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One of the rules of the Volkov diet is to eat at any time and not be hungry. Yes, yes, and after 18.00 too! Find out more about this technique, get a menu and lose up to 5 kilograms of unnecessary fat in a week!

Author: Kristina Lobanovskaya, doctor, practicing nutritionist Article updated: 11/09/2020

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Diets for weight loss are usually divided into 3 categories. Their action can be based on changing the diet, limiting caloric intake, or adjusting the composition of the menu. The last category includes low-carbohydrate diets and separate nutrition techniques. The Volkov diet is a symbiosis of the rules of separate nutrition and restrictions in the carbohydrate diet. According to the author, using this technique you can lose 5 kg in a week, however, as your weight approaches normal, the rate of weight loss slows down.

The dietary program was developed by Russian physician Anatoly Volkov, recognized by experts as effective and safe, and is currently widely used in many countries. In 2000, Volkov founded the Ecolabmedtest obesity treatment clinic; its clients include Russian and foreign politicians, show business representatives and actors.

The essence

Volkov's diet involves strict limitation of complex carbohydrates. When these substances enter the body, they serve as the main “fuel”; when they are deficient in food, fat reserves are consumed. If, when compiling your daily diet, you include a minimum of foods containing complex carbohydrates, excess weight will go away fairly quickly.

The second principle of the diet is compliance with the rules of separate nutrition. Their weight loss benefits are based on the claim that combining certain foods has a bad effect on nutrient absorption. By consuming such products separately, the body receives optimal conditions for functioning and independently gets rid of excess weight.

Helpful information. The principle of separate nutrition was first proposed by the American nutritionist Herbert Shelton. He divided all foods into six groups, which are not recommended to be combined in one meal. This contributes to their retention in the gastrointestinal tract, and, as a result, slows down the process of fat burning. For example, meat, milk and vegetables require different “technological regimes”: digestion time, enzymes.

General requirements

When following the Volkov diet, you must follow the following rules:

1. You can eat at any time, you should not endure hunger.
2. The optimal break between meals is 2.5-3 hours, this is how long food is completely digested in the gastrointestinal tract.
3. Food must be chewed thoroughly, this speeds up the process of digestion.
4. The diet should be varied, but mixing foods belonging to different groups is prohibited.
5. Food should be prepared using dietary methods: boiling, baking, grilling, steaming.
6. It is not recommended to drink food with food.
7. The daily fluid intake is 2.5-3 liters, at least 0.5 liters should be drunk on an empty stomach, before breakfast, and the rest of the water should be drunk no earlier than half an hour after any meal.

At Dr. Volkov’s clinic, a weight loss diet is developed for each client individually, based on the results of the blood reaction to a particular food product. Its extract is added to a blood sample, and changes in the erythrocyte sedimentation rate are used to identify substances that negatively affect the immune system and the body as a whole. They are included in the prohibited list (“red list”). The remaining products are on the “green list”; they are allowed to be consumed, but only separately.

Special instructions. The daily diet should be calculated in such a way that the body spends more energy than it receives from food. To do this, you need to calculate how many calories are required to maintain your existing body weight, and subtract approximately 200-300 units. This will be the new norm, allowing you to gradually lose weight.

Prohibited Products

If you use a weight loss diet on your own, you should follow the general list of prohibited foods. It includes:

• Broths. According to the author of the method, all harmful substances contained in meat or fish pass into the broth. The exception is chicken broth, which is consumed during the rehabilitation period after illness.
• Smoked meats, canned food (including canned juices), this is “dead” food, except for calories, giving nothing to the body.
• Milk. Volkov believes that only babies need it. By enveloping the contents of the stomach, milk slows down the digestion of food, as a result of which unnecessary fermentation processes can begin in the stomach.
• Carbonated drinks. They are deprived of oxygen, and therefore will absorb it once it enters the stomach, and thereby slow down the process of digestion of food.
• Use vegetable oil only for salads. During heat treatment, the beneficial substances in unrefined oils are destroyed, while they are not present in refined oils to begin with.
• Alcohol. Alcoholic drinks are contraindicated in any weight loss diet, as they reduce its effectiveness.

Advantages and disadvantages of the diet

The advantages of the Volkov diet are standard for any healthy eating system with an emphasis on low calorie content. This is a real way to significantly reduce weight without putting your health at risk and without experiencing the discomfort of hunger.

From the point of view of those losing weight, the main disadvantage of the method is the substantial cost of control tests at the Ecolabmedtest clinic (and they need to be carried out quite often, every 3-5 months). According to nutritionists, the disadvantages of the Volkov diet can be considered:

• Drink 3 liters of water daily. This is too high a norm, hardly justified by considerations of benefit.
• Milk ban. Such a restriction can negatively affect the functioning of the kidneys, liver and cardiovascular system.
• Exclusion from the diet of broths. Meat and fish decoctions activate the digestive system, are easily digestible, and contain many useful substances. The “taboo” on broths is quite capable of disrupting the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract.

About vegetarianism

— How do you feel about vegetarians?

— Bad: we have to heat ourselves most of the year, so vegetarianism in its pure form is not very suitable for a country with such a harsh climate. You don't have to eat meat, but you definitely need to eat fat.

- But fat can be of vegetable origin.

- It can’t be, because there are not enough unsaturated fatty acids, we need saturated ones, and these are animal fats (meat, fish and butter).

— What are the consequences of long-term vegetarianism?

- Look: the working surface of the lungs is fat, brains are fat, bone marrow is fat, sex hormones are fat, color vision is fat, cell membranes are fat. Do you understand the dangers of low fat?

— Is there any way to replace animal fat?

— Hindus, who live for many years without meat, eat countless amounts of butter. An adult does not need protein; he needs fat as a consumable. By the way, adult polar bears, which feed mainly on seals, eat the skin and fat, and give the carcass (meat) to children.

Sample menu

You can create a diet yourself, following the rules of the method. The weekly menu below is a recommendation and can be considered as one of the options.

About baby food

— Children's vegetarianism is a controversial topic, because, as far as I understand, there are no reliable scientific studies on its benefits yet.

— Children need protein to grow.

— It’s not clear what to rely on in your decisions about your own diet. Scientific evidence is constantly changing and disproves one theory after another.

- Try to rely on two things: what your body wants, and how you feel when you followed its advice.

— This doesn’t work with children: if a child is allowed to eat what he chooses, it will be bread and jam, pasta with sausage and chocolate chip cookies.

— A person chooses from what food requirements his parents formed. It’s crazy when parents say: “You can’t drink while eating because...” - what follows is a bunch of crazy clichés. Although all children want to drink while eating. It is necessary to drink while eating, because already on the third piece of food the sense of taste decreases. This sip of water returns the sense of taste, thanks to which the body reacts to your actions much more accurately.

- So what to do with the children? They love flour and sweets.

- Where do they get flour, tell me. Do they bake it themselves? Or do parents still bring it?

— There is still bread in the house.

- Why can’t there be real grain bread in the house? Porridge, bread, pasta - if it is done correctly, then there is no problem, let them eat.

- Then the eternal question of parents: how to get a child to eat vegetables?

- Why do you have to force it? You can simply cook them deliciously. Did you enjoy eating this tasteless mess of everything as a child? Prepare vegetable soups, for example, with lamb fat or chicken fat. Not with broth, but with fat. Better yet, grill vegetables.

If the body says “I’m hungry,” you need to drink a glass of water

— There is an opinion that the benefits of soups are overrated because vitamins are destroyed during cooking.

— The amount of vitamins that a person tries to cram into himself is not necessary for him. Vitamins are triggers, information structures, their costs are very low. Moreover, all the vitamins we need are produced by bacteria in our intestines if they are working properly. Humanity has survived without taking vitamins.

— How do you feel about dietary supplements?

— I prefer food rather than nutritional supplements. In my opinion, it is much better to eat a piece of mackerel or halibut than fish oil in a capsule, even the most environmentally purified one. In the body, everything interacts in context, and not as separate components.

— Pediatricians have adopted the idea that semolina porridge is healthy and should be given to children in the morning. Now it seems that it is becoming clear that this is not the healthiest food.

- Semolina porridge is not healthy at all. This is the same cleaned crushed grain. Bulgur, crushed sprouted wheat, is much healthier because it contains the germ.

Quitting the diet

The time for following the Volkov diet is not limited; you can stick to it all your life, since the diet is completely balanced. But if the desired weight has already been reached, you need to exit the diet correctly, otherwise the lost kilograms may return. Dr. Volkov recommends for two to three weeks:

• Use as few foods as possible that were prohibited during the diet.
• Add new dishes to the diet gradually.
• Make sure that the energy value of the daily diet does not exceed 2000 Kcal.

About drinking water

— I read that you recommend drinking four liters a day. I try to drink a liter and a half, and it’s difficult for me.

- So you are doing something wrong, drinking water at the wrong temperature. In the morning, one and a half liters can be easily drunk in an hour.

— How to distinguish bad water from good?

- Give it to the dogs to drink. They would rather drink from a puddle than tap water. Boiled - the same as tap water, but also dead.

— That is, you separate boiled and unboiled water. It’s just that the chemical composition is the same.

— Water is not a chemical solution of salts. If you take distilled water, add salt to it, make the chemical composition of sea water, put a fish in it, then it will live there for about thirty seconds and die. But when the water stands for two or three months, stones lie in it, bacteria multiply, flora starts to grow, then you can safely fish, and they will live. This means that water is different from one another.

- So how to eat properly: three times a day or five times a day?

- Hunger is indistinguishable from thirst. If the body says “I’m hungry,” you need to drink a glass of water. If you are really hungry, he will say, “Now let’s eat.” And if he was thirsty, and you gave him food, after half an hour he will say: “Now give it again,” and you again give him a piece of food, but he actually wants to drink. This is how you will continue to eat pieces all day long, swelling in size and not understanding why you are gaining weight.

Contraindications

The weight loss method proposed by Dr. Volkov is not recommended for use during pregnancy and breastfeeding, in childhood or old age, as well as in the presence of the following pathologies:

• acute diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, liver, kidneys, cardiovascular or endocrine systems;
• oncology;
• rehabilitation period after surgery;
• serious hormonal disorders.

Attention! In order to really assess the condition of your body and avoid unpleasant consequences from using the diet, it is strongly recommended that you consult a qualified specialist before starting it.

About evolution

- Why are there so many allergy sufferers now?

— An allergy is an attempt by the body to get rid of waste in a non-standard way. The main task of the body is to be clean inside. All technologies are aimed at making it clean: phlegm, mucus, rashes - this is all an attempt to cleanse yourself.

“Twenty years ago there weren’t so many allergy sufferers.”

— About twenty years ago there was not such a quantity of nasty things that people consume in the form of colorful foods, medicines, electronic ether, bad water.

— Scientists who study human evolution say that our body was formed ten thousand years ago, when a person walked 10-15 kilometers a day and did not eat anything sweeter than carrots. Therefore, now, when we use our body in a completely different way than it was intended, we suffer from diabetes and oncology.

“The human body ten thousand years ago smelled, saw, heard and ran much worse than any dog. This means that it is not adapted for life in the wild. But our head has a fundamentally different energy supply than that of animals. This means, most likely, that our body needs our head to work, and not vice versa.

- Do you still think that the body has somehow adapted?

- Of course, we are very flexible.

Reviews and results of losing weight

Oksana, 23 years old

I was always overweight, but after giving birth I became simply fat, and it became difficult for me to even move. I was recommended to go to Volkov’s clinic by a friend who had undergone treatment there for obesity and was pleased with the results. I took the necessary tests at Ecolabmedtest, waited for the results, and then began a rather long and difficult journey of adaptation to the new diet. The weight loss process took place under the constant supervision of a doctor, who monitored the results and adjusted the diet. In a year I managed to lose more than 35 kg, it’s just fantastic! I move easily, shortness of breath has gone away, and my blood pressure has returned to normal. I can say that the Volkov diet, despite the considerable costs in the clinic, is an excellent method for losing excess weight.

Alexandra, 40 years old

This is the first time I’ve heard about such a strange method of losing weight, when the rules that must be followed contain mutually exclusive things. They recommend eating at any time as soon as you get hungry, and immediately require you to eat every 2-3 hours. What to do if a person is not hungry even after 3 hours? What is the value of the statement about the dangers of milk for an adult? This is complete nonsense: milk is a rich source of calcium, vitamins and microelements, and can only cause harm if you are intolerant to certain types of protein. I’m not ready to radically change my lifestyle or pay a substantial amount to use such a dubious method.

Evgeniy, 38 years old

Volkov's diet for weight loss works. In a month - minus five kilos. True, adaptation is a bit difficult: in the first week, all my old sores came back: gastritis worsened, my head ached, and even the bone at the site of an old fracture ached. At the end of the fourth week, weakness, loss of strength, and apathy appeared. According to the doctor, these are normal phenomena. And indeed, then everything went away. I continue the diet, although I feel a little sorry for the heaps of money that I have to spend on tests and clinic visits.

About losing weight

— Surely women come to you and say: I want to lose five kilograms by summer, what should I do? What do you answer them?

- First I talk to them. Being overweight happens for a reason, and it's important because it has to do with health, not the number on the scale. The reason is an overload of the internal environment; its contents are stored in subcutaneous fat so as not to poison the blood.

— Do women lose weight faster than men, or vice versa?

- Differently. It depends on the weight a person is losing weight from: from 250 kilograms to 90 he will lose weight in a year, from 85 to 75 kilograms he will lose weight in six months, but he will lose weight slowly. If you add sufficient physical activity to this, weight can increase and volumes can go away. Weighing is the most pointless action. If you are thin, but cannot get out of bed, then your weight loss has nothing to do with your health.

- What's wrong with scales?

— Your scale shows a kilogram - is it a kilogram of lard or a kilogram of meat? What did you weigh when you looked at the scale? Weighing makes sense only when its object has the same density throughout its entire volume. If fat people were made of fat, they could not be drowned. They have garbage, protein, metabolic waste in their bodies. That's the problem. Everyone struggles with fat, and we need fat.

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Various methods of cleansing the body that stimulate the functioning of the excretory systems have long been known. One of the main directions of work according to Dr. Volkov’s method can be formulated as follows: “Clean not where they clean, but where they don’t litter!”

Using highly effective methods for identifying chronic food intolerance (hidden food allergies), excluding from the patients’ diet foods that “clog” the internal environment of the body, introducing into a person’s daily routine the habit of drinking a sufficient amount of clean, high-quality (structured and rich in active oxygen) water, we create conditions under which the operation of waste removal systems is significantly facilitated. The head physician of the Clinic is Anatoly Viktorovich Volkov. Consultations are conducted by highly qualified nutritionists who are fully proficient in the author’s unique methodology.

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