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   The Potato Diet: Is It Good for You?

   By : Alex Baran  [Valid RSS feed]     Category Diet [Valid RSS feed]    Popularity 9 or more times read
   Date Published : 2008-08-08 05:22:49     Number Times Read : 12      Word Count: 856
Potatoes are high in proteins, vitamins A and B, potash, soda, and alkaline salts, but is a potato diet the best choice for you? Although it is used in the treatment of some disorders like intestinal toxaemia, renal calculi, constipation, stone and dropsy, or uric acid diseases, potato-based diets are not indicated for obese people.
The potato diet may help you lose weight and stay in shape. However, remember that what`s good for others may not be good for you, and seek medical advice before you start a diet.
Day one:
Breakfast: Seven ounces of washed fruits like apples, oranges, or mandarins mixed up with five ounces of low-fat yogurt and three spoons of cereals.
Snack: Five ounces of yogurt
Lunch: Wash, clean, and boil four big potatoes. Cut in chunks a tomato and two peppers and put two ounces of rubbed cheese. Add salt and pepper, take two potatoes, cut them in four and put them into a pan along with the tomato, peppers, and cheese and leave them in the oven for ten minutes. Keep the other two potatoes for later.
Snack: an apple
Dinner: Cut the two potatoes from lunch, a red onion, and three ounces of pickled cucumbers into pieces and mix them with small cut parsley. Make a sauce from two spoons of low-fat yogurt, salt, white pepper, a little pound garlic, and a spoon of olive oil. Leave the sauce over the salad for ten minutes.
Day two:
Breakfast: A slice of toast with two ounce of low-fat cottage cheese and an orange.
Snack: A glass of low-fat milk
Lunch: Extinguish seven ounces of cauliflower, boil five ounces of potatoes in salt water, cut in stripes one ounce of boiled ham and mix it with two spoons of low-fat milk and half a tea spoon of olive oil. Spice it with nutmeg and the juice from half a lemon. Remove the cauliflower from the water, drain it, and put the blend above. The potatoes are served along with the cauliflower.
Snack: A slice of bread with two ounces of cottage cheese.
Dinner: Make a soup from three ounces of potatoes, a small carrot, half of teaspoon of butter, spices, one ounce of sliced ham, and parsley. The vegetables are boiling while the ham is broiling in butter. Put in the soup the ham, parsley, salt, and pepper.
Day three:
Breakfast: Five ounces of low-fat yogurt, a kiwi, and an orange.
Snack: a glass of fresh orange juice.
Lunch: Put seven ounces of boiled and sliced potatoes, an onion that is small cut and some sliced tomatoes into a pan. Lam an egg, mix it with three spoons of milk and one ounce of rubbed cheese, add salt pepper, and put it over the vegetables. Leave it in the oven for fifteen-twenty minutes.
Snack: A glass of tomato juice
Dinner: Bake two potatoes covered in aluminum sheet for thirty or thirty-five minutes and cut them in four. Mix two ounces of cottage cheese with a spoon of low-fat milk, some salt, pepper, lemon juice, and small cut parsley. Serve it with the potatoes.
Day four:
Breakfast: A slice of toast with two sliced of chicken chest and a grapefruit. You may have a tea if you want.
Lunch: Boil for ten minutes four ounces of sliced potatoes. Cut two peppers in slices, cut an onion in small pieces and harden it with a teaspoon of oil, then put the potatoes, peppers, and five ounces of canned sliced tomatoes and leave it in the oven for fifteen minutes.
Snack: An orange and an apple
Dinner: Boil three potatoes in their peal, cut in small pieces half an onion, and some garlic. Mix the onion and garlic with two ounces of low-fat cottage cheese, two ounces of yogurt, and two teaspoons of lemon juice. Put salt, pepper and serve it next to the potatoes.
Day five:
Breakfast: Four ounces of low-fat yogurt, an orange, and a chuck
Snack: Two apples
Lunch: Remove the peal from five ounces and cut then into chunks. Clean a carrot, a small onion and celery and boil them in two liters of water for twenty minutes, add some spices and finally put some parsley and a yolk of egg.
Snack: Five ounces low-fat yogurt and a slice of toast
Dinner: Bake in the oven for thirty minutes nine ounces of potatoes then cut them in half. Mix four ounces of cottage cheese with a spoon of yogurt, half an onion cut really small, salt, pepper, and the juice from a lemon. You serve it with the potatoes.
Although this diet does not guarantee weight loss, the foods may have a positive influence by helping you stay in shape. Always consult a specialist before starting any diet program.

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