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Carrot diet

Characteristic of a diet	Final assessment
Prodolzhitelnost:3, 10 days	3,5 of 5 Diet at the heart of which one of the most useful vegetables, has a set of pluses. But the low caloric content and imbalance does it undesirable to long observance – the maximum term of 10 days.
Recommended частота:раз in 3 months
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The carrot diet allows not only to lose weight, but to clear intestines and to fill up reserves of useful substances in an organism.

Carrots, key product of a diet, are vitamin-rich (provitamin A, almost all vitamins of group B, vitamins C, K, E, PP), micro and macrocells (iron, iodine, phosphorus, cobalt, chrome, zinc, nickel, potassium, magnesium, copper, fluorine). Regular consumption of carrots well influences work of bodies of a GIT, cardiovascular system, kidneys and a liver, organs of sight, improves a condition of skin. The carrot diet promotes removal of slags and toxins from an organism, activates a metabolism and increases immunity.

As carrots contain a lot of iodine, it is recommended at the lowered function of a thyroid gland.

There are several options of the Carrot diet, but are most popular three-day and ten-day.

Main course of the Carrot diet – carrots salad which recipe differs in three-day and ten-day version of the menu a little.

Salad for the Carrot diet for 3 days is cooked as follows: two large carrots rub on an average grater. Add one previously crushed fruit, juice of a lemon, 1 h l. honey also fill with a teaspoon of olive oil. The received volume is divided into 4 identical portions which are eaten during the day. At desire the amount of carrots in salad can be increased.

Salad for ten-day option of the Carrot diet prepares even more simply: to add to polished carrots crushed a kiwi or apple, to fill with sour cream and to mix.

Rules of the Carrot diet:

In days there have to be not less than 4 meals;
During the day it is necessary to drink 2 l of liquid (water, carrot juice, dogrose broth, green tea joins here);
Carrots need to be chewed carefully. It not only will quicker create feeling of saturation, but also will help the best digestion of nutrients;
For a diet it is better to use young carrots, and it is necessary to brush it under a water stream, without cutting off an upper layer in which is most of all useful substances.

The carrot diet is quite rigid, the day diet contains few calories. If after its end to pass to usual food at once, the dumped kilograms quickly will return. That to avoid it, it is recommended in the first day after the termination of a carrot diet to adhere to the menu of previous day, having added to it a little fast meat and 1-2 boiled or baked potatoes. After that within several days it is necessary to expand a diet gradually. For preservation of result it is worth refusing confectionery and fat dishes, and also to adhere to fractional food.

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Advantages

In 3 days of the Carrot diet it is possible to dump 2-3 kg, and during a 10-day diet – 5-7 kg.

The use of a large number of carrots promotes saturation of an organism useful substances. There is purgation, improvement of a condition of skin, increase in vitality and overall health. As carrots contain a lot of iodine, it is recommended at the lowered function of a thyroid gland.

Its low cost and simplicity belongs to advantages of the Carrot diet.

Shortcomings and contraindications

The carrot diet is unbalanced and contains too small number of calories therefore it is not recommended to adhere to it longer than 10 days.

The diet is contraindicated at chronic diseases, especially diseases of a liver, stomach, intestines, endocrine frustration.

What products are resolved?

On a 3-day Carrot diet are resolved:

Vegetables: carrots, vegetable marrows, beet, cabbage, eggplants;
Fruit: apples, oranges, pears, kiwi;
Low-fat yogurt or sour cream;
Rye bread – a small piece once a day;
Honey;
Olive oil;
Lemon juice;
Drinks: freshly squeezed carrot juice, green tea, dogrose broth.

Enter a diet of 10-day option of a diet:

Carrots;
Kiwi, apple;
Low-fat kefir or sour cream;
Drinks: freshly squeezed fruit and carrot juice, green tea, mineral water.

What products are prohibited?

All products which did not be a part resolved, including sugar are prohibited. It is desirable to refuse salt, but if it is heavy, then it is admissible to use it in a small amount.

Useful tips

Council 1: At will it is possible to add any greens (fennel, parsley, a celery, etc.) to carrot salad.

Council 2: The beta carotene which is contained in carrots is 80% better acquired with fats therefore it is not necessary to aim to toughen a diet, refusing seasoning of carrot salad with oil or sour cream.

Council 3: Carrots are useful both in crude, and in a boiled look therefore during the Carrot diet it is possible to cook salad and from boiled carrots, it will bring a variety the menu.

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Breakfast	Carrot salad, green tea.
Lunch	Carrot salad, 200 ml of carrot juice, piece of rye bread.
Afternoon snack	Carrot salad, green tea.
Dinner	Option 1: carrot salad, 150 g of yogurt or 1 tablespoon of sour cream, 200 ml of broth of a dogrose. Option 2: carrot salad, portion of stewed vegetables (beet, cabbage, eggplants, vegetable marrows).

First breakfast	150 ml of kefir.
Second breakfast	200 g of salad from carrots and kiwi, mineral water.
Lunch	200 g of salad from carrots and kiwi, green tea.
Afternoon snack	200 g of salad from carrots and apple, water.
Dinner	Carrot and fruit juice.