Low-carbohydrate diets are in vogue again, even though the harm to the body of their long-proven. Especially popular among athletes such diets as really help to lose weight quickly. And what will be tomorrow - is it someone cares in his youth, when the most important thing - a record.

The food - a source of energy

It is known that the source of the energy needed by the body for life, is food. Today, it is well established that, with proper, balanced diet when the body is getting enough of all the necessary materials for energy uses carbohydrates. This is the most affordable and safer fuel. If "the furnace" are proteins or fats, that in their combustion byproducts are obtained which have a deleterious effect on the body.

Proponents of low-carb diets believe that if a person is not getting enough carbohydrates to fuel the body begins to use fat reserves. It really is. But as a result of intensive disintegration of fat in the blood accumulates large amounts of ketones (byproducts of fat breakdown).

The consequence of this is a metabolic acidosis (ketosis), and poisoning acetone (acetone dissolves fat cell elements). This dramatically impaired delivery of glucose (glucose - a universal fuel that is eventually obtained from any product) to tissue cells, which leads to disruption of the internal organs. First of all affected the central nervous system - the person becomes dull, lethargic, sleepy. In severe cases, the condition may go into a coma. There are violations of breath, suffering kidney function.

Proponents of low-carb diets believe that carbohydrates contribute to the increased production of insulin, necessary for mastering their body tissues, which in turn causes the depletion of the pancreas and diabetes Diabetes   (ie, a sharp drop in insulin production and accumulation of large amounts of glucose in the blood, which is very dangerous for the body). In addition, when a large amount of excess carbohydrates are transformed into fat stores.

One of the main arguments of advocates of low-carbohydrate diets is that with such a diet is not strained pancreas, as in the blood enters the constant small amount of glucose. But the same thing happens in the use of complex carbohydrates, which are part of vegetables and cereals. Finally, the last argument - ketone bodies helps to suppress appetite. Still, it's toxic products, arsenic is also suppress appetite, but for some reason no one uses to lose weight.

The good news is that the low-carb diets today are not as extreme as their predecessors, which were all the rage a few years ago, and allow you to use a certain amount of carbohydrates with a low glycemic index (GI - a measure that shows how rapidly increases blood sugar after taking of a product).

So what is it - the low-carb diet?

Low-carb diet - a protein diet, which limited both fats and carbohydrates. It is a slow diet, because even if the body does not receive carbs, it takes them out of the reserves in the liver and muscles, and only then, when these stocks run out, the transition to the use of fat stores. Therefore, to obtain effect on the low-carb diet to sit long enough.

Basically, a person should eat protein food. This lean meats and fish, seafood, dairy products, eggs. Because plant foods are also recommended protein rich foods: mushrooms, nuts, seeds, beans, soy.

For protein foods is necessary (it is emphasized in the diet) added products, which contain complex carbohydrates with a low glycemic index. For example, herbs (dill, parsley, celery Celery: vegetable with obvious advantages , Mint, green onions), garlic, peppers, radishes, cucumbers, tomatoes, cabbage, all varieties, eggplant, beets, pumpkin Pumpkin for health: a royal vegetable in home pharmacy .

By following a low-carb diet, you should drink plenty of fluids (toxic breakdown products of fat and protein you want to display). Recommended drink water (including mineral without gas), tea, coffee without sugar.

What is the menu at the low-carb diet

The daily food intake at low-carb diet should be four to five times a day, calorie daily diet - 1,500 calories:

• First breakfast: 3 boiled eggs, half green (unsweetened) apple (protein - 20 g, fat - 15 grams of carbohydrates - 15 g in total of 350 kcal);
• lunch: 150 g low fat cottage cheese (protein (20 g);
• Lunch: salad of cucumber (add 20 ml of vegetable oil), 300 grams of lean beef (50 grams of protein, fat - 20 grams, 15 grams carbohydrates, only 415 calories);
• Lunch: salad of cooked beets with a tablespoon of vegetable oil, 300 g boiled fish (50 grams of protein, fat - 20 grams, 15 grams carbohydrates, only 415 calories);
• Dinner: 250 g of fatty cream, 200 g of fish (protein 70 g, fat - 30 g carbohydrates, 15 g total 320 kcal).

In order not to ruin their health for the rest of life, this diet is best to comply with under the supervision of a doctor and the laboratory control of the number of blood ketone bodies.

Galina Romanenko

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