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3 Ways Practical Diet and Healthy

Overweight not only ruin the look, but also makes the body vulnerable to disease because of excess a pile of fat.

strict diets often make a mess even the body's metabolism and cause pain. Three ways that can be used as a reference diet without reducing hobby eat and destroy the body's metabolism.

3 Ways Practical Diet and Healthy


First, Diet Mayo. Diet method initiated by the Mayo Clinic in the United States emphasizes abstinence eat salt or salty foods for 2 weeks. Diet mayo organize daily diet with foods high in protein, low in calories, to no carbohydrates. Mayo diet is cutting salt and carbohydrates. It is intended to reduce the content of carbohydrates and salts in the body. Carbohydrate binding and salt water, so the reduction in the content of the two substances in the body will lose a lot of water so that the weight can be decreased.

Second, Healthy Portion Diet. This program is ideal for determining the nutritional comparison of carbohydrates, proteins, and fats in the diet everyday. Simply divide your plate into four sections: ¼ for carbohydrates; ¼ for vegetable protein, animal, and fats (such as chicken, beef, fish, and others); ¼ for vegetables; and ¼ part again for the fruits. Do not forget, in order to avoid light snack snack, because it can make savings calories swell.

Third, DASH, which stands for Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension. This diet was originally intended for lowering high blood pressure. It turns out that this diet is effective for weight loss significantly. This diet must be tested because in addition to lose weight in the short term, way too easy, nutritionally balanced, does not endanger the safety of people who do it, and be able to minimize the risk of heart disease and diabetes.

The first phase of the DASH diet can lose weight by 2.2 kg. In the next phase, the existing pattern should you keep it balanced. DASH diet in the first phase is to reduce the supply of carbohydrates in the body. It can reset the body's system for carbohydrates. The first phase of the usual two to three months. After that, we can eat carbs again but with a balanced dose. In addition, there are also rules that the DASH diet should be adhered to, namely drink plenty of water, avoid drinking coffee / tea, limiting many calorie consumption, do not eat too much salt, and eat 3 times a day.

DASH Diet

One way that can be done to lower high blood pressure is through dietary changes, in particular by DASH diet (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension).

Generally, doctors recommend the DASH DIET enter into lifestyle, which includes more fruits, vegetables, low fat dairy products, more priority to the consumption of wheat, fish, nuts, and foods rich in magnesium, potassium and calcium.





Even so the number of servings of these foods varies for each patient. Based on the study, patients who did DASH diet can reduce blood pressure within 2 weeks.

Steps taken to implement the DASH Diet

For the first time, start slowly and gradually make changes like taking 1 teaspoon of salt per day. Then after the body can adjust to the existing diet then reduced salt intake again.

The amount of salt consumed is already includes all food consumed, so including the salt from food products, salt of food cooked or added while eating.

Here are some tips to help start the DASH diet, namely:

1. Add a serving of vegetables at lunch and dinner
2. Add one serving of fruit either as food or snacks
3. Use a half serving of butter or margarine, and use the seasoning low or fat-free
4. Limiting consumption of only 6 ounces of meat per day, try to reproduce the vegetables and dried beans
5. As a snack, choose nuts, low or fat-free yogurt, plain popcorn without butter, vegetables such as baby carrots and a piece of fruit
6. Read the food labels carefully to choose the product that is low in salt.