If you would like to regain and keep your ideal body weight as well as stay young, include in your diet, as often as possible, products containing ingredients that help to rejuvenate and strengthen your body tissues.
To achieve the desired results, make sure that at least two-thirds of your diet consists of such products. Remember, though, that the higher the percentage of structural products in your diet, the better the final outcome of your anti-aging efforts.
You may even choose to include only structural products in your diet and your body will certainly not lack any of the ingredients that are essential for your body and your health.
Make sure your shopping list includes only structural diet products and you will avoid eating foods that contain ingredients harmful to your health. Most importantly, you will avoid eating foods that lead to diseases such as arteriosclerosis, diabetes, depression, Alzheimer’s disease, degenerative disease and tumour. These diseases are caused by various factors, but bad eating habits lay the foundations for such conditions to develop.
Learn about structural diet products to discover why they are better than all those foods that most people include in their diets, exposing themselves – unconsciously – to lifestyle diseases.
Avocado contains iron, phosphorus and copper as well as large amounts of vitamins, particularly vitamin E, plus beta-carotene, folic acid, vitamins B3, B5 and K. Eating it will improve your blood count and help to prevent anaemia.
Avocado contains record amounts of potassium (600 mg per 100 g). Potassium deficiency is particularly dangerous if your are prone to hypertension and coronary heart disease and increases the risk of stroke. Monounsaturated fatty acids in your diet help to keep your cholesterol at a healthy level.
The fruit also contains large amounts of lecithin, which nourishes your brain and helps to improve your memory and concentration span.
Avocado contains a special type of sugar that regulates insulin production, thus preventing fluctuations in your blood sugar levels. It is then recommended for people with excess weight and prone to diabetes.
Avocado also contains large amounts of vitamin E and glutathione, both very powerful antioxidants. This makes the fruit effective in combating free radicals and preventing the body’s aging process.
They contain a great deal of potassium and thus, quite naturally, help to remove excess water from the body and reduce blood pressure. Bananas contain pectin (soluble plant fibre). Pectin reduces cholesterol levels, which are usually too high in people with excess body weight, and help to remove heavy metals from the body. Ripe bananas are a gentle laxative. Tryptohan, which is also present in bananas, is converted by the body into serotonin, which reduces nerve cell activity, This helps to prevent depression, improve your concentration span and, most importantly, whet your appetite. Due to their relaxing and sleep-inducing properties, bananas are recommended as an ingredient of an evening fruit cocktail in our weekend weight loss programme.
Bilberries are a valuable ingredient of a weekend weight loss menu because they provide large quantities of vitamins, minerals and oxidants while being relatively low in calories. The substances present in bilberries strengthen collagen, thus preventing flabby skin, which is particularly important when trying to lose weight. In addition, bilberries offer gentle laxative and bowel-stimulating properties.
Garlic contains about 100 different sulphur compounds and other unique and characteristic compounds. Hence it has so many medicinal properties. Garlic is best eaten fresh, as the odourless garlic extracts available with your local chemist do not contain all the valuable compounds.
They contain calcium, magnesium, iron, phosphorus, potassium, B-group vitamins and Omega-3 essential fatty acids. Pumpkin seeds can treat prostate problems and effectively cleanse the bowels of parasite infections. They are one of the richest sources of zinc. Zinc deficiency - so typical of people today - leads to a large number of serious problems, including allergy, depression and infertility.
Zinc is responsible, to a large extent, for the elasticity and healthy appearance of the skin because it takes an active part in collagen synthesis, and collagen deficiency results in stretch marks and eczema.
They are a source of phosphorus, potassium and vitamin C. They stimulate the bowels and help to clean them out. They have a generally stimulating effect on the body and are recommended for people with calcium deficiency. Figs are a rich source of this calcium – 100 grams of dried figs contains 2.5 times more calcium than the same amount of cottage cheese.
Figs are an effective cure for constipation and provide strong detoxifying properties. Figs help the body the regain its proper alkaline reaction. This is essential for keeping healthy, particularly for people who eat plenty of meat.
Tea without sugar contains no calories, proteins, fat or carbohydrates. Drinking green tea during weight loss treatments is of benefit to the body, as this drink improves metabolism, purifies the body and helps to turn fatty tissue into energy. In addition, a cup of green tea provides valuable antioxidants called catechins, which combat cancer cells and delay the aging process.
A large number of overweight people have serious digestion problems. To regain the physiological bacterial flora of the bowels, which is essential for proper digestion, it is necessary to provide the body with the right bacteria strains by drinking yoghurt and including a great deal of fibre in your diet. For the first few days, you will experience a worsening of your digestion problem, but later on, when your bowels have been cleansed of toxin deposits, your digestive system will regain its proper function and you will certainly feel much better. All the flatulence, swelling and bags under the eyes will be gone and you will feel full of energy again, as your body will be free of toxins.
Fresh or frozen raspberries can replace strawberries in your weekend weight loss regimen. These aromatic fruit contain a great deal of a special type of fibre that proves exceptionally effective in simulating the bowels.
Adding raspberries to your weekend-weight-loss-treatment fruit cocktail is an effective way to cleanse your digestive tract of any deposits of undigested food remnants. The tiny seeds in raspberries are not digested by the human body, but very effectively remove a large number of toxins from the body.
A raspberry drink will certainly give you new energy, improve the digestive function of your body and generally make you feel better.
Soya milk is an excellent ingredient to include in your fruit cocktails during your weekend weight loss treatment. It contains a large number of valuable minerals and vitamins. Soya beans and soya products are an extremely valuable source of antioxidants, such as isoflavones, phytosterols, saponins and phenolic acids, which protect the body against free radicals. As our weekend-weight-loss elixirs containt plenty of such compounds, eating a low-calorie diet does not reduce your body’s immunity, nor does it weaken its tissue structure.
Apricots are a valuable ingredient in our weekend weight-loss treatments because they provide the body with large quantities of vitamin A in the form of beta-carotene. They also contain a great deal of fibre, which improves the function of the digestive tract and stimulates the growth of valuable microflora in the bowels. This in turn which results in better digestion even after your weight loss treatment.
Apricots are also one of the basic sources of carbohydrates in our weekend weight loss treatment. Not enough carbohydrates in your diet may lead to many health problems caused by sodium loss, dehydration and calcium absorption difficulties.
Bladder wrack is a rich source of iodine and prevents hyperthyroidism (an underactive thyroid). It regulates the function of the thyroid bladder, thus helping to treat the related obesity condition. Many people have a slightly underactive thyroid, a condition that does not cause the gland to enlarge. Bladder wrack should not be used by pregnant women and, without prior medical consultation, by people suffering from a thyroid condition.
Wheat bran is a desirable ingredient in a loss weight diet. It contains a large number of nutritious ingredients, but, above all, a great deal of fibre that leaves you feeling full for a long time, prevents constipation and bowel problems (irritable bowel syndrome and diverticulitis). People with a small daily intake of fibre may feel discomfort (lower-stomach fullness and flatulence) once it is included in their diet. These problems, however, disappear soon and the bowels regain their proper digestive function. Peristalsis is improved, metabolic wastes are removed faster and valuable food ingredients are absorbed more easily.
People with excess weight problems should consider including wheat bran in their daily diet also on weekdays, as the fibre in wheat bran helps to restore normal blood glucose levels and, more importantly, slows down the absorption of carbohydrates from the intestinal lumen. As a result, insulin production is increased, which is of benefit to your body simply because too much insulin leads to any used energy being turned into fatty tissue.
The falvones present in oranges, together with natural vitamin C, increase the body’s immunity to colds. It is particularly important for people who end up with weakness and infection after almost any weight loss treatment.
The pectin found in orange flesh proves very effective in reducing cholesterol levels. That is why orange juice should not be strained – it is best to leave it concentrated. If your citrus fruit squeezer is equipped with a small-hole sieve, simply add a little bit of the pulp from the sieve into the juice.
Horsetail is a plant particularly rich in silicon, an element which many people are deficient in today. Silicone deficiency leads to premature aging, the direct result of connective-tissue weakening.
Another consequence of silicone deficiency is problems with hair and nails as well as a weakening of blood vessels, which lose their elasticity, thus becoming fragile and more prone to vascular changes.
In addition, silicone takes an active part in calcium absorption and strengthens the body’s immunity to infections.
If your daily intake of buckwheat and oatmeal is small, powdered horsetail or, at least, a cup of horsetail tea once a day is a good choice to provide your body with the required amount of silicone. A horsetail infusion drink also helps to prevent diabetes, arteriosclerosis, heart disease and kidney disease and improves metabolism.
Tomato juice is low in calories but provides the body with a large number of valuable nutritious ingredients. The tomato juice cocktail recommended as part of our weekend weight loss treatment has the right composition of ingredients to provide your body with a minimum of calories and plenty of valuable minerals and antioxidants. In addition, tomato juice stimulates metabolism and removes harmful metabolic wastes from the body.
Essential fatty acids (EFAs) are known as vitamin F and, as the name suggests, are essential for the body to function properly. EFAs are necessary for cell membranes and the immune system to grow and function properly, for maintaining hormonal balance and skin elasticity. Not enough EFAs in your diet may cause dry skin, thrombosis, eyesight problems and memory difficulties.
Essential fatty acids are an essential ingredient of any weight loss diet because they increase metabolism, remove excess water from tissues and regulate the process of turning fatty tissue into energy. A large number of studies have shown that adding EFAs to a typical diet - in the form flaxseed oil, for example - helps to reduce body weight in overweight people.
Taking high doses of vitamin C has been proved to help lose weight. This, however, is true only for natural vitamin C, as synthetic vitamin C stimulates appetite excessively.
Our weekend weight loss treatment includes a daily intake of about 300 mg of natural vitamin C. This impressively high dose of the vitamin, together with the antioxidants present in strawberries and oranges, is of great importance to strengthening the immune system as well as regenerating and rejuvenating the body.
What is more, strawberries help to cleanse the body of toxins. The compounds present in strawberries combine with the harmful nitrogen oxides present in food and remove them from the body.
There is no evidence that sour cherries help to lose weight in any special way. They, however, have one very important advantage. Sour cherries are recommended as an ingredient of weight loss treatments because the compounds present in the fruit stimulate collagen production, thus helping to smooth wrinkles and improve skin density.
That is why people who are really desperate not only to lose weight, but also to keep their skin firm should replace strawberries with sour cherries. They are also recommended for people with sensitive blood vessels, as the flavones present in sour cherries strengthen them effectively.
Life without water is impossible, but so is losing weight. Water removes toxin deposits from the body and regulates a large number of metabolic processes. Mineral water containing magnesium promotes proper carbohydrate metabolism and has a beneficial effect on the nervous system, which often prevents mood worsening when trying to lose weight.
If you are on a weight loss diet, your can drink clean mineral water in larger quantities. Interestingly, drinking plenty of water does not lead to increased water retention in the body, but may sometimes cause the reverse reaction. Healthy people who drink plenty of water do not complain about swelling or excess water in their tissues. These symptoms can be observed more often in people who drink not enough water.
Drinking plenty of cool water effectively accelerates metabolism because the body has to heat the water to your body temperature.
Wheat germ is of great benefit to people trying to lose weight because it prevents a deficiency of natural vitamins and minerals, which unfortunately is common in the case of low-calorie diets and, quite often, the cause of metabolism problems and a tendency to put on weight. Adding even a small amount of wheat germ to your fruit cocktail will protect you from a deficiency of essential substances while being low in calories.
A consequence of a deficiency of essential ingredients in a bad weight-loss diet is the so-called yo-yo effect as well as canine appetite, which is caused by the need to provide the body less with calories than with the essential nutritious ingredients without which the body cannot function properly. Wheat germ is the most effective way to protect your yourself against voracious attacks of hunger.
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