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Malakhov's diet: what is the essence?
Last reviewed: 04.07.2025

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The Malakhov diet is not just a short-term weight loss course. It is a system for losing excess weight and improving the body's health over the course of 2-3 years. In other words, the Malakhov diet is a way of life.
The basis of Malakhov's diet
Healthy dishes without smoked foods and culinary sweets and freshly squeezed juices in abundance.
Also, to improve the health of the body, Dr. Malakhov recommends arranging fasting days on fruits and vegetables.
What does the Malakhov diet look like?
Breakfast
Fresh fruits, such as peaches or grapes
Dinner
Vegetables, stewed in water or raw. As an alternative to vegetables - buckwheat porridge, cooked in water or buckwheat grains soaked overnight
They can be washed down with freshly squeezed juice.
Dinner
Salad of fresh vegetables and fruits, or just a vegetable salad, or just a fruit salad. For support - nuts or beans. They will give you strength and energy
Lose weight with Malakhov's diet correctly, easily and comfortably! As soon as your weight returns to normal, your mood and general well-being will definitely return to normal. It is not for nothing that psychologists say that a happy person has a very successful personal life, career and social communication.
Prohibited products of Malakhov's diet
Malakhov's diet is our willpower, aimed at giving up alcoholic beverages, as well as tea, soda, coffee. We will also have to give up (for our own good) meat, chocolate products, sweet flour pastries. Malakhov's diet excludes smoked and fried foods in the diet, as well as sausage, chips and canned food.
Allowed products of Malakhov's diet
- Vegetables
- Porridge
- Fruits
- Juices and combinations of them
Malakhov's diet: what is the body's reaction?
By practicing the Malakhov diet, we initiate rejuvenation processes in the body, improve the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract, normalize the intestinal microflora, and saturate the body with useful enzymes for digestion and assimilation of food.
In addition, by practicing Malakhov's diet, we tune the nervous system to work well and strengthen the immune system.
During the Malakhov diet, we increase our vital energy, improve the functioning of our taste buds and begin to have a completely different attitude towards healthy eating, rejecting harmful products and dishes.