Harmful products: but was there any harm?

Meat. Everyone who has ever thought about losing weight orjust about a healthy lifestyle, probably heard that it is most useful to use so-called white meat, i.e. poultry meat. Beef same, pork and lamb, for example, refer to red meat, which is digested worse, and fat contains more, and in general, increases the risk of diseases of the cardiovascular system.

So, is meat a harmful product? In fact, red meat itself is absorbed by the human body well, but in combination with potatoes or beans - not very. Both white and red meat contains essential amino acids, which are simply not available from other sources. In addition, red meat is a unique source of easily digestible iron, while from plant sources iron is assimilated by an order of magnitude worse.

Harmful becomes meat in combination with potatoes,beans, deep-fried meat, various meat sausages and sausages. It is more useful for health and for growing thin to use fresh meat in a boiled, baked kind, meat, steamed. So it preserves the maximum of useful substances and does not harm the figure.

Chocolate. It would seem that the product is simply not harmful! A huge amount of sugar, saturated fat ... In addition, the addiction to chocolate is equated to drug addiction, and those of us who consume 2-3 chocolate bars a day, risk to earn diabetes.

But chocolate is chocolate. Black chocolate with the minimum sugar content and the maximum content of cocoa (over 50%) is not harmful, and sometimes even useful. Black chocolate is a natural antidepressant, it promotes the production of endorphins - the "hormones of happiness". Black chocolate is also rich in magnesium, which helps cope with anemia and chronic fatigue.

Another thing, milk chocolate. In such chocolate all the useful properties of cocoa are simply leveled by the huge content of sugar and milk. Therefore, milk chocolate, all kinds of chocolate bars are harmful products.

Sweets. The situation with sweets is in many respects similar toas described above. Sweets can also be both harmful and useful. To useful sweets, you can safely refer to dried fruits, because the sugar contained in them is fruity, which means that it is well absorbed by the body.

Sweet pastries, sweets, all kinds of sweetcreams, mousses - harmful if they contain white refined sugar, which, unlike fruit, is not practically digested, but "remains" on the waist and hips. Moreover, sweet dishes, as a rule, consist of many different ingredients that do not always combine - this leads to difficulty digestion.

But one of the main dangers that conceal sweets is a sharp decrease in the sense of proportion. Therefore sweet tooth is so difficult to stop on one portion, one piece of cake.

Pasta. Spaghetti, cannelloni, noodles, vermicelli - every100 g of these pasta products threaten to settle for a long time on the hips or waist. And the gluten released during digestion contributes to the formation of excess mucus and digestion slows down.

Such "harmfulness" is not a sin of all macaroni, andonly pasta from soft wheat varieties. In turn, macaroni from solid varieties are rich in fiber, they are better absorbed and leave a feeling of satiety longer, which allows us not to overeat. "Harmfulness" of dishes from pasta is also promoted by a variety of sauces and supplements with which they are served. It is in such additives that the lion's share of fats and other non-most useful substances is contained.

Butter. Oil is practically fat in its pure form. And this is not only its main drawback, but also the main advantage. Saturated and unsaturated fats are periodically needed by our body, because, for example, vitamin A dissolves only in fats. In butter contains vitamins E and D, which help renew and strengthen the skin.

The harmful oil becomes if it is wronguse. Do not fry foods in butter - during cooking, many harmful substances are formed. Butter is better in a fresh form a thin layer of oil on black bread - to get your portion of vitamins.

All sorts of salads are recommended to fillquality unrefined olive oil of cold pressing - it is the most "dietary". In olive oil, it is also better not to fry the food, but if there is such a need, then the roasting time should be kept to a minimum.

Thus, we see that in reality harmful products can turn out to be not so harmful. The main thing is to know how to prepare them, and, of course, always observe the measure!