Winter melon and veal: Analysis of two food-based weight loss methods

Winter melon for weight loss

Winter melon is a common food. It can be boiled into a soup for a beverage, or fried, pickled with salt, or made into candied fruit for tea. The flesh, pulp, peel, seeds, vines, and leaves can all be used medicinally. The flesh is sweet and bland in taste, slightly cold in nature, and has the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, purging impurities and relieving irritability, removing dampness and promoting urination. It is suitable for symptoms such as carbuncles due to heat toxins, chest and heart heat, difficulty urinating, edema, and summer and autumn diarrhea. People with asthma often eat a strong soup made with winter melon and ginger to alleviate symptoms.

Wash and cut tender winter melons with flower stalks into chunks, mix with an appropriate amount of rock sugar, steam until soft, and drink the steamed juice. Eating this for several days can also have a significant effect. The pulp has the effects of clearing heat and quenching thirst, promoting urination and detoxifying. It can be boiled in water or squeezed out for drinking, or it can be pickled with sugar and vinegar and eaten raw. The peel has the functions of promoting urination, draining dampness, and reducing swelling, and is mainly used for edema. In addition, it was believed by the ancients to treat various injuries from falls. In folk medicine, it is often boiled with watermelon peel and drunk as a substitute for watermelon to clear away summer heat, and it has a certain effect on thirst due to summer heat, scanty dark urine, and persistent low-grade fever in summer. Watermelon seeds have the functions of moistening the lungs, resolving phlegm, reducing swelling, promoting urination, and invigorating the spleen and stomach. They are suitable for phlegm-heat cough, lung abscess, intestinal abscess, and leukorrhea and gonorrhea caused by damp-heat. Because winter melon has a certain diuretic effect, it is not suitable for some people with yin deficiency and chronic illness, or those with weak constitution and loose stools. If elderly obese people want to be slim and healthy, they can eat it regularly. The specific method is to boil an appropriate amount of winter melon into soup and drink it every day. In winter, when winter melon is unavailable, 50 grams of winter melon peel can be boiled in water and drunk daily.

Healthy Food – Veal

Veal is low in calories and filling, so even if you eat a lot, you won't gain weight. One hundred grams of veal contains only 100 kilocalories, but a high amount of protein (16.7 grams), fat (3 grams), carbohydrates (0.3 grams), phosphorus (120 mg), calcium (5 mg), iron (2.5 mg), vitamin A (30 IU), vitamin B₁ (0.5 mg), and vitamin B₂ (0.15 mg).

Even eating 400 grams of steak provides only 400 kilocalories, while providing ample and high-quality protein. However, if beef contains fat, the situation is different; its protein content is significantly lower than that of veal, while its calorie content is much higher.