Most of nutritionists advise to have supper not later than 3 - 4 hours before withdrawal for sleeping and if getting strongly hungry, then it is better to drink a glass of kefir. All of us, sacredly believing in advantage of drink, we go to the fridge behind a glass of fermented milk product in the evenings. However, quite recently there was an opinion that it is undesirable to use kefir for the night, in certain cases also extremely harmfully. How to be in this situation and how to understand whether it is possible to make an exception for the sake of one glass of fresh and tasty drink?
In what advantage of kefir
Useful properties of dairy drink are explained by existence in it of various lactocultures, that is from bacteria which live in our intestines, regulate digestion and stimulate work of the immune system.
Nutritionists strongly recommend to use kefir for weight reduction, metabolism acceleration and also at failures in work of digestive organs and a liver. In addition, dairy drink possesses light diuretic action, and, therefore, thanks to it it is possible to get rid of hypostases. Very few people know that fresh kefir influences an organism as light laxative, and the fact that he stayed two-three of day, on the contrary, fixes.
Kefir contains a set of useful elements, such as iodine, calcium, phosphorus and others, but already in smaller quantities. Fresh kefir is an excellent supplier of vitamins of group B, it contains B2, B3, B12.
What to choose kefir?
First of all, it is worth paying attention to product expiration dates. At natural kefir if, of course, preservatives, it usually no more than 5 - 7 hundred parts aren't added to it. One more important criterion is a fat content of a product, for those, behind the figure and to adhere to the principles of healthy food, it is better to take one-percentage as it contains 40 kcal on 100 g, and drink 3.2% fat already 56.
Now we will try to understand whether it is possible to use after all kefir for the night.
Arguments for
- at night day calcium is acquired much more actively, and in kefir there is a lot of it;
- consumption of drink neutralizes feeling of hunger which often prevents to fill up. Except banal filling of a stomach, kefir contains amino acid tryptophane which helps to fall asleep quickly and strong;
- as well as it was told above, dairy drink disperses metabolism;
- on a hungry stomach useful bacteria takes root significantly better.
Arguments against
- in the course of activity of those lactocultures, in kefir a small amount of alcohols is formed;
- diuretic effect of drink can provoke one or several rises in a night for a campaign in a toilet.
Whether it is so possible to drink kefir for the night? It is possible to drink, but only fresh drink without preservatives, no more than one glass, and not later one - two hours before sending to a bed.