Proper nutrition

Proper nutrition is a topic that is more relevant today than ever. It is a paradox, but striving for abundance, including food, humanity has created another problem for itself. Having eliminated almost all possible ways of obtaining natural, organic food, people gradually became addicted to ersatz and substitutes. But one of the basic life processes is still metabolism, which involves the absorption of not only water and air, but also, as before, food, and accordingly, proper nutrition plays an important role.

Proper nutrition is necessary for the body to saturate its organs and tissues with energy and nutrients. Proper nutrition serves as the basis for the processes of assimilation (mixing, synthesis) and dissimilation (splitting, decay), which occur in the body continuously. Nutrition in ancient times was simply a concept - saturation. Despite the apparent primitiveness of that food, it was cleaner in the ecological sense and nutritious in the most direct sense. The composition of the diet has changed dramatically since then and today resembles more of a chemical laboratory, skillfully disguised by flavoring and aromatized additives. Of course, the human body tries to adapt to such rapid changes, but, alas, it does not keep up with the power of thought and the speed of industrial progress.

Proper nutrition implies the use of both plant products and food of animal origin, that is, containing animal protein. With a plant-based diet, everything seems clear - vegetables, fruits, greens, and so on. Animal products are often persecuted, depending on the passing fashion. Eggs were accused of all "digestive" sins, meat became an outcast in the diet, milk turned into a product that is poorly digested by humans. There are countless new theories and versions. Particularly literate people who are fans not so much of such a concept as proper nutrition, but of fashionable ones, regularly deny themselves either poultry, or do not eat beef, or categorically cannot stand sea fish. After a very short period of time, these same adherents of beef denial begin to consume it, and, for example, cheese ends up in the circle of forbidden products.

In principle, the biological need for food in humans has been formed for a long time, as well as proper nutrition. The body itself signals its preferences, and tries to actively remove the excess or foreign. The excess, as many guess, is deposited in fat folds, toxic in the best case is excreted during defecation and urination, in the worst case, which often happens, toxins accumulate in organs and systems.

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What should proper nutrition be like?

The famous physiologist, scientist I.I. Pavlov claimed that food is the embodiment, the mirror of the entire life process. Those who eat according to natural norms suffer from various diseases less often, they are active and full of vitality. Imbalance in nutrition leads to disruption of the systems and organs, deterioration of health, and sometimes to diseases. There is no need to talk about an active lifestyle, success. So, rational, and therefore smart (ratio) nutrition, or, more simply, proper nutrition can be divided into the following categories:

1. Food menu, diet;
2. Food consumption regimen;
3. The conditions under which food is taken.

The diet should comply with the following rules:

• The amount of food and its composition should correspond to the energy expenditure of the body. Simply put, if a person does not work, both physically and mentally, then his diet should be minimal.
• Proper nutrition should have a balanced and optimal chemical composition in terms of the completeness of nutrients. In other words, not just proteins or just fiber, but a reasonable combination of them.
• Food must be well digestible, this depends on its chemical composition and the specifics of its preparation.
• Food must meet human organoleptic standards (taste, appearance, color, smell). If you have a negative attitude towards frog legs, no matter how well and in what fashionable establishment they were prepared, their very appearance will hinder your normal digestion and assimilation.
• The diet should be varied, but not multi-varied. 22 types of sausages will not benefit the body, unlike boiled meat and baked sea fish.
• Sufficient caloric content of food.
• Compliance with sanitary and hygienic standards both during the process of preparing food and during its consumption.

Proper nutrition involves following its regime. This is the time of eating, the intervals between breakfast, lunch and dinner. Whatever the regime, it must be followed. Since our body is able to adapt to the schedule of eating and any change in the regime is stressful for digestion. As for the conditions of eating, in addition to serving, a calm environment for a good normal digestive process, an appropriate mood is necessary.

Caloric balance is usually calculated in the following ratio: 50/20/30. Carbohydrates are half of the diet, proteins are 20%, the rest is fat.

Proper nutrition - it would seem that everything is simple, all that remains is to think about rational nutrition, analyze the current real situation, and draw conclusions.