Ginger is actively used in folk medicine, as a spice in cooking, and when losing weight.. This product has unique properties that help fight obesity and keep weight under control. How to make a slimming cocktail at home with a ginger root, read below.

Useful and harmful properties of ginger

Before you start using the considered type of drink for weight loss, you need to clearly understand for yourself that just a liquid does not help the case. First, you should immediately review your diet, and exclude foods with a high content of cholesterol, fat, fast carbohydrates. Secondly, add physical activity.

Did you know? Ginger is a natural pain reliever. It perfectly removes krepatura in muscle tissue, indispensable in the treatment of arthrosis.

Ginger drink is used to cleanse the body of toxins, reduce blood cholesterol, as an aid in losing weight. The use of this type of drink improves digestion and metabolic processes, which in turn helps to accelerate the removal of excess fluid, toxins, normalize stool, if constipation occurs.

In addition, due to the consumption of this drink, the quality of the skin is improved, which is quite significant in the fight against cellulite. Ginger is also a good immunostimulant. The fact is that most diets involve the exclusion of a large amount of food, which contain certain vitamins and minerals, therefore, often during these periods, weakness, dizziness is felt, fatigue and drowsiness are observed.

Thanks to ginger drinks, such problems with weight loss can be forgotten.Well, one of the most positive effects of ginger on body fat is the stimulation of thermogenesis - warming the body from the inside. It is under the influence of this process that active fat burning is activated.

No matter how attractive this method of stimulating weight loss is, ginger roots can cause significant harm to health if you do not follow the rules of admission and do not pay attention to the characteristics of your body.

• If the admission standards are not observed, the following side effects may be observed:
• diarrhea;
• vomiting
• increase in blood pressure;
• sleep disturbances.

Varieties of Ginger Slimming Cocktails

There are several varieties of cocktails in which the main ingredient is ginger root. They differ only in additional components.

So the main ingredient is combined with:

• apples
• kefir and cinnamon;
• lemon and mint;
• cinnamon and honey.

Did you know? Ginger helps eliminate bad breath from the mouth. You just need to chew a small piece of fresh root, and then spit it, and your breath will be fresh all day.

• This product has a rich vitamin composition:
• thiamine;
• riboflavin;
• choline;
• pantothenic acid;
• pyridoxine;
• folates;
• vitamin C;
• alpha tocopherol;
• phylloquinone;
• PP

With apple

Ingredients:

• apple - 1 pc. (approximately 100 g);
• ginger root - 3 tbsp. l .;
• water - 1.5 l.

Cooking:

1. Warm up the water slightly, to about + 30 ° C.
2. Ginger root grate.
3. Cut the apple into strips using a potato peeler.
4. Put all the ingredients in water. Mix well, put in the refrigerator.

With kefir and cinnamon

Ingredients:

• ginger - 50 g;
• fat-free kefir - 250 ml;
• ground cinnamon - 0.5 tsp.

Cooking:

1. Fold chopped ginger root in a blender.
2. Sprinkle with cinnamon and pour kefir.
3. Beat in a homogeneous mass.

Important! Kefir-ginger drink should be prepared only in small portions and drink immediately after cooking.

With lemon and mint

Ingredients:

• water - 2 l;
• peppermint -100 g (leaves and tops);
• fresh or dried ginger - 3 tbsp. l or 2 tbsp. l .;
• lemon - 100 g

Cooking:

1. Boil water, put mint in it and turn off the fire immediately. Insist grass in a closed vessel for about 2 hours.
2. Squeeze the juice from the lemon and add it to the resulting broth. Cut the zest into slices and also put in the liquid.
3. Grind ginger on the smallest grater, place in a vessel with lemon-mint water, mix, put in the refrigerator.

With cinnamon and honey

Ingredients:

• honey - 6 tsp;
• lemon - 1 pc. (100 g);
• cinnamon - 4 tsp;
• ginger - 50 g;
• water - 1.5 l

Cooking:

1. Grind the main ingredient, mix with cinnamon.
2. Boil water, pour ginger-cinnamon mixture over it.
3. Insist in a sealed container for 1 hour.
4. After cooling to + 30 ° C, add honey to the liquid, squeeze the juice from the lemon, cut the zest and throw it into the drink, mix.
5. Put in the refrigerator.

Norms and basic rules for use

Drinks made on the water consume 250 ml 5-6 times a day. Kefir drink drink 250 ml no more than 3 times a day. Drinking fat-burning smoothies is best 10 minutes before a meal.

The course is from 2 weeks to 3 months. When conducting a three-month course, every 14 days you should take a three-day break. Water-based drinks can be made in large quantities. They are perfectly stored for 5 days, provided that they are constantly in the refrigerator.

Contraindications

• It is completely forbidden to consume the drinks in the following cases:
• period of pregnancy and lactation;
• gastrointestinal dysfunction, accompanied by diarrhea, vomiting, heartburn;
• gastric ulcer;
• allergies to ragweed and wormwood (these herbs are baptized with ginger);
• kidney damage
• high blood pressure;
• fever;
• sleep disturbances;
• oncological diseases.

Important! Ginger drinks are contraindicated for all gastritis. It is impossible to use such a drink even during periods of remission, otherwise you can provoke an exacerbation.

Ginger shakes are an excellent tool that can be successfully used with diets aimed at losing weight. They are not only fat burners, but also contribute to the enrichment of the body with useful elements, stimulating the activity of the immune system.