One of the main health problems that acutely face the inhabitants of the 21st century is overweight and obesity. These are the links in the chain of various diseases, primarily the cardiovascular and endocrine systems. Type 2 diabetes is a faithful companion of extra pounds. According to statistics, every five seconds the number of patients with this disease increases by one person. The most effective way to fight for health and longevity is losing weight. Today, manufacturers offer a lot of ways to get rid of hated kilograms and centimeters on the waist and hips without diets and workouts. However, while we are experimenting with teas, pills and weight gum, the weight of the world's population continues to grow steadily. It seems that without good old diets and physical exertion, humanity cannot win a battle with extra pounds!
Diets: panacea or harm?
Today, the Internet is replete with the secrets of losing weight, users tirelessly write their reviews, and the stars share diet recipes from TV screens. Blood type nutrition, protein, fruit and mono-diets ... What to choose for the best result without negative consequences for the body? There is no doubt that there are diets that really help. Reviews and countless photos in the style of "before and after" - direct proof of this.
However, before moving on to specific examples, it should be noted that any diet is a huge stress for our health. Such a test may be insurmountable for the immune system. In order for the body to withstand microbes and stresses, it needs strength, and it receives them with food. The diet should include a variety of foods. Do diets that limit the intake of fats and carbohydrates help? Perhaps yes. Extra pounds will really go away, but irreversible metabolic disorders will begin in the body.
The conclusion is this: dieting for a long time, especially when it comes to mono-diets, is strictly prohibited. Our goal is to maintain and improve health. Losing excess weight is more likely a side effect. What diets are harmless to health and fatal for extra pounds? Let's get it right.
Kremlin diet
It's time to touch on diets that really help. Reviews about the Kremlin diet are most often found on forums devoted to the topic of weight loss. Even those of us who have never been overweight and not interested in the topic of losing weight, have probably heard about it. The essence of such a diet lies in limiting the intake of carbohydrates. The latter are the main sources of calories, that is, energy for our body. Nutritionists secrete the so-called slow and fast carbohydrates. The first contains rye bread, cereals, baked potatoes, fruits and dairy products. Such carbohydrates are essential for the normal functioning of our body. The second group includes sugar, honey, chocolate, cookies and other sweets. The criterion for this classification is how quickly carbohydrates break down in our body into glucose.
What recipes are suitable for the Kremlin diet? The main components of your diet should be a variety of vegetable salads, for example, from green and red bell peppers, asparagus, cucumbers and onions. Use olive oil for refueling. Red meat is better for chicken and fish. Steam them or bake in the oven, sprinkled with lemon juice. Do not forget about the first dishes. Celery soup is great for lunch. For its preparation you will need celery root, onions, carrots and bell peppers. The recipe is unusually simple. Grind vegetables, fill with water and cook for 20 minutes. Add greens to the finished soup. Grind vegetables in a blender if desired. The advantage of the Kremlin diet is that it allows even desserts. Yes, yes, this is not a mistake. Grate half the apple on a coarse grater and mix with low-fat cottage cheese. Garnish the dessert with a sprig of mint and chopped almonds.
Counting carbohydrates
But how to calculate the content of carbohydrates in a particular product? For convenience, a bread unit has been introduced. She corresponds to the amount of carbohydrates contained in a slice of rye bread, namely 10 grams. In such arbitrary units, it is customary to measure the carbohydrate content in products. According to the Kremlin diet, if you want to get rid of excess weight in a short time, your daily diet should be within 40 bread units. Those people who are satisfied with their weight should consume 60 conventional units.
Eat - I do not want
However, there are those products that are not necessary to consider. Some of them will probably be found in the refrigerator of every housewife. Cabbage, tomatoes and cucumbers, zucchini, greens, eggplant, pumpkin, root vegetables and legumes can be consumed in unlimited quantities. This is one of the main advantages of this diet. Hunger fainting doesn’t threaten you.
Buckwheat diet
One of the most common in our time is a buckwheat diet. As mentioned above, the body for proper functioning must receive a variety of nutrients, vitamins and trace elements. So buckwheat is the product in which such diversity is present. By the number of B vitamins and magnesium, which are necessary for the health of our heart, amino acids and rutin, it is one of the champions. “This is exactly the diet that helped me,” the Internet is full of such reviews.
Useful properties of buckwheat
Among the mono-diet, buckwheat is one of the safest. In addition to the nutrients listed above, this cereal has a high fiber content. It not only improves bowel function and removes toxins from it, but also brings us a feeling of fullness. One of the biggest problems that adherents of various diets face is an irresistible feeling of hunger. In the case of such nutrition, it can be avoided. Buckwheat is also a dietary product and its low glycemic index. In simple terms, the carbohydrates contained in buckwheat, our body slowly turns into glucose. Energy is released gradually, and for a long time we do not feel hunger.
However, you can sit on a buckwheat diet, like on any other, for a limited time, in our case, from one to two weeks. The term depends on how strictly you adhere to the diet. If there are no deviations from the permitted buckwheat, then the maximum duration of the diet is a week. Despite its beneficial properties, buckwheat does not contain all the necessary nutrients, minerals and vitamins for our body in sufficient quantities.
How to cook
Buckwheat is a product available to us. There is a bag with groats on the counter of any supermarket, and the price per kilogram is relatively low. What are the recipes for the diet? There are two ways to make buckwheat - traditionally boil in water in a proportion of one to two or steam. In the second case, buckwheat is necessary in the evening to pour boiling water and insist night. In the morning you will have a hearty, and, most importantly, healthy breakfast. With this cooking method, the proportions of cereals and water remain the same.
It remains to answer the main question: what are the results of the buckwheat diet? According to reviews, a week of such nutrition allows you to lose weight on average by 5 kilograms. However, this is not the limit. The result depends on your weight, individual characteristics of the body and exercise.
Both the Kremlin and buckwheat are diets that really help. Reviews about them are mostly positive.
Kefir diet
In our list called "the most helping diets" you can not include kefir diet. Unlike the first two, following it, you will inevitably come across a feeling of hunger. This is an absolute minus. But there are pluses. The maximum duration of such a diet is a week. In addition, you can do fasting days from one to four times a month.
This is another home weight loss diet. It is easy to guess that the place of the main product in the diet is given to low-fat kefir. The daily rate is about one and a half liters of fermented milk product. Kefir monodiet is not among the strict ones. This means that the diet can be varied with low-calorie vegetables, for example, cucumbers, cabbage. In the early days of the diet, you can eat up to 400 grams of additional products, by the end of the week this amount must be reduced to 100 grams. Despite all the hardships of kefir mono-diet, the result will please you. The reward for the efforts will be weight loss of up to -7 kilograms.
All these are diets that really help. Reviews of the latter, however, are somewhat controversial. Despite the fact that kilograms with such a diet go away faster than with many others, there are a number of contraindications to it. In the first place among them - gastrointestinal tract diseases.