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How did ancient people lose weight? What methods have you used?

In fact, whether in ancient or modern times, people almost regard thinness as beauty. Some people will say that the Tang Dynasty, our prosperous Tang Dynasty, is an exception. It takes being fat as its beauty, and it doesn't require much for people's figure. On the contrary, it is precisely because of the high requirements that it will appear. Fat? For beauty.

How do you say this? This? Fat? It's not that the waist is thick and the legs are thick, but that the fat place is fat and the thin place is thin, which is plump and pleasing to the eye. Ordinary people, if they want to be fat, all parts of their bodies will be fat, and almost all of them will lose weight, so it is difficult to reach this plump standard. This is why the Tang Dynasty demanded a high figure.

1. How did foreigners lose weight in ancient times?

Let's start with foreign countries. People in ancient Egypt thought that you were sick because you were fat, not swearing, but really thought that obesity was a disease. In order to keep their bodies beautiful and healthy, they take laxatives made of castor oil three times a month and ask them if they are happy. On the other hand, isn't it very modern? Diet pills? The prototype? Don't say anything about inventing diet pills, just like my predecessors.

Ancient Rome, this is amazing. After each meal, you put a bowl under it, and then scratch your throat with feathers to induce vomiting. This is really a question mark. Do you eat just to have a taste?

After talking about ancient Rome, we have to look at ancient Greece. Some famous doctors have studied it and come to a conclusion that if a person dies suddenly, the probability of this person is fat, and the probability of appearing on a thin person is much smaller. Therefore, he advocates that everyone should walk more (without clothes) and sleep on hard beds.

Anyway, foreign seniors have been fighting hard enough, don't worry, and then our weight-loss seniors will come out.

2. China ancient self-mutilation method to lose weight.

It is recorded in our country that self-mutilation and weight loss all depend on King Chu Ling. The central idea is to strictly adhere to the attitude of being strict with others and being lenient with others, so that dead friends will not die at the beginning. ? King Chu Ling had a thin waist, and many people starved to death in his dynasty. ?

King Chu likes small waists. In order to win the king's love, scholars quickly lost weight. How crazy are they? Ministers only eat one meal a day, overeating, so hungry that they have no strength and have to lean against the wall or even starve to death, while women swallow cloth and silk to reduce their stomachs.

It can be seen that the king of Chu likes to be thin, even to the point of madness. Zhao Yanfei of the Han Dynasty, as the name implies, is as light as a swallow, and using Xiji Pills to help lose weight is also equivalent to self-mutilation diet. This medicine makes people infertile.

In the Song Dynasty, I had to sigh the whimsy of my ancestors, and they also created a towel diet. What should I do? Soak the towel in cold water to reduce the meat on the arm, and then rub it repeatedly on the arm. This method hurts me as soon as I listen. Modern face-lifting devices and gold bars are also routines that the ancients have long been tired of playing. Yuan dynasty, well, people don't have to rub bath towels. Here comes the harder part. Brush with a bristle until the skin turns red.

The predecessor of modern slimming clothes, the Ming Dynasty, girded the abdomen and waist, called? A suit with buttons? Friends, have you been cheated by these self-destructive weight loss methods?

3. Healthy weight loss Dafa also had dietotherapy in ancient times, such as hawthorn and lotus leaf recorded in medical skills, as well as carp soup in the Western Zhou Dynasty, whose main function was to reduce swelling. During the Three Kingdoms period, there was a Five-Animal Show, and Liang Wudi in the Northern and Southern Dynasties did not eat meat or touch oil, so it should be promoted to health preservation.

When it comes to exercise to lose weight, Yue Nv talked about the sword in the pre-Qin period. At that time, women practiced swords and smashed pots. In the Tang Dynasty, women could play football, kick the ball, shoot arrows and dance. Men play polo, and women are not tall enough, so they invented donkey ball, which has a proper term called? Donkey bow? .

Foot-binding became popular in the Northern Song Dynasty, but it was popular in the Yuan Dynasty. Foot-binding was equivalent to disability, so many sports could not be done.

When it comes to losing weight, in fact, most of them are concerned by court women and greenhouse women. Ordinary women do more work to support their families, but they just need food and clothing. For us, first of all, we should establish a correct aesthetic view, taking fat as beauty, thinness as beauty, safety as beauty, flowers as beauty, health as beauty and happiness as beauty. If there are people who have requirements for body appearance, they still hope to spend some time every day exercising scientifically and eating normally, and then slowly reduce their appetite, so that their stomachs will get smaller and smaller, instead of trying to lose weight today and not eating at the next meal.