The Benefits of Chicken Fat
Chicken fat is digested quite easily. It melts at a low temperature (35-37 degrees), has a pleasant taste and smell. Most often, chicken fat is used to make meat of birds. The use of fat from birds is explained by the presence of unsaturated fatty acids, irreplaceable for the body. Especially in these acids, children need. Therefore, if you adhere to a diet and categorically refuse all fat, do not adhere to a strict diet of children. After all, unsaturated acids contained in chicken fat, participate in the growth of cells, the normalization of the skin condition (important in adolescence), lead to harmful cholesterol, etc. Lack of unsaturated acids leads to skin problems, slowing down the growth of children, lowering immunity.
Chicken broth at all times was considered an ideal food product for patients, weakened people. But in recent years, nutritionists are increasingly questioning the useful properties of chicken broth. And openly call not to use it for food. These statements prompted doctors to conduct scientific research. It turned out that fat chicken broth can not be called an ideal dietary product. However, it is extremely useful for the heart. It improves the condition of the heart muscle and the walls of the vessels. In parallel, it was found that the presence of chicken fat and meat in the broth does not increase blood pressure (as previously thought). If you drink a cup of fresh chicken broth daily, then in time people with arrhythmia have a normal heart rhythm. The benefits of chicken meat and fat in the broth are explained by the contents of a specific chicken protein - peptide. And also the content of extractive substances. They force a "lazy" stomach to work.
In foreign diet magazines are increasingly recommended to use in the diet and chicken fat in the form of broths, and chicken. Of course - in reasonable quantities! This is especially true for patients with type 2 diabetes. White meat of chicken (and other birds) is preferable to red meat. It reduces the concentration of bad cholesterol, rejuvenates blood vessels, reduces the amount of protein in the urine.
Benefits of chicken meat
Like chicken fat, poultry is rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids. Therefore, the benefits of meat are indisputable. Chicken meat reduces the risk of hypertension, prevents ischemic disease, strokes and heart attacks, normalizes metabolic processes in the body, strengthens immunity.
Chicken meat is considered the best available protein source. Its concentration is very high - more than other species of birds. In the meat of chicken contains 22, 5% protein. For comparison: turkey - 21, 2%, duck - 17%, goose - 15%, beef - 18, 4%, pork - 13, 8%, lamb - 14, 5%. Therefore, chicken meat is indispensable to a growing body. Moreover, chicken meat is fairly lean, easily digested. Also, chicken meat is a champion for essential amino acids. If there are problems with the blood vessels, choose chicken breasts - they contain the minimum content of harmful cholesterol.
Another explanation for the benefits of chicken meat is the presence of special protein compounds. They affect the body like a shock dose of vitamins. There is a mobilization of protective functions of the whole organism. Chicken meat is rich in iron in easily digestible form, copper, magnesium, calcium, selenium, phosphorus, sulfur.
Also in the meat of the chicken there is a lot of vitamin B2, B6, B9, B12. B2 is involved in fat and carbohydrate metabolism, supports the "central nervous system" in the "combat" state, thanks to which the nails and the skin are in a healthy state. B6 regulates fat and protein metabolism, is also beneficial for the skin and nervous system. Vitamin B9 is indispensable in the processes of hematopoiesis, healthy pregnancy, participates in protein metabolism, increases the resistance of the whole organism to unfavorable environmental factors. Thanks to vitamin B12, immunity increases, blood pressure rises, depression and insomnia disappear. It is necessary for reproductive organs.
Chicken meat is universal. It is useful for low and high acidity of gastric juice. Soft, soft fibers of chicken meat act as a buffer, "binding" excess acid in duodenal ulcer, irritable stomach syndrome, gastritis. It is very easy to digest, because it has little connective tissue (as opposed to beef). Chicken meat is one of the most dietary. Without it, do not get by with diabetes, with stomach problems, with obesity, if the cardiovascular system is upsetting. Fans of diets are reminded that chicken meat is the most low-calorie.
The benefits of chicken fat and meat say scientific research. However, in everything you need to know the measure. In the diet is important diversity, because the ideal food does not exist.