Menu of buckwheat diet
Such a diet was designed for one week, after which you should make a break for at least one month.
Buckwheat cook as follows: 2, 5 cups of boiling water pour 1 cup of buckwheat and leave for the night. In the morning, if the water is left, it must be drained. Buckwheat is not necessary. The resulting porridge is eaten without the addition of salt and other spices. In porridge, you can add 1% kefir, but remember that per day the amount of yogurt should not exceed 1 liter. Water - a simple or non-carbonated mineral can be drunk in absolutely unlimited quantities. In addition it is possible, although not desirable, during the day to eat a little fruit or low-fat yogurt. Refrain from eating, if in 4-6 hours you go to sleep. With a strong desire to eat, one hour before the proposed sleep you can drink a glass of kefir.
Pros of the diet
Buckwheat is considered the most useful crop of all. The composition of buckwheat contains iron (about 60 mg), B vitamins, calcium (about 70 mg), ascorbic acid, and a substance that can strengthen the walls of blood vessels. In buckwheat contains a lot of fiber, which, in turn, gives a feeling of saturation.
If you compare buckwheat with other cereals, then it is the lowest calorie.
Disadvantages of the diet
As we found out, although buckwheat and low-calorie, it quickly gives a feeling of saturation, so it is often chosen by those who are obese and overweight, often accompanied by diseases of the gastrointestinal tract (such as gastric ulcer, gastritis, duodenal ulcer). And in the presence of these diseases, buckwheat is contraindicated. Therefore, the minus of buckwheat groats is that not all people are shown buckwheat in full.
If you eat only buckwheat porridge (and, moreover, in raw form) and drink it with 1% kefir, then there may be changes in the gastrointestinal tract. The first thing that will undergo a change is the gastric mucosa. Gastritis may start to develop, and even those who had been completely healthy before, and with the presence of gastritis, provoke an exacerbation. This is due to the fact that kefir contains a large amount of acidity, which shifts the contents of the stomach to a more acidic side, which in turn oxidizes all the food in the stomach. In addition, all this can provoke inflammation in the stomach, and then the intestine will be involved in this process.
Since the buckwheat diet is a mono-diet, you should know that the body does not fully receive trace elements and useful substances, and their lack seriously infringes the body. For example, in buckwheat groats only proteins of plant origin are contained, whereas the body must receive animal proteins, and they are practically absent in buckwheat. A protein of animal origin enters the structure of tissues and all organs, besides, it fully participates in the life of the organism, thereby ensuring a normal existence. And now imagine what will happen with the body, which during the buckwheat diet loses protein of animal origin!
Proteins of vegetable origin, contained in buckwheat, do not contain a substance that slows down the processes of protein assimilation. Therefore, it will be better if in one dish there will be both vegetable protein and animal protein. Therefore porridge, cooked on milk, will be more useful than porridge cooked on water, since the proteins contained in milk contribute to their assimilation.
With buckwheat diet carbohydrates are excluded, and allowed two apples are not a full-fledged source of carbohydrates, which means the body does not receive glucose, which negatively affects the work of the central nervous system. Everyone knows that brain cells have only one source of nutrition - glucose. Such starvation adversely affects the general well-being of a person, on his perception of life, on his performance, on his relationship with people around him. Also, such starvation makes a person prone to strife, a person becomes more quick-tempered, and some even get depressed.
As prescribed by the buckwheat diet, you need to eat everything without salt, but this is not the best option, because the body does not get some trace elements and therefore it tries in every way to get these trace elements from something, and somehow rearrange metabolism. Therefore, let the food be moderately salted.
Should I follow the buckwheat diet?
To answer this question, weigh all the "pluses" and "minuses". To benefit, you can include buckwheat porridge cooked with milk (consumed before lunch) in your daily diet, but do not make buckwheat cereal the only and basic food.
If you attend fitness classes, then you can have buckwheat for 1, 5 hours before the visit.
Benefits of buckwheat will be more if you use it in the morning before work, training, study, rather than from daily food only buckwheat for 10 days!