Mono-diets: the effectiveness and harms of express weight loss programs

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How can you lose weight on a mono diet? What threatens the body with a passion for popular mono-diets: rice, buckwheat, kefir and apple

Spring has come abruptly and unexpectedly, and the season of short skirts inexorably looms behind it. Queries about how to quickly lose weight by the summer are now at the top of all search engines. Many ladies rush to extremes and choose ways to lose weight that are quite stressful for the body. One of these extremes is mono diets, when the entire diet is limited to one or a maximum of three foods. The effectiveness of these diets is exceptional: depending on the chosen product, you can lose from 3 to 7 kilograms per week. But often then the weight returns at an accelerated pace, "taking" with it an upset stomach, hormonal disruptions, anemia and cholecystitis.

What is the effectiveness of mono diets associated with?

Losing weight on mono diets can be pretty quick / istockphoto.com

In their effect on the human body, mono-diets resemble starvation. By limiting your diet to any one product (even the most useful one), you artificially cause a deficiency of nutrients and trace elements. The body becomes alert and begins to seek resources within itself, during which it also expends the ill-fated fat reserves. A pleasant difference from a hunger strike - on mono-diets, you do not feel the animal desire to eat everything around. The product that you have chosen for weight loss can be eaten in almost unlimited quantities. But you don't really want to eat it: on about the third day of eating the same dish, your appetite naturally decreases.

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The results are not long in coming. In stressful mode, the body consumes a lot of calories, which are not replenished from the outside. A separate plus is that with such ascetic nutrition, not only kilograms, but also volumes "go away". Therefore, on the fifth day of the mono-diet, the reflection in the mirror will delight you with smooth curves of the waist and a flat stomach. Real results, for example, of a buckwheat mono-diet: in a week you can achieve minus 5 kilograms of weight, 5 cm in the waist and 2 cm in the hips. The apple mono-diet gives even more amazing results: if you eat only apples for a whole week, you can "melt" 7 kilograms.

The harm of different types of mono-diets for the body

With all these charms, mono diets are very insidious: due to the fact that you almost do not feel hunger on them, there is a risk of "playing" in losing weight. Nutritionists recommend to "sit" on one product no longer than three days, otherwise you can earn serious disruptions in the body.

Kefir mono-diet

ABOUT the benefits of kefir even small children know. This fermented milk product normalizes the digestive tract and restores the intestinal microflora, strengthens the immune system, and lowers cholesterol. However, if you eat one kefir for more than a few days, you will provoke an excess of lactic acid bacteria. At the very least, it is fraught with stool disorder. And you shouldn't rejoice at frequent toilet meetings. If this bell does not sober up a losing weight lady, against the background of a kefir mono-diet, acute dysbiosis may well develop.

Mono diets on dairy products cause excess protein / istockphoto.com

Curd mono-diet

A diet based on cottage cheese acts on the body a little softer than kefir. However, in the course of such nutrition, the gastrointestinal tract is oversaturated with proteins. Everyone knows that animal protein is absorbed by the body 100%, but in the case of a mono-diet, this rule does not work well. You regularly eat only cottage cheese, and the stomach simply does not have time to digest all the protein. In a semi-digested state, it enters the intestines and kidneys, begins to ferment and rot. At best, you will suffer from bloating. At worst, expect the development of all sorts of inflammation.

Apple Mono Diet

This test is not for the weak, because apples irritate the walls of the stomach and often cause increased appetite. For many, it’s not easy to survive an apple fasting day, let alone a whole week. If you are a woman with endurance and risked switching to such a diet, be prepared for nervous breakdowns, bouts of irritability and inhibited brain activity. An overabundance of carbohydrates with an almost complete absence of proteins and fats will play a cruel joke on you. In addition, apples in large quantities (more than 3-4 apples per day) increase blood sugar levels and are highly undesirable for kidney problems.

Oat mono diet

Oatmeal habitually belongs to us among the most effective weight loss products. However, nutritionists have long debunked this myth, calling instant oatmeal the second most useless after semolina. Therefore, use only whole grains for your diet, but remember that oatmeal contains a lot of phytic acid. This acid inhibits the absorption of calcium and flushes it out of the body. Fanatical "oatmeal" in the future is threatened with osteopenia (a decrease in bone mineral density).

Rice mono diet

Rice mono-diet can provoke bile stasis / istockphoto.com

The Japanese and Chinese have proved that there is never too much rice. Indeed, this product is very useful for the body and cleanses it well of toxins, toxins and other "delights" of malnutrition. Therefore, rice fasting days are considered one of the most effective and safe, which cannot be said about the rice mono-diet. If you limit your diet to one only rice more than 5-7 days, you can provoke stagnation of bile in the gallbladder. In this way, of course, you will not "hit" stones for yourself, but if you already have them, then from such an experiment may well set in motion. In addition, bile stasis can cause inflammation, which often develops into chronic cholecystitis.

 Buckwheat mono-diet

This diet, like the rice diet, is based on the use of cereals. It will also cleanse your body of toxins and other waste products well. But at the same time, it will "cleanse" it from protein, iron and other amino acids that we get from animal food. Indeed, in the event of a deficiency of such substances, the body begins to consume its own tissues. In addition, on a buckwheat mono-diet, the cereal should be eaten not boiled, but steamed. Regular consumption of half-baked buckwheat will not lead to anything good: the aggressive effect of such "porridge" on the stomach can cause gastritis and other inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract.

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