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50 percent of our health depends on the quality of nutritionRossiyskaya Gazeta, Natalia Perova (MD, Professor at the State Research Center for Preventive Medicine)
Doctors studied the factors that most affect health. It turned out that medical care accounts for only 10-15%. The state of health depends on heredity by 15-20%. And even harmful environmental factors on average affect only 20-25%. The key point that determines 50-55% of what happens to the body is the quality of nutrition.
Russians have two main problems: there are a lot of animal fats in our diet with a lack of vegetable fats, as well as a serious shortage of vegetables and fruits. In order for a person to be healthy, according to medical recommendations, he needs about 147 kg of animal fat per year. We eat 441 kg!
The negative effect of this type of fat is that, entering the body, it stimulates the hyperactive production of "bad" cholesterol. At least a little help to cope with the attack of animal fat could be fruits and vegetables. According to WHO recommendations, a person should eat 500 g of vegetables and fruits per day (potatoes are not taken into account) in any form. They contain dietary fibers that act on the principle of a sponge: they collect and remove from the body the remnants of fatty acids, cholesterol and other components that can be dangerous. But instead of the required 220 kg per person per year, we eat only 170 kg. By the way, the question is: what kind of food do Russians consider "healthy eating"? Paradoxically, but the fact is that most do not even know exactly what it is. Most often, Russians call products without preservatives, dyes and other food additives. It does not occur to me that the quantity and quality of eaten fats, proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins, micronutrients affect the state of health. How much sugar and salt they eat.
There is a stable opinion: by itself, the fact of eating at home, and not in fast food restaurants, is already a sign of a healthy diet. The majority of respondents also recognized the food from the slow cooker as healthy. But porridge on fat milk with butter in terms of the amount of saturated fat is equivalent to nuggets from a deep fryer.
The habits of traditional Russian cuisine do us a disservice: cutlets "with fat", red meat fried in animal fat, borscht in broth with a marrow bone, with the addition of fatty sour cream... In morning cheese sandwiches, we are used to spread a thick layer of butter, put four tablespoons of sugar or honey in tea, and at night we traditionally drink a glass of fatty milk, fatty kefir or fermented baked milk. And we are sincerely sure that it is useful. But we do not notice that we constantly overload the body with animal fats and simple sugars. And this is a direct path to atherosclerosis, diabetes mellitus and other serious diseases.
Another problem that stands between us and a healthy diet is the lack of full–fledged labeling of products in the country. Firstly, the information is printed in very small print. Secondly, we are really given a minimum: the total content of fats, carbohydrates, proteins. And if people do not know how many dangerous food components (nutrients) are contained in a food product, then they will not be afraid of it. But in Denmark, for example, they began to put on the packaging the amount of trans fats – dangerous food components that provoke a number of diseases. And the population refused them. And mortality from coronary heart disease has halved there.
We must be aware: the wrong choice of food is equivalent to constant radioactive radiation. Even if we do not see any negative consequences for the figure, cholesterol is deposited in the vessels, and from the narrowing of their atherosclerotic (cholesterol) plaques, it is more and more difficult for the heart to pump blood to the organs. This is especially true for men: in our country, their average life expectancy is 63 years. For comparison, in Japan – 80 years. You don't need to go far for examples of heart attacks and strokes either. And at the same time, without borscht, cutlets and sour cream, the hostess is not the hostess. Against the background of "animal" abundance, even a hamburger no longer looks like absolute evil.
In countries where the population adheres to the rules of healthy eating, statistics on heart and vascular diseases are either low (Mediterranean countries), or have declined sharply over the past 50 years (Finland). And this means that we can move the diagnoses of "heart attack", "stroke", "diabetes" with our own hand.
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