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Buckwheat diet: what is the essence?

Alexey Portnov, medical expert
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024

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Buckwheat diet for weight loss - the most simple, effective and safe diet option. It refers to mono-diets. That is, you need only one product - buckwheat for weight loss. And another desire to reduce weight.

What is the essence of the buckwheat diet?

For several days you do not eat anything except buckwheat, cooked on water or soaked. It is possible without salt.

How to cook buckwheat?

Take 250 grams of buckwheat (or a glass with a slide) and pour over a steep boiling water for the night. You can also soak kefir. Be sure to cover, so that the buckwheat is steamed. In the morning you will see that buckwheat has swelled and is ready to help you in the holy cause of losing weight.

This portion you all at once do not eat. Therefore, dispose of it in a businesslike manner, dividing into 4 parts. Use one part for your own good, and three others hide in the refrigerator.

Buckwheat without salt, sugar and other spices will seem to you a fresh, tasteless and generally rare muck. But this is the price of a good figure and health.

Duration of buckwheat diet

7-8 days

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Result

Weight reduction from 3 to 8 kg in 7 days. Thanks to the useful properties of buckwheat during the buckwheat diet, you take an extra kilo, improves the condition of the skin, hair and nails, and the body is cleaned of toxins. However, because of carbohydrates in the buckwheat groats you lose weight not immediately, but gradually.

What is so useful buckwheat diet?

A buckwheat diet will certainly saturate you with substances useful to the body. Namely:

Zinc
Potassium
Iron
Phosphorus
Cobalt
Iodine
Copper
Bor
Zinc
Folic acid
Vitamins of group B
Vitamins of the PP group
Flavonoid
Rutin

The last two substances, discovered recently by scientists in buckwheat kernels, help a person to fight with such dangerous diseases as cancer. And yet - oddly enough - thanks to buckwheat, the activity of liquids in the body increases. In particular, this is an excellent diuretic, thanks to which during the buckwheat diet from the body goes a lot of excess moisture, which gives weight to the human body.

We wish you to lose weight thanks to the buckwheat mono-diet without a feeling of discomfort. And let the slender figure be your reward in the struggle for your own health!

Buckwheat Mono Chips

You can experience hunger, so you can wash buckwheat with clean water. It is desirable after 20 minutes after eating this porridge, so as not to interfere with the digestion process.
You can suffer from the fact that the product will seem to you insipid and tasteless. Yes, the feeling of discomfort is another disadvantage of the buckwheat diet for weight loss. However, for this case there are buckwheat diets with additives.
You may experience weakness and dizziness, because toxins will leave the body, and this is always accompanied by similar conditions.

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