Summer is coming! Many people will start to lose weight in order to have a good figure; however, there are many ways to lose weight, among which "eating meat to lose weight" is a common method used by ordinary people to lose weight, but why can eating a large amount of meat and not eating carbohydrates to reduce weight?

Du Tiya, a nutritionist at the Nutritional Treatment Department of Zhenxing Hospital, said that the so-called method of eating meat to reduce fat refers to not limiting the amount of meat, eating as little as possible or even not eating powdered foods, to achieve the effect of reducing fat. In fact, its principle is to use the protein and fat in the meat to provide the body's heat when there is insufficient carbohydrates in the diet.

From the perspective of nutritional perspective, if the daily carbohydrate intake is less than 100 grams, it will cause the body to secrete glucoconide and insulin to decrease. At this time, the body will burn protein and fat to serve as the energy source of the body to achieve the purpose of slimming.

Dutiya further explained that by eating meat to reduce weight, in addition to the problem of effluent, there are several other health concerns:

Injury 1/May cause ketoacidosis

When carbohydrates are not enough, the body will turn to protein and fat to get energy. At this time, the intermediate product is ketones. The so-called keto is an acid. When the blood accumulates a lot of ketoic acid, it will cause the blood pH to drop rapidly, which can be fatal in some cases.

Generally, ketoacidosis occurs most often in patients with diabetes, especially in patients with type 1 diabetes. It is often found that the ketoacid concentration in the blood is too high due to high blood sugar. However, clinical studies have found that people who rely on eating only meat and not powdered food to reduce weight loss will also cause ketoacidosis to occur without diabetes.

Injury 2/Increase the burden on kidneys

Because the human body produces nitrogen-containing wastes during the process of decomposing proteins, and the kidneys are the organs responsible for relieving and filtering the nitrogen-containing wastes in the blood. If too much protein is taken in the diet, it is easy to aggravate the burden on the kidneys. If too much salt is taken in the diet, it is more likely to cause changes in the kidneys.

In addition, if people with poor kidney function, such as patients with chronic kidney failure or kidney washing, they must not eat this way to avoid increasing the risk of uremia.

Injury 3/causes cardiovascular disease

Because the protein in meat contains higher protein and fatty acids (except deep-sea fish), if you eat too much meat, it means that the intake of raw and fatty acids is also too high. In the long run, it is very likely to cause cardiovascular disease.

Furthermore, because the protein has a heat of 4 calories per gram, if the protein consumes more than the body's burden, the liver will not be able to completely absorb the amino acids that are reinforcing into fat. In the long run, it will not only become fat, but will also cause fat accumulation in the liver, causing fatty liver development.

Tutiya emphasized that the reason why eating meat can reduce weight quickly is because the weight lost is caused by water loss.