Slowly and correctly
The slow food movement originated in Italy in 1986 today has millions of adepts around the world. This is Europe's response to American fast food with its saturated fats and "empty" calories. Useful and delicious dietary products are considered the leader among all more high-calorie foods. Fans of a leisurely meal perceive the process of absorbing dinner as an art. So, the classic meal in the style of "sloughfood" is the presence of close people, elegant serving, skillful decoration of dishes, carefully selected drinks, leisurely enjoyment of each piece. A prerequisite is to cook everything from high quality products just before serving. No fatty cutlets for three days ahead and repeatedly heated stew. In the food basket of "Sloughfooders" - sea fish, veal, greens, vegetables, olive oil, cereals and fresh bread with crispy crust. You ask, than such a menu differs from dinner in a posh restaurant? The fact that it happens every day at home with the family and is prepared by own hands.
Cynthia Nixon. The star of the series "Sex and the City", even being busy on the set, tries to allocate time to refresh himself with leisurely and tastefully useful and delicious dietary products.
The direction supports one of the basic rules of dietetics - a slow and thorough chewing on food. This not only facilitates the work of the stomach and protects against bloating and heartburn, but also helps to eat less. The body is designed so that the signal of saturation comes into the brain only 20 minutes after the first piece was swallowed. Thus, the slower you chew, the less food you need to saturate. In addition, perceiving the process of food intake as a miniseries, you can get rid of the habit of hastily snacking than horrible. Useful and tasty dietary products are currently consumed by a large number of modern people who are anxious about their health.
Organically fit
Apples and wheat marked "organic" a long time ago have become familiar to Europeans and Americans watching their diet. Unsightly looking tomatoes that cost two to three times more than glossy handsome men from the supermarket, in fact, are more delicious and pleasing with the absence of pesticides and GMOs. The high cost is explained simply - manual labor, through which useful gifts of gardens and orchards are grown, is highly valued. Organic can be cabbage, meat, milk, tea and even sweets. You can buy natural delicacies, as well as useful and delicious dietary products in a specialized store or an appropriate department in a supermarket, and try it in an organic style restaurant. In our country the latter has not yet been observed. However, with the role of suppliers of organic apples, we are successfully coping with grandmothers in the markets.
Julia Roberts eats useful and delicious dietary products only with eco-farms. Even on set, it does not change habits and requires you to add fresh milk to your coffee from healthy cows.
Products without harmful pesticides are certainly useful, exclude poisoning with nitrates and heavy metals and less often cause allergies. As a rule, they are seasonal, grown under the sun and therefore much tastier.
Additional Value
The cruel realities of civilization, products containing a small number of nutritious elements, force scientists to invent magic pills and cosmic food that would fill the lack of "substances of life". Therefore, jars with a variety of food additives decorate the kitchen champions of a healthy lifestyle. And not only they. Among the favorites are the so-called fortified foods: fortified milk, iodized salt, orange juice with calcium, yogurt with bifidobacteria, eggs with selenium, pasta with omega-3 and much more. Especially Japan succeeded in this, where useful additives can be found not only in yogurt, but also in desserts, even chewing gum. Useful and delicious dietary products are also those products that did not undergo heat treatment and were grown in a natural way.
Reese Witherspoon regularly regales with fortified biscuits and a complex of amino acids, and Cher can not live a day without foods flavored with vitamin E.
Such healthy and delicious dietary products are good to include in the menu of children or people who are recovering from illness. In general, the usual quality products will bring a person more benefits than such space food.
Neither fish nor fowl
In a pique, vegetarians who abandoned everything that once ran and floated, green, tofu and brown rice lovers became more active. However, they do not disdain and juicy steak, but only occasionally. Much more often they allow themselves vegetables, nuts, sprouted grains, cereals, legumes, bread, fruits. The difference is in the periodic (three to four times a month) consumption of meat, milk, fish and eggs. Followers of this type of food call themselves flexitarians (or seven-vegetarians) and with enviable constancy expand their ranks. Classics (strict vegetarians) criticize the Fleketarians for having nothing to do with them, it's unclear what goals they pursue and therefore can not be called a movement. Nevertheless, in 2003 the term "phlelexetrian" was recognized as one of the most mentioned in the press.
Magnificent Sharon Stone keeps an amazing shape thanks to this diet. Day after day, she sits on salads from fresh greens and eats fruit instead of dessert. At the same time he likes to try steaks from salmon and even sometimes allows himself to grill beef with a glass of dry wine.
Partial vegetarianism is one of the most true dietary solutions. A large amount of plant food provides vitamins and fiber and does not overload the body. At the same time, consumption of meat, fish and poultry gives the body the necessary amount of building material - protein. Dairy products provide amino acids and calcium. The result is a good form and excellent state of health. Moreover, it is precisely such a diet of useful and tasty dietary products that is characteristic of long-livers.
Naturally!
Parsley grown on its own window sill? Why not? First of all, fresh herbs in salad all year round with all the accompanying vitamins. In addition, it is very fashionable. No wonder that the Hollywood celebrities took ecotrend to cheers. They are not accustomed to small scales, that's why they do not just put on pots with dill, they buy farms and break beds. All in order to be sure of the purity and usefulness of everything that gets into their plates. It is not necessary to become an avid gardener in order to maintain a fashionable trend. It is enough to find in the nearest market "own" farmer, who will regularly deliver fresh fresh herbs, vegetables and fruits to the table directly from the garden.
English chef Jamie Oliver, preparing for the next release of his culinary show, goes exclusively to the market. Reese Witherspoon herself is weeding beds with cabbage and carrots.
Fresh vegetables and fruits, useful and delicious dietary products - it's always good. If you grow them yourself, it ensures the purity and quality of the product. If you buy products on the market, try to make sure of their safety. At the very least, require a certificate - everything that gets into organized markets is necessarily tested.
Pachaevnichaem?
A great drink called "tea" was recognized and loved a long time ago, and recently it is experiencing a peak of popularity again. If earlier queues lined up to mobile coffee houses, now people choose tea. Slowly savoring, they indulge in tea houses. There you can not only try a new sort of drink, but also join the sacrament of the tea ceremony. By the way, in such institutions, only drink and only tea. Additions in the form of desserts and cigarettes are not welcome - in fact they can distort the taste of a noble treat. But the traditional English fives-of-the-clocks, from which the people of Britain are not in a hurry to refuse, are always accompanied by sweet cupcakes and toast with jam.
Madonna, saying goodbye to the Englishman Guy Ritchie, did not want to part with a truly English habit. Before each concert, the pop diva certainly drinks a cup of tea with a lemon. In addiction to tea, two more British celebrities are seen: David Bowie, confident that the drink magically affects the heart, and Kate Moss. The top model admits that she drinks 12 cups of tea a day. French singer Patricia Kaas is another famous tea maker. She thinks tea is something like a souvenir, and out of all the trips brings out its strange varieties. Although on weekdays the singer prefers Lipton tea and every morning starts with it.
The popularity of tea is quite understandable. After all, varieties of miracle drink - a great variety. Black, green, white, red, fruity, herbal, ginger ... Among this variety, you can choose exactly what you like, and get the desired effect. One tea will relax and soothe, the other will help to cheer up and regain its tone. In addition, tea is a source of vitamins, antioxidants and nutrients that help to improve the body in a most pleasant way.