To lose a couple of kilograms for the holiday in order to easily fit into your favorite dress and charm all guests is a longed-for New Year’s dream. This can be done without strict diets, moreover, with taste.
The famous saying of the British: “One apple a day, and a doctor is not needed” – is quite applicable to the procedure for losing weight. True, with the amendment that there should be more apples. Yes, yes, it is in this common fruit that truly magical properties are laid that will help reduce waist size and increase health. Extensive research in England has shown that people who eat apples every day live 15-17 years longer.
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First of all, apples are rich antioxidants, which protect blood vessels from atherosclerosis, which means that they reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes, which have become much younger in recent years. Antioxidants accelerate metabolic processes in the body, remove radionuclides, have a beneficial effect on the skin, help maintain youth and prolong life.
Ursolic acid Is another super-useful substance found in apples. The benefit of this acid is that it promotes the growth of muscle mass, and therefore the burning of fat, because with age, muscle cells die and we lose muscle mass, but the fat layer increases. Namely, muscles are the main “factory” for burning fat, especially the most harmful – visceral.
To get the required amount of ursolic acid daily, one apple is enough. But! It must be eaten with the peel, since it is in it that contains the greatest amount of acid. In a peeled apple, it becomes 3-4 times less. Do not neglect apple seeds: they contain iodine, the deficit of which is acutely observed in our region.
Apples are rich and pectin – soluble dietary fibers, which help to lower blood cholesterol levels, normalize the intestinal microflora, and stimulate immunity. Pectin plays an important role in the process of losing weight. By receiving dietary fiber, an important source of fiber, the intestines release substances that reduce appetite and create a sense of fullness. Eating an apple before breakfast, lunch, or dinner will help you feel satiated with much less food and prolong the feeling of fullness for longer.
In addition, apples are a real storehouse of vitamins, minerals, fruit acids, without which the body begins to “malfunction” and withers prematurely.
Fasting apple days will help speed up weight loss: 2–2,5 kilograms of apples, eaten in 5–7 meals during the day. Apples can be eaten fresh, baked, mashed, etc.
But do not forget that the main thing in any business is not to overdo it, so as not to get the opposite result. If, for example, gastritis with high acidity bothers you, fasting days on apples are not your story. And if there are no contraindications, eat apples, lose kilograms and save up health!