Why you should give up the so-called healthy food
'31.10.2022'
Source: Health.mail.ru
I spread farmer's lamb on the table, ecologically pure cilantro, goat cheese, a mint bunch, and on the floor there are two more packages of expensive and wholesome food.
I spent a lot of money, and yes, I was sorry, because this was not the end of my torment, Tamara Pronin writes for health.mail.ru. The assortment must also be prepared. It is approximately like from the letters A, F, P, O to make up the word “happiness”.
I am preparing a feast for housewarming. Today, my friends will come to visit me on a gastronomic evening in the Italian style, with whom we drank port wine a couple of years ago. What happened to them, and how, in principle, normal people could voluntarily come up with the idea to turn housewarming into a culinary duel, a mystery to me.
Zhenya
For example, I would never have thought that Zhenya, a brutal motorcyclist, joyfully throws on the offer of his wife to cook lamb ravioli in my house with tomato and cilantro sauce. He just loves Sveta (wife) very much and went with her to cooking classes. For a couple of master classes, dumplings with lamb in his vocabulary mutated into ravioli.
Zhenya is sure: a healthy diet can be budgetary, only for this you have to count everything. In order not to be mistaken, he prefers ordering farm food online and buying pale gray sausages at health food stores. The amount of money spent gives a feeling of calm, but neither the costs nor the farmers' sausages have, alas, any effect on the loose belly.
“Many people think: if they buy the right foods, this is a healthy diet. Not. Proper nutrition is a certain balance of nutritional components. Therefore, the craze for products marked “eco” cannot be called healthy, ”says dietician, member of the Association of Nutritionists and Dietitians Marina Makisha.
Croutons and toffee without artificial additives - all the same fast carbohydrates. Overeat at night can not be anything. Even a jelly with the face of a farmer who cooked it.
Tanya
Of course, it was necessary to think about Tanya, our common friend, who will visit my non-ecological odnushku on the outskirts of the city next to the refinery. Recently she is a lactic vegan, therefore ravioli with goat cheese and mint are planned for her.
Tanya on all products looking for a green leaf - European labeling of environmentally friendly products. He does not trust domestic “badges” - in our country the corruption component may be stronger than the systems for controlling and supervising the environmental friendliness of wheat cultivation.
By the way, the theme of cereals can not even be voiced. Tanya reacts to her very painfully. She is sure that she has celiac disease - a rare autoimmune disease. In celiac disease, gluten, a protein found in cereal crops, causes persistent inflammation of the small intestine, damaging its mucosa. When this intestinal villi, responsible for the absorption of nutrients, are destroyed and disappear. As a result, the food simply ceases to be absorbed.
There is one “but”. Tanya did not pass tests and did not pass the study. She suspected gluten intolerance on the basis of “bloating” after some suspicious sandwich. Fortunately, she had the sense not to abandon vegetable protein at all.
“Celiac disease is usually detected at an early age. If a person has decided for no reason to give up gluten, this is nonsense. Gluten is vegetable protein, and almost all foods that contain vegetable protein (cereals and legumes) will contain gluten. Refusing these products, a person deprives his diet of the variety and source of complex carbohydrates, ”explains Marina Makisha. “If there is suspicion of celiac disease, it is necessary to pass tests and understand how intolerance is expressed. It’s impossible to make such a diagnosis to yourself, ”adds a nutritionist.
Sveta
In terms of gastronomic ideology, Sveti's wife is closest to me of Light. She goes to culinary workshops, puts her works on Instagram, but does not impose her opinion on anyone even with a hint. Sveta does not ask if I have any lactose-free milk. She knows that she does not, so she tactfully requests coffee without milk in advance. She, like Tanya, did not pass tests, but I believe in her lactose intolerance more.
“Indeed, in adults, the activity of an enzyme that breaks down milk sugar - lactose - decreases. Therefore, nutritionists advise adults to drink less milk and eat more dairy products. But due to erroneous considerations, many refuse, and from them too, although it is fermented milk products are the main source of protein, - explains Marina Makisha. “In fact, you can calmly drink milk if your intestines react to it normally.”
Even his wife Eugene does not buy minced meat, only meat in pieces, and basically does not take pork. Not for religious reasons, but because "it is fat, and there may be pigtail." My friend reads specialized sites and follows the news of science and medicine. So all her conclusions are not meaningless.
“It is very good that today people began to pay attention to what they eat. But, as in any business, excesses occur. Do not believe everything that is written on the Internet. You should always refer to the original sources, because there may be mistakes in translation or misinterpretation, and everything - a person has an erroneous opinion, which he gives to others, ”the nutritionist thinks.
Peering into Sveta's calm eyes, I suspect that somewhere in the freezer she has a forbidden bundle of dumplings hidden in her room, and in the far locker lies a nod. She never admits this, because she does not want to undermine authority in the eyes of her husband. But I feel in her kitchen is a place for unhealthy products. This knowledge gives hope that all is not lost, that I will survive a strange housewarming party, ravioli, and new quirks of old acquaintances. In the end, I believe that someday they will “go crazy” and begin to eat without distortions and imaginary diseases.
“Remember: you cannot limit yourself completely to something. Any ban in your head puts you in a state of stress. Nutritionists recommend giving yourself 1 a day a week when you can eat everything. Believe me, in one day there will be no harm to health or to the figure, but you will save yourself from breakdowns, ”the nutritionist warns.
I am addicted to carbohydrates, I know what it is, for example, to deny myself sugar. During the day, the hands themselves are drawn to dried fruits, fresh juices, and honey is not put in the soup. I passed it, and I will not deny myself a housewarming party. When the guests disperse, I put the ravioli in the fridge and take out a pack of ravioli from there. At least it's fair. Without demagogy and substitution of concepts. After all, a healthy way of life is a good idea if you do not debunk it and turn it into a scarecrow.
