In our daily life, we all know that eating more vegetables and fruits is good for our health, but many people, in order to achieve the goal of weight loss, will overeat vegetables to lose weight. Then, will eating vegetables at night make you fat?

Eating more vegetables is beneficial to health, but do not overeat vegetables to lose weight. Although vegetables contain a lot of dietary fiber, some vegetables also lack many vitamins, so a balanced diet is very important.

Dietary fiber is also a weight loss nutrient.

The cause of obesity is not only fat; dietary fiber mainly comes from vegetables, fruits, and some coarse grains. In the past, it was not valued by people, but in recent years, with the deepening of research, it has been hailed as the seventh nutrient. Many vegetables have both soluble and insoluble dietary fiber.

Dietary fiber is abundant in fish, vegetables, and fruits, and various sources of dietary fiber can inhibit the activity of pancreatic enzymes, reduce the digestion rate of proteins, fats, and carbohydrates in food.

At the same time, the soluble dietary fiber has a strong water-holding capacity, which can form a sticky solution in the gastrointestinal tract, increase the viscosity of the chyme, slow down the rate of gastric emptying, reduce the contact between digestive enzymes and the chyme, and affect the digestion and absorption of nutrients in the intestines. This is equivalent to eating more but absorbing less. This is a function that many people dream of during the process of weight loss.

The dietary fiber in the vegetables we eat every day has the effect of lowering cholesterol, and the soluble dietary fiber has a significant effect in lowering cholesterol. Dietary fiber can combine with bile acids in the intestines to promote the excretion of bile acids from the feces, which has the effect of lowering blood cholesterol.

Moreover, the water-holding capacity of dietary fiber can increase the viscosity of the intestinal chyme, slow down the transport speed of monosaccharides and neutral amino acids in the small intestine, improve glucose tolerance, and have a certain positive effect on weight loss for obese patients with high blood sugar and high blood lipids.