The types of food that have undeserved bad reputation

Fried food is not necessarily harmful to health, if you use for frying the correct grade of oil or grease.

Some TRANS fats promote a healthy heart and promote weight loss and even counteract the development of cancer.

Many components of brown rice are not bioavailable due to phytic acid. White rice is healthier.

Ketchup that does not contain fructose and other sugars, is an excellent source of lycopene.

A large part of bacon is monounsaturated fat known as oleic acid, similar to that contained in olive oil.

Beer healthier than wine. Both contain a lot of nutrients, but beer has fewer calories.

Stale data

Simplicity is often deceptive, especially if it's dietary recommendations on the Internet. Too often nutritionists give superficial advices that when testing be short-sighted, lame, full of inconsistencies and outdated data. To illustrate this assertion, consider the number of categories of food that you recommend to avoid "harmful", but they are actually useful.

1. Fried foods

We are constantly told that fried should be avoided, although each of us has relatives in the village who live a hundred years, despite the bacon and eggs, pancakes and bacon every day before leaving for work. All these farmers-centenarians are proof that fried food is no worse than any other. Indeed, food prepared with oil more calories, however, fat is needed by the body for the assimilation of many fat-soluble vitamins such as A, D, E and K, and beta-carotene (sweet potatoes), lycopene (tomatoes) and lutein (spinach and cabbage).

But still you should observe the following rules.

For example, use only those oils that have high smoke generation temperature" is the temperature at which oil starts to smoke. Excessive heating of the oil changes its chemical composition, which can weaken its beneficial properties, so use olive oil (in this case refined, not extra virgin), avocado oil, walnut, peanut or sesame for high temperature frying. Other fats and oils like butter or coconut, have a very low temperature smoke for cooking in high temperature mode.

They say that the high temperature can transform the oil into a kind of bad TRANS fats, however, this is possible only with repeated use of the same oil. For low temperature frying you can use coconut and buttermade of milk from cows grass-fed or extra virgin olive.

2. TRANS fats

A few years ago nobody knew about the existence of TRANS fats. Now everyone is familiar with these fatty harbingers of a heart attack, hiding in baked goods, microwave popcorn and margarine, ready to capture the inside of your arteries. These fats rarely occur in nature, but they are a common by-product of industrial production of food. They are afraid because of the double threat that they pose to the heart, raising bad cholesterol and lowering good.

However, few people know that TRANS fats are in fact beneficial to the health of the cardiovascular system and in addition helps burn fat and have anti-cancer properties. One group of such useful kongugirovania TRANS fats known as conjugated linoleic acid, or CLA. CLA is contained in large amounts in the meat of grass-fed animals and dairy products and produced in small quantities by our body.

Numerous studies show that CLA reduces the risk of cardiovascular diseases, prevents the development of type II diabetes (at least, reduces risk and even lowers the metabolic growth and spread of tumors. In addition, scientists believe that CLA may reduce body fat and increase muscle mass.

Although CLA is available in Supplement form, it is found in dairy products and meat from animals grass-fed in the amount of 3-5 times higher than its level in the meat of animals in industrial slaughter.

3. White rice

Brown rice is a staple food of fans of a healthy lifestyle, brown rice is admired as contraband vinyl Grateful Dead. These people will tell you that brown rice contains a lot of protein. They will say that there are a lot of fiber, which will give you a strong and proud chair. They will say that it does not increase blood sugar as white rice. Let's say they are right, but except for a few small details.

Yes, brown rice does contain protein, but in trace amounts. Better to get it from animal sources. Brown rice contains fiber, but it is better to get more valuable nutrients from sources like fruits and vegetables. And last, it really is almost not increase the sugar level in the blood, but no one eats only brown rice, except that there is nothing more. On the contrary, it is eaten with meat or vegetables, or with a small amount of oil, and all of these additions increase the level of blood sugar.

Thereone very important fact, which makes brown rice a problematic product, is the presence in its composition of phytic acid, which gives brown rice its color. Phytic acid simply captures or creates connections with minerals and in addition inhibits enzymes needed for digestion. As a result, many useful items become biologically unavailable for absorption.

Therefore, white rice, despite the propaganda, is an excellent food, especially for athletes. White rice is rich in vitamins (in digestible form), it does not cause allergies, bloating and other digestive problems that are frequently associated with cereals in General.

4. Ketchup

Back in the early 80s in the United States. The government in early 80s in the US legally allowed to consider in school Lunches, ketchup and other sauces as vegetables. Parents and nutritionists took offense. Despite attempts to classify it as healthy eating, public opinion permanently appropriated to the ketchup label junk food, which continues to this day.

The point is that the idea of the government was not so stupid (except for the fact that the primary goal was cutting costs), as ketchup, if you manage to find a brand without added sugar, fructose or anything, is a very useful thing. Phytochemical lycopene is an antioxidant 100 times more powerful than vitamin E, its found in tomatoes and other bright red fruits and vegetables. Unfortunately, lycopene is poorly absorbed in their natural form, making processed tomatoes, which are contained in large amounts in the ketchup, the best source of bioavailable lycopene.

Lycopene helps to reduce the incidence of strokes, cardiovascular zabolevaniya, diabetes, osteoporosis, male infertility and prostate cancer, so look for ketchup that contains tomatoes, vinegar, salt and spices, and consume it freely. Add it to regular foods, like burgers and eggs and grilled meat. Pripravljena them in the soup and roast.

5. Bacon

From the point of view of the nutrient composition, which is really important for health, such foods like organic meat, it is at a fairly high level, along with certain herbs and spices, and nuts and seeds. The problem is that most people from developed countries are not interested in the diet of organic meat, flavored with herbs and spices in such quantity that you will be sick from parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme. However, pork contains many nutrients, especially the bacon.

But let's get back tonegative aspects of fat. Bacon is mostly healthy saturated fats and monounsaturated fats, mainly oleic acid, which was discovered in olive oil. One has only to clarify that you should consume pork, grass-fed instead of industrial waste. If you find one, try sometimes to cook for dinner sandwich with bacon, tomato and spinach is just delicious.

6. Potatoes

The guys from Harvard have compiled extensive data of the population of people with various diseases. In addition to all other discoveries, they have linked the consumption of potatoes with obesity, accusing him of sharp jumps in blood sugar levels. The point is that many other types of food leads to even more dramatic spikes in blood sugar levels, nevertheless they are associated with a healthy weight. This is a common problem for scientists — the disregard for the integrity of the picture. They mixed in this study, all potato products, including chips and fries. Not surprisingly, potatoes were associated with obesity!

However, another, more elegantly structured study, there was no interaction of potato consumption with obesity or other diseases.

The potatoes are actually useful in cooked or baked (and fried in a healthy oil and seasoned with ketchup without sugar). Despite not being very bright color, which often serves as a sign of the presence of phytochemicals substances that potatoes contain a lot of carotenoids and flavonoids, as well as a decent range of vitamins. There is no need to remove it from the diet.

Despite the rumors that all the nutrients of potatoes are in the skin, it contains only 20%. Everything else is inside, although the peel contains a lot of fiber.