Pumpkin is one of those few vegetables that can easily be called an ideal dietary product. Coming to us from North America, where it began to be grown five thousand years ago, she firmly won one of the leading places in folk medicine, cosmetology and dietetics.
It has a lot of vitamins, which is especially important on the threshold of winter, when there are not enough of them in the body. Pumpkin includes vitamins of groups A, B, C, E, potassium, calcium, copper, fluorine, phosphorus, zinc, sulfur, iron. That is why it is one of those same products that are attributed to the natural sources of most vitamins and minerals necessary for a person. A high content of a rather rare vitamin T allows us to call the pumpkin almost the best side dish for pork, beef and other very fatty dishes, because it is vitamin T that allows heavy foods to be absorbed better and prevents obesity.
Most likely, that is why pumpkin and pumpkin diet are so beloved by nutritionists around the world, because they advise everyone who wants to part as soon as possible with extra pounds to eat this healthy vegetable without harm to their health.
Calorie pumpkin (like most vegetables) is extremely small - twenty-five kilocalories per hundred grams. Pumpkin seeds due to the content of oils are more high in calories. Eating pumpkin for weight loss is best in the morning.
Those who simply try to maintain a healthy lifestyle and eat right, as well as those who are on diets based on calorie counting, do not worry about the monotony. With this vegetable you can make pies, bake, pickle and stew it, eat it as porridge and mashed potatoes, make fritters and low-calorie jams from it, and also eat it raw.
Adherents of mono-nutrition are perfect pumpkin diet for weight loss.
Such a diet lasts four days, for which an average of two to three kilograms is lost. It belongs to the lungs, but to withstand it is still quite difficult. Nutritionists advise not to abuse salt and sugar during it, as well as drink plenty of fluids. Like any other, the pumpkin diet gives the best results when combined with exercise.
On the first day of the breakfast diet, you should eat a cup of pumpkin porridge with millet, while millet and pumpkin are taken in equal proportions. For lunch, you need to eat pumpkin soup, which is allowed to eat one piece of brown bread. For dinner, you are waiting for three hundred grams of pumpkin and carrot pancakes.
On the second day, the pumpkin diet includes the following dishes. Breakfast - a portion of carrot and pumpkin salad, with lemon juice, you can take any vegetable oil as a dressing, olive is best; a portion of porridge from millet and pumpkin. Lunch - vegetable borsch and two small pumpkin cutlets. Dinner - a serving of salad salad.
On the third day for breakfast, a portion of rice and pumpkin porridge taken equally, and a portion of carrot and pumpkin salad are waiting for you. For lunch - a serving of vegetable borsch and two crackers, preferably made from black or bran bread. For dinner - a large portion of pumpkin stew, zucchini, carrots and sweet pepper.
The last, fourth day. For breakfast, eat a serving of carrot and pumpkin salad, a cup of rice and pumpkin porridge. For lunch - a large portion of vegetable borsch and two hundred grams of pumpkin and carrot pancakes. For dinner - a large portion of stew.
It is such a diet that will allow you to lose about two to three kilograms. Do not forget to take multivitamins during the diet, which can make up for the missing minerals and trace elements, because any mono-diet leads to their lack.
For those who want to lose weight quickly and with health benefits, a pumpkin diet is ideal. The reviews of people who tried it are only positive, but everyone recognizes that it is sometimes difficult to maintain such a diet. Perhaps that is why it is so short - only four days. However, what can stop a person who has decided to lose weight? Definitely not a four day diet.