What foods can help to remove fat and clear the intestines?

A netizen asked: For someone like me who loves to eat, has a soul for eating, and uses a big iron basin to eat, it is no problem to gain 10 pounds during the Chinese New Year.

I am fat, but I always feel that my intestines are blocked and my bowel movements are not smooth. What foods can help me clear my intestines and remove fat?

Looking at your question, you really have the image of a "workaholic"!

But since you asked sincerely, let me talk about this issue~

When it comes to foods that help the intestines to "scrape fat" and keep them unobstructed, the following foods must be mentioned:

Staple food: Corn

Corn contains a large amount of fiber, 6 to 8 times higher than rice and flour, making it a nutritious staple food choice.

Cellulose has the characteristics of absorbing water and swelling, stimulating gastrointestinal motility, and shortening the time that feces and other waste stay in the gastrointestinal tract, which can effectively prevent constipation.

Tips: Oats, buckwheat and sweet potatoes are also good choices.

Vegetables: Bamboo shoots

As the saying goes, "Eating bamboo shoots once can clean your intestines for three days."

Bamboo shoots are rich in crude fiber, which can not only absorb oil in the intestines, and can be called a "grease-removing expert", but also promote intestinal peristalsis, help digest food accumulation, prevent constipation, and reduce the gastrointestinal tract's absorption and accumulation of fat.

Tips: You can also try black fungus, tomatoes, and cabbage.

Fruit: Hawthorn

Hawthorn has been a good medicine for digestion and relieving stagnation since ancient times. As one of the "three immortals" in traditional Chinese medicine for digestion, it is best at digesting meat stagnation.

Li Shizhen once emphasized the digestive effect of hawthorn on food stagnation: If you have indigestion and abdominal bloating after eating, chewing two or three hawthorn kernels can achieve good results.

Modern medicine has discovered that some organic acids and enzymes contained in hawthorn can not only effectively promote the digestion of fatty foods, but also have a certain regulatory effect on the gastrointestinal function of the human body.

Tips: Dragon fruit and apple are also good choices.

Of course, in addition to trying the above foods, the most important thing is: everyone should consciously "scrape off fat", that is, eat less meat, more vegetables, stay away from fried and grilled foods, etc., to give the stomach and intestines a "holiday and reduce the burden".

Doing this in the long run will not only help maintain intestinal health, prevent constipation and obesity, but also prevent many diseases of affluence such as high blood pressure, diabetes, and hyperlipidemia.