I personally don't know what to do with it. Here, the salvation of the drowning is the work of the drowning themselves. If you don’t want to know what and how you can feed yourself, and what and how you can’t, then go to the hospital, or immediately to the cemetery. Realistically, that's right. It has already become impossible to rely on the experience and common sense of mankind. The point of no return seems to have been passed.

Since mankind switched to white flour, margarine and artificial yeast, common sense no longer works. Margarine, as a purely synthetic product, clouds the mind. And yeast, as an alien form of life (in fact, a monster), is built into the body and controls the mind so that you want to eat exactly what the monster needs.

For reference: White flour is cooking taken to the point of absurdity. The most valuable thing in grains is in the germ and shell. White flour of the highest grade is obtained by cleaning wheat grains from the shell and germ.

Thus, everything valuable is removed, and only the dead part, consisting mainly of starch, remains. The liver becomes clogged with oil-like mass, starch settles in the body in the form of mucus, the intestinal walls become clogged with plaque.

Margarine and spread (trans fats) are made from refined second-pressed vegetable oil, which is produced using chemical solvents. The refined oil is then heated and hydrogenated by passing hydrogen through it.

The result is a mixture of transisomers unknown to nature, which has the consistency of soft plasticine, a disgusting smell and color. In order to give this “product” commercial qualities, a bunch of all kinds of chemistry is added there.
Trans fats are extremely toxic and tend to accumulate in the body, causing a number of dangerous ailments: stress, atherosclerosis, heart disease, cancer, obesity, sick children, weakened immunity, low potency, etc.

What is the harm of artificial yeast:

- These are entities alien to the body - mushrooms.
“Imagine a mushroom lives in your body.
- The yeast itself is killed during baking, but their spores are not.
- Able to penetrate into the bloodstream, and therefore into any organs.
- In the course of their life activity, mycotoxins are released.
- Once in the body, they begin to rebuild the entire environment for themselves.
– The symbiotic (healthy) microflora is inhibited, and the pathogenic one flourishes.
– The body becomes easily accessible to foreign bacteria and viruses.
– Ideal conditions are created for the development of cancer cells.

Why do I say that humanity in matters of nutrition (as in many other matters) can no longer be trusted? If the human herd en masse produces and consumes what kills it, then, clearly, it cannot be trusted. Well, how can you trust a drug addict, for example?

A person who is in a problem does not see the problem, or does not want to see it. And a problematic society does not even want to see its own problems, or is even unable to see it, because it is in the illusion of herd safety.

So, we finally saw that “smoking kills”, after they began to add chemistry to tobacco, and as a result, it began to kill even more. But after all, the same inscription - “kills” - can be confidently glued to all supermarket synthetics. Illusion calms only because it kills slowly and imperceptibly.

From the moment these three main components appeared in the diet - white flour, margarine, yeast - the culture ended, and the matrix began.

These components are included in all the most common and everyday products - baking. This is, as it were, the basis of the matrix scheme (not culture) of nutrition.

The main thing is to lay the foundation so that people lose their sanity, as in the fairy tale about Sinbad the Sailor. Then they will not understand why they get sick and die, and in general, for what purpose all this. On the farm, after all, the cattle does not understand what and why they are fed?

Cells must be filled with obedient elements. And these elements must be, firstly, not quite healthy, so that they do not have free energy, and secondly, slightly fucked up, so that they do not understand where they are. Energy and conscious will should be enough just enough to properly perform their functional duties - no more, no less.

The transition from traditional to living food does not at all mean some kind of breakthrough in the culture of food, if elementary principles are not followed. Consider what principles are violated there.

1. The diet should be constant, unchanged.

The kitchen (a set of products and ways of preparing them) should be a kind of well-established constant. In general, the diet cannot be changed abruptly, such as, for example, without special need to jump from one national cuisine to another.

This is mainly due to the intestinal microflora, which is adapted for the digestion of a particular food. It is rebuilt slowly, it can take months to adapt.

Therefore, any transition should be smooth, gradual. If we are talking about the transition to live food, then it is all the more impossible to rush here, because one more factor is added - enhanced cleansing of the body.

You can not bring yourself to a state of increased intoxication. So, in modern conditions, and especially for young people, it is better to tune in not for months, but for years.

2. The diet should be as varied as possible.

At the same time, dishes should be as simple and monosyllabic as possible, consisting of similar ingredients. It is better to eat more, but one thing at a time.

Variety is required in the general range.

Vegetables and fruits alone are a very poor diet. If you want to eat something like that, it means that the body is missing something. For example, the brain consumes more than a quarter of all the energy of the body, it needs lecithin for its work. There is lecithin in chocolate, but it is not in vegetables and fruits - that's what you want. But why overeat with chocolate if the same lecithin is full of legumes?

3. Food should be enjoyable.

The human brain is so arranged - it should have fun. If there is no pleasure, serotonin is not produced, and then everything is bad. If there is no pleasure, the brain will look for it, including among artificial stimulants.

Food is one of the main pleasures, it must be tasty cooked. If what you eat is healthy, but tasteless, you will constantly want something obscene, but tasty, and this ordeal will continue until the brain gets its portion of pleasure.

Therefore, there is no need to engage in masochism, no need to chew green salad like a cow, you need to look for simple but tasty recipes, and get not only benefits, but also pleasure - this is the culture of live food. Live food can and should be delicious.

4. Avoid artificial stimulants and relaxants.

You still have to pay with interest. That is, from something artificial, the benefit is always less than the harm. Giving back doesn't pay off. First it gets better, and then it gets worse.

Depression and panic attacks are a new generation of diseases. They are caused by nothing more than chemical components in products. Chemistry causes an altered state of consciousness, to varying degrees, but always. It also causes intoxication, despite the fact that the toxins are "packed in barrels." Not all of them are packaged.

But if treat the effect of its cause, then the situation will only get worse. You can ask the question: what is artificial in coffee and chocolate? If they are environmentally friendly, natural, then probably nothing, if in moderation. Only natural coffee and chocolate are now hard to find.

This is big business, all plantations are abundantly watered with chemicals, not to mention what is added to the final product. The harm is not even in the caffeine itself, but in the accompanying chemistry. The best and safest stimulant is wild raw cocoa beans. You can just chew them, make cocoa or chocolate, sweets. The effect is felt immediately, and without consequences.

5. The main principle is that products must be natural.

A product that is “enclosed and buried” for a long period of storage cannot be considered natural. Additives that mimic "identical to natural" are also synthetics, no matter how they dress up. Eating “long-playing” (long-lasting) vegetables and fruits from the supermarket is sheer madness.

For the body, there is nothing worse than synthetic (artificially synthesized) toxins. Nature for billions of years of evolution has provided for everything except this.

If the body could speak, it would say: you can starve me, torment me with exorbitant physical exertion, throw me into heat or cold, you can bleed, you can beat, torture, and even cut, I will take everything down ... but if you will poison me, fool, you and I will feel bad, very bad - everything will just end very badly.

Culture of healthy eating: new times - new rules

The culture of our food, our eating habits are laid primarily by our parents. They certainly want the best for us, but the culture of healthy eating that existed when they were young may be drastically different from what we should eat in the twenty-first century.

The culture of healthy eating, like good manners, should be brought up from childhood.

The culture of healthy eating: what does it consist of?

We live in an era in which changes are taking place at a tremendous speed, including in the field of healthy eating culture. When most of the older members of our family - aunts, uncles, grandfathers, grandmothers - grew up and were brought up, they did not have access to even a thousandth of the information that is available to us now. Yes, and the composition of the products used to be different - people did not know about preservatives, or about dyes, or about milk, which can be stored for a month, while being out of the refrigerator.

Speaking about the culture of healthy eating, we by no means mean following any diets, and, moreover, we do not call for vegetarianism. These are all individual questions, and it is better not to get into dieting issues without a doctor's recommendation. The culture of healthy eating implies following certain rules.

Of course, it should be based on certain knowledge: about the properties of certain products, about their effect on our body, about their combination with each other. With this knowledge, you will be able to choose products that will fit your lifestyle. You will be able to cook them correctly, making the most of all the useful substances contained in them.

Some principles of healthy eating

One of the foundations of a healthy eating culture is that the amount of energy that enters the body with food should correspond to the amount of energy that a person spends during the day.

If the food we consume is low in calories, our performance is noticeably reduced. If we eat a lot of high-calorie food, while not loading our body with physical activity, the potential energy received will be spent on increasing our body weight.

The next principle is that in order for food to be absorbed in the best possible way, it is necessary that useful nutrients enter our body in a certain ratio. To create an individual diet, you do not need to use the services of nutritionists, it's easier than it seems.

Finally, one of the most important principles that is not always possible to follow is dietary compliance. This is the number of meals per day and the intervals between them.

For one person, three meals a day is suitable, and the other leads such a lifestyle that he needs to eat four times a day. It is important not to change the once established routine, as our digestive system "gets used" to produce gastric juice at certain hours.

The culture of healthy eating is, first of all, a personal discipline. Organize your diet wisely and you'll find more order in other areas of your life.

Healthy eating rules

According to statistics, the most harmful eating habits are Russians and Americans. Russians eat a lot, often uncontrollably, usually preferring three-course dinners.
At the same time, high-calorie heavy foods often predominate in the daily diet. In addition, many people like to have a snack between meals, and along with evening tea, they don’t mind eating a cake, candy or some sweet dish.

Americans are one of the earliest and foremost consumers of fast food and convenience foods. They often eat out, and the food in fast food places is rich in substances that are harmful to the body. In addition, most people have a bad habit - there is a lot at night and in the evening.
Interestingly, with this approach to nutrition, both Russians and Americans dream of having slim figures and good health. To achieve this, people use the most incredible ways to lose weight, super-weight loss diets, fat burners, etc.

Do we think about how well we eat? As you get older, you have to do this more and more often. Someone asks this question consciously, while someone is prompted to such thoughts by pain in the abdomen or upset digestion. Be that as it may, sooner or later almost everyone comes to a simple thought - if you want to live a long life, eat right. Then the question naturally arises: what is proper nutrition?

We all know that digested food is well digested food. On the one hand, we seem to know it, but on the other hand, for some reason we don’t remember it. Somehow, it goes without saying that after eating you need to grab an apple, drink tea with a bun ...

First of all, it should be said that one should not attach great importance to dietary guidelines intended "for everyone at once", since we are all different people, each of us has his own activity of metabolic processes (metabolism), different culinary traditions, habits and so on.
Many have heard the saying: “what is good for a Russian is death for a German,” that is, what he loves, for example, Georgians, may not be liked and not at all suitable for an Englishman.
It turns out that in itself the concept of "proper nutrition" is very abstract and approximate. However, it is possible to single out some fundamental principles, the observance of which allows us to talk about reasonable, or proper nutrition.

There are many approaches to "proper" nutrition. Someone adheres to the principles of separate nutrition, someone prefers vegetarian food, someone eats only raw fruits and vegetables. Fried food is considered very harmful, and boiled food is also not very welcome. Each person chooses the rules that he will follow. When the body begins to rebuild, it begins to dictate its own conditions.

Many have read, or heard from others, that you should not eat in the morning, because the body cleanses itself at this time, and even after sleep it has enough energy for the morning. For some, this seems absolutely impossible, while others have breakfast at 11-13 o'clock quite calmly. And most often they have two meals a day.
And some hold a different point of view: breakfast should be royal, because in the morning the body works in such a way that it is able to absorb everything valuable that you ate at breakfast. Remember the saying: "Eat breakfast yourself, share lunch with a friend, give dinner to the enemy"...

Drink a glass of juice;

The best and most useful (in my opinion) is when you want. You need to eat when you feel that now you will eat everything you see, when you feel a healthy hunger. And when you expect that the appetite will come with eating, nothing but heaviness in the stomach and a desire to sleep will work;

You should eat cold or hot food. Comfortably warm is good. The fact is that the process of digestion begins at a certain temperature of food, but if it is cold or hot, then the body first brings it to a certain temperature, spending a certain amount of energy. And since we eat to live, and do not live to eat, then let's carefully spend our energy on food in order to spend more energy on life;

Know the measure in food and get up from the table with a slight feeling of hunger;

Of the two great desires - to sleep and eat - always choose the first. Get some rest and only then start eating. When the body is overtired and wants to sleep, not only the brain and muscles are tired, but also the stomach;

Do not eat in an excited, anxious state. It is better to skip meals altogether;

Food must be fresh. Of all cooking methods, prefer the simplest cooking if possible. Eat less fried, smoked or baked foods. Fruits and vegetables are best eaten raw. Very healthy fresh juices;

It is advisable to consume fruits 20-25 minutes before meals. Why? Because fruits linger in the stomach for this particular time, and they are digested mainly in the intestines. When we eat them after a hearty meal, they are not digested, but rot in the stomach. Instead of great benefit, we receive great harm;

Drink plenty of fluids, but do it slowly; eat garlic - at least one to two cloves a day, on an empty stomach. Finely chopped garlic is easy to swallow without chewing, washed down with water. So you will avoid unpleasant garlic breath and get a wonderful harmless natural antibiotic that will "monitor" the microflora in your stomach and intestines. You can use salt, but only in small doses. Be aware that processed foods, sauces, condiments may contain hidden salt;

It is better to drink 30 minutes before meals. The fact is that when we drink with or after a meal, the water "washes away" some of the enzymes produced by the stomach to digest food. We have to produce more of them, which means that the body has to spend more energy on processing. And given that we eat in order to supply ourselves with energy, it is ridiculous to spend all the energy produced only on the digestion of the next portion of food. By the way, the least energy is spent by the body when drinking fresh juices. After a meal, it is recommended to drink after a carbohydrate meal - after 3 hours, after a protein meal - after 4 hours. If you really want to, then not earlier than after 1 hour;

You need to chew your food well. It’s good to chew each piece 30 times, well, and if you chew 60 times, it’s just wonderful;

Enjoy food. And in order not to overload the body, you can skip the next meal;

Learn to eat any product, respecting it, loving it and understanding that now it will give you all of itself so that you continue your existence more meaningfully, become more loving, more bright. This is his sacrifice to you;

Remove salty foods, smoked, pickled, fried, fatty foods from the diet. Eat only one food at a time. For example, boiled potatoes. You don't need to add oil or anything. Just boiled potatoes. Without bread, salt and other additives in the form of spices and sauces;

There is also the "rule of 4 ingredients". Eat only one dish at a time, prepared using no more than 4 ingredients. For example, take boiled potatoes with dill. The components of this dish will be potatoes (1), water (2), dill (or other seasoning), salt. That's it, we don't add anything else. Between meals we take breaks - 4 hours;

Before eating, you need to drink a glass of liquid: tea or water, juice. Between meals there should be breaks of at least 4 hours. The night break in food should be about 12 hours;

When you eat, don't rush. Chew slowly while enjoying your meal. When you drink - do not swallow quickly, enjoy drinking.

A beautiful table setting is highly desirable. Approach the meal as if it were a holiday.

In the event that you begin to adhere to the rules of reasonable nutrition, your long and healthy life can be the result.

Basic nutrition requirements

• The diet should correspond to the age characteristics of the body.
• The qualitative composition of the food should fully provide the body with all the necessary substances. Food of animal origin best meets these requirements.

• Food must be harmless to the body, i.e., not contain pathogens and toxic substances. It must be environmentally friendly. Food that meets environmental requirements usually has a corresponding symbol on the front of the package. This sign stands for organic food.

Some chemicals are added to foods to improve their shelf life and taste. In small quantities, such additives are harmless to the body. However, exceeding their allowable amounts can lead to poor health. Be sure to pay attention to the shelf life of products indicated on their packaging.

• Food must satisfy the body's energy needs.
• Food should contain in the required amount all the substances required for the growth and development of the body and the regulation of its vital functions.
• Food should be varied: the more varied the food, the greater the set of substances that enter the body.
• Nutrition should be balanced in terms of the content of various nutrients (proteins, fats and carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals and water).

Improperly organized nutrition causes serious disorders in human health.

An important hygienic requirement is a properly organized diet. This means that it is necessary to strictly observe the time of meals and the intervals between them. It is extremely important to eat at the same time. At this point, the body is adjusted to its reception. Intervals between meals should not exceed 4 hours. How many times should you eat during the day? The most correct four meals a day: breakfast, second breakfast, lunch and dinner. The distribution of calories by meals should be as follows: breakfast and dinner are approximately equal, second breakfast is significantly less than breakfast, lunch is about twice as high in calories as breakfast. The duration of the meal should be within 20 minutes.

food culture

To be healthy, it is not enough to know the basics of proper nutrition. It is necessary to master the culture of food well. It is the culture of nutrition that largely determines the state of human health for many years. You need to know how to eat properly, behave at the table, observe a diet. It is also important to eat in moderation. In general, moderation, and not only in nutrition, but also in all other manifestations of life, is a very good quality of any person. And this quality must be developed in oneself in childhood. It will help a person in any situation.

What is food culture? It provides, on the one hand, the obligatory implementation of hygiene rules, on the other hand, strict adherence to etiquette. What is etiquette? Etiquette is the established order of behavior of a person anywhere. Since we are talking about nutrition, therefore, you need to know how to behave at the table while eating. In this case, hygiene and etiquette go hand in hand. Fulfilling the rules of hygiene, a person simultaneously follows the etiquette, and following the etiquette, respectively, fulfills the rules of hygiene.

What rules must be followed, observing the culture of food?

• You can't be late for the table. Why? Because otherwise it is disrespectful to those who are waiting. And close people are usually waiting at the dinner table. In addition, eating at the same time is very useful: the body habitually adjusts to food intake, and appetite increases.
• Before you sit down at the table, be sure to wash your hands, check your appearance, hairstyle. A neat (neat) person undoubtedly makes a good, favorable impression on others.
• Approaching the table, you should sit down after the adults sit down.
• While at the table, do not hunch over and do not lean low over the plate. It is unacceptable to put your elbows on the table, stretch your legs or sit with your legs crossed, sway while sitting on a chair, or move it noisily.
• It is necessary to eat slowly, silently and always with your mouth closed (it is very ugly to slurp, squish, open your mouth wide).
• You can talk quietly at the table without attracting the attention of others.
• It is not customary to reach over someone else's plate, you need to ask to pass something that you yourself cannot get on the table.
• The plate should not be moved far away from you, nor should it be moved too close. You can drip on a tablecloth or on clothes. Both are bad.
• What is in the soup must be separated with a spoon.
• If there is meat in the soup, then you should first eat the soup, and then use a fork and knife (fork in the left hand, knife in the right) to cut and eat the meat.
• The second dish, for example, a piece of meat, should not be cut into pieces immediately, but should be eaten by cutting off one piece at a time.
• The fork should be held in the left, and the knife in the right hand, if both devices are used. It is customary to hold the knife and fork obliquely to the plate, without clamping them into fists.
• From a common dish (salad, sugar, meat or fish platter), you do not need to take your own spoon or fork, but use a specially designed device for this - a spoon or fork.
• Bread, biscuits, crackers, fruits can be taken by hand.
• Bread should be broken off into small pieces, not bitten off.
• Bones from meat or fish should be taken out with a spoon or fork and put on the edge of the plate or on a separate plate (the latter is preferable).
• After stirring tea or coffee with a spoon, you should not leave it in a glass or cup. Put a teaspoon on a saucer.
• Only hands and mouth should be wiped with a napkin. After eating, put a napkin on the table to the side of the plate, and paper - on a separate plate.
• After the end of the meal, the cutlery should be folded on its own plate, do not move the plate away, but wait until everyone has cleared the dishes

Not all food culture rules are given here. Books have been written about this. We advise you to read them: they will benefit you and your health.

Questions and tasks

1. Name 2-3 nutritional hygiene requirements.
2. What is a diet plan?
3. How many times a day should you eat?
4. How should the caloric content of food be distributed among meals throughout the day?
5. What do you understand by the term "food culture"?
6. Why is it bad to be late for the dinner table?
7. How should you sit at the table?
8. Can we talk at the table?
9. How should you eat fish and meat?
10. Arrange with your parents to arrange a gala dinner in the family for any reason. Help set the table. Dress elegantly. Together at the table, try to comply with the requirements of the food culture, strictly following the etiquette. Such gala dinners can be done on other days.

What is meant by the concept of human nutrition? and got the best answer

Answer from Helga[guru]
Food culture is:
- knowledge of the basics of proper nutrition;
- knowledge of the properties of products and their effects on the body, the ability to choose and cook them correctly, using all the useful substances to the maximum;
-knowledge of the rules for serving dishes and eating, i.e. knowledge of the culture of consumption of prepared food;
-economical attitude to food.
The most important principles of rational nutrition:
Correspondence of the calorie content of food to the daily energy expenditure of a person. Violation of this correspondence causes various disorders in the body. It should be remembered that a regular decrease in the calorie content of consumed products leads to a decrease in body weight, a significant decrease in working capacity and general activity, and an increase in susceptibility to various diseases. At the same time, the supercalorie content of daily portions is extremely dangerous, from which a person draws more potential energy than he needs for the normal functioning of the body. A systematic increase in the calorie content of food leads to a significant increase in body weight, obesity, which also entails health problems.
Satisfying the needs of the body in the right amount and ratio of nutrients. For optimal assimilation of food, it is necessary to supply the body with all the nutrients in certain proportions. When compiling food rations, first of all, the balance of proteins, fats and carbohydrates is taken into account. For an adult healthy person, their ratio should be 1:1.2:4.6. Taking into account the physiological state of the body, the nature and working conditions, gender and age of a person, the climatic features of the region, scientists have developed norms for the physiological needs for nutrients and energy of various population groups. They make it possible to make a diet for each family. However, it is important to remember that the diet should contain the optimal amount of balanced nutrients, that is, have the proper chemical composition.
Diet. It includes the time and frequency of meals, the intervals between them, the distribution of calories by meals. Optimal for a healthy person is four meals a day, but three meals a day is also allowed, depending on the conditions of work or study. Each meal should last at least 20-30 minutes. This makes it possible to eat slowly, chew food well and, most importantly, not overeat. Certain hours of eating allow the digestive system to get used to a stable regimen and release the right amount of digestive juices. With four meals a day, the calorie content should be distributed among meals as follows: 1st breakfast - 18%, 2nd breakfast - 12%, lunch - 45%, dinner - 25%. Suppose that with three meals a day, breakfast is 30%, lunch - 45%, dinner - 25%. But remember: regardless of the diet, the last meal should be 1.5 - 2 hours before bedtime.
With three meals a day, breakfast usually consists of a hot dish (meat or fish with porridge or vegetables, a sandwich and some hot drink - coffee, tea, cocoa).
Lunch should return to the body the energy that it expended during the working day. When digesting a large amount of food, there is an increased secretion of gastric juices, so snacks are needed in the lunch menu: vegetable salads, vinaigrette, salted fish, etc. The production of gastric juice is also “helped” by the first hot dishes that are rich in extractive substances: meat, fish, mushroom broths. The second hot dish should contain a large amount of protein, there should be an increased calorie content. It is best to finish the meal with a sweet dish, which will inhibit the secretion of gastric juice and cause a pleasant feeling of satisfaction from eating.
For dinner, dishes from milk, cereals and vegetables are preferred. Do not eat meat dishes, because they are slowly digested.

Among the various manifestations of caring for a person, one of the most important is caring for the family.

The family is called upon to ensure the continuity of progressive national traditions and customs, mores and spiritual culture. It is she who serves as the first source from which the younger generation draws information about social ideals, patterns of behavior are developed here, the family is usually the main source of role models.

The most important task of the family is to promote the health and education of the younger generation. The formation of a culture of consumption in each of its members, including food products, to a large extent contributes to the fulfillment of this task. It is in the family that contradictions arise and are often resolved between obsolete and obsolete traditions and the new that is declared and put into practice by modern society. Sometimes these contradictions take on a sharp character, especially in those families whose individual members are at odds with the culture of consumption or, even worse, are carriers of bad habits, such as drinking, smoking, overeating.

To live, a person, of course, needs to eat, drink, dress, have housing and other material benefits, a certain level of comfort. But "humanity erects monuments not to those who ate sweeter and drank more, but to those who glorified him with heroic deeds." Material wealth is not an end in itself for us, but a prerequisite for the all-round development of the individual. Therefore, the task of protecting young people from the temptation of consumerism in the field of material goods is one of the key ones in educational work, including in the family.

This temptation is especially great in the field of nutrition. But it must be overcome on a scientific basis.

From time to time there is a fashion for certain foodstuffs, for the way they are prepared. From hand to hand, "by acquaintance", the most incredible diets, all kinds of "diets", etc. are passed on. All this is an indicator of the low level of culture in general and the culture of food consumption in particular.

How much of all this is necessary for science? The evidence-based norms of food consumption developed by the Institute of Nutrition of the Academy of Medical Sciences can serve as a guideline for determining the needs for food products.

As for the physiological norm of nutrition, that is, the number of calories a person needs, this problem has been solved. Now the task is to bring qualitative indicators closer to rational standards, in other words, to improve the structure of nutrition by increasing meat, milk, vegetables, fruits, and berries in the diet of people.

The abundance of products, of course, is good, but with a low culture of consumption, it can be harmful to health and shorten life expectancy. The principle “the more the better” is unacceptable here. The problem of obesity, which exists not only in our country, is a vivid confirmation of this.

So what is the culture of food consumption? This:

knowledge of the biological function of nutrition, that is, the role that food plays in human life;

economical housekeeping, knowledge of the properties and consequences of the effects of products on the body, the ability to choose and cook them correctly, making the most of their useful qualities;

careful attitude to food.

Many of our contemporaries, being educated and cultured people, turn out to be surprisingly ignorant of nutrition. They do not know how much, what, when and even how to eat, they have a random idea about the chemical composition of products, their properties, and know almost nothing about the impact of a particular product on the human body. Usually only some disease makes such people pay attention to their diet. Unfortunately, sometimes it is too late: malnutrition has already thoroughly destroyed the body and one has to resort to treatment.

Being one of the important components of our way of life, the culture of food consumption determines to a large extent the way of life of a person. Those who know the laws of rational nutrition and follow them are more likely to be healthy, active, developed physically and spiritually. The time has come to judge the culture of a person at the table not only and not so much by how he eats, that is, how he uses cutlery, but by what and how much he eats.

Below we will talk about the principles of rational nutrition. It is based on the use of only those products that contain the least amount of harmful substances.

As the history of nutrition testifies, in relation to some products for thousands of years there has been a clear, enduring sympathy for them, adoration for them. Among these "favorites" a special place is occupied by milk and bread. Regarding milk, the remarkable Russian scientist, academician I.P. Pavlov wrote: “Among the varieties of human food, milk is in an exceptional position, and this is a consistent recognition of both everyday experience and medicine. Everyone and always considers milk to be the lightest food and is given with weak and sick stomachs and with a host of other serious general diseases ... How amazingly food prepared by nature itself stands out from a number of other varieties.

Our other outstanding scientists - K.A. Timiryazev gives a no less profound and worthy assessment of the second named product, bread: “How many people really thought that a slice of good baked wheat bread is one of the greatest inventions of the human mind, one of those empirical discoveries that the latest scientific research have to be confirmed and explained. Indeed, from the hundreds of thousands of plants inhabiting the earth, it was necessary to find one that would present the best combinations of unknown substances (proteins and carbohydrates) combined in plant organs, easily collected and stored.

In many families, meat is considered one of the main food products and at the same time they refer to the well-known remark of K. Marx, in which he highly appreciates the role of this product in the development of a person, especially his brain. Yes, the role of meat in the human diet is great. However, this product is insidious and brings maximum benefit only when its consumption corresponds to the physiological norm. Excess of it in the human body, as proven by recent studies, is harmful. By the way, we also read warnings about the adverse effects of a large amount of meat food from ancient authors.

For a balanced diet, not only the quality of food is important. Equally important is its quantity. Anyone who wants to be healthy should observe moderation in food. Today, the average person typically consumes significantly more food than they need. Half of the people in our country are overweight. This negatively affects their well-being.

When getting acquainted with the history of nutrition, it is noteworthy that the thinkers of the past have already associated moderation in food not only with human health, but also with his moral state. The ancient Roman philosopher Rufus Musonius believed that “our duty is to eat for life, and not for pleasure, if only we want to follow the beautiful saying of Socrates that while most people live in order to eat, he, Socrates eats in order to live. Socrates himself expressed his attitude to nutrition as follows: "Beware of any food and drink that would induce you to eat more than your hunger and thirst require."

The habit of moderation in eating is laid down in childhood, and the family plays a decisive role in its formation. It is necessary to educate the culture of nutrition literally from the cradle, that is, from the moment when the child begins to receive complementary foods. The first and most common mistake of parents is the desire to give the baby "sweet", and even in abundance. And it is not surprising that since childhood, a child fed with sweets, becoming an adult, continues to be a slave to this addiction, which often leads directly to diabetes and other metabolic diseases.

Scientists argue that the basis of most of the diseases of modern man is malnutrition. And the habit is laid to him in the family. Knowledge of the principles of rational nutrition and strict adherence to them in practice will provide all family members with good health and good spirits, the opportunity to live a full, interesting life.