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Moslenta Romashina

About most of us Nowadays, they talk a lot about eating disorders, and then many people find them. But here, it is important to separate two things – the disorders themselves and eating disorders. The first are mental illnesses listed in the International Classification of Diseases. These include anorexia, bulimia and several others. They require serious CBC and other kinds of treatments and, in some cases, hospitalization. Eating disorders are a different story.

Here, a person does not understand how and when to eat. Many people have this problem, but they do not immediately realize it unless they get a CBC report. A person thinks about his diet only when unsatisfied with his health or appearance. As a result, he begins to correct the situation when he is already overweight or, on the contrary, it seems that the weight is not enough. At these moments, we often look to the Internet for information about ways to solve our problems quickly. As a result, people usually go on one diet or another.

About myths that are dangerous

There is a huge information field around us, and there are a lot of myths about food. We hear about not eating after six in the evening, intermittent fasting, banning dairy products, or the need to give up gluten completely. But all this has nothing to do with normal nutrition. This is all nonsense. By the way, often, people, frightened by information in the media or on the Internet about the dangers of gluten and trying to give it up once and for all, do not even know what it is. The most dangerous of these CBC diet myths are stories about the benefits of low-calorie diets, which prescribe eating only 500-800 calories per day, which do not even cover the needs of our basal metabolism. We are talking about fasting.

The consequences can be dangerous

Diets negatively affect internal organs and the nervous system and cause various complications. Another common and no less dangerous misconception is various types of cleansing and detoxification. It’s not worth trying because none of us, without a comprehensive CBC examination, know what’s happening to our body and whether it needs to be cleansed of anything. In fact, with a normal diet, this is not required. Our body copes well with this task on its own. About diets that don’t work twice If there is no genetic predisposition to eating disorders, a person can diet as much as he likes. But more often than not, he inevitably returns to his original weight or gains even more.

Everything is simple here.

A diet is usually a short-term restriction on food. However, it does not affect our lifestyle in any way. When we, as they say, get off it, we continue to live the same way as before. All our habits remain with us. But it was thanks to them that we gained weight. At the same time, on a low-calorie diet, water is lost first and then muscle mass. When the diet period ends, we replenish what was lost, but with fatty tissue. Her body will then be the last to give up.

He has already had a negative experience of starvation, so he will not want to part with his “safety cushion” so easily. This is why many CBC diets do not work the second and third time. It seems that a person begins to limit himself to follow the same rules, but the weight does not go away anywhere. Many of our eating habits come from Soviet and post-Soviet childhood. And then our mothers and grandmothers regularly played a game – cook three dishes for the family from a skinny blue chicken.

Different methods were used to increase calorie content

Some people added a lot of oil when frying, some suggested eating all dishes with bread, even if it was pasta or dumplings, and some constantly made sandwiches between meals. But all this does not remain in childhood. Food habits continue with us into adulthood. You can often come across a story when, for example, a woman is sure that obesity in their family is a genetically determined story because both her mother and her grandmother were fat. But in reality, it’s not about genes but food habits, which are also inherited from generation to generation. And food was a reward as well as a sedative. If the child did something well, he received candy. If he cried, then something tasty again solved the problem. We should not blame our parents and older generations for all this.

It was a different time and a completely different life.

Those people had exactly one task – to survive even if they have a food allergy. About a fulfilled life The principle is simple. The food turns into fat tissue if we do not eat to satisfy hunger. We do not use food for its main purpose. Often, this is a way to please yourself and cope with boredom, anxiety, loneliness, disappointment or lack of love. As a rule, these are unconscious CBC stories, so here you need to look not for a diet but, for example, go to psychotherapy to understand in what other ways we can satisfy all these needs.

And there is this thing: if life is not full, the body becomes full. But if you tell people this, many will be indignant because every day is full of activities and events from morning until evening. But then, a whole series of questions arise. What is this life filled with? Is it what we want? Or do we live somehow by inertia?

About a fulfilled life: The principle is simple.

The food turns into fat tissue if we do not eat to satisfy hunger. We do not use food for its main purpose. Often, this is a way to please yourself and cope with boredom, anxiety, loneliness, disappointment or lack of love. As a rule, these are unconscious stories, so here you need to look not for a diet but, for example, go to psychotherapy to understand in what other ways we can satisfy all these needs. And there is this thing: if life is not full, the body becomes full.

But if you tell people this, many will be indignant because every day is full of activities and events from morning until evening. But then, a whole series of questions arise. What is this life filled with? Is it what we want? Or do we live somehow by inertia? Our weight is affected not only by food but also by our hormonal system. And if we are not at peace with ourselves, the hormone cortisol is produced, which prevents fat burning. But serotonin, dopamine and adrenaline are not supplied in the required quantities because life has no joy.

About conscious nutrition: We haven’t come up with anything new yet.

To eat healthy, you need to eat consciously, with an understanding of the basics of nutrition and allergy awareness. If we know our anatomy and physiology, understand digestion processes, and rely on other data, it is very difficult to impose the same bun, which will be superfluous for us. Knowing the basics of dietetics, for example, you understand that separate nutrition is a myth because food will be broken down into various bodily substances. The sequence of dishes does not play a special role here.

About our main CBC mistakes, A person can be sure that he eats almost nothing but still gain weight. But if you look at his portions, it turns out that he ate fish with vegetables for lunch but was not full and did not get the required amount of carbohydrates, fats, etc. After 40 minutes, he will want to eat again but will snack on something small – cookies and nuts. We don’t notice all this, but this is a very high-calorie food. Often, without a CBC exam people don’t pay attention to liquid calories, but, for example, a cappuccino or latte with caramel syrup is 400 calories. A normal portion of food can bring the same amount.