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat for 30 minutes. Filter through clean gauze to remove the residue, keep the juice, add yogurt, and simmer over low heat until boiling.

How to consume: Drink in the morning and evening.

Efficacy: Promotes digestion, relieves stagnation, invigorates blood circulation, removes blood stasis, and lowers blood lipids.

Ingredients: 100 ml yogurt, 1 clove of sweet and sour garlic, 10 ml honey.

Preparation: Separate the garlic cloves from the sweet and sour garlic, remove the membrane, mince them into a paste, and mix thoroughly with yogurt and honey.

Dosage: Take in the morning.

Efficacy: Relieves bloating, aids digestion, and lowers lipids.

Ingredients: 150 ml soy milk, appropriate amounts of MSG and salt.

Preparation: Put the soy milk into a pot, bring to a boil over low heat for 5 minutes, add salt and MSG, stir well and it's ready.

How to consume: Drink with breakfast.

Efficacy: Strengthens the spleen and eliminates water retention, lowers cholesterol, and promotes weight loss and fitness.

Ingredients: 20g white fungus, 500ml soy milk, 1 egg.

Preparation: Soak the white fungus in water until softened. Crack the eggs into a bowl and whisk them well with chopsticks. Set aside. When making soy milk, add the softened white fungus. After the soy milk has boiled a few times, add the whisked eggs. Once the eggs are cooked, it's ready.

How to consume: Drink with breakfast.

Efficacy: Nourishes Yin and Qi, reduces lipids and promotes weight loss.

Ingredients: 100g fresh corn, 250ml milk, 1g salt.

Preparation: Wash fresh, tender corn, remove the kernels, mash it into a paste, put it in a pot, add an appropriate amount of water, simmer for 30 minutes, filter to extract the juice, add milk and salt, and cook until it is almost boiling. Remove from heat and it is ready.

How to consume: Drink in the morning and evening.

Efficacy: Strengthens the spleen and regulates the middle jiao, replenishes deficiency and lowers lipids.

After learning about the diseases that obesity can lead to, obese individuals will undoubtedly answer that they want to lose weight. However, after confidently starting their weight loss journey, they may see some initial results, with rapid weight loss, but this doesn't last long; the weight loss stops, and may even rebound. At this point, the person trying to lose weight will certainly feel confused about the huge price they have paid for it.

Indeed, the relapse rate of obesity is extremely high, and it is just as difficult for an obese person to lose a few kilograms as it is for a thin person to gain a few kilograms. Moreover, once an obese person falls into a vicious cycle of "fat-thin-fat," the harmful effects on the body are extremely serious, sometimes even greater than not losing weight at all.

People who experience the "fat-thin-fat" cycle usually use incorrect weight loss methods, such as extreme dieting, starvation therapy, diarrhea, or dehydration. In this way, the weight lost includes both fat and muscle, and once the weight is regained, the majority of the new weight gain is fat. Therefore, after each "fat-thin-fat" cycle, the body fat will increase.

For obese individuals, scientific weight loss is essential. For most healthy individuals, learning about diet and nutrition, exercise, and behavioral health practices can also be very helpful in preventing obesity and reducing disease.

The goal of obesity treatment is not only to reduce weight, but more importantly, to prevent and treat various serious health complications, eliminate the metabolic disorders caused by these complications, and address the adverse physical and mental effects they have. In this sense, scientific weight loss is far more beneficial.

A scientific weight loss process involves learning a wide range of comprehensive weight loss methods, such as dietary nutrition, exercise, and behavioral changes, to correct unhealthy eating habits, thereby achieving the goals of reducing weight, preventing disease, and ensuring health.

The nutritional guidelines, exercise principles, and behavior modification programs for scientific weight loss are highly consistent with some strategies for reducing cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.

Those who fail to lose weight do so for two main reasons: First, they fail to follow the basic principles of scientific weight loss, resorting to improper methods and blindly pursuing weight loss, which will inevitably cause significant harm to their health. Second, their goals are unreasonable, a common mistake made by those trying to lose weight, and even by medical professionals, and a major reason for weight loss failure.

For someone who is definitively obese, setting a realistic and reliable weight loss goal is essential. However, weight loss goals are influenced by many factors, such as the patient's age, gender, duration of obesity, family history, and current health condition. Therefore, the ideal weight loss goal varies from person to person.