Banana diet
Diets based on fruits are psychologically better than others. Few will refuse to lose a few pounds of excess weight, feasting on bananas every day. Despite the rather high calorie content of this exotic fruit, the banana diet allows you to reduce weight, as well as improve the functioning of the intestines and stomach, and get rid of edema. Bananas are useful for high blood pressure, circulatory problems, kidney and liver diseases, diabetes.
The two most popular options for the banana diet are:
- banana milk diet - assumes a loss of 5 kg in three days. Products for the day are divided into six meals, the last of which is no later than 18.00;
- classic banana diet - allows you to get rid of 7 kg of excess weight in seven days.
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Benefits of the banana diet
Banana is a nutritious fruit, so a banana-based diet can help you avoid hunger.
Bananas contain a large amount of fiber, B vitamins, potassium, magnesium, iron, phosphorus and iodine, thanks to which during the diet, you can improve the functioning of the intestines, improve the condition of the skin, hair and nails.
Disadvantages and contraindications of the banana diet
Although bananas are full of nutrients, they are not able to meet all of the body's needs for vitamins and minerals. And if the three-day diet does not harm health, then the seven-day option may be worse tolerated.
There is a risk of losing weight returning after switching to a normal diet.
A monotonous menu increases the likelihood of breakdown.
What foods are allowed?
On a three-day banana milk diet, eat five bananas and drink three glasses of low-fat milk (up to 2.5%) every day. These products can be consumed both individually and as a cocktail. It is allowed to replace milk with 1% kefir.
The daily diet of the 7-day diet consists of 1.5 kg of peeled bananas and green tea. On the sixth and seventh days, you can eat one egg at a time, but only when an irresistible feeling of hunger appears.
Non-carbonated water, pure and mineral, is also allowed.
What foods are prohibited?
All products not included in the approved list are prohibited.
Banana diet menu
The daily menu for a three-day banana-milk diet will be as follows:
Useful Tips
Advice 1. So that the weight does not return after the diet, the transition to the usual diet should be gradual: introduce one or two new products with a break of a couple of days.
Advice 2. Only ripe bananas are suitable for a diet.
3 out of 5
Fruit mono diets are attractive due to their simplicity and taste of the main product. Bananas contain many nutrients that our body needs, so the diet is not burdensome and good for your health. But you should not stick to it for a long time, besides, there is a high risk that the weight will subsequently return.
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