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15 myths about food

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

In the supermarket you can read various articles and not just by police with the press. Each of the Declaration on the food was the result of millions of dollars invested through which such a product is declared safe for use
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You'll find a long list of food that promises to change your life and to improve. flatten your stomach, buttocks and lower with all this make you happier person. In fact, most of these foods cause the opposite effect.Learn how to distinguish truth from advertising and might eventually drive their habits that prevent you from losing weight.

These are the most common myths:

First Corn syrup with a high percentage of fructose is worse than white sugar

That white sugar is not good for your health and know the birds on a branch. The less sugar you eat, the better.However, if the corn syrup worse than sugar, but is subject to discussion.
Here's what you need to know:
The syrup and sugar are composed of a mixture of two sugars - fructose and glucose. This means that your body will not be able to discern the difference between these two species, it was just sugar. "Sin" of enriched fructose syrup is that it is too cheap and that it therefore added to all sorts of things - from cereals to ketchup and salad dressing industry. It can affect your health in a way that is not fully clarify the scientific community.

Is it good to avoid the syrup in the diet? Absolutely! It is best to remove all the unnecessary sugars. However, the introduction of corn syrup as a nutritional enemy number one is actually an exaggeration.

Second Sea salt is healthier than ordinary

Common salt is used on a daily basis is of stone and contains roughly about 2,300 mg of sodium per teaspoon coffee. Sea salt is obtained by evaporating sea water and also contains the same amount of sodium as the two species seem almost identical. Those who advocate the use of salt stress that it has other ingredients such as magnesium and iron but, in fact, these minerals are present in negligible quantities.

To enter a significant amount needs to be literally sodium overdose. Moreover, the ordinary is always iodine, which plays an important role in regulating hormones. Sea salt will not provide this important mineral. The conclusion is as follows: replace the stone with sea salt will bring you anything in particular. More you lose a few dinars more while you purchase.

Third Energy drinks are less harmful than soft

Energy drinks are intended to supply B vitamins, herbal extracts and amino acids to strengthen. Međutim you, what your body will be best remembered (especially your waist) is the sugar in these drinks. An average can of "cost" you 280 calories that come from pure sugar, which is about 80 calories more than cans of "Pepsi".

Moreover, the University of Maryland study showed that energy drinks are about 11 percent more harmful to your teeth than regular soda. Here are the secrets that producers of energy drinks are hiding from you: the only thing that has proven to act on energy drinks is caffeine. If you need energy to spare sugar and drink a cup of coffee.


4th Diet carbonated soft drinks are safe

Researchers say that obesity artificial sweeteners used in diet drinks - aspartame and sucralose, for example, lead to the fact that attacks tend to control hunger.

One study showed that rats take a lot more calories when their meals spices artificial sweeteners. Try to be disciplined by carbonated water seasoned with a little lemon juice or herbal tea and replace all the time and drinks.

5th The low fat content in food is good for you

When it comes to marketing, the term "low fat" is a synonym for "replete with salt and cheap carbohydrates." To eject the fat peanut butter for example, manufacturers add maltodextrin, quickly digestible carbohydrate.

That you certainly will not help you lose weight. In one study from 2008. proven that people who over a two year study were based on diets with reduced carbohydrate intake, they managed to lose weight as much as 62 percent more than those who were thrown out Fat.

6th Food "no trans fatty acids" are indeed such

Companies are permitted to put on a declaration that their product has a zero grams of trans fatty acids, even when it contains 0.5 grams per serving. Because of the increasing number of patients suffering from heart problems, the World Health Organization advised people to keep trans fatty acid intake in the lowest level - a maximum of one gram to 2,000 calories.

If you have a kitchen full of products with 0.5 grams of trans fatty acids, may enter more than the prescribed maximum. It is best to avoid further products that are composed of partially hydrogenated oil label (in translation - trans fats).


7th Foods labeled "natural" is a healthier

No serious efforts of world governments to impose controls on the display the label "natural" foods in the declarations.

Such labels are placed on all products - from flips to soft drinks. While it is true that the origin of most natural ingredients, it should be noted that each of them passes through a series of chemical processes by which he lost (if it ever possessed) all the positive properties. Worst of all is that this will draw a name to buy plain "junk" food.

8th Yolk cholesterol increase

Egg yolks contain cholesterol, but studies have shown that the nutritional cholesterol has almost nothing to do with that is harmful to your bloodstream.

The researchers examined the eggs in more than 30 studies and found that consumption of eggs has nothing to do with heart disease, and another study showed that eating eggs for breakfast can reduce calorie intake all day.

9th Fast food is getting rid of stress


You had better opt for a concrete and healthy meal rich in complex carbohydrates. Anyway, read the next paragraph.


10th Chocolate hurt you

Cocoa is a plant-based foods rich in flavonoids that improve blood circulation and stimulate the release of endorphins - the hormone of happiness. It also contains a healthy form of saturated fat, stearin which is proven to increase "good" cholesterol.

But here's the catch: most people think of milk chocolate, which contains more fat than cocoa. You need to force a dark chocolate and with the higher percentage of cocoa.

11th Muesli is a healthy

It is true that the common oat, and oatmeal. However, there are muesli grains which are coated with sugar and baked to make them crispy. The amount of fat and sugar that is added to the ready-mixed muesli manufacturers are usually secret, which means that buying a "pig in a poke."

12th Bananas are the best source of potassium

Your body uses potassium to keep the nerves and muscles efficient and adequate intake may cancel the bad effects of sodium on blood pressure. One study from 2009. showed that the 2:1 ratio of potassium and sodium in the diet can halve the chances of getting heart disease.

However, since they consume large amounts of salt each day, it is impossible to enter naturally twice as much potassium. One banana has 422 mg potassium and 105 calories. The following foods have almost the same amount of potassium, but far fewer calories:

- Potatoes, half of medium-sized tubers, 80 calories
- Apricot, five fruit trees, 80 calories
- Watermelon, one cup, 55 calories
- Broccoli, onion, 50 calories
- Sun dried tomato, a quarter cup, 35 calories


13th Oranges are the best source of vitamin C

Much more than just strengthen immunity, vitamin C is an antioxidant that plays an important role in metabolism. It tightens the skin and stimulates construction of collagen, improves mood and promotes weight loss.

However, since the body can neither create nor store this vitamin, it needs to be constantly typing. Orange is perhaps best known source of vitamin C, but not the best.

An orange has about 70 calories and just as micrograms of vitamin C. There are five sources that will provide much more:

- Papaya, three quarters of a cup, 50 calories
- Broccoli, one cup, 40 calories
- Strawberries, seven pieces, 40 calories
- Broccoli, half a head, 25 calories
- Red pepper, half a piece, 20 calories

14th Organic is always better

Often, but not always. Organic products are nutritionally identical to their "splashed" equivalents. Exposure to pesticides, however, is associated with increased risk of obesity.

However, many kinds of fruits and vegetables have very low levels of pesticides, such as onions. The safe foods include avocados, sweet corn and pineapple.

Generally, fruits and vegetables with thick peels are safe, regardless of the method of cultivation, while celery, peaches, apples and blueberries, should you buy organic food in the shops.

15th Meat is bad

Pork, beef and lamb are the very best sources of complete protein, a Danish study has found that a diet consisting of 25 percent of the calories of protein origin can help you lose two times more weight than if you stick to low intake.

Then, the meat is rich in vitamin B12, which is located exclusively in foods of animal origin. He is one of the essential vitamins it helps the body to decode DNA and builds red blood cells.

British researchers have found that an adequate intake of protein slows the aging brain. There is no reason to be concerned or for heart disease, because it is proven that meat as sausages and salami shall mean the threat of blood vessels.

Unprocessed, one that is smoked, cured or chemically preserved, poses no risk to the organism.


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Myths about food that are destroyed

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Who consumes the eggs will die of a heart attack, the food in the microwave is a radioactive, raw food is healthier to eat it because we take enzymes, so they do not need our bodies produce. All these are myths that are hard to kill, says, "Huffington Post", but scientists warn us that they are all false.

First Eggs are bad for the heart

It is not true that eggs are bad for your heart, say researchers. "Epidemiological studies have shown that healthy people are allowed to eat one egg a day without a problem," said professor of nutrition at the University of Penn in the U.S., Kris-Etherton Penni. The amount of cholesterol that enter the body does not have a major impact on blood cholesterol levels, and our body compensates for the increased intake of cholesterol so that it reduce its production of lipids.

Second Corn syrup is worse than sugar

The idea that the syrup with high fructose more harmful than regular sugar is not correct. The composition of corn syrup is nearly identical to regular sugar. In short, the syrup is no worse or better than regular sugar.

Third Eating raw food provides us with the necessary enzymes for healthy digestion

Some advocates claim that raw food diet raw food improves digestion and "saves" enzymes in the body so they were taken over the food. This is totally groundless. Our bodies have a limited amount of enzymes produced by life. Enzymes are essential for life, our bodies produce them successfully.

4th Heated in a microwave oven deduct food nutrients

This is completely wrong. Use the microwave, charcoal grills or oven based on solar energy, only the temperature of the cooking that takes away the nutrients, not methods. Due to the fact that food in a microwave oven cooks faster, it can help minimize loss of nutrients.

5th The radiation from the microwave creates harmful substances in food

You might mention the radiation falls on the mind images of nuclear power, but literally means the radiation energy that travels in waves and spreads as it travels. Radiation is used for cooking food is much smaller than the X-or gamma rays. Cooking in the microwave is no different than any other cooking method, experts explain.

Myths and Realities about healthy food

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Food prepared at home, a traditional recipe, not necessarily healthy, but depending on preparation, and foods such as vegetables and fish can turn into enemies of health!
Opinion that the food was prepared under controlled conditions and a healthy home kitchen is not always desirable correctly! Besides being difficult to get true information about the conditions in which some foods grown and processed food process gives rise to compounds hazardous to the health of certain organs and immune system.

Natural is not always healthy

Many plants and animals produce toxic substances in their natural environment are used to ward off predators or attacking prey. Natural toxins animal, plant or bacteria have diverse chemical structures, and cause different toxic effects. A man can poison the body if accidentally enters the poison plants or animals, and the sting or bite.

During the preparation of food most of these toxins is reduced, the fruits and vegetables, harmful substances caused by pesticides are removed by peeling the bark, preparing the oil removes unpleasant odors of some foods, and meat from the heat treatment removes excess oil. However, food preparation, cooking, sautéing, frying, smoking or firing of an organism or useful compounds are converted to undesirable and even harmful?

What happens on the grill

During the preparation or natural methods of preservation (smoking) among the mutagenic properties resulting from the most abundant polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH). Their chief representative, benz-a-pyrene, created by the roasting, grilling and smoking food, as it changes the properties of proteins contained in food. Under the influence of high temperatures and the mutated proteins, or become carcinogenic and mutagenic.

Barbecue lovers definitely should restrain the desire to enjoy grilled meats, it is similar with ham, sausages and meat fried in oil.

PAH compounds to the fullest extent to create a form when melted fat dripping onto the heat source, gas, coal, wood, and are dispersed and partially accumulates on the surface of meat or fish are grilled on the barbecue.

How to reduce the concentration of PAH compounds in foods?

First Do not use coal as fuel
Second Avoid preparing food over an open fire
Third Get a special barbecue at which fat is prevented from dripping directly onto the heat source.

Each hostess is satisfied with dishes prepared on the surface when it takes on a nice brownish color, which guarantees the delicious flavor and skilful preparation of the evidence. But in the process of making desirable brown color to create a mutagenic and carcinogenic compounds. These compounds affect the changes in biochemical values ​​in blood, body weight gain and lead to the disappearance of brown-black pigment in liver cells. Of course, we should not panic, the concentration of these compounds is not great, and throughout life for most people there is no problem that can cause, but they certainly have an impact on the well-being.

Harmful substances can be avoided

PAH COMPOUNDS. They are found everywhere in the environment as products of decomposition of organic matter under the influence of heat in the foods were found more than 20 PAH compounds, and more than half of them have a carcinogenic effect. At higher concentrations cause tumors in the stomach, ovaries, lymph, and tumors in the breast of bile.

Since it occurs only at elevated temperatures, the food is healthier to prepare the lower temperatures, types of vegetables to choose poor nitrate and reheat! Any reheating increases the concentration of harmful substances.

Nitrates and nitrites

These chemicals are part of canned food and fresh foods, especially vegetables. In the human body, and if not provided with food, nitrite formed from nitrate in the digestive microflora. Thus, vegetables rich in nitrates in the body produce more nitrite.

Nitrites are used for preserving meat and fish products, and prevent bacterial growth and toxin and maintain the natural red color of fresh meat. The main source of nitrate in our diet is vegetables, and the amount of these compounds varies depending on the type, such as cabbage them contains less than spinach, beets and celery.

Misconceptions about spinach

For spinach believed to be very healthy and rich in beneficial ingredients, and in fact is one of the less valuable kinds of vegetables, and in some cases may be harmful. It has significantly less vitamins than, say, fresh cabbage, contain large amounts of nitrate, nitrite in the conversion of the human body have a detrimental effect.

What add beans

Vegetables are a source of minerals, vitamins and fiber needed for normal functioning of the body and strengthening the immune system, but because of the conversion of nitrate to nitrite dangerous it must be carefully prepared.

Carrot soup, after a cooked, reheat is not recommended because it becomes toxic. Broth containing carrots and other vegetables to cook for one meal. If however you plan to eat for dinner or the next day, strain it, remove the vegetables and water and keep after it cook fresh vegetables. Water in which you cook some dried smoked product, do not use for cooking beans, because the mixture of spices from the brine in combination with nitrates digest toxic and harmful compounds.

And what would it be healthy?

The vegetables and meats and grains, but at least worked. Vegetables, if possible, eat fresh, lightly seasoned or short cook. All the best to eat foods immediately after preparation, do not overdo, overdo, or fry. Also, unless necessary, do not leave for dinner or for a second or third day. More or less, all food is healthy in its own way, but well prepared and healthy.


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