With the improvement of people’s living standards, the intake of high-calorie, high-fat, high-protein and low-fiber diets is increasing. Obesity and diabetes have become common metabolic diseases, which seriously threaten human health.
So, what is the relationship between obesity and diabetes? What can we do in our lives to avoid diabetes?
One tea and one porridge, digestion and lipid-lowering
1 hawthorn lotus leaf tea
Composition: 10g raw hawthorn and 10g lotus leaf.
Efficacy: Hawthorn has lipid-lowering and anti-fat effects. Today, the common hawthorn slices and hawthorn cakes on the market also have the effect of digestion, but they contain too much sugar, which will make you gain weight.
Lotus leaves have the effect of clearing away heat and purging fire. These two are good choices for making tea or brewing tea together, and there will be a faint fragrance. Drinking after meals will have a better effect on digestion.
2 Poria porridge with rice and red bean porridge
Composition: Poria 15g, rice kernel 30g, red bean 15g.
Efficacy: Strengthens the spleen, removes dampness, and loses weight. It is suitable for people with puffiness, and people with damp and heat in the body, who will have loose stools and stick to the toilet. You can also eat this porridge.
Note: The proportion of adzuki beans should be less, and eating too much adzuki beans will cause acid reflux.
How to control weight scientifically?
1 Control your diet and avoid overeating
First of all, you have to keep your mouth shut. You can eat the food you like, but you have to control it. Don’t think that I will never eat again after I finish this meal. I always regard today as the last day of indulgence. This is wrong Yes, it can easily lead to binge eating.
2 Actively exercise and avoid strenuous exercise
It is recommended to take a walk to digest food after meals. Sitting and lying down for a long time is not conducive to food digestion.
In the spring, it is a lot of fun to go hiking in the countryside with relatives and friends on weekends. Mountain climbing is an excellent aerobic exercise.
Note: Before climbing the mountain, be sure to prepare for the activities, and let the muscles and joints move. Similarly, after climbing, be sure to do some cleaning and relaxation activities, such as continuing to walk on the flat ground for about 5 minutes after going down the mountain.
3 Keep a good mood and avoid staying up late
Many obese people suffer from depression, which leads to poor blood flow in the body. Poor mood is easy to overeat and cause obesity.
Traditional Chinese Medicine for Diabetes
“Su Wen·The Treatise on Strange Diseases” records: “The fat person is hot inside, and the sweet person is full, so the overflow of qi turns into thirst.” This “diabetes” is similar to today’s diabetes .
Traditional Chinese medicine treats diabetes, divided into upper, middle and lower.
Shangxiao is lung fire, clearing lungs and moisturizing dryness, one fire and one dryness, dryness should be moistened, fire should be cleared, and thirst-relieving prescription should be used.
The middle eliminates stomach fire, clears the stomach and purifies fire, and the lower energizer is kidney deficiency, so it is necessary to nourish yin and nourish the kidney. This is the traditional treatment of three energizers. It is nourishing yin and clearing heat.
Many people with diabetes are large and obese, and they “must eat sweet and fat”. Western medicine treats diabetes mainly by lowering blood sugar. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that once the blood sugar is stopped, the blood sugar will rise, which does not cure the disease. Effect.
The advantages of traditional Chinese medicine in the treatment of diabetes: holistic conditioning, emphasizing individual differences of patients.
1 Through flexible syndrome differentiation, holistic regulation, and comprehensive treatment
The etiology of each diabetic is different. Traditional Chinese medicine can treat it according to the syndrome. If it is caused by stagnation of qi and blood, then take some medicines that regulate qi and activate blood. .
2 traditional Chinese medicine can regulate the body’s internal environment and adjust the body’s immunity
If the patient’s blood sugar suddenly rises in clinical practice, but it does not reach the standard of diabetes, it is generally not recommended to take hypoglycemic drugs immediately at this time, but it can be adjusted by traditional Chinese medicine.
3 Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine in the treatment of diabetes significantly improved the curative effect
If you have been diagnosed with diabetes, you still need western medicine to control your blood sugar, you can cooperate with Chinese medicine to get better treatment effect.
The relationship between obesity and diabetes is very close. In our daily life, we should pay attention to dietary restraint and avoid putting ourselves in a state of obesity. In a state of obesity, there will be many problems in the human body, such as fatty liver, bone Arthritis, kidney disease, hypertension, hyperlipidemia…
(The Great National Doctor of Health)