What you need to know about food?

16 truths about food from the Russian health experts

One of the sources of energy injected into the body is a food.


Currently, there are about 2 000 diets. Finding themselves in all and choose the best for yourself is almost impossible. So I'm not going to present any of them. This would be the most boring of all time lists. And completely unnecessary. The most important fact is not so much what we had ... but what and how much has been learned.

If you obey the following simple rules, you make a quantum leap in the direction of effective nutrition. I would like to be the author, but the words of appreciation to the Russian health experts, Ivan Nieumywakin.

This professor, Doctor of Medicine, a member of the European Union and the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Medical Sciences and Technology, Distinguished Inventor of Russia, laureate of the State, member of the Presidium of the All Training Specialists Medical Association of Traditional Medicine of China.

So I think we should at least take his advice into consideration:

1 "We should not live in order to eat and eat in order to live." (Sokrates.)

2 Product ratio should be as follows. Food from plants: 50-60%. Carbohydrate: 20-25%. Protein: 15-20%.

3 Fluids to drink no more than 10-15 minutes before eating and 1.5-2 hours after eating. After eating should rinse your mouth with water.

4 Plant foods (salads, vegetable salads) eat for 8-10 minutes before eating meals of carbohydrate or protein.

5 Basically, do not mix carbohydrates with protein foods.

6 Avoid fried foods, fatty broths, whole milk, artificial and refined products, and moderate use of sugar.

7 Chew food thoroughly until the disappears in your mouth taste peculiar to him. In the process of satisfying hunger faster and therefore eat less.

8 Do not cook and do not sit down at the table in anger. You should always be in a good state of mind.

9 The digestion process is a work that requires a lot of effort, so after a meal, especially the rich, it is desirable to 20-30 minute rest, but not sleep and lying down.

10th It is better to eat more meals in smaller quantities than less, and large. Evening meal no later than 20, even at 19:00 it is more advisable.

11th Once a week, do light cleaning days (on fruits and juices), lasting from 24 to 36 hours.

12th During the illness, until normalization of temperature, do not eat anything except drinking water and juices.

13th Eaten food should be balanced movement.

14th Because food is a laborious process involving the processing power of food, absorption of nutrients, elimination of waste, the optimal mode of life is this: eat less food should be uniform, fresh, mainly those of plant origin, while limiting sweets and smoked. It should be remembered that what the table, the stool. Revenue (volume of food) should be smaller, and expense (movement) more.

16th One of the common disturbances in bowel constipation, which contribute to many diseases. After that the stool was being paid every day, be in the morning (until 7) drink a glass of water at room temperature and during the day, every 2-3 hours, 50-70 ml, which is especially important for the elderly.