In every young mother’s life such moment comes, when she stops nursing her baby and thinks about choice of such variant of nutrition, which would help to gain previous figure quickly and without damage for health

In every young mother’s life such moment comes, when she stops nursing her baby and thinks about choice of such variant of nutrition, which would help to gain previous figure quickly and without damage for health.
 
But in fact, it often happens that a woman gets lost in labyrinths of information on diets. It seems that now you can try everything that is tempting on you, or combine several methods. But should you be in a hurry? Let’s see what famous diets offer us and decide what is most optimal.
So, what do they usually tell us? You need to grow thin, but without threat for your health.. Everything is simple: you need to eat correctly and live active way of life. It’s quite time to decode this banal truth!
WAY OF HEALTHY NUTRITION
Stages of a great path, various ideas and variants of healthy nutrition came through, are really thorny and polysemantic.
Since most ancient times, studying processes of digestion, doctors strived to determine optimal combination of products, which would provide health to a man and would not bring harm, anyway. But they were lucky on this path not always.
1. Right up to XVIII century there was antique theory of nutrition. According to this theory, there were no any restrictions in schedule of nutrition.
2. In the beginning of XX century theory of ideal nutrition gained special popularity. Adding this theory to armoury, people began eating purified products to the maximum:
 
- refined oils,
- sugar,
- cereals,
- macaroni,
- broths,
- juices.
It remained only to provide human organism with fats, proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins and mineral substances in necessary proportions. A future dinner was imagined by scientists like a dose of several pills of “ideal food” and certain quantity of water. Such “wholesome” nutrition led to spread of adiposity, atherosclerosis, diabetes, and then main - cancerous growths. “Excess food” turned to contain necessary substances for organism, having anti-sclerotic and antitumoral effects. So, theory of adequate nutrition, offered by a Russian academician Ugolev A.M. in the eighties, was accepted positively in the world. Its essence was in the fact that food should contain also ballast substances.
THEORY OF SEPARATE NUTRITION
This theory was worked out by an American dietitian Herbert Shelton. The advantage of this method is in the fact that it is not connected with observation of strict schedule of nutrition.
However, according to Shelton, you cannot mix products, which require different chemical environments for their digestion, during one meal. For assimilation of some products, for example, rich in protein (meat, fish, milk, cheese, fruits), acid condition is necessary; carbohydrates (cereals and farinaceous foods, vegetables, rich in carbohydrates, sweets) - alcaline condition, for others (mushrooms, nuts, lettuce, vegetable and animal oils, tomatoes, pepper) - neutral.
If processes pass simultaneously, they interfere each other: incomplete digestion, forming of toxic substances and as a result - load on liver are possible. Shelton sees way out in separate meals of “incompatible” products. In other words, you cannot mix proteins with carbohydrates.
For example, you cannot eat macaroni with meat. Macaroni - is a starchy food, meat - proteinic. Such food, according to the theory, is incompatible.

Neutral food includes mainly vegetables. They are called neutral, as they could be eaten both with starchy and proteinic food. For example, you can eat macaroni with cauliflower, leaving meat for later.

Turning over pages of a culinary book on a classical variant of this theory, you can see it is almost impossible to cook more than half of recipes. The reason is that many dishes should be cooked of plants and herbs that grow anywhere, but not near you!
What do I think of this theory? I think, it is possible to observe its elements. But you need to be very careful. Sometimes you just don’t want to eat some products mixed together. You want to eat an apple separately, eat a anywhere separately.
VEGETARIANISM

There is no unity among vegetarians:

- strict vegetarians eat only vegetable food,
- lacto-vegetarians eat also dairy produce,
- ovolacto-vegetarians add eggs to their ration.
There’re variations, when vegetarians become fruitarians and eat only raw fruits, and “partial” vegetarianism includes fish and chicken in ration.
Of course, vitamin diet, rich in fruits and vegetables, with low content of fats, is wholesome for cardio-vascular system and prevents risk of appearance of many diseases.
What should you fear of?

- For vegetarians there is a danger of lack of an important vitamin B12, which is contained in products of animal origin in nature. Its lack can lead to appearance of anemia.

- Another danger - lack of vitamin D (especially in Northern regions), forming while sunshine and containing in milk.
What shall you do?

- First of all, vegetarian diet should be balanced the way it would fill up proteins and starches, which do not come to organism with meat, fish, egg and dairy produce, owing to products of vegetable origin.

- To prevent lack of necessary substances for organism, you need to take multi-vitamin additions.
NUTRITION ACCORDING TO BLOOD GROUPS
An American doctor Peter d’Adamo offered method of nutrition according to blood group. Essence of his theory is following:

1. Interaction of blood with food, coming to organism, is directly connected with genetic peculiarities of a person.
2. To normalize work of immune and digestion systems, a man should eat products, which correspond to his blood group, in other words, those, which his ancestors ate in ancient times.
3. Exclusion of substances, incompatible with blood, off your ration reduces content of slags in organism, improves work of internals and contributes to weight loss.

4. Consumption of “alien” products leads to agglutination of proteins with blood cells, increase of slags in organism.
Diets, according to blood groups:
 
Blood group I (0)
People with blood group I (0) and called “hunters” should eat animal proteins and refuse from bread, macaroni and dairy produce.
Blood group I (0) - is the oldest and most popular. People with this blood group- are consumers of meat, with strong alimentary canal, super-active immune system, bad adaptation to new diets. Alimentary canal of “hunters” has not adjusted itself to dairy produce and cereals yet.
Especially wholesome products: mutton, beef, salmon, cod, pike, olive, linseed-oil, walnuts, pumpkin seeds, beet, fig.
Products, consumption of which should be restricted: dairy produce, pork, cheeses, cotton cheese, macaroni, oranges, wild strawberry, mandarins, melon, avocado, corn and peanut oil, potato, olives.
Products, contributing to weight gain: wheat, corn, haricot, beans, cabbage, cauliflower.
Products, contributing to weight loss: red meat, liver, sea food.

Blood group II (A)
Representatives of this blood group - “farmers” - should stick to vegetarianism.
Appearance of blood group II (A) is connected with people’s switch to agriculture. Owners of II blood group - are vegetarians with sensitive alimentary canal. They need ecologically clean natural food.
People with blood group II should exclude from their ration: meat (if in organism of “hunters” meat is burned like gasoline, then in organism of “farmers” it is turned into fat), they also assimilate dairy produce badly.

However, “farmers” can eat various natural products with low content of fat, vegetables and cereals.
Especially wholesome products: sea food in moderate quantities, soy, haricot, beans, buckwheat, rice, artichoke, girasol, vegetable oils, soy food, vegetables and pine-apples.
Products, which consumption should be restricted: white bread, potato, apricots, cranberry, ketchup, mayonnaise. They should exclude meat and meat food absolutely.
Products, contributing to weight gain: meat, dairy produce, haricot, wheat.
Products, contributing to weight loss: vegetable oils, soy food, vegetables, pine-apples.

Blood group III (B)
People with this blood group, or “nomads”, cannot eat soy, chicken meat, sunflower-seed oil, tomatoes and pomegranates; all dairy products, fish, mutton, hare and linseed-oil are wholesome for them.

Blood group III (B) appeared, when human tribes began migrating to the North, to the territories with severe climate. Owners of blood group II have strong immune system and wider choice of food. They are main consumers of milk. To keep figure and good mood, they need to combine physical and mental activity equally.
Especially wholesome products: mutton, hare, mackerel, cod, flounder, goat’s milk cheese, olive oil, oatmeal, rice, parsley, white cabbage, pine-apples, plums.
Products, which consumption should be restricted: goose-flesh, chicken, beef, pork, heart, shrimps, anchovy, lobster, sunflower-seed, peanut and corn oil, buckwheat, rye-bread, tomatoes, pomegranates, persimmon.
Products, contributing to weight gain: corn, lentil, peanut, buckwheat, sesame seeds.
Products, contributing to weight loss: red meat, liver, dairy produce with low fat content, green vegetables, eggs.

Blood group IV (AB)
Base of nutrition for owners of IV blood group (AB), called “new people”, should consist of sour milk non-fat products, mutton, venison, vegetables and fruits.
Blood group IV (AB) appeared less than thousand years ago as a result of mixture of other groups. People with this blood group react to changes of environment and nutrition quickly. They have sensitive alimentary canal and too tolerant immune system. The best way to stay fit - is to combine intellectual work and light physical activity.

Mixed heredity influences overweight. Owners of blood group IV should restrict consumption of meat, or combine it with vegetables, to lose weight. Heredity of B-ancestors - is a negative insulin reaction to haricot, corn, buckwheat and sesame. But due to A-ancestors their organism accepts lentil and peanut well. Unlike those and that AB-people react to wheat well.
Especially wholesome products: mutton, turkey, cod, mackerel, sour milk produce, corn oil, oatmeal, white bread, colewort, cranberry, pine-apples.
 
Products, which consumption should be restricted: beef, bacon, duck’s flesh, flounder, crab, salmon, whole milk, olive oil, pumpkin seeds, beans, buckwheat, radish, avocado, bananas, pomegranates.
Products, contributing to weight gain: red meat, haricot, corn, buckwheat, wheat.
Products, contributing to weight loss: sea food (except canned, dried and smoked), soy, dairy produce, green vegetables, pine-apples.
Here products, peculiar to each blood group, are described. However, while choosing food and diet according to blood group you need to consider your individuality, origin and blood group of your ancestors.
How did this method prove itself?
- Doctors still have not come to agreement as for efficiency of nutrition according to blood group, although majority of them agree with this theory.

- This method of weight loss is efficient only for healthy people, not suffering from any chronic diseases.

- Method is tested by many women and while wise observation it often brings good results.
FASTING DIETS
If above mentioned methods - is somehow a way of life, then fasting diets can be considered a “lighter form” of nutrition. They are quite various and wholesome for purifying of organism. Regardless of your weight, it is recommended to practice them 1-2 times per week. Doctor will help you to choose an appropriate diet.

Fasting day - is a peculiar shaking of organism, which loses about 500-800 g of mass during a day.

You can alternate fasting diets. Vegetable days are usually beared easily, as rather big volume of food creates a feeling of satiety and slows down food center refectory. Albuminous food is also beared well, it quickens assimilation of carbohydrates and fats.
So, do you prefer dairy produce, vegetables or meat? Then choose a fasting diet to your taste and mood!
Kefir
 
Drink 1-1,5 liters of fresh one-day kefir without sugar in 5 doses with equal intervals of time. Sour milk of al sorts can be combined with sweet fruits and vegetables.

Vegetable
Eat 1,2-1,8 kg of vegetables (except potato) in any culinary processing or raw in the form of salads, vinaigrettes in 6 doses. For example, vinaigrette: grate 100 g of raw and 100 g of boiled beet, 100 g of raw carrot, put 2 table spoons of green peas, 50 g of spring onions, 1-2 cloves of dusty garlic, mix with pickled cucumber cut small, season with vegetable oil (1-2 table spoons) and lemon juice and vinegar.

You can cook salad: chop 400 g of white cabbage, pour with boiling water and leave in it for 203 minutes (to remove bitter taste), pour off water, squeeze cabbage slightly, salt a little, season with sunflower-seed oil or mayonnaise, adding sugar to your taste.
 
Meat diet

I variant

400 g of non-fat meat, boiled without salt, divide in 4 portions, eat each part with vegetable (except potato) garnish 9150-300 g). Moreover, it is desirable to drink a glass of tea without sugar (dog-rose decoction) for breakfast and supper this day.

II variant

200-250 g of non-fat boiled meat, 2 glasses of tea without sugar and 1-2 glasses of some juice. Divide food in 5-6 doses.
Movie stars diet

Breakfast: 2 cups of coffee, 2 slices of bread, 2 soft-boiled eggs, 3 tomatoes.
Dinner: 250 g of meat, fried without fat (in grill), lettuce, apple.
Afternoon snack: coffee, two biscuits.
Supper: like breakfast.
This diet may be used relatively long, as it contains all necessary substances.

Summing up, we will say again, that you should not try diets without consultation with your doctor. After pregnancy, delivery and period of nursing your organism has not rebuilt completely yet, hormonal background is subjected to analysis. Go in for sport, try to move more! First of all, your life should be changed the way your energy consumption would exceed quantity of calories, coming to organism with food. And in this case you will have to reduce your usual menu, but not so severely, as any low-calorie diets advise.