Useful properties of peas are already known for a huge amount of time. It is used in cooking, in folk medicine and in recipes for weight loss. Just worth mentioning about the high caloric content of the product, so 100 grams account for 300 kcal, so it is not recommended to abuse it.
Peas useful properties and contraindications
Nutritionists recommend adding a small portion of boiled pea to your diet, which will help saturate the body for a long time and do not hurt the figure. Vegetable has a diuretic effect, which allows you to remove excess fluid from the body. With regular consumption of peas, swelling decreases, metabolism improves, which in turn contributes to the intensive combustion of fat stores. By the way, in a canned form, it also has a number of useful properties. The most useful peas for weight loss are chickpeas, since it contains the least starch, which negatively affects the figure.
Despite a large number of useful properties, there are peas and harmful effects. With regular consumption, increased gassing in the intestine may occur. It is not recommended to consume vegetables to people with inflammatory processes in the intestines and stomach.
The use of diet on peas for weight loss
Weight loss is due to cleaning the intestines from the products of decay and removing excess fluid. It is important at this time to maintain the water balance in the body and drink at least 1.5 liters of water a day. It is also necessary to exclude from the diet for this time meat, since the proteins you will get from the peas.
Advantages of diet:
- For a week, such a diet can lose up to 3 kg of excess weight.
- Peas not only promotes weight loss, but also supports muscle mass.
- The organism easily tolerates such restrictions in food, which means that you will not feel any discomfort.
- The pea-diet is balanced, so the body will receive all the necessary elements.
- Availability of products and ease of cooking.
- Due to the fact that peas are
A satisfying food, you will not feel hungry. - Diet will not only help get rid of excess weight, but also improve the skin condition.
Sample menu
- Breakfast: 220 g of oatmeal, which must be prepared on water, a green apple and a cup of natural coffee.
- Lunch: a portion of pea porridge and vegetable soup.
- Dinner: 220 grams of chicken breast or lean fish, as well as a side dish, cooked on the basis of 180 g of frozen or canned peas.
- One hour before sleep: a glass of yogurt or yogurt.