Diet on bananas: results, reviews

For many, bananas are a favorite and useful treat, and in countries where they grow one of the staple foods. Such popularity is due to their composition - a real storehouse of vitamins, micro- and macroelements, proteins, amino acids, fats. Thanks to fructose, glucose, sucrose - an energy source of human nutrition, they have a positive effect on brain function, and pectins and fiber improve the activity of the liver, kidneys, gastrointestinal tract, cardiovascular system. But does not this all come into conflict with the very concept of a "banana diet" for losing weight? In many other diets, there is a ban on this fruit. The fact is that bananas are divided into dessert varieties and platano - green unsweetened fruits that require heat treatment. They mainly go to feed cattle. Just banana diet provides for the use of the latter, but in the absence of those are taken ordinary, sold from us, immature bananas with green peel.

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Indications

Indications for the appointment is to get rid of excess weight, preventive discharge of the body. Banana diet for weight loss can be ineffective for people with obesity of severe severity.

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General information of the banana diet

The essence of the diet is based on the action of starch, which is contained in fruits and not assimilated by the human body. Such a starch is called resistant or resistant. It is not absorbed in the small intestine, but is fermented by bacteria in the large intestine, forming short chains of fatty acids and directly absorbed by the capillaries by the intestines into the blood. This gives about 90% of nutrition to the cells of the body. Bananas also, in partnership with other ingredients, remove unnecessary substances, cleanse the intestines, carrying unwanted accumulations.

The banana-milk diet  lasts 3 days and consists of feeding low-fat bananas and milk. To do this, you need 3 bananas and 3 glasses of milk. In the morning and at lunch it is best to eat the whole banana, drink a glass of drink. The third banana is divided in half and eaten for lunch and dinner, if the restraint allows. You can make a cocktail of these two ingredients, as well as drink green tea without sugar and simple or non-carbonated mineral water. If the milk is replaced with kefir, you will get a banana-kefir diet for those who prefer fermented milk products.

Any mono-diet does not give nutrients necessary for the body, can not satisfy the physiological needs of a person, therefore it is fraught with various negative consequences for health. In the case of a curd-banana cottage cheese, rich in calcium, potassium, phosphorus, sodium, magnesium, iron, vitamin C, A, B1, B2, will make up for missing nutritional elements. Cottage cheese and banana diet is  well tolerated, also tasty and effective. It is designed for 4 days, but you can return to it again in 2 weeks. Each of the components is used either individually or together. For breakfast 1 banana is eaten out of 5, at lunch 2, the rest at will in between. The quantity of cottage cheese, water, tea is not limited. Bananas for this diet are advised to select yet mature with a thin yellow skin.

The Japanese banana morning diet is  positioned as the easiest, allowing to get rid of 5kg per week. Her authorship belongs to the Japanese physician Hiroshi Watanabe, who repeatedly tries to lose weight on other diets. Together with his wife, he had to develop his theory, based on the acceleration of metabolic processes with the help of banana and water and set out in the book. Judging by the fact that it has spread all over the world and is successfully applied, such a tandem works. Watanabe argues that you can lose weight, replacing only the usual morning meal for bananas and washing them with warm water. Other conditions of the diet include a ban to go to bed after 12 o'clock at night, overeat, eat dairy products and alcoholic beverages. Banana diet Hiroshi Watanabe provides for breakfast an unripe banana with water, lunch and dinner can be any, at its discretion, but the last meal - no later than 20 hours, may be uninvited snacks with fruit.

Apple-banana diet. There is another version of the banana diet with the connection of an additional ingredient - apples. It looks like this: 1st day - apples (6 pieces), bananas (9 pieces), milk (2l); 2nd day - 3 pieces, 9 pieces. And 2n, respectively; 3rd and 4th day - 1, 9 pieces, 2l; 5th and 6th day - 6 bananas and 2l of milk, 7th and last - 3 bananas and a liter of milk. During the day, you can drink water unlimitedly, including non-carbonated mineral, unsweetened tea.

Diet on banana peel. It turns out that the banana is a non-waste product. In the peel, as in the fruit, a lot of microelements, vitamins, antioxidants, and besides its caloric content is lower than its main part. These dermatological advantages led dieticians to think of using it in diets. In what form should I use? It's no secret that the skin before the transportation is processed by various chemical means to preserve the presentation, so simply eating it in raw form is dangerous. But when soaked for half an hour in cold water and thoroughly washed under running water, it is usable, although it is hardly appetizing in this form. A more acceptable option is to boil in water as a compote. You can use a blender to make smoothies from a raw banana, adding skim yogurt or kefir.

What can you eat while on this diet? Bananas, both peeled and peeled, smoothies from them, can be added with fresh berries, but without sugar, drink compote from the peel, simple or non-carbonated mineral water. What you can not eat? If this is an express diet, designed for 3-4 days, then in order to get the result, include in the diet products not provided for the menu should not be. With a longer diet, other low-calorie foods are added in small amounts.

Banana diet for 3 days

Allows you to lose the same kilogram. Meal at this time consists of three to four fruits, unlimited water, green tea. All this "abundance" of food is divided into 3 receptions. It is not necessary to sit down on a diet, but gradually, somewhere in a week, begin to reduce the calorie content of your regular food, reduce portions. To leave the diet also need to be cautious, slowly including the menu of familiar dishes.

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Banana diet for 7 days

Promises loss of one kilogram per day, and for a week seven. The main thing in it is to eat 1.5 kg each day, to drink green tea and plain water. Bananas are nourishing on their own, but if there is a strong hunger, then a small piece of boiled meat and a spoonful of porridge in water without oil are allowed once a day.

Banana diet for a month

Despite the usefulness of this fruit, it is not easy to sustain a whole month of a banana diet, and it is harmful to health. Therefore, they are most often used as express diets. The best option for a monthly diet is to combine bananas with other low-calorie and low-fat foods. The banana diet menu can be as follows: 5 bananas, eaten during the day, oatmeal unsweetened porridge on a water basis as a breakfast, lunch with a small piece of boiled dietary meat and vegetables. At night a glass of yogurt. Within a month, you can change cereals and vegetables (except rice and potatoes), salt is limited, sugar is removed.

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Benefits

Banana diet due to the caloric content of the main ingredient drowns out hunger and leads to weight loss. In addition, it improves intestinal motility, restores its microflora, accelerates metabolic processes, is a good preventive means of arthritis, heart and vascular disease, colon cancer, lowers the cholesterol of low density in the blood. And bananas contain proteinogenic amino acid tryptophan, which turns into an organism in serotonin - a hormone of happiness. Read also what other ways you can increase serotonin levels in this article.

Contraindications

Banana diet is contraindicated in diabetes mellitus, individual intolerance to the product, exacerbations of chronic gastrointestinal diseases, biliary tract, liver, kidney.

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Complications

Risks associated with diet, directly depend on its contraindications. Banana diet, like any mono-diet, limits the intake of the necessary ingredients for its functioning: vitamins and valuable minerals. Possible complications are associated with its imbalance. Only a short period of its application will make it possible to minimize risks.

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Reviews and results

Reviews and results of a banana diet are different. The lovers of this fruit and sweet tooth liked it. It was noted that weight loss is not too impressionable, but still minus 1.5-2 kg it gives. If you fix this result, and then repeat it after 2 weeks, you can achieve a good positive dynamics. Others could not stand 3 days and, in their opinion, for the rest of their lives they deleted from the menu this fruit, and at the same time kefir.