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Diet #2: Essence and dietary regimen
Last reviewed: 04.07.2025
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The diet with the symbolic name diet №2, and it is also called "table №2", is perceived as one of the few 15 popular diets. This diet, especially for people with excess weight, was developed by the famous doctor Mikhail Pevzner. He advises people suffering from chronic or acute gastritis, colitis and enteritis to use this diet.
This is a completely normal diet for a normal lifestyle, with only a few restrictions. To properly follow it, special methods of cooking have been invented. You can eat almost everything.
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Indications
- Chronic gastritis with heart failure, and also if you do not have a sharp exacerbation;
- during the recovery process after an exacerbation of acute gastritis, enteritis, colitis during the recovery period as a transition to a balanced diet;
- chronic enteritis and colitis after and outside of exacerbation without concomitant diseases of the pancreas, liver or gastritis with preserved or increased secretion, bile ducts.
What does diet number 2 include?
Diet No. 2 is an absolutely complete diet that improves the functioning of the digestive tract, the secretory system of the digestive organs, as well as the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract.
What does this diet give?
You will be able to eat fully without feeling acute hunger. You will normalize the secretion of your body. The gastrointestinal tract will function normally in the system of all other organs associated with it.
If you follow the Pevzner diet, you will need to eat 4-5 times a day.
What is diet #2 and how to follow it
A fully balanced diet that allows you to eat well and feel great. Your body's digestive tract secretions will improve significantly.
Your diet can include a wide variety of dishes, with different heat exposure, and the degree of grinding that suits you best, which you will choose yourself.
You can even fry the dishes, although this is generally not done in other diets. You can boil, bake, and also stew your favorite products, the main thing is that there is no hard crust, the crust should be excluded altogether.
Avoid breading anything. Prepare your own pureed foods that contain fiber.
There is a measure to everything
Do not include very hot or cold food in your diet. You cannot eat foods that will linger in your stomach for a long time and take a long time to digest. Eliminate tasty but spicy seasonings of any kind, they will only harm you.
Eat salt with a limit of 15 grams. Drink water up to one and a half liters, no more.
And it doesn't matter how you process the products thermally and how you chop everything (coarsely or finely). Diet #2 will only make sense if you follow all the rules. Lose weight easily!