Will you gain weight by eating sweet potatoes often?

No" Eating sweet potatoes will not make people fat, one is because sweet potatoes are low in calories, every 100 grams of sweet potatoes contain only 106 calories, and 100 grams of rice are about 116 calories; Second, because sweet potatoes are rich in dietary fiber, the dietary fiber content of sweet potatoes is about to be, while the dietary fiber content of rice pasta is insufficient.

Sweet potatoes are also rich in resistant starch, this starch is difficult to degrade compared with other starches, digested slowly in the body, absorbed and entered the blood very slowly, its properties are similar to dietary fiber, with a certain effect, in addition to the fat content in sweet potatoes is less than 1 4 of rice, it is a low-fat food, and sweet potatoes have begun to be favored by beauty lovers in recent years.

The reason why people think that eating sweet potatoes will gain weight is because in the era of food scarcity, sweet potatoes were used as a staple food, although there were not many fat people in that era, but there was no emaciation because of eating sweet potatoes; The second is that someone is trying to eat sweet potatoes**, and it turns out that not only has he not become thinner, but he has also gained weight, which is because of the wrong way to eat.

We can't eat sweet potatoes as vegetables, we eat a lot of sweet potatoes and a lot of rice noodles, which leads to excessive calorie intake. In addition, such as braised sweet potatoes, fried sweet potatoes, etc., although it is delicious to eat in this way, the fat calories attached to the sweet potatoes are far higher than the calories of the sweet potatoes themselves, which will naturally make people fatten.

If we want to eat sweet potatoes**, we can also replace the staple food with sweet potatoes or mix them into staple foods, such as steamed sweet potatoes, sweet potato rice, etc. It can not only be full, but also reduce the total calories of food, and can fully absorb the dietary fiber and resistant starch in sweet potatoes, which will help **.

Deputy Chief Physician of Ningxia Medical University General Hospital.

You can eat sweet potatoes, because sweet potatoes contain dietary fiber, which can be used for normal laxative and digestion, thereby accelerating the excretion of food in the body and achieving the purpose. However, to eat less fried food, you can eat a small number of meals, eat more vegetables, especially crude fiber food, a balanced diet, especially at night, do not eat high-calorie food, the diet must be light and easy to digest. However, if you eat too many sweet potatoes during the ** period, and there is less exercise, it will also cause obesity, because sweet potatoes contain a certain amount of sugar, and if there is too much sugar, it will be converted into fat accumulation in the body, which can cause obesity.