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Healthy nutrition: widespread myths

It is possible to eat only fruit in the summer

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This popular belief which can do serious harm to your health! One-sided berry or fruit diets break exchange processes in an organism at all seasons of the year. Excess of glucose and fructose leads to increase in level of insulin. And if the long time to eat only fruit (especially sweet), then your thyroid gland can glitch.

For the night is harmfully, from it you get fat

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Actually time of day when the person eats, does not influence weight in any way. And here food caloric content – still as! The matter is that during a dinner of people it is most not moderate in food. Quite often for dinner we afford a little alcohol which urges on appetite even more. Evening having a snack has to be a lung and not contain "simple" carbohydrates as it excessively loads a pancreas and promotes an adiposity.

Чем меньше пища готовится, тем она полезнее

Than less food is cooked, it is more useful to those

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Undoubtedly, at short heat treatment the food keeps more useful substances. However increase in time of cooking and frying of products allows to reduce significantly the level of toxic chemicals hazardous to health which become more active in the course of heating. The cooked food is especially dangerous to people with a diabetes mellitus whereas the organism of healthy people without effort copes with digestion of such food hastily.

Ice cream - it is tasty, but it is not useful

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Here not! At ice cream the mass of useful properties, and only one eaten eskimo in days it is capable to improve state of your health significantly. The delicacy stimulates synthesis with a serotonin organism – substances which lighten the mood and protect from stresses. The milk or cream which are a part of ice cream contains L-tryptophane – the natural tranquilizer which is calming nerves and positively influencing a dream.

Soy is useful in every respect

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It is also a lie. Soy well influences cardiac performance and digestive tract, but it has the oppressing effect on endocrine system. It is proved that the children since childhood raised by soy have diseases of a thyroid gland more often, than at those who did not receive it in food.

Если во время еды пить воду, то поправишься

If during food to drink water, then you will recover

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The similar interrelation is not noticed. Nevertheless, liquid during meal should not be drunk after all as it breaks natural process of digestion of food, liquefying a gastric juice. In a healthy organism enough saliva is already allocated to soften food. Therefore it is better to drink water to food or after it.

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Macaroni promotes a bystry set of weight

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Actually get fat not from macaroni, and from excessively fat gravies, a large number of cheese and butter which add to this dish. Caloric content of dry macaroni makes about 360 kcal on 100 g of a product. It is a lot of, of course, but also not much. By the way, at macaroni there are 13% of the proteins useful to weight loss. In general, 100 g of macaroni for 10% provide the daily need for carbohydrates and proteins.

Fresh vegetables it is more useful frozen

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It is not absolutely right. Often the vegetables gathered in our region and frozen for the winter contain much more useful substances, than fresh which can be bought in supermarkets. As a rule, fresh vegetables which are on sale in the winter make a long way from Africa or Southern Europe, and in way lose the most part of minerals and vitamins. And the frozen vegetables, on the contrary, are frozen right after collecting and keep vitamins.

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