Meat and eggs, it turns out, can also be Chinese fake
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Amazing things related to food, writes pharmapractice.ru. Meat and eggs, it turns out, can also be a Chinese counterfeit. And already in China itself they admit that not all their products are equally useful even for trained athletes.
Dr. Zhou is a task of state importance. She finds out which foods are harmless to the national team of China, which should go to the Olympics in London.
"We have already banned them from eating in our restaurants, where the dishes have such additives that it will be impossible to go through doping control in London," says the doctor Zhou He.
One of them is clenbuterol. In small amounts, it is a cure for asthma. But in China it is added in huge doses even in animal feed - for weight gain. Following the food chain, it accumulates in the human body, causing not only the growth of muscle mass, but also pressure jumps, and even a malfunction of the immune system.
"If an athlete is eating on the side, he should tell you what he ate and where. You will be surprised, but we will check the restaurant. This affects the reputation of our entire sport, "says Zhou He, a doctor.
The previous Games in Beijing already had doubts that some Chinese athletes earned gold medals honestly. Especially when the weightlifter Liu Chunhong added Russian Oksana Slivenko to the record, not two or five, but all ten kilograms at once. The results of Chinese women in the competitions in diving were also called unreal. Skeptics hinted - they say, whether the tests for doping are not at altitude, or the Chinese are eating something that turns them into superheroes.
"In London, we again want to win everyone. Maybe our athletes should better refuse from other products, whose quality leaves much to be desired? "- notes dietician Ma Zhongren.
The staff of the PRC television struck the whole country: in China watermelons began to explode - in the fields, like land mines. It turned out that it was all about new fertilizers.
"I had only poor-quality products. But we also have a counterfeit in China. In terms of quality, it is much worse, "says peasant Lee Kexin.
The top of China's know-how is expensive, marble, beef. It is made from cheap pork with a special paste with the addition of the same clenbuterol. Still there are rice from potatoes and polymeric pitches, fake eggs, which are made from gelatin, benzoic acid, paraffin and gypsum powder. Even in restaurants do not always see a fake.
"I prefer buying imported eggs myself. So more reliable. But you can also re-paste labels in the store. In general, there is no guarantee, "says chef Zheng Tao.
Artificial eggs are hard to distinguish from natural ones. But you can. First, the shell is a bit rough to the touch and sometimes glitters. But the main thing is protein and yolk. After a while they form a homogeneous mass, since they are made of the same material. That's only to understand it is possible only when you break a false egg.
In China, of course, they are rooting for their national team. But this time the concern for the health of the Olympians caused outrage. "Here we are - amateur footballers. This is what? We are now second-class people, and no one forbids us to eat suspicious food? "- says an amateur footballer Bian Shichun.
According to the Chinese, the authorities do not toughen the quality control of food products only because they are afraid of food shortages. Nurture a half billion people, and even qualitatively - for this task has not been taken by any catering in the world.
