LCHF diet

In the countries of the post-Soviet space, the diet, called LCHF, is becoming increasingly popular. If you take up the detailed interpretation of the abbreviation, you get: low carb high fat. In other words, it is a food system containing a large amount of fat, excluding or reducing carbohydrate intake to minimum levels. By the way, Swedish citizens are already actively using it.

Diet LCHF - menu

According to the teachings of Swiss nutritionists, in order to be healthy and have a stunning figure, a person needs to include in his habitual diet more food, consisting of fats.

The most interesting is that the LCHF menu can be safely recommended to people suffering from diabetes mellitus . After all, because of the low carbohydrate levels in fatty foods, the blood sugar level is markedly reduced.

So, the LCHF diet includes food that helps to normalize the fat and cholesterol levels in the blood, to achieve an acceptable level of insulin.

Practicing Swedish therapist Andreas Enfeldt strongly recommends that you include in your diet:

In this case, it is necessary to completely abandon such a delicious flour, sweet fizzy drinks and fruits, in which the mass of fructose. Moreover, the opinion that the human brain needs chocolates, sugar, etc. is also erroneous. Simply glucose is the most accessible carbohydrate, but also no less dangerous for health.

Moreover, it is scientifically proven that if the brain is not properly "refueled", it is possible to develop various diseases. For example, an overabundance of starch, sugar leads to the onset of Alzheimer's disease.

This suggests that the LCHF diet provides for 6% carbohydrates, 19% protein and 75% fat. Our ancestors ate exclusively meat and vegetables. There was no flour, not even sugar. That's why they did not know such diseases that society suffers from now.

Enfeldt argues that since in the process of fat burning, ketone bodies are formed, they are more beneficial to the body than glucose.

Diet LCHF - experimental data

Not so long ago a number of experiments were conducted, in which individuals who suffered from excess weight participated. All this lasted a whole year. Groups of people were fed exclusively by products that LCHF recommends. So, per day it was allowed to eat up to 1500 cal. According to the results of the experiment, the average weight that the participants managed to lose was 14 kg.