And with him healthy eating, gaining momentum. When people think about what they ride, it's good. After all proper nutrition helps to avoid many health problems. People pay attention to the composition of products, to the recommendations of nutritionists.
According to the standards of the World Health Organization, a product is considered healthy if it is low in gluten, sugar, low glycemic index, low fat, almost no salt, fiber present, sufficient protein, contains whole grains.
Reference: gluten - gluten containing a lot of carbohydrates. Foods containing a large amount of carbohydrates do not belong to a healthy diet, because carbohydrates in the body can turn into fats and be stored in the form of fat folds.
The glycemic index is a characteristic of a product that shows how the product affects the increase in blood sugar. Glucose has the highest glycemic index (100). As a rule, foods that are easily digestible have a high glycemic index.
Of course, there is no strict definition of useful and harmful products. This is exactly what manufacturers use to advertise their products as beneficial to health.
There are products that we know enough about. For example, bioyogurts contain beneficial bifidobacteria, unsaturated acids help lower cholesterol, and wholemeal bread is healthier. But the range of healthy foods is expanding. People who monitor their health are trying to expand their diet at the expense of new products.
But, unfortunately, products advertised as healthy are not always healthy. Trust or not advertising, your choice. We still advise not to change your diet based on the results of single studies. And do not trust advertising without carefully studying the information about the new product.
Top 7 Unhealthy Healthy Foods
Nut-chocolate paste- the basis of the composition: hazelnuts, skimmed milk, cocoa, vegetable oils. This product is advertised as healthy breakfast for women who watch their figure, and children. Chocolate is supposed to provide energy, nuts are supposed to provide nutrients. But even a careful study of the label shows that the product is far from healthy, its energy value reaches 700kcal per 100g, in pasta up to 35% fat, in 100g of product more than 20g of sugar. A recent case from judicial practice: a lawsuit was filed against the manufacturer Nutella (Italy). Using chocolate-nut paste as a product recommended for weight loss, the woman gained 2 kg in a week. Court won.
All kinds of cereals and breakfast balls Parents pour milk over a ready-made breakfast and offer it to children, believing that children receive a full breakfast. After all, advertising of all kinds of useful and healthy breakfasts is so intrusive! The basis of the composition: corn flour, wheat flour, sugar, vegetable fats, dyes and flavors, often enriched with vitamins. Conscientious manufacturers warn that the product contains soy. The energy value around 400kcal. Independent studies show that very often genetically modified products (soybeans, corn) are used for the production of such breakfasts. It is difficult to find anything useful in such a product. To say that flakes are "harmful" is impossible. This is just a product that can serve as energy and enough high-calorie nourishment for the body.
Sports (energy) drinks- advertising says that after drinking such a cocktail, you will keep your energy for a long time. As a rule, these are drinks that contain a lot of sugar and a substance for a long-term energy impact. The drink may be useful for those who experience constant intense physical exercise. But if you are not an athlete, then such a dose of sugar and energy is unlikely to improve health. In addition, energy drinks give an imaginary feeling of cheerfulness. A person can stay awake for a long time and be energetic, but then he will experience a breakdown.
Energy bars- are offered for a quick recovery. They have a low calorie content and a low glycemic index, which is surprising for a product containing sugar. Unlike drinks, they are advertised as a snack that can relieve hunger. And, if manufacturers always indicate sugars in drinks (usually glucose, fructose and maltodextrin), then the types of sugars contained in bars are hidden. Often, manufacturers do not recommend eating more than three bars per day. And the restriction on the use is always embarrassing.
Meat products without artificial preservatives - meat without preservatives is, of course, great. But in sausages, sausage, bacon, brisket and without preservatives, they are artificial or natural, there are enough harmful substances, especially saturated fats. How can such meat be a healthy product? With regard to any meat products advertised as healthy, one thing can be said: meat products they cannot be healthy, eating too much meat is harmful to health.
Green tea in bottles Almost everyone has heard about the benefits of green tea. Therefore, bottled tea manufacturers exploit the benefits of green tea by advertising their product. Catechins for which it is famous green tea, there is no bottled tea, but there is sugar and ... preservatives. Although the bottle says: without preservatives and artificial colors. What is citric acid? Besides, it's not tea with lemon, grapefruit, and so on. This is water with flavorings and sugar. This "tea" has nothing to do with healthy foods.
Egg substitutes- the product is not widely used in Russia. Advertised as a cholesterol-lowering product. But research shows that natural eggs do not increase cholesterol! Why use a product substitute if the product itself is healthy? The only excuse for an egg substitute can be a food allergy to eggs or a vegetarian diet. But, as a rule, substitutes contain a lot of synthetic substances and are subjected to intensive processing, which is also not useful.
All kinds of chocolate bars- eat and recharge your batteries, manufacturers say in advertising. Of course, you can get a dose of sugars and calories by eating a bar. But using it instead of a full-fledged meal is at least imprudent. The calorie content of bars is on average 492 kilocalories, 100 grams of delicacy contains more than 21 grams of fat, 45 grams of carbohydrates and only about 14 grams of proteins. Such a product can not be called healthy!
Drinks advertised as healthy are healthier than regular drinks
According to experts from the UK, cold drinks, coffee or fruit, which are healthy foods, contain too much sugar. For example, a serving (610 ml) of a fruit and berry smoothie contains 90 g of sugar. But the cocktail is fruit and berry and is advertised as a healthy food! By comparison, unhealthy glazed donuts have only 7g of sugar. Cold coffee with cream (590 ml) contains 60 g of sugar, the same amount of sugar is contained in 20 harmful biscuits.
Some manufacturers of fruit drinks and coffee change the composition of finished products to reduce sugar in them. But while such drinks can not be attributed to a healthy diet.
At the request of dentists, experts from Australia examined 85 categories of products advertised by manufacturers as healthy. In the category of dangerous for the teeth fell Red Bull energy drink, Orange juice and apricot muesli. They contain a large amount of sugar and high acidity, which destroys tooth enamel. The research results were communicated to manufacturers. Nestle refused to take any action and said that muesli contains only 7% of daily allowance sugar, as well as vegetable fibers and whole grains, which are good for children, so muesli will continue to be offered as a healthy food for children. And juice manufacturers recommend drinking it through a straw.
A special article - juices in the package. It seems that juices are the most successful choice in a healthy diet. But that's just it should not be juices of industrial production. They have a lot of sugar!
More than 150 varieties of muesli were tested under the same program. Almost all muesli packages say that they are recommended as healthy foods. Information constantly appears in the media about the benefits of muesli for dietary nutrition and those who want to lose weight.
The test result was striking: in some types of muesli there is a huge amount of fat (for comparison, a double cheeseburger is given, in 100 g of muesli there was twice as much fat), in some types of muesli the sugar content went off scale (up to 43%). The benefits of muesli in the content of seeds, nuts, oatmeal, dry fruits, fiber. But the content of fat and sugar greatly reduces the benefits of this product.
The experts proposed to introduce color marking of muesli. After all, people who buy this product do not always look at the composition, because advertising has done its job, muesli is considered healthy and is bought up by women who want to lose weight. Muesli - delicious product, but it cannot be called dietary.
Fat free foods are not.
What is written on the labels of products, especially dairy products (yogurts, curds and curd desserts)? Low fat product, low fat product, light, low calorie.
What did the studies (UK) show? Low-fat foods turned out to have a huge amount of food additives to improve the taste. That is, fat-free, which means healthy product contains so much salt, sugar and monosodium glutamate that it cannot be attributed to healthy food. Mayonnaise, which is in demand among housewives as the most delicious, has a 67% fat content. Those who want to lose weight replace their favorite mayonnaise with fat-free mayonnaise. But "fat-free" mayonnaise has 27% fat! It is not harmful, but definitely not suitable for a diet. And women dream so much about foods that you can eat and not get better! In the UK, innovative food products have been developed that give a state of satiety very quickly. Ate a little - and already full. Dream!
The situation in Russia is even worse. Here "fat-free" cottage cheese can contain 10% fat! This is not written on the packaging. Fat is cheaper than cottage cheese, so manufacturers resort to "little tricks". Of course, more often on the packaging they still indicate the correct fat content. But if you look at another line that indicates the benefits of the product for dietary nutrition, namely the calorie content, it turns out that it is no less. This means that you cannot lose weight on such a product, but you can simply lose fat. But if fats do not enter the body, that is, you want more. And a woman on a diet fills her hunger with fat-free, but high-calorie foods. You have to be careful when choosing a product. Read not only what catches your eye (usually it is bold), but the text in small print.
Nutritionists keep repeating: the best choice for a healthy diet - natural products. First of all, these are vegetables and fruits, vegetable oil must be mandatory, it will give the body required amount unsaturated fatty acids. Useful fish, white chicken meat. Of course, in modern world it is difficult to do without food bought in the store. Before buying a product, carefully read the label, buy products from trusted manufacturers. Conscientious manufacturers indicate the full composition of the product (although they resort to some tricks).
Healthy eating should be the basis of every person's life. Nutrition is health care.
Nutritionists consider a healthy diet to be dominated by fruits, vegetables, grains, legumes, nuts, poultry, and fish. However, the population of most countries prefers red meat, processed foods, sausages, oils and dairy products high in saturated fat, eggs, sugary foods and drinks. This type of food is called Western, it is considered not very healthy.
Unhealthy eating is often associated with the dominance of "chemicals", dyes, flavors and preservatives, "unnatural" foods and GMOs in food, but in fact, the transition to Western type of nutrition began long before the food industry.
From the point of view of evolution, it is not entirely correct to talk about healthy and unhealthy foods.
In the wild, there are carnivores that eat meat, and there are herbivores whose diet consists of grass. For them, it's "good," healthy food. The question is what types of food a particular type of animal is evolutionarily adapted to: what is good and healthy for some is poison or a path to beriberi for others. In humans, food traditions have evolved not even for centuries; their origins must be sought in the diet of our common ancestors with monkeys.
Relatively recently - about 10,000 years ago - the way people eat has changed dramatically and rapidly. So much so that physiology is not yet fully accustomed to it. Thanks to the development Agriculture people got a lot of meat and milk from domesticated animals, a lot of cereals, they learned how to get sugar and alcohol. The glycemic load on the body, the composition of fatty acids, and in general all the nutrients in food, the ratio of sodium and potassium, the content of trace elements and dietary fiber have changed. A person has learned to preserve the harvest with the help of culinary processing: pickling, fermentation, preservation, drying, drying and freezing.
Our genes are still trying - with varying degrees of success - to adapt to these "innovations". In a sense, nature brings a part modern people as a sacrifice so that our distant descendants can have breakfast, lunch and dinner with juicy steaks “with impunity” for health.
One revolution of the Stone Age was not enough. The second blow to the eating habits of the civilized part of humanity was caused by the development of industry - food has changed a lot again. The content of refined sugars and oils in food has increased, the amount of fats in animal products has noticeably increased, added sugars, flavors, flavor enhancers and others have appeared. nutritional supplements. Increased calorie intake. They have become tastier.
As a result, the diseases of civilization, associated, among other things, with a new type of food, have spread greatly. Nature, as it were, is trying to recall the Darwinian law: those who can adapt survive.
The most obvious consequence of the Western diet is obesity. Experts from the World Health Organization believe that today its prevalence has taken on epidemic proportions. Around the globe, 2.8 million people die every year from the consequences and obesity. The most "fat" nation is considered to be the Americans, but in Russia the problem is no less relevant. In 2015, 24% of Russians were obese, excess weight was in 58%. For reference: WHO considers overweight at BMI (body mass index) - the ratio of weight (kg) to the square of height (m2) - above 25 kg / m2, obesity - more than 30 kg / m2. This method has an error, so it is necessary to accurately determine the composition of the body using bioimpedansometry - a non-invasive method for measuring body composition.
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Being overweight is a risk factor for many diseases. It is harmful to the heart and blood vessels, spine, joints, pancreas, liver. The prevalence of heart disease is closely related to dietary habits. The Western diet increases the total caloric content of the diet, leading to fatty liver. The liver over time increases the content of "bad" cholesterol in the blood, with all the ensuing consequences in the form of atherosclerosis, an increased risk of heart attacks and strokes. The most harmful components of the Western diet for the heart and blood vessels are refined oils and red meat.
Obesity, high glycemic load, and excess consumption of trans fats are associated with an increase in the prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus, a disease in which the body's cells become less sensitive to insulin - insulin resistance. It is important that every second obese patient and every third overweight patient already has insulin resistance.
In fairness, it should be noted that the Western type of food is not absolute evil, this is not the only cause of the diseases of civilization.
The diet always works in combination with other factors: physical activity, heredity, bad habits, working conditions, environmental conditions, and many others.
A mixture of west and east
"Western style of eating" is a rather arbitrary term, especially in a globalized world where there is a mixture of cultures. The development of science and industry, a change in lifestyle always lead to a change in the quality, composition of food and eating habits. It cannot be said that in one country people have been eating properly for centuries, and in another all food has long become “fake”.
Traditional eating habits are not always and not always good. It is possible to adhere to a healthy diet and reduce the risks of diseases of civilization, living in any country, in any culture. The main thing is to find reliable sources from which you can get reliable information, listen to real, not home-grown, experts in the field of healthy nutrition, and not rush into extremes in the form of strict veganism, raw foodism, prano-foodism or unprepared fasting.
We are what we eat. Remember this more often.
Ancient people, having become farmers, noticed that after a few years the fields begin to produce a noticeably smaller crop. They acted simply: they moved to another place, uprooted a new plot under the field and fed from it until the land was depleted again.
Today, some Indian tribes live in the Amazon forests this way. The life of such "sedentary nomads" is subject to a regularly returning need, which makes them now and then take off from their homes and look for something new.
However, low yields did not put everyone to flight. Some have tried to get to the bottom of the mystery and develop strategies to deal with this phenomenon. As a result, three productive approaches to farming have emerged that allow for a truly sedentary lifestyle: crop rotation, three fields, and the use of organic fertilizers (dung, bird droppings, etc.).
During the first year in the three fields, “essential” crops, such as rye, were planted in the field. The next season, they grew some kind of industrial crop (rapeseed or something else), which was plowed without harvesting. Then the earth was given a year to rest and recuperate, and only after that they again sowed on it what was really used for food.
However, the principle of crop rotation began to operate here: now another crop was planted in the field. useful plant, such as turnips instead of rye or rye instead of turnips. Thus, in the same place, the same crop was grown no more than once every seven years. And the soil had enough time to re-accumulate vital substances for plants and humans.
Over time, people noticed that the earth also gratefully accepts the waste left after cooking and digesting it. So the first fertilizers were invented, and the chance of getting high yields increased even more.
A strategy that combines three-field farming, crop rotation and organic application has proven itself well. It is no coincidence that many nations adhered to it for centuries.
The method of cultivating the soil described above worked until Justus von Liebig, a chemist by profession and a humanist by conviction, put forward an idea that made it possible to intensify its exploitation. They were driven by a noble desire to defeat hunger throughout the planet. Alas, the first grandiose success of his wonderful undertaking has long been overshadowed by no less significant problems, although sometimes we do not even realize how much we suffer from them.
Liebig's idea was simple and promising: yields could be increased many times over by expanding the range of fertilizers. In other words, it is necessary to artificially return the main useful substances to the depleted soil, and then from the same field it is possible to harvest a rich harvest every year (and even more often). At the same time, the costs of fertilizers promised to pay off many times over.
At first, things were going well, but soon Liebig's idea became another confirmation of Brecht's idea that the opposite of good is not evil, but good intentions.
This is not the only example of how our attempts to remake and improve nature, even quite successful at first, lead to a catastrophe similar to the explosion of an artillery shell in a gun barrel. Initially, it was not taken into account that the introduction of relatively cheap artificial fertilizers would gradually depreciate the soil itself, because at the same time only the main substances necessary for plant growth are returned to it: nitrogen, potassium, calcium, phosphates, but the loss of essential nutrients remains unreplenished. human body trace elements and vitamins.
The process of impoverishment of the soil of agricultural land continues to this day, acquiring an increasingly menacing scale. Vegetables and cereals grown on it contain less and less vital substances for us. Although otherwise (ie, in terms of calories) their nutritional value is in line with the norm, they lack the most important component in order to rightfully be called complete foods.
What seems like healthy food may not be so...
Vegetable fats
Fat is considered to be better the more liquid it is, so vegetable fats also seem to be beneficial. But people forget that ordinary butter can also be liquid when heated. Junk food is cheaper than what the fast food companies enjoy.
Paste
A typical pasta is white flour mixed with water and eggs. No vitamins, no minerals, often not even fiber. Nothing but empty carb in paste form. And instant noodles contain a lot more salt mixed with unhealthy fat.
White bread
This is also pasta, but already in the form of bread. Not all bread is healthy. White is definitely not.
Soup mix
You didn't think the weird green powder you mix with water was good for you, did you? When you eat soup, you drink/eat water, milk, butter, or whatever you have mixed this powder with, along with salt and preservatives.
Ketchup
Despite the antioxidant lycopene (antioxidants reduce the risk of mutations in the body, as well as the risk of cancer), ketchup has a lot of sugar and salt, which is not conducive to improving health.
diet soda
Soda is not useful in any form, even if it is at least three times dietary. Some studies have shown that diet soda itself isn't that bad, but still, many in the experimental group gained significant weight from it. The theory is that diet soda stimulates the appetite. Other studies have shown that artificial sweeteners can cause weight gain.
processed cheese
According to some resources, processed cheese contains such a high amount of salt that two slices can easily exceed a person's daily salt intake.
Soy sauce
Yes, it's unexpected. Unlike many other soy foods, soy sauce does not contain specific antioxidants known as isoflavones. Soy sauce contains a very high percentage of salt, as well as substances that can trigger the development of cancer. There are already several types of soy sauce that are low in salt and free of dangerous chemicals. Too bad it's not as tasty.
Peanut
Nuts are generally useful. Most varieties abound in vitamins, minerals, fibers. Peanuts aren't a terrible exception, but they aren't quite as healthy. In most cases, peanuts are sold as a snack, sprinkled with salt and roasted in unhealthy fat. Therefore, it must be consumed in reasonable quantities, and it is also better in the form in which mother nature created it - raw and without salt.
fruit juices
Controversially enough, so many people believe that fruit juices are healthy that they replace real fruits in their diets. It's true that fruit juices contain a lot of vitamins, but at what cost. Most juices are loaded with extra sugar and contain no pulp. The pulp of the fruit provides important fibers that can be considered a good counterbalance to the naturally occurring sugars in fruit. Therefore, eat once again better fresh fruit.
Probably, few of us know that our health and external beauty largely depends on the balance of our diet, and not on the use of expensive cosmetics and salon procedures. Harmful food and its daily use adversely affects our internal health, which negatively affects the condition of the skin, hair, nails. What food is considered unhealthy?
Food is considered harmful not because it contains a huge amount of calories (in this case, the only danger is overweight). Everything is much more serious. In fact, what you eat will ultimately affect how you look. Consider the most harmful foods that should be completely eliminated from consumption, or reduced to a minimum in your diet.
First of all, surrogate products are considered junk food, which are only effectively disguised as natural. Among them are various margarines, ready-made dressings, sauces, mayonnaises (except home-made), yoghurt products (not natural yoghurts) etc. All of them are designed to make our food tasty. But in fact, they contain a huge amount of trans fats, carcinogens and other chemical additives that cause irreparable damage to our health. In this case, the way out will be the independent preparation of sauces, dressings, etc.
Instant foods - noodles, all kinds of canned soups, bouillon cubes, mashed potatoes, and so on, are also classified as harmless products due to their composition, which almost entirely consists of chemistry.
Foods that are high in refined sugar are also unhealthy foods. Such products include carbonated sweet drinks, muffins, cookies, chocolate bars, lollipops, chewing sweets and lozenges, ready-made compotes, juices, candied fruits, etc. for example, one glass of lemonade contains about five teaspoons of sugar. Can this drink quench your thirst? Not! But it can be detrimental to health.
Harmful food also includes various smoked foods. Among them: sausages, fish, sausages, meat, sausages, ham, ready-made pates and other products that have hidden fat in their composition. In such products, the meat is skillfully masked by lard, fat and skin, which occupy more than 40% of the total mass of the product. In addition, they add a huge amount of dyes and flavors.
Refined flour, as well as products made on its basis, are also considered junk food, since its composition is completely free from the complex of B vitamins and vitamin E.
Dried fruits should also be excluded from consumption (with the exception of self-dried ones), since strong chemicals are added to them for long-term preservation, which is unsafe for health.
Potato chips are probably considered the most harmful and dangerous food in the world, since they are not only carbohydrates and fats in their pure form, but also a large number of artificial seasonings and flavor enhancers. At the same time, chips made from a mixture of mashed potatoes and various additives are of great danger.
Alcohol also fell into the category of unsafe foods, as even in minimal amounts it prevents the body from absorbing vitamins. In addition, alcoholic beverages are high in calories, and this negatively affects not only the beauty of the skin, but also the figure.
As for preservatives, any addition of such “additives” to the product makes it harmful to our body. Industrial processing of products deprives them of vitamins and minerals.
Additives E.
Foods containing food additives of group E are considered dangerous, since most of them can cause allergic reactions, lead to upset stomach and intestines. Some of their species are officially approved for use. As a rule, prohibited E-additives are indicated on product labels in the smallest letters. For example, E-239 is hexamethylenetetramine or hexamine used in medicine for food poisoning. And for tourists, this additive is known under the guise of camping fuel. In an acidic environment, urotropine decomposes and forms formaldehyde, which, due to its toxic properties, is an excellent preservative element. Formaldehyde itself (E-240) as a preservative is banned, and E-239, from which it is formed, is allowed to be added to canned food. In particular, it is used in canned Atlantic herring in its own juice. As a result, it turns out that a harmless additive is simply masked in food. Therefore, if the E-239 additive is present in the composition of the products, it is better to refuse to buy it, even if the manufacturer assures that it is absolutely safe for health.
Carcinogens.
According to some observations, it was revealed that carcinogens can cause the occurrence of malignant tumors. These substances arise in the process of frying over an open fire, with long heating vegetable oil, as well as when it is reheated. Therefore, fatty fried foods should be excluded from your diet. Instead of frying, you can steam or boil foods. If you cannot imagine your existence without fried food, then try not to heat the oil too much, and use only fresh oil for each cooking. Since the action of carcinogens is neutralized by acidic marinades, when grilling meat or shish kebab, do not forget about preliminary thorough soaking of meat in vinegar or wine. Ordinary tomatoes, grapefruit juice, radishes, radishes, horseradish, celery, seafood will help to nullify the effect of carcinogens.
GMO.
Genetically modified organisms are living organisms (mainly plants) created using genetic technologies. Concerning the safety of GMO products, disputes around the world still do not subside. There are not enough arguments to draw unambiguous conclusions in one direction or another. However, the results of ongoing research in this area raise some concerns. For example, scientists from France have proven toxicity to the liver and kidneys of one of the varieties of modified corn. Experiments on rats showed that the group of rodents that ate such corn developed serious disturbances in the functioning of internal organs, and the composition of the blood also changed.
Potentially dangerous products should be considered beets, prepared meat products, since they often contain soy, which can be modified, rice, sweets (the composition contains soy lecithin), corn, and potatoes.
But, unfortunately, it is impossible to determine whether this product has been subjected to genetic modification by appearance. Now manufacturers are required to apply appropriate labeling to products, you just need to carefully study the label before buying.
Salt.
Salt is very harmful product, as it increases blood pressure and causes the accumulation of toxins in the body. Of course, in small quantities, salt is necessary for our body, but everything should be in moderation. Just a quarter of a teaspoon of salt daily is required to maintain the normal functioning of the body. Everything that we consume in excess of this norm can adversely affect our health.
By the way, salt does not always enter the body only from the salt shaker. Foods that contain a huge amount of salt do not always taste pronounced saltiness. A lot of salt is present in cheese, semi-finished meat products, bouillon cubes, ready-made sauces, chips. Salt can be replaced with seasonings and spices. For example, apple cider vinegar can be added to vegetable salad, parsley or green onions in mashed potatoes, rosemary in meat dishes, and tarragon in poultry or fish dishes. If you overdo it with salt, then watermelon, cucumbers, beets and Jerusalem artichoke will help get rid of it, as they have a strong diuretic effect.
Cholesterol.
It is produced by the liver and comes in two varieties. "Useful" cholesterol performs a protective function, protecting the walls of blood vessels from various kinds of damage, participates in the construction of new cells, and is also necessary in the production of certain hormones. "Bad" cholesterol is deposited on the walls of blood vessels, disrupting blood circulation and contributing to the occurrence of atherosclerosis. As a result, people with high levels of bad cholesterol in the blood most often have problems with the cardiovascular system, blood pressure and memory impairment in old age.
This substance is present in large quantities in egg yolk, squid, caviar, mussels, and fish. But dietary cholesterol is not the cause of high levels bad cholesterol in the blood, so do not deny yourself eating seafood or scrambled eggs. The main culprits of cholesterol plaques are considered to be saturated fats, which are so abundant in butter, lard, fatty meat, offal. Again, they cannot be completely excluded from the diet, since they are required for the normal functioning of the thyroid gland. It is important to observe the measure. If you consume 2000 kcal per day, then the body needs somewhere around 15 g of saturated fat. Anything in excess of this amount negatively affects health.
You can still fight cholesterol. To do this, you should monitor your weight, because the higher it is, the more the liver produces cholesterol. You should stop smoking, which, as proven by American scientists, increases blood cholesterol. Daily exercise, running helps cleanse the blood of fat. It is also necessary to include legumes in your diet, which, due to great content fiber can remove excess cholesterol from the body. In addition, lemon, cabbage, blackcurrant, due to the content of vitamin C, protect blood vessels from cholesterol plaques. And cottage cheese, fermented baked milk and kefir, due to the calcium content, are also good helpers in the fight against cholesterol.
Modified fats (trans fats).
Trans fats are not a harmless additive. Studies have shown that they reduce immunity, stress resistance, increase the risk of developing diabetes, cause a violation of prostaglandin metabolism, disrupt the cytochrome oxidase enzyme, which is the main participant in the process of neutralizing carcinogens and chemicals. In addition, trans fats are a major contributor to low birth weight babies and also impair quality breast milk in nursing mothers.
In accordance with the requirements of GOST 37-91, the fat content of butter should not be lower than 82.5%, otherwise this product can no longer be called butter. Any addition of hydrogenated animal or vegetable fats to the oil automatically converts it into the category of margarines. Not surprisingly, margarine does not attract the attention of insects or rodents ...
It is very common to hear that our favorite morning drink, coffee, is also included in the list of unsafe foods. From drinking coffee in huge doses, you can die, not to mention saying goodbye to normal nervous system. But, you have to try very hard to drink a lethal dose of coffee, I think not everyone can do it. In addition, coffee in moderation is even good for the heart. Plus, coffee is one of the strongest antioxidants.
Of great importance is the water that we use as a drink and on which we cook food. It is the basis of all living things. Tap water in its composition contains a large number of substances of inorganic origin, which are not absorbed by our body. The addition of chlorine and some softening agents kill the water, making it inanimate. In this case, you can use high-quality water filters or buy drinking water in stores, but at the same time from trusted manufacturers. Boiled water also not drinkable, as it is considered dead.
From this follows a natural and logical question: what to eat? Of course, you should not eat only raw vegetables and fruits, besides, the absolute benefits and safety of a raw diet have not been proven. It’s just that everyone and always needs to observe moderation and neutralize the consumption of harmful dishes in large quantities. fresh vegetables and fruits.
In addition to unhealthy food, overeating and non-compliance with the regime negatively affect our health and beauty. You should never fill up at night, even if during the day you did not have the opportunity to eat normally. Dinner should be in the form of a light snack. In the evening, you can afford some low-fat meat, low-fat fish, vegetables and fruits, and you should not eat bread, flour, sweet and fatty after 18 hours. Refusing to eat after six in the evening is not a recipe for weight loss, this rule should become an invariable part of your lifestyle. Then you won't have any problems with appearance, nor with health.
