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Harmful tips for those on a diet
Last reviewed: 04.07.2025
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Diet under the gun
In the 20th century, scientific research was conducted on the proper intake of food and the impact of diets on the body. The results of the research indicate that you should not saturate the body to the maximum at the time when you have breakfast. Breakfast should serve as a motor for your stomach to start functioning, in other words, you just need to invigorate the body after sleep.
Try to eat as much as possible at lunch, so much so that you don’t overeat and don’t feel hungry. Just eat plenty of nutritious and healthy food – this is the best recommendation for those people who distribute by the minute what and when it’s time to eat.
When you eat breakfast, the caloric content of food varies from about 30% to 35% of calories. Lunch should be more filling - 40%-45% of calories. At dinner, consume 25% of the total daily caloric intake.
Soups – can they heal?
Nutritionists recommend eating soups daily to prevent the possibility of stomach ulcers. However, the relationship between stomach ulcers and insufficient soup consumption has not been proven, since statistics are very dubious and each person has their own regime and principle of nutrition, different "power" of the body.
Vegetables and fruits
Eat as many vegetables or fruits as your heart desires – it is extremely healthy, these products contain a lot of vitamins. And here is another point of view. The large number of “vitamins” that we get from eating vegetables and fruits still do not compensate for the daily norm of a person, vitamins simply need to be obtained from other edible sources.
Overeating vegetables and fruits can lead to diarrhea, heartburn, bloating. If such uncomfortable "malfunctions" in the body begin to make themselves felt, you have problems with the digestive process.
How to eat vegetables and fruits correctly?
If you want to eat your fill of fruits, vegetables, garden or greenhouse greens, eat before your stomach feels completely "hungry". Never eat such delicacies after a meal, otherwise your actions will trigger the fermentation process, and gastric juices will contribute to this.
If you don’t notice such “little things”, you risk bloating and other accompanying signs of poor nutrition.
Fats are the enemies that give us strength
When following some “fashionable” diet, we are often advised to completely exclude fats from the diet so that the body can fight excess weight faster and cleanse itself.
You can't completely limit your diet and not eat fats, they are vital for the body to function well. Overeating fat-containing foods is harmful, but if you eat a little, you won't have depression and other negative side effects.
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The fatal word is sweets
Don't spoil your appetite with sweet treats, because then you will eat little and your body will not receive the necessary substances.
It is good when you do not overload your stomach with excessive amounts of food, especially if you have decided that your lifestyle is a diet. But do not torment yourself, eat in moderation. Nowadays, the number of people suffering from excess weight has exceeded the number of people suffering from malnutrition.
Diet and drinks - harmony for health
Do not combine drinks such as tea, freshly squeezed juice or nectar, coffee with food or immediately after breakfast, lunch or dinner.
We have brought to your attention the "golden rule of dieting" because most people do the opposite. Taking such drinks in a diet leads to poor absorption of food, since food passes through the digestive tract much faster if combined with such auxiliary liquids.
Gastric juice is produced much more slowly, since a lot of liquid has already entered, thanks to the habit of eating "with a cup of tea". By observing the elementary principle of separate consumption of food and liquid, you will eliminate the results of poor digestion of food.
Be healthy!