Cranberries are an unusual berry. To increase immunity specialists recommend that you eat cranberries as often as possible.
This shrub grows in the swamp, and for the fact that it is endowed with magical and healing properties, people called it a swamp healer. And absolutely not in vain.
At the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, scientists conducted research and found that cranberries contain chemicals called proanthocyanidins. They protect our body from attaching bacteria to the wall of the urethra and the development of urinary tract infections.
Cranberry is a real natural storehouse of useful substances. It is rich in vitamins C, B, PP, trace elements - iron, iodine, magnesium, potassium, manganese and calcium. However, the main advantage is that in this berry contains exactly the components that help us deal with excess kilograms. These include tannic substances that will accelerate the metabolism, and fiber, which relieves the body of toxins and toxins.
Sitting on a cranberry diet - it's completely insignificant that you need to eat one cranberry. The most important thing is that you need to do this:
- Each meal starts with a cranberry drink or half a glass of berries.
- every morning after awakening before eating, drink a glass of cranberry drink, which you dilute with water.
How to prepare a pastry drink?
You only need one glass of cranberry. Berries should be mashed, add honey to taste or grape syrup, or syrups. This mixture is diluted with three glasses of water and stirred. Here are the drinks ready. It is full of vitamins and beneficial properties.
Extra-rare diet
Harm when losing weight on a cranberry diet can occur only if you only eat cranberries and a lot of honey. They are so active that they can easily provoke the appearance of allergies.
Also, one should not adhere to such a system of losing weight to people who suffer from high acidity of gastric juice, as well as people of advanced age (to whom for 60). Remember that cranberries can cause heartburn, so before deciding to sit on this diet consult a doctor.
You should not sit on a cranberry diet for a very long time, because you can damage the digestion, inflammation of the rectum and indigestion can occur. Moreover, try to observe moderation, remember that this is primarily a health-improving diet, so you need to know the measure.
It is not recommended to drink cranberries with carbohydrate foods during the diet. This is potatoes, baked goods, imacarons. If you act differently, you can earn problems with the gastrointestinal tract.
Benefits of cranberry diet
In addition to the fact that the cranberry is rich in vitamins, it is also a natural antioxidant. Many ladies often underestimate this berry, thinking that it can be regarded only as a cosmetic ingredient.
After you have completed the course of the slimming program on cranberries, then lose excess kilograms and free yourself from the toxins' toxins.
Remember that you need to reduce the calorie content of your diet, try to eat only light meals. If during the whole week of cranberry diet you do not eat fatty and fried foods, then the result will pleasantly surprise you. Organizmochishitsya, and you can lose two or three kilograms in a week.
Of course, there is a variant of the approximate menu for the day. But sticking to it is not necessary, you can think through the menu for yourself or replace some of your dishes with your own.
Approximately one day
The first breakfast is the first option:
- a glass of unsweetened tea or coffee (to choose from);
- a cup of oatmeal porridge that you cooked with water with a handful of dried apricots, almonds or walnuts, one teaspoon of fresh honey and the same amount of vegetable oil.
The first breakfast is the second option:
- a glass of unsweetened tea or coffee (to choose from);
- a small slice of rye bread;
- 150 grams of fat-free cottage cheese with small-cut fruits of kiwi, banana and apple.
The second breakfast is the first option:
- a large green apple;
- 250 grams of fat-free yogurt or kefir.
The second breakfast is the second option:
- a small piece of rye bread, low-fat cottage cheese and a little raisins.
Lunch is the first option:
- fifty grams of boiled rice;
- Two hundred grams of steamed or boiled chicken without oily skin;
- a small portion of a summer salad of green vegetables with a teaspoon of soy sauce, lemon juice and olive oil.
Lunch is the second option:
- fresh or stewed vegetables (of your choice);
- Two hundred grams of cooked in a double boiler or unboiled lean fish.
Afternoon snack is the first option:
- a small rye crumb;
- 250 grams of fat-free natural yogurt;
- a big green apple.
Afternoon snack is the second option:
- boiled chicken egg;
- a large grapefruit or orange;
- a glass of skimmed yogurt.
Dinner is the first option:
- salad from cranberry berries, sauerkraut of an olive oil;
- Two hundred grams of boiled veal fillet or turkey.
Dinner is the second option:
- vegetable salad with the addition of cheese "feta", olive oil and lemon juice;
- 140 grams of fat-free cottage cheese.
When you decide to sit on a cranberry food system, promise yourself that you will not miss meals - this is very important. Every day you should have three main meals and two snacks. Then exactly in a week you will see on scales what you aspired to.
Wish you luck!