Recipes: Myths about nutrition. Is it fair to them?

Health, handsome figure, a moderate weight, the strength of our muscles do not start at the dinner table and in the gym. They start in my head. It is known that people with low self-esteem, shy more often obese than those who self-confident, purposeful, open and sociable, inclined to communicate.

Around the theme of the useful and healthy food always been talk, debate and discussion on the basis of which there are persistent misconceptions, prejudices, myths and biases, often without the real implications. The site is named dieta.ru them as much of 50, with 3 of them are devoted to products from GMOs. And interestingly, the proponents of GMOs can scientifically prove the benefits of using products from them, but opponents simply can not scientifically prove their injury.

We have all heard a lot of popular opinion about nutrition, many of them support the belief that since many people say so, then - it's true. However, the general opinion is not always true, and sometimes harmful. This is often the result of massive media exposure, imposing common opinion about the food in the interest of advertisers. Call first at least seven of these misconceptions or myths.

Raw food is cooked more useful. It is not always the case. For example, beans, eggplants and some other raw foods contain toxins (poisons) that break down and become harmless to humans only after thermal treatment.

Table salt increases blood pressure. Scientists who once dubbed this thesis, is now less confident in him. As it turned out, the complete exclusion of salt from the diet promotes the development of human heart disease, as increases the level of "bad" (harmful), cholesterol (low density cholesterol, which causes the development of atherosclerosis, heart attacks and strokes).

Spicy foods harmful for the digestive tract. It turns out the opposite: pepper, horseradish, mustard kill bacteria and thus improve liver and gall bladder.

Chicken eggs raise cholesterol levels. In the eggs really a lot of cholesterol, but it does not come directly into the blood. If a person has a normal metabolism, you can eat eggs without fear, without causing yourself any harm. At least one egg a day if not hurt anyone.

Fresh vegetables are more useful than frozen. No one would argue that fresh vegetables straight from the beds of the most useful. So it fresh, straight from the beds. And we buy them in the store, where they received after storage in a warehouse, and then put in the refrigerator and keep there is sometimes a long time. During this time the vegetables are losing a lot of useful properties, while frozen vegetables retain nutrients longer.

Fry over an open fire healthier than the pan. This is quite untrue. When fat drips on the coals, he burns to form carcinogenic substances, which together with the smoke rise up and saturated with product. Well, if so want to roast, then wrap the product in aluminum foil, and only then - on fire.

When food intake can not be read, talk and watch television. Just the opposite. Abstracting, we eat slowly and chew food more thoroughly, so it is better to digest. But those who eat fast, "hastily" in danger of a peptic ulcer and gastritis.

All we repeatedly hear from nutritionists that the "snacks" during the day is harmful, but rather a full meal three times a day. But it appeared that the most useful is not when the clock strikes, and when there is a physiological need for food. It is important not abundant breakfast, no food, no later than 18 hours, and how much food we eat during the day. And it is very harmful to overeat. From the table have to get up with a slight hunger, as saturation will be felt in about 20 minutes.

And the worst thing for the body - it is starving. The effect of it - short and injury - long. During starvation the body as an energy source began to use their tissue. For the brain - the main organ regulating the whole body, the main energy source is glucose, which supplies in the human body lacks less than a day. When the reserves in the body of the protein, which is synthesized from glucose, depleted, the body begins to break down proteins of skeletal muscles, liver and other organs. Therefore, damage from starvation far outweigh its benefits, it is pointless, and its consequences can occur after long time.

You can often read like a useful cereal, pretzels with beer or coffee, muffins "muffin, pizza with mozzarella, Japanese cuisine - all this is nothing more than myths. Each muffin contains 600 calories, the average slice of pizza - 700-800 calories, and of Japanese cuisine can be considered as dietary miso soup, salad and sashimi. So not all Japanese are equally useful.

Advertised on all channels of TV chips from natural organic potatoes by themselves, and even with an excess of salt, are "heavy", trudnoperevarimoy food. Olive oil is useful, no doubt, if he does not drink glasses and do not add in all the dishes. Suffice it to 2 tablespoons salad. That's it!

We are told what to drink during the day 2 liters of water, without specifying where we are. This very much. Main Used fluid - a thirst. And quenches her need clean water.

It is said that from the noodles and potatoes grow fat. But they just do not fat! It is dangerous to that with which they cook and eat.

Do not have a lot of raw vegetables and fruits. Their relationship to the cooked food should not exceed 2:3. And most importantly - do not overeat either one or the other.

Conventional wisdom - that the best defense against fantasies, myths and legends about the useful and healthy food. There is a measure, not to overeat, chew, its balance of nutrients, to control their numbers a day, and everything will be fine.

And the doctors, especially a nutritionist should be treated only in case of any disease. But their recommendations must be treated critically, recheck, consultation, etc. We are talking about how cool you are, your body! I personally have always liked the installation Kashpirovsky: must eat less!

Dieting is harmful, why eat something that used to, but if you need to lose weight - Reduce portions. The most radical diet in this sense - to reduce the portions in half. Efficiently and not very harmful, and it's not forever. So cheers!