Systematic visits to various cafes, specializing in fast food - this is the order of things for modern life. This note is written for those who want to preserve their health and not fall victim to the "Fast Food" fashion. This article will teach you how to correctly distinguish useful fast food from unhealthy nutrition.
Is fast food useful?
The bulk of the known "Fast Food" products are high in calories. As you know, the abuse of carbohydrate, fatty foods, as well as food that contains sharp spices, leads to an overabundance of the daily calorie rate.
In food, there are elements called hydrogenated vegetable oils, rich in trans fats. Part of the food additives, as well as the cooking process, reduce the nutritional value of trans fats. Absorption of food, which contains in excess lipids and carbohydrates, will unambiguously lead to overweight. In addition, "fast food" food is rich in large salts.
To date, obesity in the US - one of the most acute national problems. The basis of this problem was unhealthy food - "fast food" food. Morning fast food-sandwich contains so many calories, which is enough for the whole day.
Systematic absorption of unhealthy nutrition leads to a violation of calcium adsorption. As a result, the risk of stroke, the development of depression, insulin resistance of the body increases. In the case of the failure of the body to insulin and its failure to enter the blood, the risk of developing diabetes mellitus of the 2nd degree increases.
The negative influence of fast food is, first of all, connected with:
- with the raised maintenance of lipids, carbohydrates, salts, calories;
- with the absence of vegetable fiber;
- with the absence of the necessary macro- and microelements.
We turn to useful fast food.
Studies of scientists from the United States have shown that the excessive consumption of food with a high content of lipids and carbohydrates leads to both physical and psychological metamorphosis: eating fast food becomes not just a habit, but a real dependence on it. This dependence forces you to buy fast food again and again. In order not to starve yourself, not to restrain yourself from buying an adorable hamburger, eat healthy fast food.
How to reduce the harmful effect of fast food on your beloved body? First of all, you should get rid of harmful lipids, cholesterol and other components of fast food in your diet. Therefore, you really reduce the harm that fast food inflicts on your body, and continue to get pleasure from your favorite food.
In addition to the typical food in cafes and restaurants fast food can eat and quite healthy food, which does not contain harmful "fast food" components. To date, in order to increase the quality and reduce the harmful influence of fast food, it is prepared using lean meat, coarse grinded bread, french fries, fried with a minimum amount of butter, low-calorie drinks and a maximum of vegetables. The time has come when the consumer can competently distinguish healthy fast food and evaluate its benefits. Do not pass by these tips.
Get rid of the addiction to harmful fast food, the same thing that get rid of the habit of smoking - no major changes. The way to get rid of harmful fast food will begin with small.
- Determine for yourself the number of days per week in which you will eat at a fast food cafe.
- Kill the "tempter-tempter" in yourself, which will draw you again and again to fast food. This is possible if you take the rule of daily, before consuming fast food, to consume fresh fruit, unsweetened yogurt or porridge. These products create a feeling of saturation.
- Prohibit yourself to eat large portions. Do not order a lot, the so-called double portions, which literally stretch the stomach. You need to eat as much as you can fit in.
- When ordering drinks, discard the cola, which is rich in carbohydrates (respectively, high-calorie) in favor of tea without sugar with ice. In addition to tea, you can order mineral water or fresh fruit juice.
- Give up fried food, because it takes a huge amount of oil to cook, containing a maximum of lipids and has a high energy value. Replace the french fries with ordinary pounded or baked potatoes, a sandwich with grilled chicken. Replace the fried dishes with steamed dishes, at the stake, baked in the oven.
- Include a maximum of vegetables in the diet. Naturally, in the menu of "fast food" restaurants a large selection of salads. Replace your favorite hamburger with your favorite salad. Limit yourself in the consumption of mayonnaise, fatty sauces, cheese. Try to replace the fatty mayonnaise with low-fat sauce, and season with salads. This increases the digestibility of vitamins and antioxidants.
- Control the calories. Visit those cafes or restaurants, in the menu of which calories are calculated for each dish: this will help you to distinguish healthy fast food from harmful.