The fact is that our digestive system is adapted for digesting solid foods. In the diet of children, solid food is gradually introduced in the first year of life. The refusal of solid food for a long time in adulthood is not always justified by the desire to lose weight. After all, we want to not only lose weight, but also to keep our body healthy. Therefore, before choosing a similar type of diet or abandoning it, you need to understand why it is necessary to eat solid food.
The use of solid food ensures that the digestive system of the body will work correctly. When using only liquid or semi-liquid products, digestive problems, dyspepsia, gastritis may occur. In addition, teeth will begin to suffer. Proper growth of teeth and maintenance of their performance depends on the constant load on them. Hard food is food that you need to chew well. If you deprive the teeth of the necessary exercise, the dental tissue will gradually lose calcium. Such changes occur very quickly, but on a few weeks scale they may not be noticeable. With prolonged rejection of solid food, there is a risk of losing teeth - they begin to loosen, crumble, often there is caries. Thus, the body gets rid of "unnecessary" to him more organs.
Of course, in some cases, you have to give up solid food during treatment. This can happen, for example, during a fracture of the jaw. However, you need to understand that this is a temporary measure, and it is agreed with your doctor.
The guarantee of health - in the use of a variety of food, nutrition should be full and balanced. The body should receive a sufficient number of proteins, fats and carbohydrates. It should also be remembered that the fluid intake rate is between 1.5 and 2 liters per day. Part of this liquid we get in a hidden form in soups, porridges. The other part is recommended to receive through the use of table mineral water, herbal teas, juices. Therefore, do not eat in a dry-sink, it also harms health.
The food you eat should be thoroughly chewed. Yogis say that you need to take solid food and bring it in your mouth until the liquid state. Maybe you should not always strictly adhere to this recommendation, but we must remember that large chunks of poorly chewed food have a bad effect on digestion. Simply put, they can not be digested to the end. Getting into the intestinal tract, such food begins to decay in it.
Perhaps you have already had to deal with the problem of bloating, gas, constipation. This is precisely due to the fact that the food is not well digested by our stomach. Of course, this problem can have different causes: stale food, overeating, "heavy" foods for our digestive system ... Sometimes, especially in the elderly, such phenomena begin to have a permanent character, and you have to seek help from doctors. To normalize the work of the intestine and remove toxins from it, purification procedures like colonotherapy are prescribed. This is a rather unpleasant procedure, which can be avoided if one adheres to certain rules in nutrition.
Even in old age, one should try to eat solid food. You need to include a diet rich in fiber. Solid food and fiber help to remove mucus from the intestines. Pay attention to bread and flour products made from durum wheat or from coarse flour. Such products, in comparison with their counterparts made from high-grade flour, contain more fiber. Do not ignore rye and stale bread, breadcrumbs. A lot of fiber in beets, turnips, carrots, buckwheat.
Fiber refers to so-called ballast substances, or food fibers. It does not carry nutritional value, but irritating the walls of the intestines, cellulose helps peristalsis. If there is food that is devoid of fiber, peristalsis weakens, and constipation may occur. Fiber-rich foods are recommended for atherosclerosis, habitual constipation, obesity.
Pectins also belong to ballast substances. Getting into the intestines, they absorb into themselves harmful substances and reduce putrefactive processes. Many pectins in fruits and berries.
Apple or carrots that you eat after taking the main food, not only a source of vitamins and pectins. They contribute to the mechanical cleaning of the oral cavity. The secret lies in the fact that during active chewing, more saliva is released in the mouth. Saliva washes off the remains of food from the teeth. At the same time, saliva helps digestion. Therefore, it is important that enough food is allocated during meals. That's why you need to eat solid food and do not forget that you need to chew it actively.