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To eat so healthy, which is for health or to achieve results aesthetic desired, is a first step to to live better and generally feel good in your body.
The precise eating patterns often imposed by diets they can surely give us one back discipline adequate to take care of ourselves.
This is the particular case of the OMAD diet. But how does it work? Let’s find out together in this article.
Omad diet
OMAD derives from a acronym English which stands for “One Meal A Day”, translated into Italian with “One meal a day”. How this particular diet works therefore, is easily understood starting from the name, but it takes a deepening to understand how much is actually effective for results to long term and what could be yours effects on health, whether they are positive or negative.
Omad diet: how it works and the schemes to follow
The Omad diet therefore consists of a intermittent fasting, to be followed with one precise nutritional scheme, or rather, one of your choice three according to personal needs.
The scheme “16/8”, must be carried out twice to week and plans not to consume no food for 16 hours consecutive and instead to eat over the Eight hours remaining. The scheme “Eat stop eat” instead it plans to fast throughout the day, that is 24 hours.
The scheme “5: 2” finally it is a fast diet, as it consists in consuming 600 Kcal over two days in a week.
Omad diet: how it works and the positive effects
Like any diet, if done properly correct, the Omad diet can bring you several benefits. One above all of course, the reduction of the calories. It is indeed impossible to exceed a certain number of these if yes reduce the hours in which to eat. The Omad diet can also help control i levels of the glycemia in blood. This is because, by eating only once a day, you will only have one glycemic peak and also in a short space of time. Intermittent fasting also activates the mechanism of autophagy of our body that will be pushed to eat of their own damaged cells.
Contraindications
To understand if this could be the right diet for us, we must also look at the classic downside. For example, you have to reconcile diet ed physical activity so that you can practice them every other day, because the fasting obviously it does not allow you to have the necessary energies to allow our physique to resist under stress. Another factor to pay attention to is theexcessive calorie restriction, especially if you are, or have been subject to food disorders. The fact of following a very specific scheme, consuming few calories, could in fact accentuate the risk of reactivating those dangerous mechanisms that lead to suffering from anorexia or bulimia.
In any case, before starting the Omad diet it is advisable to contact your own trusted doctor who, already aware of the patient’s physical condition, will be able to best address the better way for undertake a possible path with this particular feeding method.
