Reducing the weight
At the health of the spine have a direct influence of many factors - body weight, composition of food, diet.
At the spine and joints sacrociatic iliac bear the brunt of the human body, because they are responsible for maintaining it in an upright position. Excess weight often leads to back pain, as well as extra kilograms increase the load on the spine and forced him to be in constant tension. When overweight suffers not only the spine, but the heart, blood vessels, kidneys and other vital organs, as well as extra fat around them delayed, disrupting their activities.
Despite the fact that many people suffering from over weight, long time may feel well and did not notice any symptoms of painful, it is likely that in adulthood their condition will deteriorate rapidly. Proved that. an average life full of people far less than people with normal weight.
Thus, in order to improve the condition of the spine, it is necessary, above all, to normalize body weight, as even special exercises while maintaining excessive weight will not be sufficiently effective.
The basic principle for slimming Breggu based on the normalization of metabolism using natural products and moderate food consumption.
If the flow of food into the body exceeds the cost of energy, the surplus turn into fat. Overeating is a major cause of obesity. Bragg claimed that over-the main reason - it affected the abundance of food, in which there is no vital element, and this is a human desire to eat more to get everything you need. Paul Bragg was confident that natural products can provide the human body with all necessary vitamins and minerals, so they should form the basis of the ration.
The recommendations on nutrition
In the book "Pozvonochnik - the key to health" Bragg has paid great attention to nutrition, allowing normalize weight and strengthen health.
First, he drew attention to the use of salt, which for many years was an integral part of most products.
Since the properties were open to conserve salt, people are constantly adding it to food. Sodium chloride, unlike sodium organic, inorganic and is absolutely not needed body. Self vydelitelnaya rights system can display only a very small portion of salt, the rest is postponed at the same tissue - cartilage and muscles, bringing them enormous harm. This also applies to other substances to conserve properties (nitrate, nitrite, sodium glyutamat, etc.) that accumulate in the body.
Cleaning white sugar, like salt, the body does not bring any good, because the main elements of nutrients and vitamins are removed from it in the process of purification.
White flour Extra Class useless for the body, because when cleaning does not remove the embryos from grains that have the most nutritional value. Treated flour can be stored long, but its nutritional properties of very low.
Industrial processing of meat and animal fats deprives them of all useful properties, leaving only the calories that cause weight gain.
Thus, many products, which occupy an important place in the contemporary system of nutrition, not only useful but also harmful, so Bragg strongly recommends completely exclude them from the diet.
By "dead" foods include:
-- Meat products of industrial production: sausage, sausage, canned meat, smoked sausage, ham, bacon and other smoked;
-- Saturated fats such as margarine and hydrogenated oils;
-- Brushed white rice;
-- Products of refined white flour: white bread, cakes, waffles, pasta, cakes, pastries Butter cookies, pizza, sauces, filled flour, etc.;
-- Smoked fish;
-- Any salt products: potato chips, nuts, crackers, canned
-- Olives, salted and pickled cucumbers, sauerkraut, ketchup, mustard, etc.;
-- Refined sugar and products containing it: jellies, jams, ice cream, chewing gum, fruit juices with added sugar, compotes, sweet soft drink, sherbet.
Paul Bragg advised plan daytime menu as follows:
-- For breakfast eat a little natural fruit or drink variaty of freshly squizzed juices (in no case does not canned and frozen). Fruits can be used as fresh or dried, you want to pre-drabble overnight in distilled water;
-- Lunch and dinner start with vegetable salad, which can be made from fresh cabbage with the addition of fresh celery, parsley, lettuce, onions, peppers, carrots, raw beets, cucumber, radish, tomatoes individually or in various combinations. For seasonings you can take a natural vinegar, dried herbs, lemon juice or lean oil;
-- As the main dishes using half-baked vegetables, otvarennye in a small quantity of water or steamed, baked in an oven with a minimum temperature. Clear skin of vegetables should not be, they only need to thoroughly wash;
-- In the diet must include products containing natural sugars, which should be used instead of refined white sugar. Best suited pure natural honey, as well as dates and bananas;
-- That the body has received the requisite number of starch, should eat bread from flour ill sausages, potatoes and oatmeal from untreated cereals;
-- Used in food should be unsaturated fats and negidrogenizirovannymi because they do not gain extra body weight. Of the saturated fats can be used occasionally nesolenoe butter.
Bragg recommended that eat both animal and vegetable proteins, albeit in limited quantities. They should not be more than 1 / 5 the entire diet.
Of the animal protein can be used poultry, meat, fish, eggs, natural cheese, milk. It should use only high quality fresh produce. When choosing meat or poultry, make sure that when animals were not applied cultivation growth stimulators, and buying fish - that it does not contain mercury.
Valuable sources of vegetable protein are soy beans, nuts, seeds, Blackberry oil, beans. Whole grain crops such as wheat, buckwheat, millet, corn, barley, and mushrooms, brewers yeast, eggplants.
