Kremlin Diet


In various countries people fight extra weight using diets closest to their inner world. One of the most famous diets in Russia is Kremlin diet. It has been developed by a group of top doctors more than 30 years ago. Many Communist party leaders who had to be in public and look well used the system often. The diet was the best, because it did not restrict many foods people liked and allowed them to live the life they wanted (no special physical exercises were required).

The Kremlin diet was kept in secret and only highest officials had access to it. After the USSR fell apart the documents describing the steps of the diet were to be destroyed. However, some information leaked through and not only letting the system live, but also making it available to millions of ordinary people, not just country officials.

An interesting fact is that the Kremlin diet was actually developed for American military and astronauts. However it has not become their standard, because the politicians who had access to secret information like this decided to try it too and never gave it up to the astronauts. Nowadays Russian politicians still use the diet: for example, they say that the Mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov has lost 32 lbs thanks to the diet.

In its origin the Kremlin diet is very close to Atkins one. It is a low-carb system which allows the participants to eat any meat, cheese, fish, soup or other protein products as much as they want, but restricts carbohydrates and sugar in particular.

Although Kremlin diet offers a big variety of foods where one does not need to count calories, number of meals and time they are taken, it is important to count conditional units (c.u.) which stand for grams of carbs. Maximum amount of daily carb intake is 40 c.u. (40 g).

Main rules about the most common foods are the following:

• No bread: 100 g (4 oz) of bread contain 48 c.u., which already exceed daily amount.
• Noodles, pastas, porridges, rice, etc. should also be avoided because they are too high in carbs.
• Meat is allowed in any amounts if it is boiled and is taken with no sauces. Ideally the amount of meat taken in one meal should be the size of a palm of a hand.
• Fish is also acceptable without any high carb sauces.
• Oil is all right in any amount, but one should be careful about butter or margarine. Mayo takes 2.6 c.u. and eggs are 0.5 c.u.
• Vegetables are a little hard to count: one tomato is 6 c.u., a bell pepper is 9 c.u., a potato (boiled or baked) is 23 c.u. Fruits are the same way: apple takes 18 c.u and a pear is 25 c.u.
• Sweets are restricted. They are very high in carbohydrates: one slice of cake with cream is about 62 c.u and a 100 g bowl of vanilla ice-cream is 70 c.u.
• Mineral water, tea or coffee with no sugar are welcome. It is actually required to drink about 2 liters of pure water daily.

Maybe for the sweet-eaters this diet is hard, but so is any other system developed for weight loss. It is easy to follow the Kremlin diet, if the participant studies the list of food carefully and determines the “no-no” list. After this eating habits will establish quickly and weight loss is guaranteed.

The adversaries of the diet say the restricted amount of carbs (especially if the participants do not consume the required 20-40 c.u.) makes bones more fragile causing osteoporosis. Besides, the gums soften and teeth cavities might occur. The Kremlin diet is not recommended if one suffers from chronic diseases such as heart or stomach diseases. Pregnant women and children are not suggested to use the diet either.

Jean White

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Posted on May 15, 2009 
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