Chicken Soup Diet

Chicken Soup Diet is planned in a very interesting way. It is a seven day diet program. Unlike the other diets it is restricted on the chicken soups. In this seven day diet program a person can have different types of breakfast and after that he is only allowed to have soups made with chicken.

Benefits of Chicken Soup Diet

Persons suffering from obesity may go for this seven day program. It reduces weight significantly and we all know that overweight causes many serious diseases. Moreover it brings back the glow of skin. Actually it makes you slim and beautiful in a very short period of time.

Chicken soup diet process

• Breakfasts – Dieters have a variety of choices in their breakfasts. The choices are as follows:
• First choice: You can have a full plate of fruit salad and a cup of non fatty flavored yogurt.
• Second choice: A dieter can have a bowl of cereal along with skimmed milk.
• Third choice: This breakfast allows adding a wheat bread topped with cheese and a glass of prune juice in your breakfast.
• Fourth choice: In this choice a dieter can eat a cup of ricotta cheese with one tablespoon sugar. He can also include two slices of brown bread in his breakfast.

Chicken soup recipe

Here is a healthy chicken soup recipe given for you. You can make and have it during lunch or dinner when on diet. Let’s have a look.

Ingredients

1. Olive oil ( two table spoon)
2. Celery ( one cup)
3. Chopped carrots( one cup)
4. Chopped broccolis( one cup)
5. Chopped onions ( one cup)
6. Two cups of boiled chicken
7. Chicken stock
8. Lemon juice( ¼ cup )
9. Garlic ( chopped one tablespoon)
10. Salt to taste
11. Pepper

How to prepare
Heat the oil in a pan. Now add onion, garlic, celery, carrot and broccoli. Cook for fifteen minutes until all the vegetables become tender. Now add chicken pieces and cook for a minute. Pour the chicken stock. Add salt. Leave it for ten minutes in a medium heat. Now pour in a soup pot. Add a pinch of pepper and serve it hot.

Risks of chicken soup diet

However there are also some risk factors associated with this diet. This diet does not allow the dieter to eat various kinds of foods. Thus a different kind of mal-nutrition may occur. Suppose one suffers from calcium or iron deficiency. He or she can’t be benefited with this diet and on the contrary the problem may increase. So this way has some drawbacks. So what to do? Consult your doctor before you start this diet. He can only suggest you the right option.



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