¿Está la dieta Dukan superada?

La Dieta Dukan y toda la obra de Pierre Dukan fue un bombazo mediático hace unos pocos años, había Dieta Dukan hasta en la sopa, fuera esta apta para la Dieta Dukan o no. El caso es que toda esta publicidad acabó siendo negativa y muchísima gente te apuntó a esta dieta con sólo haberse leído un libro y sin más consultas. Las ganas de adelgazar rápido hicieron que mucha gente antepusiera este objetivo a la salud y en este blog, sus seguidores, sabéis que se antepone salud a adelgazamiento. Los problemas de salud de algunos/as y el morbo que eso dio a los medios de comunicación afectaron con mucho a esta dieta. 

 Hoy día la Dieta Dukan ya no está en las portadas de los periódicos, pero sin embargo no ha desaparecido. La comunidad de practicantes sigue rica en internet y con sus experiencias ha mejorado, sí, mejorado, el trabajo del doctor Pierre Dukan. Hoy día realmente no se necesita acudir a la consulta de Pierre Dukan ni estar en sus foros canónicos para estar informado, lo que hay que procurar es saber muy bien que fuentes se consultan y tener seguimiento médico fiable. Repito, lo más importante es la salud y por ello no es necesario tener prisa.

Aún así, yo me pregunto ¿Hay alguna dieta que haya demostrado mayor eficacia somo método de adelgazamiento que la Dieta Dukan? Yo creo que no y que no me vengan diciendo que la cirugía con sus balones gástricos es una alternativa pues eso es otra cosa y desde luego la cirugía nunca es sana, aunque pueda ser un remedio de un mal mayor como es la obesidad mórbida.

La Dieta Dukan no ha muerto, simplemente ahora está donde tiene que estar y ese sitio no es la portada de un periódico sensacionalista sino en las consultas de los nutricionistas y en la práctica de los que quieren adelgazar por el bien de su salud.

Y... practicad ejercicio, que es lo que os fortalecerá la musculatura.

Alcohol and Dukan diet

Alcohol and Dukan diet

I always say that the most important thing is health, much more than slimming itself, so when discuss the issue of alcohol and I tell you from now that alcohol is harmful. Many doctors say that if alcohol was invented today, it would be classified as a hard drug. On the other hand, you can not say, and not for me to do, that that drinking alcohol is automatic synonymous with being an alcoholic.

But it is well sermons, you're an adult and you know what you do, let the subject.

Can you drink alcohol on the Dukan diet?

The simple answer is NO, albeit with reservations. But why? Because alcohol will be metabolized as a hydrate of any carbon, so it will leave the stage of ketosis and therefore do not lose weight as you should. That is why during your weight loss should not

So I can never drink a beer or something? Well, use your head. In the stabilization phase itself. Note that you have already reached your ideal weight and can take food at other times and could not be less strict now allow you to keep your sanity. You can take alcohol as other carbohydrates but without going over, and more in this case.

Are there alternatives?

The best alternative will always be water. The vital, healthy and calorie-free liquid. On the other hand, the monotony is a great enemy of any diet. I recommend strongly that you learn to make infusions. The recipes are as simple as sweetened water and add herbs such as chamomile or anise. Take them cold (or hot course) in the moments when you need a drink to "have color."

Other alternatives are light and tea drinks. Remember that light drinks may have few or no calories, but have a high composition of chemicals, so although not fatten is not as healthy and tea contains protein, which is similar to caffeine. Use them sparingly

Definitely do not drink sugary soda, but that, even if you were not dieting.

The Dukan diet and Thermomix

The Dukan diet and Thermomix

I often wonder if you can use the Thermomix with the Dukan diet and my answer is my answer is a question And why not?Normally this question makes me people who are thinking about buying a Thermomix (Vorwerk) or its equivalent Mycook (Taurus) and doubt to the large outlay they are. Particularly I have lived all my life without anything like it and think it is something that is only worthwhile if:

A) You are on the money.

B) Kitchens lot of things that are not pout.

C) Kitchens large quantities.

MT5 Thermomix (Vorwerk)

(Click to enlarge photos)

Mycook (Taurus)

The Thermomix or Mycook are great instruments and the truth is that I used the first, and I liked sack performance when I cook for several people, but if I had not have one with me. I do not see sense to pay so much money to grate the bread when you can do with a grater. Another thing and that's the point C, is that you need much breading then it makes sense. What makes no sense is to buy these devices only to "join the club" and brag, as I know that many do. In such cases the device just cornered in a corner.

How else breadcrumbs need a follower of the Dukan diet? I think little

Example of recipe with Thermomix for Dukan Diet

Here is a recipe (warn that it is not my creation) so you can see the possibilities.

Cheese flan and chocolate for the Dukan diet

Ingredients:

Two egg whites.

Skimmed milk (250 ml),

Four light quesitos

One tablespoon of liquid sweetener for cooking,

One tablespoon of fat cocoa

neutral gelatin (3 sheets to moisten water).

preparation

We put all the ingredients (except gelatin) in the Thermomix and schedule seven minutes (speed 4, temperature 90 degrees).When missing a minute to time, we add fresh from the water jelly. We draw the final mix and place it in a bowl, letting it sit in the refrigerator several hours before serving.

Is it better or Mycook Thermomix?

My experience has been primarily with the Thermomix, although I also tested the Mycook and several different models and my opinion is that the first models Thermomix were superior in construction to the first of the Mycook, but today I see no significant difference. The Thermomix has the advantage of being a little more collected design, making house best in kitchens with less space, but construction quality and features, Taurus became the batteries in the latest models.

The quail eggs

The quail eggs in the Dukan diet

Quail eggs, their properties and low calorie diets
The Dukan diet can be healthy

On many occasions he has attacked the Dukan diet calling it not be healthy. What is certain is that obesity is bad. Losing weight is the result of an imbalance to which we subject the body, ie, consuming more than we eat to force the body to burn its fat stores do not think force is healthy in itself that imbalance, the ideal is not to need but since we are going to do we must ensure that this imbalance is only lack of fats and other nutrients the body needs like vitamins. (And nope! The body also needs a minimum amount of healthy fats)

In this blog we will try to present recipes and foods that allow us to have a diet as varied as possible to avoid these necessary elements we lack.

Today I will talk about something that I love and that is very unknown, how healthy are the quail eggs.

The quail (Coturnix coturnix) is a small bird of the gallinaceous family, so their meat has a similar content their family hen.We can use it in the chicken dishes for variety and take advantage of their different taste. A change is always necessary on the palate.

Their eggs are brown and black spots, but what catches your attention is their size, are small, almost one third of that of a hen, so sometimes "pull back" because they seem a bad buy, but it happens quite the opposite.

Comparatively they have a higher percentage of protein than chicken (13% and 11% respectively). Added, it must be said more fat in proportion to its size but not found out. Also they noted for its high content of phosphorus, sodium, potassium, iron, calcium and magnesium.

For vitamin B1, containing 140%, outperforming the misérrimo 50% of chicken.
There are no known cases of allergies to eggs quail (and drama is being allergic to eggs) and there are studies that argue that help fight allergy symptoms because of its protein content ovomucoid.

Quail eggs combat the symptoms of allergies


Another of its properties worth noting is its low cholesterol content.

Quail eggs are ideal for eating raw, cooked, poached or fried. Even by its small size used to decorate dishes or use them as "cover."

Take advantage of them to improve your diet, whether you want to lose weight with the Dukan system or just want to be healthy.

Lomos de merluza con verdura para la dieta Dukan

Lomos de merluza con verdura para  Dukan

Otra receta para preparar rápidamente y comer sano.

Ingredientes

Lomos de merluza
Un puerro
Un pimiento rojo
Vino blanco
Sal y pimienta

Lomos de merluza

(Haz click en las imágenes para agrandarlas)

Preparación

Versión A para cuando se tiene mucha prisa

Ponemos los lomos de merluza en un estuche de Lekue.
Troceamos el puerro y el pimiento (a mi me gusta en trocitos muy pequeños para que entren fácil todo junto al dar el bocado). Apto seguido, ponemos los vegatales junto al pescado en el estuche y rociamos con un chorrito de vino blanco.
Lo metemos todo en el microhondas durante unos tres minutos y listo.

Si no tenemos un estuche de Lekue, podemos improvisar creando un estuche hecho de papel de alumnio y usando el horno normal. Precalentamos el horno a 180º y luego horneamos durante diez minutos a 150º aproximadamente. Si nos quedamos cortos, volvemos a meter en el horno hasta que se haga.

Versión B cuando disponemos de algo más de tiempo.

Los vegetales los ponemos en estuche y lo ponemos durante cuatro minútos. Luego metémos la merluza durante dos minútos más y listo. Es la mejor combinación.

A disfrutar.

Lasaña de carne para la dieta Dukan

Lasaña de carne baja en calorías
(Fase crucero)


Ingredientes

Tres claras de huevo
Dos cucharadas de salvado de trigo
dos cucharadas de yogur desnatado
400 gramos de carne picada (pavo, pollo o ternera)
Un tomate maduro que rallaremos
50 gramos de cebolla que picaremos
Quesos en porciones desnatado.
Sal y pimienta al gusto

Salvado de Trigo

(Haz click para agrandar las imágenes)

Preparación

Lo primero es hacer las placas de pasta y las haremos con el salvado.
Batimos una clara con una cucharada de yogur y añadimos el salvado y sal. Echamos esta masa en una sartén antiadherente procurando que nos quede plana y si es necesario hacemos vuelta y vuelta. Hacemos esto dos veces para tener dos placas.

En otra sartén antiadherente echamos un poquito de aceite procurando que se extienda bien. A fuego lento añadimos la cebolla bien picadita, luego el tomate rallado, cuando esté todo hecho (lo notaremos al ver que cambia de color y por el olor) añadimos la carne y salpimentamos al gusto hasta que se haga bien (se pondrá marrón la carne).

En las placas (buen truco, aunque no es mío) untamos los quesitos para darle punto de cremosidad que daría una bechamel, sobre ella la masa que sacamos de la sartén y tapamos con la otra placa a la que también habremos untado otro quesito.

A disfrutar. No es necesario darle otro golpe de calor.


Va muy bien para la fase crucero.

Infusions low calorie

Infusions low calorie diet, suitable for any diet Dukan diet. 

The best drink is water there and the worst for a diet is the monotony. Weight loss diets do not usually recommend that sugary soft drinks and drink Dukan diet, either. In fact, no dietitian recommends them for health care, infusions are the right alternative. 

In this post we will give recipes low-calorie teas to hydrate at any time and place. 




Infusion cinnamon 

Cinnamon 
Hot water 

Canela (Click to enlarge)

(Almost boiling) water is put cinnamon in powder or branch (try straining later) no more than five or six minutes. It can take hot or cold. 

Cinnamon gives good taste and good smell. cinnamon can reduce blood sugar levels and decrease the body's resistance to insulin. In addition, cinnamon boosts metabolism and reduces appetite. Therefore, infusion of cinnamon can help fight overweight and obesity. 


Chamomile infusion 

Dried chamomile flowers 
Hot water 

Camomile tea (Click to enlarge)

(Almost boiling) water gets chamomile flowers (try straining later) no more than 10 minutes. There are also prepared in bags such as tea. It can take hot or cold. 

It has always been taken to alleviate stomach pains, but its benefits go far beyond that. 
It is worming, ie eliminates worms. Relieves the aches and pains of the rules in women. Fights headaches and neuralgia.Relaxes the nervous system smoothly though. Stronger action to better make a tea with chamomile, lime and lemon balm. 
This plant is also aperitif, digestive and choleretic, thanks to a bitter principle present in this herb. 
It contains another important ingredient called chamazulene, which currently is used to combat asthma in children. 


Infusion of Anise 

Aniseed 
Hot water 

Aniseed (Click to enlarge)

In almost boiling water a few teaspoons of anise is added and brought to a boil. At that point it turns off and let stand 10 minutes the seeds are strained. It can take cold or hot. 

It gives a very sweet, ideal flavor when yearns for sugar so it is good to forget about this item and help us lose weight. It is a good remedy for stomach pains and flatulence. It is also expectorant

Star Anise infusion. 

Star anise 
Hot water 

Star anise (Click to enlarge)

(Almost boiling) water flowers gets star anise (try straining later) no more than 3 minutes. Two cucharadistas per cup is fine and give more power to heat until it boils and then it sit 2 minútos.También are prepared as tea bags but I think they are not as successful as other teas, best natural if you have time. It can take hot or cold. 

It gives a pleasant sweet taste and I prefer ice. It has satiating, digestive and antiflatulent properties. It has been widely used to relieve colic of babies and their associated gases today but this is not recommended because its side effects are negative for someone less than two years. 


Green Tea 

Green Tea 
Hot water 

Green tea (Click to enlarge)

(Almost boiling) water gets a little bag with tea or a sphere no more than four minutes. It can take hot or cold 

Little need be said of this mixture of water and tea. This type of protein and catechins you have that speed up metabolism, helping you lose weight. On the other hand green tea it has antioxidant powers thus preventing aging. 



Red tea (Pu-erh) 

Red tea 
Hot water 

Red tea. Click to enlarge

(Almost boiling) water is put a bag or a sphere red tea with no more than four minutes. It can take hot or cold 

There are studies that talk about the fat burning power of red tea in addition to its power to strengthen the inmulógico system and lower triglycerides and cholesterol.

Infusion Rooibos 

Rooibos 
Hot water. 

Rooibos (Click to enlarge)

(Almost boiling) water is put a bag or a sphere with rooibos no more than four minutes. It can take hot or cold. 

Contrary to what many people believe, rooibos is not a tea but a shrub that comes from South Africa that is completely different but the taste is similar. As the main distinguishing feature is that it has protein, so it is ideal to take it at night because they do not lose sleep. 

Rooibos has a red color because its leaves are allowed to oxidize in the sun. When sold without "ferment" in this way it is called green rooibos and is yellowish. The latter form is richer in antioxidants but its flavor is less intense.