Coffee is good or bad?

 

Coffee is good or bad?

Is coffee good or bad for you? Is margarine healthier than butter? What today is regarded as a healthy tomorrow may be declared harmful and vice versa.

 

 According to the latest scientific knowledge, a number of foods that you eat often is better avoided. And there are those that medics are celebrating as miraculous agents against various diseases. However, these categories are often changing.
 
Do you like cookies with cinnamon?
 
Cinnamon is unhealthy! One of the constituents, coumarin, at high concentrations, can cause liver and kidney damage.
 
Black poison or magic potion?
 
"Coffee causes cancer", "Coffee is bad for the nerves," "A lot of coffee is not good for metabolism" - in short, coffee has long accompanied the belief that it is bad for the health. However, we now know that coffee does not deserve such a reputation. It is believed that even can prevent some types of cancer.

Butter or margarine?
 
Medical experts are pijre many years began to advise that we use margarine instead of butter because it contains far less saturated fat than butter. Others warn that the butter is unhealthy, because it is a product full of unnatural chemicals, "slop" developed in the laboratories of the food industry. And in one and in the other there is truth.
 
Natural enemy?
 
If someone dies of a heart attack, he knows what is on duty suspects - cholesterol. After all, he's the one who blocked blood vessels. Eggs, cheese and red meat pejoratively called "cholesterol bombs."
But the human body is needed holestorol our body produces it himself. Moreover, today most people know that there are "good" and "bad" cholesterol, and is a former "villain" more or less returned a voice.
 
The poison in the soup out of the bag?
 
Glutamate - just do not! The flavor enhancer is considered dangerous not only because the food industry used to "make-up" quality products, but also because, according to some reports, it could cause "Chinese restaurant syndrome".
Apparently it is a disease whose symptoms are sweating, tremors and numbness. However, the existence of such symptoms is not yet proved, no controlled scientific studies.
 
The myth of the freezer?
 
Many people today avoid frozen vegetables. The reason is the assumption that it has less vitamins than fresh vegetables. The truth is quite different - frozen vegetables have far more nutritious and healthy substances, provided they are properly frozen immediately after picking.
 
The fish is salvation?
 
Until recently it was believed that omega-3 fatty acids may protect people from almost all diseases: cancer, heart disease and diseases associated with circulation, even from concentration disorders and depression.
  Medical experts have advised us that every day swallow one capsule with these miraculous elixir. We now know that these saturated fatty acids important for some metabolic functions, but they were not a miraculous means.
 
Exaggeration to health?
 
Vitamins are necessary for our life. First of all we need vitamin C, which defends us from colds and viruses. But studies have failed to prove that the vitamin capsules useful and even appeared and information that they can harm the body. At least now thinks. What will happen tomorrow, the big question is ....
 
The more you drink, it'll be healthier?
 
Thirst is a natural mechanism that informs us about the lack of water. And then someone thought that it might not be enough and that water should be drinking even before you get thirsty. Such experts are recommending us at least three liters of fluid a day.
 
This theory may be rooted in the knowledge that many people in old age they lose the sense of thirst. However, for most people it still works very well.
 
"Natural" means always better?
 
When our food too much chemicals, they are organically grown products a real alternative, because it does not contain pesticides and artificial additives. Or, at least, there is less. But studies show that organic or ecologically grown food does not have to be rich or healthy ingredients the better for our health. The only certainty is that they are expensive.
 
Recipe for Health - moderation
 
Despite the multitude of myths and prejudices, diet and lifestyle play a major role in maintaining good health. Statistics clearly show that smoking, alcohol, weight gain and lack of exercise the greatest enemies of health.
 
Certainly not good every day to eat fried fries from fast food restaurants. At the same time, articles that demonize certain foods while others rise to the heavens should always carefully read. I do not exaggerate - in anything.