Fasting Days

Fasting days

Fasting days are prescribed with the knowledge of the doctor no more than once or twice a week, depending on the nature of the disease, the patient’s tolerance and general nutritional status. The regimen is moderately gentle with limited physical activity.

Examples of some fasting days:

Milk fasting days. Option 1: 0.8-1 liters of milk per day (100 ml every 1.5-2 hours), and at night - 200 ml of fruit juice and 20 g of sugar. Indications: heart disease with circulatory failure, hypertension. Option 2: 6 times a day, 250 ml of milk or curdled milk, kefir. Indications: hypertension, obesity, gout.

Fruit fasting days. Apple - 1st option - 2 kg of ripe raw apples for 5-6 doses. Indicated for hypertension, especially hypertensive crises, nephritis (with the addition of 150 g of sugar), obesity, gout. Option 2 - 1.25-1.5 kg of ripe, raw, peeled and pureed apples per day for five doses. Indications: acute or chronic colitis with diarrhea.

Compote fasting days - during the day (5 doses) compote of 1.5 kg of apples (or 400 g of dried fruits), 150 g of sugar and 800-1000 ml of water. Indications: diseases of the liver, biliary tract, kidneys.

Rice-compote fasting days - 1.5 liters of compote are prepared from 1.5 kg of fresh fruits and berries (or 250 g dried), porridge is cooked in water from 50 g of rice and 100 g of sugar. Receive 6 times a day 1 tbsp. compote, 2 times a day - with sweet rice porridge. Indications: diseases of the liver, biliary tract, kidneys.

Fasting days from dried apricots: the patient receives 500 g of dried apricots doused with boiling water during the day. Indications: hypertension, heart failure.

Vegetable fasting days.

Potato days: 5 times a day, 300 g of baked potatoes with a small amount of sour cream or vegetable oil. Indications: heart disease with circulatory failure, kidney disease (urination increases due to the significant content of potassium salts). Tolerability is not always satisfactory, because Potatoes can cause bloating.

Cucumber fasting days: in 5-6 doses, 1.5-2 kg of fresh cucumbers and 2 tbsp. curdled milk. Indications: obesity, gout, atherosclerosis, arthrosis.

Salad fasting days: in 5-6 doses, receive 1.0-1.5 kg of fresh vegetables and fruits (apples, carrots, cabbage) with a small amount of sour cream (without salt) or vegetable oil. Indications: hypertension, atherosclerosis, gout, chronic polyarthritis, arthrosis, kidney disease.

Watermelon fasting days: receive 300 g of ripe watermelon 5 times a day. Indications: atherosclerosis, hypertension, circulatory disorders, liver and kidney diseases.

Protein fasting days.

Curd fasting days: per day 400-600 g of lean fresh cottage cheese, 60 g of sour cream, 50-100 ml of milk with coffee, 1-2 glasses of rosehip decoction (in four doses). Indications: obesity, heart disease with circulatory disorders, atherosclerosis. Sometimes, for the same indications, cottage cheese-apple days are used, which include 400-300 g of cottage cheese, 200 ml of milk and 1 kg of apples.

Curd-kefir fasting days: 6 times a day, 150 g of kefir and 3 times a day, 100 g of lean cottage cheese. Indications: diabetes, obesity.

Meat fasting days: boiled lean meat 360 g, milk 100 ml, green peas 120 g, fresh cabbage 280 g; add 1-2 cups of coffee without sugar and 1-2 cups of rosehip decoction. Indications: obesity: Instead of meat, it is good to use lean boiled fish in quantities up to 400 g. Meat fasting days are contraindicated in case of liver diseases, kidney failure, severe atherosclerosis.

Sugar fasting days. The patient receives 4 glasses of hot tea in 5 doses with 30-40 g of sugar in each glass. Indications: diseases of the liver, biliary tract, acute nephritis, colitis with a predominance of putrefactive processes.