These ways to prolong youth can turn into a real health disaster, lead to a hospital bed and provoke chronic diseases. Wday.ru, together with an expert, dispelled the myth about the benefits of the most popular products.
Among the tips for proper nutrition, you can often find this: drinking flaxseed oil, hemp oil or milk thistle oil on an empty stomach is useful. Or such a life hack: to start the metabolism and lose weight, you need to drink a glass of water with lemon juice and a spoonful of honey before breakfast. Are these recommendations really so harmless?
“It is categorically impossible to drink any oil on an empty stomach! Oil is fat, if you drink a spoonful of oil on an empty stomach, there will be a strong release of bile, so strong that diseases such as gastritis and pancreatitis can be aggravated. If a person suffers from gallstones, then the use of oil on an empty stomach can generally result in hospitalization and surgery. In other words, every time they take flaxseed, hemp and any other vegetable oil in the morning, people hit the gallbladder and pancreas. In addition, due to the strong release of bile, vitamins and trace elements from the oil are not fully absorbed. Then why do this?
By itself, unrefined vegetable oil is very beneficial for the body, but it must be used correctly. Firstly, oil should always be consumed with food and always without heating. Add oil to porridge for breakfast, ready-made stews for lunch, or fresh vegetable salad for dinner. In this case, vitamin E is absorbed fully, and the body receives all the necessary benefits of vegetable oil. “
“Another popular advice from followers of a healthy diet, which actually has a detrimental effect on the gastrointestinal tract, is to drink water with lemon juice and honey on an empty stomach. Allegedly, if you follow this recommendation, in the morning you will have a good metabolism and excess weight will start to go away. But no one warns what consequences can arise from such a harmless and “healthy” drink at first glance. And this is what happens. For our body, the time immediately after waking up and before breakfast is the most critical time. The stress hormone (cortisol) is elevated in the blood, all vessels, including those in the stomach, are also under stress. Lemon juice, albeit diluted in water, is acidic. By following this advice, we are essentially pouring acid on the delicate stomach lining! At this time, the acidity of the stomach itself has not yet had time to turn on, therefore, such a drink is fraught with the occurrence of erosions and gastritis.
If you add honey to the water, then it will turn out to be a real sugar bomb. Any sugar for the body, especially on an empty stomach, is always the release of insulin and the subsequent formation of fat. This is the law of physiology. The long-term consequences of surges in blood sugar are diabetes and obesity. In the morning, it is better to give up foods containing sugar and glucose (these include fruits), especially for those who want to lose weight. When such water with aggressive products gets into the “sleeping” organism, the gallbladder tries to save the situation and fills everything with bile. Constant jumps in sugar and bile levels are very harmful and affect the work of all organs.
What should be a healthy morning?
First of all, calm. But you need to have breakfast within 30 minutes after getting up. Before eating, be sure to drink a glass of clean, unboiled water. An omelet with vegetables and savory porridge is perfect for breakfast. As a result, fat burning will start, enzymatic systems will work correctly and, most importantly, all organs will begin to function normally. “