Unloading day: benefit or harm?
The benefits of unloading days are told a lot. It is believed that regular razgruzochnye days - this is an excellent tool to cleanse the body of toxins and maintain its weight in the norm. Is it so? Do expedition days bring benefits or are they harmful to health?
Unloading day - short-term mono-diet - is a special diet. Within 1 to 2 days, only onespecific product. At the same time, the digestive system and the entire body work in a sparing regime, which contributes to more efficient removal of toxins from the body, unloading of the cardiovascular system and overall improvement of the body.
In some cases, unloading days are definitely useful. In particular, with gout and arthrosis, cucumber unloading days are recommended, with heart diseases associated with circulatory failure, potato, with kidney diseases - watermelon.
Unloading days are often used as a method of express weight loss. However, is there any benefit from the unloading days forweight loss? In fact, 1-2 days of unloading do not give a sustainable disposal of stored fats and at the end of the diet weight is very quickly recruited again. Therefore, as the only means for weight loss, unloading days are absolutely useless, and sometimes even harmful.
Any fasting, any restriction of a food is a stress for an organism. Irregular, spontaneous unloading days contribute only to the fact that the body, experiencing stress, will try to accumulate even more fat reserves - "for a rainy day."
In addition, when choosing for a fasting day totalonly one product, it is difficult to provide the body with all the necessary nutrients, vitamins and minerals. Insufficient reception of these substances leads to a deterioration in health.
Therefore, unloading days without appointment and supervision of a doctor can only be carried out by healthy people. If there are any chronic or acute illnesses, you should always consult with your doctor about the possibility of a discharge day.
How to properly spend unloading days?
In the evening on the eve of a fasting day you can not eat up "for future use". Similarly, the "exit" from the mono-diet is neededgradually, not gorging on "to failure" the next morning. For a fasting day, you should choose foods for which there are no contraindications. Well, if the products are tasty and loved - then transferring the restriction will be much easier.
By the way, to achieve a positive effect, it is not necessary to torture yourself all day long - it's enough to hold out only up to 15 hours, observing however moderation during the evening meal.
During a fasting day, drink plenty of fluids. Drinking should be chosen according to diet or use non-carbonated table mineral water, unsweetened green tea.
Conducting unloading days more than twice a week can adversely affect the health status, so it is best to arrange a fasting day once a week. Food should be divided into 4-5 receptions.
During the fasting day should avoid heavy physical and mental stress - this can lead to a breakdown. It is best to do your favorite hobby on a fasting day, to take a walk in the fresh air.
Unloading days are not a panacea for all diseases and not a magic wand for weight loss: with the help of just one day off, one can hardly achieve tangible results. But regular, properly organized unloading days can be a great addition to a balanced diet and healthy lifestyle.
