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This diet is based on a physiological presumption.
It is presumed that the digestive system can not assimilate fats, proteins, and carbohydrates properly when consumed in the same food.
This diet does not restrict any food, but some foods can not be combined.
Dr. William Howard Hay created this diet in 1911.
Since then, many people have resorted to this method in the hope of losing extra kilos without having to count too many calories.
Mechanism of action of the dissociated diet
This eating pattern acts for a short period and makes eating incredibly dull.
The basis of the dissociated diet is the theory that the consumption of alkaline and acidic foods simultaneously reduces the speed of the digestive process and imbalances the metabolic process.
This is because the digestive system is overloaded with work trying to establish the ideal conditions to digest alkaline and acidic foods simultaneously.
Proteins are acid-forming carbohydrates from alkalis.
Food table
The foods in the dissociated diet are classified in this way:
- Acid fruits: Lemons, tangerines, oranges, grapefruit. This category includes tomatoes.
- Semi-acid fruits: Apricots, cherries, strawberries, figs, kiwi, apples, peaches, pears, watermelon, and grapes.
- Fresh fruit: dried apricots, prunes, dates, dried fruits, figs, and raisins.
- Consistent fats: Olives, avocado, pistachios, sesame, and olive oil.
- Cereals: Rice, wheat, corn, and derivatives, such as corn flakes, flour, pasta, popcorn, polenta, and assorted bread.
- Vegetables: Artichokes, aubergines, squash, dried beans, green beans, lentils, cucumber, pepper, radishes, red beets, soybeans, carrots.
- Vegetables with high starch content: Chestnuts, sweet potatoes, potatoes, bananas, carrots.
- Green vegetables: celery, broccoli, cauliflower, asparagus mushrooms, spinach, lettuce of all kinds, cabbage.
Combinations not recommended in the dissociated diet
The following combinations must not be made.
- Fatty foods with proteins.
- Different groups of carbohydrates in the same food.
- Carbohydrates with proteins.
- Vegetables and vegetables can not be combined with fruits. The fruit should be eaten alone, in the snacks between meals.
Menu
A positive element stands out from the dissociated diet: no food is restricted; only the combination that must be made with these is determined.
It is a model of diet that is quickly followed; it is likely that at the beginning, it is somewhat tricky to get used to the combinations of foods.
However, the basic principle can be understood with a sample of a daily and balanced menu of the dissociated diet.
Day one
- Breakfast: Homemade muesli cereal with milk and green tea
- Mid-morning: a fruit
- Lunch: Vegetable noodles julienne. Yogurt or tea.
- Snack: A fruit
- Dinner: Green salad with baked white fish, tea.
Day two
- Breakfast: Bread with toasted olive oil. Coffee or tea.
- Mid-morning: A fruit.
- Lunch: Baked chicken and vegetables, yogurt.
- Snack: Yogurt, tea.
- Dinner: Scrambled eggs with vegetables and tea.
Day Three
- Breakfast: Sausages, green tea.
- Mid-morning: A fruit.
- Lunch: Vegetable salad, yogurt, tea.
- Snack: A fruit.
- Dinner: Steamed julienne vegetables, French omelet with prawns, tea.
Day four
- Breakfast: Cereals and yogurt, red tea.
- Mid-morning: A fruit.
- Lunch: Turkey in a stew, tea.
- Snack: A fruit.
- Dinner: Steamed clams, green vegetable salad, yogurt.
Day five
- Breakfast: Defatted cheese, Yogurt, Tea.
- Mid-morning: A fruit.
- Lunch: Macaroni and mushrooms with Provencal herbs, a yogurt.
- Snack: A fruit.
- Dinner: Salmon and grilled asparagus, tea.
Day six
- Breakfast: Toasted bread with oil, yogurt, and tea.
- Mid-morning: A fruit.
- Lunch: Grilled veal, baked vegetables, tea.
- Snack: A fruit.
- Dinner: Sautéed vegetables, asparagus omelet, tea.
Seventh-day
- Breakfast: Homemade muesli cereal with yogurt and tea.
- Mid-morning: A fruit.
- Lunch: Stew of turkey and vegetables, yogurt.
- Snack: A fruit.
- Dinner: Vegetable soup, steamed fish, tea.
Rules in the dissociated diet
- You should not eat meat, protein, or carbohydrates after 7:30 p.m.
- To accompany lunch or dinner, you drink coffee, tea, or yogurt (the only dairy product that can be eaten as a dessert).
- With the food, you can not consume soft drinks or juice.
- All spices are allowed to be used sparingly as they are compatible with any food.
- The consumption of sugar or alcohol is not allowed.
- A digestion period of 3 hours must be respected between every two meals.
- Do not consume milk after meals; just drink tea or coffee.
- You can drink only water with meals.
- Fry in little oil and very hot, then remove the excess fat pressing the frying against a paper napkin.
- The ice cream is eaten alone, without adding creams or cookies.
- Consuming soups can prepare with foods that belong to the same group.
- Eat honey and lemon in the morning before breakfast.
- For dinners, the ideal is fish or seafood.
