It is simple to lose weight in the summer! Diets of northern and southern latitudes

And if you also include consciously in the daily summer menu vegetable marrows, cabbage, carrots dishes, then by the end of a season will precisely get rid of three-six extra kilos.

By the way these vegetables enter the Nordic, or Norwegian diet gaining popularity. The main components of this diet – vegetable marrows and a Brussels sprout – the vegetables rich with cellulose and antioxidants.

So, want to lose weight – eat vegetable marrows, in the stewed, baked, crude look! Besides loss of weight you also revitalize the organism. Vegetable marrows have many useful properties: juice of a vegetable marrow is fine means for calm of nervous system. Besides, vegetable marrows contain many useful minerals, quickly satisfy hunger. Vegetable marrows contain a little sugar, carotene, protein and vitamins C and V. Kabachok of the average size (about 100 gr.) has caloric content only about 27 kcal and therefore perfectly is suitable for low-calorie food. Immature vegetable marrows which have a gentle tasty pulp and nonrigid seeds are suitable for preparation of numerous tasty and useful dishes better. It is better to give preference to vegetable marrows with a dark green thin skin which should not be deleted, otherwise you lose eighty percent of useful substances. Thanks to light comprehensibility and low caloric content the vegetable marrow is one of the most popular vegetables in diets for weight loss. By the way, among admirers of a marrow diet call Catherine Deneuve, Sophia Loren, Alain Delon, Margaret Thatcher.

The second most important component of a Nordic diet is the Brussels sprout. It is considered that this vegetable began to be grown up in Belgium (near Brussels). In bosoms of leaves of this peculiar cabbage roundish kochanchik up to 5 cm in the diameter which number on one plant can reach 50 — 70 pieces are formed. The mass of each kochanchik – up to 20 g, here their that also needs to be eaten.

The Brussels sprout is vitamin-rich C, A, B6, B9, free amino acids (methionine, a lysine, a leucine, tirozin, tryptophane, etc.), sugars, potassium, phosphorus, iron, sodium, magnesium. It is very valuable dietary vegetable – having low caloric content, the Brussels sprout well sates therefore quite long time of people does not feel hungry.

For example, the broth cooked from kochanchik of a Brussels sprout on the nutritional value does not concede meat, but is much better acquired by an organism.
Its positive influence on work of a cardiac muscle and pancreas is proved. And also it is known that consumption of a fresh Brussels sprout promotes regeneration of various body tissues.

There are data that the regular use of a Brussels sprout reduces the probability of developing of cancer.

Generally, any grade of cabbage will be suitable for dietary food: Bruxelles, white, color, etc. All species of cabbage have the low caloric content and mass of useful properties. For example, a traditional white cabbage – an essential source of vitamin C. 100 of its grams and contain in the summer about 30 mg of this vitamin in the fall. There are in this cabbage and group B vitamins, and from mineral substances it contains potassium, calcium, phosphorus. It contains a lot of cellulose, raises office of gastric juice. Excellent tastes, a set of biologically active agents, including vitamin U, allow to consider cabbage not only useful, but also curative.

But we will return to a Nordic diet! Except vegetable marrows and cabbage the Norwegian diet means the increased consumption of fish and the low-fat meat and dairy products made of sheep milk.

Low-fat dairy products and dietary meat allow to provide an organism with the necessary amount of proteins, and fish delivers so polynonsaturated fatty acids necessary for us an omega-3.

The range of positive impacts an omega-3 of fatty acids on an organism is quite wide – from anti-inflammatory action before normalization of work of a cardiovascular system and rejuvenation.

Enter a northern diet and such northern berries as blueberry, cowberry and cloudberries. On the content of biologically active agents and mineral salts these berries some of the most useful wild-growing berries. They can protect from the main illnesses of the present – cardiovascular diseases and malignant tumors. Their bioflavonoids, triterpenovy acids, phytoncides and other active components promote decrease in permeability of vessels, improve supply of a brain and peripheral fabrics with oxygen and glucose, reduce cholesterol.

Are a part of berries: potassium, sodium, calcium, phosphorus, iron, manganese, molybdenum, copper and set of other minerals.

Berries possess the antioxidant, vegetostabiliziruyushchy, all-strengthening action.

Northern berries – good vitaminonositel. They contain A, S, K, P, RR, V1, V2, B5, B6 vitamins, etc. Thanks to the natural origin these vitamins have much higher activity in comparison with their synthetic forms.

Thanks to pectins, in the large number which is contained in berries, berries bring slags out of an organism. They regulate lipidic exchange, interfere with education and accumulation of fat, increase combustion of the fat which is saved up in an organism. Antioxidants of berries help to protect an organism from destructive action of the free radicals and chronic diseases connected with aging process. They increase organism resilience. Participate in exchange processes of cells of skin, protect intracellular structures from the damaging action of free radicals, increase life expectancy of cages of an organism.

And if the northern Nordic diet seems to you too poor, then and popular southern Mediterranean nobody denied advantage!

For the Mediterranean diet norm on the person the kilogram of vegetables a day is considered. Characteristic of the southern diet – use as a basis of the same products: tomatoes, paprika, zucchini and eggplants, olive oil and olives, fish and paste, garlic, onions.

Nutritionists claim that olives (both green, and black) are vitamin-rich And, With, E and contain very useful vegetable fats, sugar, proteins and pectins. Do not forget to add garlic and greens to dishes: marjoram, tarragon, basil, celery, parsley, fennel, cilantro, etc.

Fruit and berries are obligatory in a diet of southern latitudes: peaches, apricots, grapes. If you are afraid that consumption of such sweet fruit as a peach, will have an adverse effect on a figure – do not worry. The doggie contains few calories (okolo35 calories) and a lot of cellulose. If you want to have beautiful velvet skin and to keep effect for a long time, then the regular use of peaches will help you to achieve this result as a peach improve skin food, hold moisture in its cages, protecting skin from wrinkles. Besides, aroma of a peach – fine antidepressant, it brings out of a condition of indifference and apathy, stimulates mental capacities, improves memory and concentration of attention. Many useful properties have also other southern fruit.

Integral part of the Mediterranean menu is dry grape wine. Really, grape wines contain huge amount of vitamins and minerals, fruit sugars and tannins. These natural connections have such biological activity that allow to do without any artificial nutritional supplements.

The summer passes quickly, do not miss chance to lose weight and get healthier without excessive efforts!