Buckwheat diet: advantages and disadvantages
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Reviews of the buckwheat diet are full of thanks for getting rid of excess weight. And the resentment that here, they say, so much had to endure monotonous buckwheat menu. But what can not you do to lose weight! Let's look at the advantages and disadvantages of the buckwheat diet in order to better understand what awaits us with this food system.
Undeniable advantages of buckwheat diet
- With buckwheat diet, due to the good saturation of the buckwheat grains, the slimming person does not have such sensations as weakness, dizziness, fatigue of the organism.
- Buckwheat - an excellent adsorbent and helps to remove toxins from the body
- The main goal - weight loss - with buckwheat diet is achieved necessarily. On average, for 14 days on buckwheat a person can lose more than 7-10 kg of weight.
- Buckwheat can not be limited in quantities. Another question is that you do not eat much, especially without salt and sugar.
- Many people write in their reviews that after the buckwheat diet they improve the appearance of the skin, nails and hair. Girls even say that cellulite deposits after feeding on buckwheat are significantly smoothed.
- After you have sat at least a week on buckwheat and then switched to normal food, the weight is still kept well for a long time. You do not get better.
Contraindications to buckwheat diet
Contraindications to the buckwheat diet also apply to its minuses. Although dieting without contraindications does not happen. So, contra-indications to buckwheat monoratsionu with the purpose of growing thin are:
- duodenal ulcer
- gastric ulcer
- diabetes
- arterial hypertension
- pregnancy (especially with complications)
- lactation
True, the last 2 points can be attributed to the conditional, because during pregnancy and breast-feeding on buckwheat you can sit for 2 weeks (full buckwheat mono-diet), and 1-2 days - for unloading the body. Preliminary consultation with his attending physician, of course. Enjoy your weight loss!
Buckwheat Mono Chips
- Restrictions in the diet: to sit on one buckwheat for weight loss is boring and tasteless. To do this, came up with lightweight buckwheat diets, when buckwheat combine with other products: kefir, vegetables, herbs.
- After you practiced buckwheat diet, you can return to it not earlier than a month, so as not to overwork the body with a monotonous diet. No weight loss is worth such a sacrifice.