We appreciate the tangerines for their unique taste and atmosphere, which they create solely by the presence on the table. Mandarins are always a holiday, no matter at what time of year you eat them. The aroma of these citrus fruits can cure depression, and this is not an invention, but a brilliant combination of essential oils in the flesh of their fruits.
Recently, more and more people began to think about whether the mandarins promote weight loss. Of course, we would like all delicious and favorite foods to become fat burners , but perhaps with mandarins it is not a dream, but a reality.
Benefits of tangerines for weight loss
Let's take a look at things with a sober glance - the products, which you will immediately begin to lose weight, in nature there. But there are products with a negative caloric content, the digestion of which requires more calories than the entire energy value of the product. These products include mandarin, because its caloric content is only 38-45 kcal per 100 g (more or less depends on the sweetness of the selected variety), and since this citrus contains a large amount of fiber, the organism spends a lot of energy on digesting it. But if it was the only plus of using mandarins in a diet, we would not even talk about them.
Everyone knows that citrus fruits are especially important sources of vitamins all year round, just because useful substances can be stored for a long time under the strong peel of tangerines and oranges.
And vitamins are necessary to us not only in winter time, but also during the current of a diet, after all any diet excludes something and something deprives. Mandarins contribute to weight loss and make up the balance of nutrients. They contain:
- vitamin A - improves the condition of the skin, hair, eyes;
- vitamin C - increases immunity;
- vitamin B1 - relieves depression and normalizes the work of the nervous system;
- vitamin D - will fill the lack of sunlight in winter;
- vitamin K - will strengthen the vessels.
Also in tangerines there is citric acid, which becomes a natural preservative of citrus fruits and, most importantly, does not allow them to accumulate nitrates.
The diet on mandarins can be considered a diuretic and decongestant, since citrus fruits contain a large amount of juice and, after eating only 200-300 g, you essentially "wash" the body. For this account, the tangerine menu can completely relieve swelling, reduce the appearance of cellulite, and mandarin oil will help to avoid stretch marks after losing weight.
If there is an intestinal disorder (which often happens during a diet on unusual products), it is enough to drink a glass of mandarin juice - it has an astringent property and helps with diarrhea.
With flatulence and nausea, you should chew on a clean mandarin skin, and the very consumption of these citrus fruits will hold within you the prevention of helminthiosis.
Diet on mandarins
There are many options for a low-calorie mandarin diet, everyone is free to choose his own.
So, the most severe is a day of unloading on tangerines and clean water - it's impossible to torture yourself with such a menu for more than one day. Another version of the unloading, which can be taken with a grief in half about three days is the daily consumption of a kilogram of mandarins and 6 proteins from chicken eggs.
As for this diet, there are options for 7, 10 and 14 days.
The approximate menu of one day of the tangerine diet:
- breakfast - a glass of freshly squeezed mandarin juice, muesli or oatmeal with 1 tbsp. raisins, a pair of nuts, 4 tbsp. yoghurt;
- lunch - vegetable soup with rye crumbs, 5 tangerines;
- dinner - 300 g of boiled chicken breast, 2 tomatoes, 2-3 mandarins.
In general, everything can be much easier - replace the harmfulness of your diet with tangerines, then the transition to a healthy diet will be painless, and the pounds, though gradually, but will go away for a long time.