Components of healthy food

   In order for a person to be healthy, in his body every day must receive (in addition to a sufficient amount of oxygen) along with food a certain amount of nutrients. Food consists mainly of two main components: nutritional and vital substances. Nutrients contain calories and serve to generate energy, are also used as a building material for cells. Vital substances do not carry calories and do not perform plastic functions, but among other things they are responsible for the transformation of food in the course of the chemical process. To the body could support life, proteins, carbohydrates, fats, ballast substances, vitamins, minerals and trace elements, enzymes, secondary vital substances, liquid are required. Proteins, carbohydrates and fats are the foundation of daily consumed food.

Proper nutrition - Health

   Many diseases and ailments are caused by adverse nutritional factors.
- Poor digestion caused by a lack of stomach acid or unsatisfactory production of digestive enzymes.
- Food intolerance or food allergy, arising due to the regular consumption of irritant foods.
- Deficiency of nutritional substances due to disruption of the process of perception of nutrients included in food products.
- Toxic overload, leading to the inability of the body to remove poisonous substances.

   Today there is a paradoxical situation: on the one hand, food is an indisputable condition for the life of the organism, but at the same time modern, high-quality food is regarded by nutrition experts as the main risk factor for health! The so-called civilized food consists of refined products, too rich in fats and calories. In such a diet unreasonably little space is allocated to natural raw plant products. In addition, in the food range, you can hardly find at least one food product, which would not have been added to the dubious additives for health - preservatives, fragrances, pigments, etc. In addition to them, the body receives substances - pollutants of soil, air and water. All this leads to a worsening of metabolic processes, as a result of which toxic substances accumulate in the body. To maintain in the body of life they must be rendered harmless and removed. This work is often very burdensome for the body, it does not completely cope with it. And as a result, the processes of absorption of nutrients, waste utilization deteriorate, the elimination of toxins and exchangeable toxins is inhibited from the body.
   Among other things, harmful substances increase the body's need for vital, essential (irreplaceable) nutrients. Do not forget that essential nutrients come from food, because the body itself can not produce them. And for a long time already it has been noticed, that deficiency of alimentary substances does the person sick. In this respect, a typical example is a deficiency of vitamin C, which inevitably leads to the development of scurvy (scurvy). True, most nutritional substances do not have such a vivid symptom of deficiency, but their lack is the cause of numerous health disorders, which at first can hardly fade and not cause anxiety, but in time will turn into serious ailments.
   Now experts have no doubt that "on the conscience" of malnutrition of the disease of the cardiovascular system, calcification (calcification) of the arteries, high blood pressure, myocardial infarction and apoplexy. To this list, you can add a metabolic disorder, which is the cause of gout and sugar disease (diabetes), as well as cancer, rheumatism and a number of other diseases. Take, for example, the hobby for fatty foods. Few people think about the consequences of this habit, although the science of nutrition fat (especially saturated animal fats) refers to a serious risk factor for the occurrence of cardiovascular diseases and certain types of cancer. Another equally common habit - steeply salted food - increases the risk of increasing blood pressure and the occurrence of allergic reactions.
   Lack of time and stressful situations often lead to the fact that modern people do not follow the principles of healthy eating: rushing to crack down on food, eating too much, while only creating the appearance of providing the body with a whole set of nutrients. And the result is getting excess calories and disrupting many vital functions of the body. The consequences of malnutrition are exacerbated if a person abuses medication, nicotine, alcohol. Add here a lack of movement, stress, inadequate rest, overload, not compensated by relaxation, and here you have a well-fertilized soil on which the diseases of civilization flourish, violating metabolism, digestion and the activity of the cardiovascular system.

Cellular State

   To properly organize the regime and the process of nutrition, it is necessary to understand why people at all feed. Maybe those who call for starvation are right and say that then all health problems will be forgotten. Lets try to figure out whether this is so.
   Firstly, human life begins only with one fertilized egg and the body of an adult man is already composed of almost ten trillion cells. Where does the building material come from to create, figuratively speaking, a cellular state? This source can only be food absorbed by man.
   Secondly, if you think that after the creation of a cellular state you do not need to do more construction work, then you are wrong. The fact is that not only man is mortal, but also the cells from which he is composed. Some cells live from 36 hours to several days, others - months and years. Only nerve cells, as an exception, live throughout the life of a person. True, if for some reason the nerve cell is damaged and dies, then, unfortunately, it no longer recovers. It is not by chance that they say that one should keep nerve cells. In fact, every second in the body about 50 million cells die, they are replaced by new ones. When you look at your face in the mirror in the morning, you do not suspect that you see it updated, not yesterday. The question arises, where does the building material for new cells replace the dead? Correctly - from food!
   Third, energy is used in any construction. For example, an electric system that helps to drive mechanisms, energy of compressed air or heat energy obtained as a result of chemical reactions, and finally, the energy of the workers themselves. So in the human body: to build new cells, energy is required. How to get it? Yes, again, from food! During the processing of food, its splitting takes place, after which nutrients are extracted from it, which in the process of metabolism are converted into energy and various substances that support the vital activity of the organism. Nutrients are needed to maintain the vital functions of the body.
   From the above arguments, think it is clear that food is the basis of our life. The entire load on food processing falls on the digestive apparatus, which is compared in importance to the root of the plant.

Man is what he eats

   One of the most urgent topics today is the topic of nutrition. Book and magazine pages take descriptions of various diets. Some claim that only consumption of a large amount of meat opens the way to real health, others urge to completely abandon it and there is only vegetable food. Still others assure that only starvation can save from all diseases. It is not surprising, if from such contradictory information the inexperienced person has a head around. And this is at best. The most gullible pay with health. Nutrition, there is the absorption of food (even if it is of high quality), and this is a process in which two participants work closely together: food and digestion. While the digestive factor is not functioning properly, the body can not work perfectly. Our ancestors, who always realized the importance of nutrition, left us the wisdom of life: "Man is what he eats". We remain healthy until we provide our body with the most important nutrients. Many feel an unclear discomfort, get up in the morning unhappy, but this is regarded as something insignificant, not an excuse to visit a doctor. Indeed, the causes of many ailments can not be detected by conventional classical medicine. Often, malaise can be caused by malnutrition, which leads to a lack or excess of nutrients. Restructuring the diet, taking into account the individual characteristics of the body, helps improve the overall condition and purposefully overcome the manifestations of many chronic diseases. At the same time, the most persistent people achieve amazing results!