What is a low-carb diet? How to eat a low-carb diet

In daily life, we can hardly avoid some high-calorie carbohydrates. Most Chinese people eat a lot of carbohydrates. The most we eat are staple foods and some sweet foods. These foods are high in calories. You can learn more about the National Low Carbon Day, which is to popularize climate change knowledge, publicize low-carbon development concepts and policies, encourage public participation, and promote the implementation of the task of controlling greenhouse gas emissions.

Contents of this article

1. What is a low-carb diet?

2. How to eat a low-carb diet

3. When is National Low Carbon Day?

What is a low-carb diet

A low-carb diet means strictly limiting the consumption of carbohydrates and increasing the intake of protein and fat.

Our food basically contains carbohydrates, except for fat, purified water, coffee, tea, etc. It is almost impossible to achieve zero carbs, so there is no zero-carb diet, only a low-carb diet.

Carbohydrates exist in three forms in food: sugar, starch, and fiber. Most people know that sugar is the most likely to make people fat because it is a refined carbohydrate. There is another type of carbohydrate that is also very likely to make people fat, and that is starch, which is a complex carbohydrate.

The low-carb diet first limits carbohydrates. When the body does not have carbohydrates to burn for energy, it will look for other fuels. The low-carb diet requires a daily carbohydrate intake limit of 20 grams and maintain it for two weeks.

After reducing the intake of low carbohydrates, the human body switches from utilizing carbohydrates to using fat as the main energy source, which can achieve a weight loss effect.

In our daily lives, it is difficult for us to avoid some high-calorie carbohydrates. Most Chinese people eat very high amounts of carbohydrates. What we eat the most are staple foods and some sweet foods, all of which are high in calories.

How to eat a low-carb diet

1. Eat more vegetarian food and less meat.

2. Try to eat less high-carbohydrate foods such as rice and bread.

3. Eat protein-rich foods and vegetables for lunch and dinner.

4. Finish dinner before 9 o'clock and do not eat anything except water after dinner.

5. Try to drink more light soup and less thick soup.

6. Avoid eating foods that are fried, deep-fried, or thickened. It is best to eat steamed or boiled foods.

When is National Low Carbon Day?

National Low Carbon Day is the third day of the Energy Conservation Publicity Week every year. National Low Carbon Day aims to adhere to the concept of "people-oriented", strengthen publicity and education on climate change adaptation and disaster prevention and reduction, popularize knowledge on climate change, publicize low-carbon development concepts and policies, encourage public participation, and promote the implementation of the task of controlling greenhouse gas emissions.