Today, there are many diets, the authors of which promise to make us slim and beautiful. Do not lag behind them and advertise all kinds of dietary supplements and weight loss products. But such "emergency" measures, alas, only lead to temporary success. After some time, everything returns to its own place: the excess centimeters that left your waist, problem skin, lethargy and apathy, weakness and fast fatigue. And behind them here like here new ailments. Is it possible to break out of this vicious circle? It is possible and necessary! But you will have to work hard and fundamentally change your attitude towards nutrition and healthy foods.
But what about the favorite dishes that give us pleasure? For example, a festive salad olivier, because it is considered a harmful food? This classic salad can be made exceptionally useful by replacing shop mayonnaise with homemade sausage, boiled meat and excluding potatoes, and instead of canned ones, pickled cucumbers. My family loves Olivier, and sometimes we also cook it. For the preparation of mayonnaise we take olive oil, egg yolks, lemon juice, dry mustard. Such a salad is a sample of the ideal combination of different healthy foods for a healthy diet. It is high in calories, saturated with proteins, so do not cook it often.
Twenty years ago, the daily norm of nutrition and healthy foods for a man of mental labor was three thousand calories. Today it is much smaller. Why is that? In view of the fact that we are moving much less than our parents and grandparents, we need fewer calories. Otherwise, they will accumulate in the body in the form of fat deposits. For example, a man who engages exclusively in intellectual work, needs 2.8-3 thousand kcal per day. It's enough for a woman 2-2,5 thousand. One can not but admit that we have a different level of health than people had half a century ago. At us the immunity is lowered, metabolic processes are slowed down.
And will slow down even more , because we eat refined foods with preservatives, thickeners, flavor enhancers. Maybe the assortment of Soviet deli and bazaars did not look as presentable as the goods that are sold in current supermarkets and markets, but healthy foods had a natural origin and the organism perceived them more calmly.
It should also be taken into account that energy-efficient foods for healthy nutrition are not always caloric, because calorie content is the amount of thermal energy obtained due to the combustion of the product. However, animal fats and proteins, which produce many calories when burned, do not give the body the same energy! Moreover, they even take it away - for digestion. That's why after a hearty dinner you always want to take a nap.
Unlike animal proteins , digestible carbohydrates in the form of fiber, cereal grains, as well as vegetable fats are energy-efficient products for healthy nutrition. But useful vegetables and fruits contain not only calories, but also vitamins and trace elements and are perfectly digested.
With seasonal vegetables is easier. And what about the off-season? Bright tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, zucchini, zucchini and other appetizing vegetables that are sold in the supermarket are not the best choice. It is worth giving preference to our native beets, carrots, celery root, white cabbage, onions and pumpkin. Excellent sources of vitamins - sauerkraut , pickled tomatoes and cucumbers. Only not canned healthy foods for a healthy diet: vinegar and preservatives make them harmful. Fresh and soaked apples, freshly frozen berries, and also dried fruits from which it is possible to prepare compotes are useful from fruit.
Why are vegetables and fruits and healthy foods important for the body?
They contain enzymes that improve digestion. In addition, vegetables are energetic: we do not spend a single calorie on their digestion, they do not load the digestive glands and stomach at all. That's why it's perfect to combine meat with vegetables.
How to "re-educate" their eating habits?
It is not difficult. If you decide to tidy yourself up, review the amount of each serving for one meal. Merilo is your palm. With the years the palm decreases - it means, and portions too. You need 3-4 times a day. We are not animals to satisfy hunger once a day, but not babies to constantly snack. A woman who wants to have good skin, normal weight and good health, must strictly adhere to the rule: after 18:00 no crumbs! The man who dines at a later time, stands up with an extinct look. And there's nothing you can do about it.
Even if the food was useful? It does not happen after six o'clock in the evening useful food for the pancreas - it begins to rest, its activity drops sharply. Food should be digested and go to the destination (on food, body protection), and not to spoil inside the gastrointestinal tract. All the digestive organs gradually decrease their activity by the evening. The gastrointestinal tract is asleep, and we to him - after-hour work! In addition, refined food is a heavy burden on all systems: digestive, cardiovascular, nervous. Preservatives slow down all internal processes and we no longer need as many calories as before. Well, if a person goes to the gym. But this does not always save. Physical load should be constant: breakfast and walked, dined and strolled, had supper and also moved! And we usually get out this way: ate and immediately sat down or went to bed - hence the problem.
Suppose a woman 3-4 times a week goes to the gym, swimming pool or dancing. How can she calculate the amount of food correctly? It is necessary to add to the diet products that will help to compensate for what is spent at the expense of physical exertion. This protein, fats of vegetable origin: meat, fish, cottage cheese, protein healthy foods for healthy eating (their number should be increased by one third). You should also drink more water: up to 2-2.3 liters.
In the spring it is useful to conduct a course of purification to help the body to remove toxins and ballast substances accumulated during the winter.
How to do it correctly? The easiest and safest way to help the digestive organs - 5-7 days "sit" on vegetables: boiled or steamed, without salt, practically without fat (a teaspoon of vegetable oil per serving). These days you can not eat sugar, extractives: tea, coffee, chocolate. The regime is the same: dinner before 18:00. After such an unloading week there is lightness, a desire to live. We begin to perceive the world in a different way, as it was once in childhood, it is filled with new bright colors, smells, sensations.
Can I feel cheerful with three handfuls of vegetables a day? The first three days you will really be difficult, hungry. And if you do not know how to limit yourself, you will have to learn this. A reasonable person should be able to tolerate and refuse in something if he is aimed at the result. But after three days you will feel a surge of energy, there will be an abyss of energy, a feeling that you can roll mountains.
Is it necessary to limit the number of vegetables? Boiled or steamed, they become heavier, which means that their portion increases. For example, a handful of cabbage cooked for a couple is three times heavier than the same amount of raw. The nutritional value of vegetables and healthy foods is also increasing, but the function of cleaning the intestines, when the fiber, passing through the intestines, adsorbs all toxins, is preserved completely! A wonderful property of boiled or steamed vegetables - they do not irritate the pancreas, perfectly sanitize the gallbladder and liver. In addition, they cleanse the layers in the intestines and supply their enzymes and juice. Do not forget to drink at least 1.5 liters of water a day.
When leaving the diet , you should gradually introduce morning porridge (oatmeal, rice, buckwheat), reducing the dose of vegetables. Our gastrointestinal tract loves cereals and always takes them with pleasure. In the afternoon, a piece of low-fat white boiled meat should be added to boiled or stewed vegetables or vegetable soup.
Is it possible for everyone to have such a diet? At first, the body does not understand what is happening, protests, "asks" for chocolate, coffee. This condition can be compared with the situation when a homeless person is taken from the street and washed-cleaned. At first his skin resists, itchs and hurts from purity! But then, when he realizes that it is much more pleasant to be clean, he no longer wants to return to the mud.
A person freed from internal rubbish , breathes easier, works. Internal organs function easily and do not take away energy. When all our cells are "packed" with the products of metabolism, the hormone of joy serotonin can not "get through" to our emotions, and we wake up already tired.
How do you feel about home cleaning with olive oil and lemon juice and other healthy foods?
As to any medical action, for example, to surgery or treatment with medications. You will not be able to remove appendicitis at home! With uncontrolled starvation or a diet chosen at random, the bile ducts and liver can not properly prepare for a sharp load. And in the final stage of cleaning, when you drink butter and lemon juice, and the ducts abruptly contract and push out clots, unexpected things can happen. Especially when there are stones in the gallbladder, liver problems (hepatitis, pancreatitis) - such a load can be fatal! With gastritis, there is a risk of inflammation of the mucosa and even the formation of ulcers.
The fact that the oil will soften the effect of juice is an illusion: it has an acidic environment, and only softens the alkaline medium. Contraindications are ulcerative colitis, hemorrhoids. If you feel that you need a serious cleansing, start with a doctor's visit. He will tell you what you really have: an easy malaise or manifestation of a serious illness. And if he deems it necessary, he will propose an optimal scheme of purification that will not harm you.
How do you comment on the proverb "Man is what he eats"? On the material level, we really are what we eat. Our cells, skin, hair, nails are built from food. Of these, we draw energy, the necessary trace elements and vitamins, which strengthen our immunity. And the more correct the correlation in the food of proteins, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins and other vital substances, the more comfortable we feel and, of course, the better we look.
That's why all the healthy foods that we consume must be of good quality and properly selected (according to age, past illnesses, dosage). Such food is easily digested in the gastrointestinal tract, gives joy and good health and even relieves the disease!