Bread fattening, from green tea lose weight in eggs high in cholesterol... Foods that we eat every day, surrounded by myth and speculation. Now, many seek eat rightBut few who really understands this. Publishing house "Eksmo" released a book "Mifoedy. How to eat to stop delusions on an empty stomach ", in which exposed 40 myths about harmful products. Below you will find excerpts from this book.
Julianna Pliskin
Brand-chef, an expert on healthy eating and gastronomic journalist. Founder healthy bar and line EDIMsU natural products. Author culinary blog "Healthy menu."
The book "Mifoedy" - a colorful edition (432 illustrations!), Which can be a great gift for the person who is watching his diet.
The book describes the most common foods: eggs, bread, salt, sugar, milk, cheese, cottage cheese, coffee, wine - that is the daily diet of most of us. But even these products are shrouded in myths. Some of them set up marketing, part - nutritionists, and part - we do.
The author takes the liberty of destroying speculations and teach readers to choose high-quality products in the stores. You will learn the meaning of these or other markings on the packages and how to check the quality of the product at home. Julianna also leads step by step recipes and shares with readers his culinary finds.
We give excerpts from the chapters devoted to the products, the use of which causes the most controversy: coffee, sugar, and salt.
Coffee
Many of us drink coffee everyday. This is perhaps the most democratic drink in the world. It does not require in relation to itself to strict rules of the culture of drinking, and in every country, in every city or populated area there exists a place where they will claim that only they have the most delicious coffee world.
The first mention of roasting coffee beans date back to the 20 th year of the XIV century, and since that time around the drink formed a dense veil of myths and legends. For example, the fact that coffee is addictive and increases blood pressure. These and other misconceptions debunked in the book "Mifoedy".
On Layfhakere we too often touch on the theme of coffee. We talk about interesting factsAssociated with this drink, as well as the scientific investigationsDevoted to coffee.
Sugar
Many are convinced that sugar is necessary excluded from the diet. Supposedly it will lead to weight stabilization, normalization of digestion and other positive change.
Julianna Pliskin believes that the radical rejection of the sugar not only bring benefits, but also can harm health.
At night, when the sugar level is below 3.3 mmol per liter of blood occurs in the body release of special hormones that increase blood sugar levels, and thereby provide the brain Power. This is another argument in favor of the fact that our body can not function without sugar.
Salt
Salt is also considered harmful and are called "white death". In fact, large quantities of salt is harmful to the body. After all, with its abundance of blood vessels varies structure: their walls become fragile and are poor conductors of thickened blood.
However, the salt provides the most important physiological processes in the body and is one of basic components to create the necessary conditions for the existence of red blood cells - erythrocytes.
Also in stores now, so the choice of salt (sodium chloride, iodized, kosher, sea), it is no wonder that confused.
"Mifoedy. How to eat to stop delusions on an empty stomach, "Julianna Pliskin
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