Healthy Living and Healthy Eating Healthy eating - do not limit yourself to eating   - It is fashionable and prestigious. But any fashion tend to go to extremes. The label of "bad" quite undeservedly received a lot of delicious and favorite childhood foods. His contribution to this, of course, made and advertising, but is not it always turns out: to highlight the merits of something new, you need to pay attention to the shortcomings of the old. In fact, many foods that are declared "harmful", can bring many benefits to health.

If properly understand, it is impossible not to notice that all the discussions about the dangers of meat or eggs, one way or another, have been associated with the emergence of dietary supplements. People gradually and quietly imposed a new consumer ideology. Why eat meat: it has a lot of calories, and it is inhumane for the modern civilized man. And to eliminate the deficiency of iron in the body can, he says, by receiving the "magic" pills and tablets. Over time, however, doctors have come to the conclusion that vitamins and minerals artificial digested much worse than those that enter the body directly with food - whether animal or plant.

The same pork

Who was the first pork discredited and declared it the most harmful of all kinds of meat, do not tell. Proponents of the Muslim religion - not in the bill. Scientists have proved that pork as a natural source of vitamin B6 simply has no equal. In addition, it is extremely rich in magnesium, iron and phosphorus. A small piece of pork weighing a hundred grams of the body is able to give almost 36% of the daily requirement of zinc, which is essential to the normal functioning of the immune system. It provides zinc bone growth in children and adults to strengthen them.

As for the notorious fat pork, it is not a given. Some parts of the carcass well-fed pigs really have high fat content, but well-chosen pork tenderloin is not much different from the diet of chicken meat. Moreover, animal fat in certain amounts needed by the body. Its deficiency affects the condition of the skin, which becomes immediately dull and rough, and the nervous system will not give a time "pozhirovat."

Butter and eggs

It would be once and for all debunk the myth about cholesterol allegedly clog blood vessels and provoke complex cardiac disease. Cholesterol is deposited on the walls of blood vessels, there will not argue. However, it comes not from food, and especially not from the butter and eggs, and there is a violation in the processes of chemical equilibrium in the body.

Butter is extremely rich in vitamins A, B and D, and even calcium and phosphorus. It is indispensable in baby food, while various margarinoobraznye butter substitutes based on vegetable fats cause significant damage to children's health. Particularly preferably butter dark yellow. To cook using milk from cows fed on fresh grass, rather than dry hay, which contains large amounts of beta-carotene. This antioxidant Antioxidants: the truth about the notorious benefits   It improves heart and lung function.

Secure in principle, and egg cholesterol. If a person is not suffering from a metabolic disorder, the risk of falling of the cholesterol in the blood is practically zero. The eggs contain vitamin E, D, and phosphorus. Vitamin E - enough effective means of breast cancer prevention Preventing Breast Cancer   girls and women. Doctors claim that he and strengthens the heart muscle. Vitamin D, interacting with calcium and phosphorus, maintains strong bones and teeth.

Chocolate

Cocoa beans have earned a reputation as "the best assistant psychiatrists", because the use of products made on their basis, stimulates the body's "happiness hormones" - endorphins. By acting on the brain, causing the sensation of pleasure endorphins and relieves stress.

In a lot of chocolate flavonoids, and, simply put, antioxidants. They are famous for the ability to neutralize the so-called free radicals, which are considered catalysts for aging. The scientific staff of the Institute of Nutrition conducted a series of studies and proved that the essential oil of chocolate can protect the walls of blood vessels from cholesterol formations. The most useful is bitter chocolate Bitter chocolate: the benefits and harms health and beauty   without fillings and without additives. And the quality of chocolate tells its color: the darker tiles, the higher the flavonoid content in it.

Svetlana Usankova

Lactase and lactose - the difference in writing in a letter, and how they differ in meaning? Of course, these words are related, but represent completely different concepts. Lactose - lactose, which is a dairy product, a lactase - an enzyme that breaks it. A detailed acquaintance with these terms, you can discover many interesting things.

Lactose

Lactose - disaccharide with the chemical formula C12H22O11, in free form found in milk of all mammals. One hundred milliliters of breast milk of women contains about seven grams of lactose. In the same amount of cow's milk - five sheep and goat - four mare - six monkey - ten grams. Colostrum contains lactose two times less than in mature milk. Taste lactose sweet, but sweetness intensity is only half that of glucose Glucose: The energy source   and a third of the sucrose.

Lactose industry

Lactose prepared from whey Whey: the benefits and harms of waste   by membrane technology and drying, and then used:

• in the dairy industry;
• in baby food;
• in the confectionery industry to improve the foundations caramels, jelly, icing and candies, as the addition of lactose in the product leads to its high viscosity, which causes the consumer a pleasant sensation while chewing; in biscuits, jam and chocolate - like flavor and flavor enhancer;
• in the bakery to increase the volume of baked goods and receive a beautiful golden brown;
• in the alcohol industry to strengthen and at the same time mitigate the taste of an alcoholic beverage, to reduce the negative effects of an overdose;
• in the meat industry to increase shelf life and masking unpleasant tastes;
• in the pharmaceutical industry as a base for many drugs and also to obtain lactulose - laxative.

The content of lactose in the product

Products with high lactose: whey, whey products, milk powder.

Foods that contain lactose: whole milk, dairy products, meat products, packaged soups, bakery products, nut butter, ice cream, cakes and pies, dumplings, dumplings, hamburgers, mustard, mayonnaise, ketchup, flavor enhancers, sweeteners, evaporated milk, broth sweets, food supplements Food additives - basic classification   for weight gain, sauces, puddings and others.

Products whose composition lactose does not include: fruits, vegetables, honey, coffee, tea, vegetable oil, rice, noodles, soy milk, dietary lactose free products, raw fresh meat, raw fresh fish, eggs, potatoes, legumes, grains, spices and nuts.

Lactase

Lactase - an enzyme from the group of carbohydrases produced mature human enterocytes needed to break down lactose into two simple elements - glucose and galactose, which are well absorbed by the body.

Lactase first detected already in the tenth week of fetal development, from the seventeenth week of its maximum activity in the jejunum, the twenty-fourth week of lactase activity is the same in both the distal and proximal parts of the intestine. However, the level of activity is low and progressively increases the time of delivery, while maintaining maximum activity of ten - twelve months. With the transition to the adult type of food lactase activity begins to decline. In two years lactase activity in the two times lower than that of a newborn. The second period of sharp decline in activity between the ages of five - seven years.

One level lactase influenced by genetic factors, the integrity and usefulness of erythrocytes and the level of disturbing factors, which primarily include stress hormones How to beat stress? Create an oasis . Breast milk contains many substances that directly affect the renewal of the mucous and its full functionality, which helps to break down lactose, lactase fully.

By reducing the level of lactase below the age norm or its complete absence develops lactase deficiency, which causes unpleasant sensations in adults and is very dangerous for young children, the main meals which are dairy products.

Svetlana Shimkovich