A: "How do you eat sweet potatoes every day, are you losing weight?"
B: "Eating sweet potatoes every day has many benefits, not only can you lose weight, but you can also prevent cancer." ”
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A: "Okay, I haven't paid much attention to the efficacy of sweet potatoes before, so I don't know." ”
When it comes to the efficacy of sweet potatoes, different people have different views, such as: sweet potatoes can lose weight, sweet potatoes can prevent constipation, sweet potatoes can lower blood sugar, can prevent cancer and so on. Therefore, the chance of sweet potatoes being served on the table is increasing, so let's take a good look at the efficacy of sweet potatoes.
First of all, let's take a look at one of the topics that everyone pays attention to - sweet potatoes can fight cancer!
Japan's National Cancer Prevention Institute found that 98.7% of sweet potatoes can be eliminated from the eating habits of 260,000 people. As soon as this conclusion came out, sweet potatoes were labeled as anti-cancer, so the authenticity of this study has been a concern for everyone. After investigation, it was found that the study was not conducted with sweet potatoes and cancer cells in the body, but with the ingestion of sweet potato extracts from animals.
Therefore, it is not directly confirmed that sweet potatoes can be used to fight cancer. If sweet potatoes can really kill cancer cells in the human body, cancer patients can eat sweet potatoes directly, and there is no need for surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy, which can not only strengthen the pain of patients during treatment, but also do not need to worry about the spread of cancer cells.
Although sweet potatoes are not anti-cancer, daily consumption of sweet potatoes still has certain benefits, such as:
First of all, the above statement about the efficacy of sweet potatoes is correct in two ways, eating sweet potatoes can play a role in weight loss and prevention of constipation. According to the relevant content of the "Food Ingredient List", it can be known that sweet potatoes belong to dietary fiber foods, which can make people feel full when eating, thereby reducing the amount of food and achieving the effect of weight loss. In addition, dietary fiber foods can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, facilitate digestion, and effectively prevent constipation.
If you think that sweet potatoes can only be used to lose weight and prevent constipation, it is a big mistake! Sweet potatoes not only belong to dietary fiber foods, but also belong to foods with high potassium and low sodium, which have a certain auxiliary effect on controlling blood pressure. Therefore, it is recommended that patients with high blood pressure can usually eat some sweet potatoes appropriately.
Friends who love beauty can eat some sweet potatoes, because sweet potato red contains vitamin A. Friends who usually pay attention to skin care should know the main effect of vitamin A, and proper vitamin A can make our skin more elastic, thereby preventing the appearance of wrinkles.
Although it is said that eating grains often has certain benefits for our body, we also need to understand some taboos before eating, so as not to cause harm to the body.
(1) People with bad stomach should avoid eating sweet potatoes on an empty stomach
Before meeting a stomach problem, she had the habit of eating sweet potatoes every morning, because she felt that this would not only lose weight, but also prevent constipation. However, stomach pain often occurs. I don't know if you have encountered such a phenomenon in normal times. In fact, the main reason for this phenomenon is caused by eating sweet potatoes on an empty stomach. Because sweet potatoes contain carbohydrates and sugars, eating them on an empty stomach will cause stomach acid reflux, which will cause stomach pain.
(2) Sweet potatoes are good, but avoid eating them in large quantities
Through the above content, we should find that sweet potatoes have high nutritional value, and proper adaptation has certain benefits for human health, but remember not to overdose. Eating too much sweet potatoes can lead to obesity due to excess calories. Reminder: If you want to use sweet potatoes instead of staple foods, it is recommended to control the consumption of sweet potatoes to one-third of the staple food.
(3) Diabetics try not to eat sweet potatoes
The benefits of sweet potatoes are many, usually eat more sweet potatoes is good for the body, is this really the case? Sweet potato is good, but not suitable for diabetic patients to take, I believe that everyone here knows that sweet potatoes not only contain starch, but also contain a certain amount of sugar, for diabetics to consume too much sugar, it will affect the blood sugar value, is not conducive to diabetic patients control blood sugar.
Summary: Although proper consumption of sweet potatoes is conducive to good health, even the best food should control the "degree", and excessive adaptation may be counterproductive.
Resources:
[1] "The Nutritional Value and Health Care Effect of Sweet Potatoes", China Daily, 2021-12-16
[2] "Long-term eating sweet potatoes has many benefits, but the doctor said: these 2 taboos, I hope you don't easily touch" · People's Daily · 2019-8-13