The Cleansing Diet

Carbohydrates + Proteins + Fats

Eating a mixed bag of nutrients is the essential point in any sensible diet. Girl friends will insist that after they stopped eating potatoes they lost a lot of weight. But that’s wrong. You need all three-carbohydrates, proteins and fats. A balanced meal will make you feel more full and satisfied, and for a longer time . There is a scientific reason for this: Each is released at a different time and reaches the stomach at a different speed, making you feel full for a longer while. Here’s how it works.

will make you feel more full and satisfied, and for a longer time . There is a scientific reason for this: Each is released at a different time and reaches the stomach at a different speed, making you feel full for a longer while. Here’s how it works.

Carbohydrates:

 They fill up instantly. They are simply starches and sugar. Refined starches and sweets are the first foods to leave the stomach, within 30 minutes or so after you eat. Once they are broken down into their simplest form, glucose, they provide fast energy fuel for the brain and muscles. That is why a cup of tea with lots of sugar is so reviving after a hard and exhausting day. Or why mountaineers carry chocolate bars which they eat just before attempting a hard and difficult climb.


Proteins:


During digestion, protein is broken down into amino acid components. These pass into the blood and are carried throughout the body. The cells select the amino acids and use them to construct new body  tissues, antibodies, hormones, enzymes and blood cells.


Out of the 22 amino acids nine are essential. Since they can not be manufactured by the body, those amino acids must come from the food one eats.


Fats:


Butter, margarine, mayonnaise, oil, animal fat  (in meat), cheese and peanut butter. Diet saboteurs? Fats are the most concentrated source of energy, providing almost double the number of calories, in an equal weight of protein and carbohydrate.


A sensible combination of all three would mean trucking a little scrambled egg (protein) into a bread (carbohydrate) with a sprinkle of grated cheese. It will keep you full longer than two slices of toast topped with jam, but will have the same number of calories.
One should also mix solids with liquids. Invest the bulk of your calories in solid foods as they stay in the stomach longer than liquids.

An eight-ounce glass of milk begins to leave the stomach in about 10 or 15 minutes, a cup of yogurt in 20 to 30 minutes and the same quantity of pane er or cheese in 40 to 45 minutes.

So forget that glass of milk or apple juice and choose its solid counterpart, some cheese or an apple. But all liquids can’t be dispensed with.


Through solids tend to give more staying power, there is nothing like a liquid to give you quick energy simply because it can be digested quickly.

The Cleansing Diet

Importance Of Cleansing Diet:

 

 

First thing in the morning

Drink a glass of water with the juice of half a lemon

Breakfast

1 large glass of unsweetened orange or grapefruit juice, or

2 oranges

1 slice toast

1 glass skim milk

Mid-morning

8 ounces of tomato juice

Mid-afternoon

A glass of tomato juice

Lunch

Hot vegetable broth

Chopped vegetable salad without dressing

Fruit (no bananas though)

THE SUGAR- FREE DIET

Breakfast        :  ½ grapefruit or unsweetened grapefruit juice, eggs (any style), coffee or tea (without cream or sugar)

Lunch              : ½ grapefruit, large helping of meat (any style), salad (as much as you want)

Dinner            : ½ grapefruit, large helping of fish (any style), any green, yellow or red vegetable and salad (as much as you want of both)

Bed- time       : Tomato juice.

What more could you possibly want? The diet completely eliminates sugars and starches which form lipids.   Lipids form fat. Fat does not form fats, but helps burn them up. So you can cook your eggs in butter and use butter in your vegetable as well. With this menu, you can eat what the rest of the family is having, except for dessert, bread, white vegetables to compensate. There will be no weight loss in the first four days, but you will suddenly lose about five pounds on the fifth day. You will lose a pound a day till about the tenth day and from then on you will lose about a pound and a half every two days, till you achieve your ideal weight

Being obese often means having high cholesterol. This diet is especially good in that case. All the more if you are a vegetarian and prefer Indian-style meals.

Vegetarian

Breakfast

Cornflakes or 1 spoon cooked porridge with 200 gm of milk 1 slice bread with 1 spoon jam or 15 gm

1 cup tea with milk

Cottage cheese

Mid-morning

1 small glass of lemonade/orange juice/tomato juice/grapefruit juice/1 cup tea or coffee

Lunch

Salad of cabbage/lettuce/carrots/cucumber/tomatoes/radish 200 gm curd (plain or raita of mint/cucumber/tomatoes/cabbage)

1 medium chapatti (or equivalent)

Tea Time

1 cup tea

1 toast or a tomato/ lettuce/carrots/cucumber sandwich made with 1 slice bread

Dinner

Clear tomato/spinach/mixed vegetable soup 25 gm dal

Cauliflower/ brinjal/ spinach

2 slices bread or one small chapatti

1 portion of fruit

Oil allowance for one day: 10 gm

Non-Vegetarian

Early Morning

1 cup of tea (with milk if desired)

Breakfast

1 egg

1 slice (20 gm) white bread with butter

1 cup milk

Mid morning

1 small glass lemonade/orange juice/ tomato juice/ grapefruit juice/ 1 cup tea or coffee

Lunch

Clear vegetable or meat soup (if desired)

70 gm lean meat/poultry/game or 1 egg or 30 gm cheese

Large helping of salad or vegetables

2 slices (40 gm) bread with butter or 1 chapati

1 portion fruit

Tea Time

1 cup tea or coffee

Dinner

Clear soup

70 gm lean meat/poultry/game or 90 gm fish or 1 egg or 30 gm cheese

50 gm potatoes

100 gm cabbage/cauliflower/carrots/spinach

1 cup tea or coffee

Oil allowed for a day : 15 gm butter or margarine

Dieting

A word of caution though. One should not exceed 48 to 64 ounces of liquid per day. Excessive liquids dilute the body’s  store of essential salts (potassium, calcium, sodium). 

If one eats a balanced diet, one gets one to two pints of water from solid food, so you must drink at least three pints of water or other liquids daily.

Drinking  less than two pints a day can lead to the kidney malfunctioning as the waste products build up. Thirst is actually the best guide to how much water your body needs. If you are uncertain about your intake, measure the food - those hard to assimilate, ‘fatty’ food one could call it and easy assimilate, or ‘skinny’ food. 

If you eat more than one hard-to-assimilate, or ‘fatty’ food at one meal, chances are you will not digest it. This is because the combination is that one  hard-to-assimilate or ‘fatty’ item must be combined with two easy-to-assimilate or ‘skinny’ items. For example, the potato is a hard-to-assimilate or ‘fatty’ vegetable.

If you eat mutton which is a protein hard to assimilate it will not be easily digested. This does not mean that one cannot eat mutton or potatoes. But one has to have the right combination.

If eating mutton, combine it with cabbage or If a vegetarian, one should choose one vegetable from the hard-to-assimilate group, and two from the easy-to-assimilate group. Have paneer, dal and soya products, which are high in protein. Plain yogurt is very good too but should not be had at night. salad as these are easy-to-assimilate or ‘skinny’ vegetables. When you want to have potatoes, balance them with baked chicken or barbecued tandoori-style chicken or fish. Plan lunch and dinner ahead of time. 

For vegetarians, one vegetable should be chosen from the ‘fatty’ vegetable list and balanced with two vegetables from the ‘skinny’ list. It would be a good idea to include Masur dal, paneer, or Raita in the menu for lunch or dinner. 

This will be a source of protein. Try to have the paneer or Raita at lunch time instead of dinner as they are dairy products and dairy products should be avoided after 4 p.m.

Chapatis (if very thin and light) can be had along for lunch, but should be avoided at dinner. If the chapatis are light and thin you can have two, but if they are heavy and thick, only one. Even if you feel hungry a couple of hours after you’ve had a meal, it does not mean you have digested the food. The food simply moves from your stomach and is stored as fat in all the fat pockets all over your body. 

The stomach is empty true, but not the way it should be, if you’ve been eating food which is not combined right.

THE EFFORTLESS DIET

If cholesterol is not your problem, but as a result of crash dieting and skipping meals, you’ve got a gastric ailment, this suitable:

Breakfast: 7 to 7-30 a.m.

1 orange or ½ cantaloupe

1 egg

½ slice bread with margarine

Mid-morning: 12-30 to 1-30 p.m.

½ can seafood or 1 piece chicken

½ cup salad with lemon juice

Mid-afternoon: 3 to 4 p.m.

½ cup powdered milk

1 slice bread

Dinner: 6 to 7 p.m.

1 piece meat

1 vegetable

½ grapefruit

Evening: 9-30 to 10-30 p.m.

½ cup non-dairy milk with 1 dry cracker