Proper nutrition for the training process (V. Smolny)

Introduction

You have a weight problem, right? If you are holding this book, then you need help.

Maybe you can’t get rid of the loose mass, which, as in a joke, hides your “tight stomach, muscular arms and slender legs.” Or maybe you are unsuccessfully trying to get out of the image of «spit — it will break.»

In any case, I’m ready to help you! Let’s just agree right away — to help, not solve the problem for you. No matter what the various advertisements tell you, the only way to change yourself without any effort is to go to a plastic surgeon. Everything else will require some action from you. Otherwise, there will be no result. Even if you eat a ton of goji berries and drink a cistern of diuretic tea.

Any change in yourself is work. The work you have to do.

You ask, what will I do then?

I will give you all the information you need to make this work effective and interesting, and not turn into a hardcore hunger strike and senseless self-torture.

There is only one rule: to look good, you need to eat!

Absurd? And if I prove you otherwise, are you ready to buy two more of these books and give them to your friends? Fine! What happens if I don’t keep my promise? I will refund the money for this book! Deal? Deal!

So, back to the rule. Diets are complete nonsense, because every time you restrict your body, you turn it into a “mole” that will drag nutrients into its “mink” at every opportunity and store them in the form of fat.

Do you think this is nonsense? However, these are scientifically proven facts, and you will learn all the details from this book.

Moreover, I will explain to you point by point why you will not achieve anything by hanging out in the gym for hours or winding kilometers around your house.

We will agree on one thing in advance — we do not use the words “lose weight” and “excess weight”. I’ll explain why.

The first meaning of the word “lose weight” in the dictionary is to get worse, because thin is bad, spoiled, etc.

As for the phrase «overweight», it’s generally a myth. The fact is that two people can weigh exactly the same, but in one case it will be a 140-kilogram fat man with 60 kg of fat, and in the other, a bodybuilder in competitive form, who will have only 140–7 kg of fat per 9 kg of weight.

Remember: «overweight» does not exist, there is excess fat!

So, you will not «lose weight», and you will not get rid of «extra weight».

You will get rid of ballast and excess fat that spoils your health and hides the excellent body given to you by nature!

How do I know how to do this, and why am I sure that it works? Everything is simple. I am a practical person and love to do what I like. And I also like fitness and targeted nutrition. The target is when you don’t mindlessly consume your mother’s cutlets, but you clearly know what nutrients you are currently eating and why you are doing it.

A nutrient is a substance that must necessarily be part of the food consumed by a person to provide it with the necessary energy, components that promote growth, and substances that regulate growth and energy metabolism in the human body.

Workout and nutrition are complex processes that require understanding. But due to the hype of this topic, there are a lot of “miracle remedies” and absolutely useless articles, once written by a hungry copywriter for $ 10, and then rewritten 1000 times by his colleagues.

As a result, even those who are really ready to work on themselves have to wade through a mountain of frank slag, crowds of swindlers and simply completely incompetent people.

Any advice, any knowledge has to be tested on oneself, and this takes time. Time you probably don’t want to waste.

My own experiments dragged on for several years, and all this time I now actually give you! Here they are, in front of you — proven knowledge, reliable information without advertising scam and empty promises.

In this book you will find:

1) a clear understanding of their goals;

2) detailed information about specific tools to achieve their goal;

3) crazy motivation for crazy results.

In this book you will NOT find:

1) hidden or explicit advertising of anything;

2) chanting of any authorities (rather you will see how I massively destroy them);

3) controversial theories that work only for the “chosen ones”.

You ask where I came from so smart and in general who is this impudent man who is going to teach you about life? As they say in American magazines, turn the page. Now that you understand why you need this book, let’s get acquainted.

About Me

I am a blogger. I write about what’s hot in nutrition and fitness. In addition, I also destroy the myths that have bred so much in our time only because they warm someone’s wallets a lot. I sat down to write this book when I already had 6500 active subscribers. For me, this figure was evidence of one simple truth.

People want to look good and be healthy, but they don’t know how. The people are entangled in the kilotons of frank «talking» that constantly falls out on them on the Internet, and sometimes in the gym. Yes, yes, I was not mistaken. Just because you’re working with a personal trainer doesn’t mean he’s an angel with wings and won’t try to sell you some expensive and «incredibly needed right now» bullshit.

Of course, blogging is not my only occupation. In the past, I was a presenter on the Muz-TV channel, later I began to host my own program on radio Europe Plus about club music, and at the same time participated in several television projects (Candidate and the show Intuition on TNT). Now my wife and I are working on the project of our own TV show about training and nutrition.

When I first got into the maelstrom of showbiz, I naturally went all out: cigarettes, alcohol, food without restrictions, but sweeter, but fatter. My change started when I decided to quit smoking. Like many who want to quit smoking, I read Allen Carr’s book «The Easy Way to Stop Smoking» and in general I got some effect, but later it had to be fixed. Next on the agenda was abstaining from alcohol. So that you understand the scale of the tragedy, I will say that in the entertainment industry absolutely everyone drinks and excessively, because booze is always free. I went through it playfully and realized that the coolest experience that I have learned from giving up my addictions is just the process of changing my attitude towards them and changing myself. I realized that there is no need to stop, and decided to continue to change my life. The next step was to buy a subscription to a fitness club, and then completely switch to a vegetarian diet.

I successfully “drowned” all my excess fats during the year, losing a total of about 20 kg of weight. But I never learned how to eat and exercise properly, so, apart from “losing” fat, there were no more results this year. Later, the fat began to return, and I, like everyone else who at least once tried to change «on a whim», began to «run on the ceiling.»

By the way, over the years, I also stopped considering vegetarianism as the right style of eating, although it is certainly targeted!

Working with a coach for six months did not bring any tangible effect. I ate kilos of protein and plowed in the gym like crazy 5 days a week, and at the exit I had only slightly swollen wreaths on my biceps. And the trainers kept saying (and, by the way, still continue to do so) that after a workout, you MUST drink a protein shake, increasing and increasing the dose. It is not clear whether they have problems with understanding physiological processes, or whether existing advertising puts pressure on the brain, but it is with such advice that they lead people away from the truth.

After a year and a half of “unsuccessful” fitness, I gradually began to add animal proteins to my diet and increased its calorie content in general. My body responded to this with a jump in body weight of 10 kg. Including fat. I realized that training is not enough, you also need to eat well. But what does «good» mean? All coaches advised to eat more, but no one could clearly answer the questions: “How much exactly? How often? What exactly?» Maybe I came across bad coaches, or maybe I didn’t hear or understand something myself. The only thing I did was eat more protein. There weren’t even any thoughts about any containers with food for the whole day: I considered it the lot of stupid jocks and was sure that I could grow a mass anyway. Then no one explained to me that in building muscles, it turns out that not just carbohydrates and proteins, which protein manufacturers stuff us with, play a huge role, but a rational balance of both.

In general, the treacherous thought began to creep into my brain that “meat” (that is, muscles) required meat. I began to gradually soften my vegetarian diet and after a couple of years I returned to a full-fledged diet. In these two years, I tried a lot of all kinds of «accelerators» and «helpers» of growth, legal and not, re-read a lot of literature about nutrition, training and everything connected with this.

I realized that 90 percent of my knowledge about this was mass prejudices imposed on me from the outside and had nothing to do with reality.

In fact, the entire modern industry of sports and nutrition is based on the desire to quickly get the result, which ultimately throws a person even further from his goal. And, even worse, almost slowly kills him.

Even if you are now 20–25 years old and you think that you will live forever, believe me, when your liver starts to fail by the age of 30 from “super diets”, and anemia develops from jerky training, you will not care deeply about how you are. are looking.

The desire to write this book arose when I realized that even with a huge amount of free information on the net, most people will not find what they are looking for, because they are too lazy to go deep, there is no time, it’s scary to experiment on themselves, etc.

I’ve done a few free nutrition and exercise seminars and seen first hand that most of the people have inadequate knowledge dictated by advertising, media and product placement in movies and music.

That’s how I decided to become a warrior of light in the fight against yellow masses of fat and ignorance of people with the general availability of content.

Inspired? Then scroll on, and together we will drown the fat and grow muscles! By the way, you can’t do both at the same time. Later I will explain why.

12 myths of the XXI century

Before I start telling you what you can and should do, let’s start with what you absolutely cannot do.

In the end, we all first learned to walk and not fall, and only then to run fast.

Along with the cult of beauty and health, a whole stream of myths poured into the 8st century. And each was presented as a revelation, which should immediately open the heavenly gates to the world of ideal people. To a world where everyone has 40-pack abs, XNUMXcm biceps and glutes that can bend horseshoes.

The results, however, were rather dismal. Hospitals have been replenished with new patients, and the world with new people of “something XL” formats.

Before you start making yourself better, you need to understand how not to make yourself worse.

Because in kilotons of slag, generously spilled on the Internet, the devil himself will break his leg. And most importantly, each such unfortunate adviser claims to be at least a “healthy lifestyle guru” and even manages to organically drag in some pseudo-medical theories.

Myth 1. Diet will help

Diet! Absolutely any! Generally! And this should be written in huge red letters on the wall of everyone who wants to change their body.

No diet works on its own, and half of them can seriously and permanently ruin the health of any person.

What is a diet? This is a limitation. For a while, you deprive yourself of sweet, salty, fried, starchy foods. And some even manage to sit on bare water and expect that from this they will turn into supermodels (which, by the way, look scary in real life, I’ll tell you why later).

The joke of nature is that in a small amount our body needs everything. Yes, yes, even cholesterol, which scares you 10 times a day.

By the way, if you exclude sugar from the diet at all, then the body itself will begin to produce it. So yes!

What happens during a diet? You abruptly leave your body without everything that it had time to get used to. The body is in shock and bewilderment. He gets stressed. From this, by the way, the hormones responsible for the accumulation of fat in the abdomen are not weakly thrown into the blood — a male callus.

After that, the body turns into a natural miser, and as soon as there is an indulgence — gop-la! — your weight is back with you, and the «bench» is actively added to it.

You ask why? The fact is that the body, being in wild stress, has no idea when its owner will again come up with another whim, so he begins to stock up for a rainy day.

Such a thing is popularly called the “yo-yo effect” — when kilograms leave, and then roll back, and even with an increase.

If you want to look good, you need to put it on your nose once and for all: you can’t limit yourself in everything for a few days / weeks, and then again lean on cakes and pork and stay with a normal body.

If the weight began to increase, you need to change the very system of your diet (if we talk only about food).

Yes, sometimes it is good to limit yourself in some way. Nobody canceled the same fasting days a couple of times a month. Sometimes you can turn on the «dry» mode.

«Drying» is a special period of time when a person needs to get rid of excess fat and water without losing muscle mass.

But this also needs to be approached wisely. For example, «drying» requires the right preparation, the right exit, a certain training regimen before, during and after it. By the way, “drying” is also an “element of the nutrition system”, and not a diet.

All diets are evil!

Memorize it like «Our Father», and you will be happy!

Myth 2. You need more protein.

In the wake of the curve of information about «drying», and also on the wave of sensational diet «gurus» like Dukan (Pierre Dukan — a French nutritionist whose method is based on protein food) and Atkins (Robert Atkins — the founder of a low-carb diet), people are starting to massively fall into “proteinophilia” (you can’t say it differently) and “carbophobia”.

The essence of the ideology is that the imbalance in the system of proteins — fats — carbohydrates allegedly leads to fat burning.

Ay! I have shocking news for you.

Muscles need carbs! This is their building material!

Yes, on a protein diet you will lose a certain number of kilograms. I emphasize — not fat, but kilograms! Because half of that weight will come from muscles and water.

Then the weight will return — only not with water and muscles, but with fat. The physiology of this process I will explain later. But the fact remains.

There is only one option with a protein skew that can be used occasionally — this is the already mentioned «drying». And then with a clear understanding of how, why, why and when.

Otherwise, the figure of the “fat skinny” model is waiting for you! This is when a person seems to be of medium size, but everything hangs and sways with him. In tight clothes, it seems to be nothing, but as soon as you undress, you get the feeling that this is a model of a bald Shar-Pei for the whole body.

Myth 3. You need to eat less!

By the way, it was not I who said this, but the well-known Philip Bedrosovich, who in one of his interviews answered the question of what needs to be done to keep himself in good shape.

Pop majesty may have joked, but the crowds of devoted adherents of this phrase are still trying to carry it to the masses and put it into practice.

It is not the amount of food consumed that matters, but its calorie content. First, because calories are energy, and without energy we will die. Secondly, because an excess of calories has every chance of being deposited in fat. And in order to prevent this from happening, you must also do everything according to science.

Here it is worth remembering, perhaps, the only one of the famous phrases about food that does not sin against the truth: «You are what you eat.» Calories can be obtained from both apples and mayonnaise.

In the West, there is one very popular style of eating — Flexible Dieting, the essence of which is that you can eat whatever you want, the main thing is that all this «fits» into the daily calorie intake. The result is traditional: we wanted the best, but it turned out, as always.

In general, it was assumed that a person can simply afford something sweet and harmful, if it fits into the daily diet. In fact, it turns out that people are massively switching to fast food and chocolates, motivating this by the fact that «I do not exceed the daily calorie content.»

The fact that this norm consists almost entirely of fat and light carbohydrates does not bother anyone. And then it begins: “My butt sagged, an apron instead of a stomach, there are folds, there are stretch marks.”

The calorie limit must be observed if you do not want to gain weight. And this is where to gain weight. And what it will be — flabby fat or cast muscles, it already depends on other things.

Myth 4. Sports will save us

Sibling of the previous myth. Tightly ignores the fact that you also need to move wisely. For example, cardio exercises for more than an hour are no longer beneficial, but simply burn muscles. And uncontrolled power training (strength exercises) is more likely to kill joints than increase strength.

And here they are, adherents of the «merry movement», exhausted and pale, at the doctor’s. The pressure jumps, the “motor” is in shock, the joints are falling apart. An excellent result, you will not say anything.

Another option is sports as an indulgence for the stomach. I ran for 40 minutes, and you can throw in chips and chocolates from the heart. Spent 300 calories, added 1000. And then the stories about the «wide bone» begin.

First, you need to understand exactly how to move, when and why. Secondly, you can at least settle on the simulator and sleep in an embrace with dumbbells, but without an adequate nutrition system, all this will be like dead poultices — no effect.

Some, instead of doing something haphazardly, go into sports. This in itself is wonderful and deserves all respect. But definitely not in the case when a chic figure is expected from the sport. He wasn’t designed for this at all. Yes, when you hear the word “sport”, you immediately imagine football players or marathon runners. But let’s not forget about sumo wrestlers, heavyweight wrestlers and others like them. These are wonderful, very strong-willed and talented people, but none of them corresponds to the standard of Greek proportions — that’s for sure.

Myth 5. Eat A little bit

«It’s not beer that kills people, it’s people that kills…» a large portion of food. If this myth was rooted only in the number of calories, I would not breathe on it and pray. The problem is that, firstly, this is all heavily mixed with ideas about how much food is digested at one time (information, by the way, has not yet been really proven by anyone). And secondly, they are also trying to add the idea of ​​u1buXNUMXbfive meals a day. It seems like you eat often, but a little bit, and it’s better than XNUMX time per day, but a portion of «superplus».

No, who would argue. Really better. It’s not just about digestibility. Here, more complex processes, called catabolism and anabolism, come into force (more on this later, too).

By the way, if you talk to fat people, and most importantly, watch how and when they eat, you will be quite surprised. 90 percent of them, mindful of their weight and once again unsuccessfully trying to build weight, constantly limit themselves in food and eat in small portions. But if you start counting the calorie content of what they eat, it becomes clear that their fat justifiably takes its place. A lot of high-calorie snacks (nuts, chips, chocolates), and … hello, a new kilogram! Come in and don’t forget your neighbors!

But pumped up guys on the mass eat quite confident portions, they just do it wisely, and their diet is calculated.

So the volume of food, again, does not affect anything — for the 100500th time we run into the fact that the composition of the serving is of paramount importance.

Myth 6. Vegetarianism

In the wake of the craze for a healthy lifestyle, or rather, its pseudo-similarity, which cunning advertisers have spawned in an insane amount, vegetarianism has climbed onto the pedestal of a senile apophygee.

As it turned out, it prolongs life almost indefinitely, helps to lose weight to the state of a ribbed Chinese mop, and at the same time cleanses the pores, kidneys and brain.

Meat was declared the main enemy of the human race, the source of a flabby belly, fat thighs, hypertension, neurasthenia, and probably the cause of the imminent Armageddon.

Advanced and spiritualized ladies began to wrinkle their noses together at the sight of steaks, secretly — I give my head to cut off! — dreaming of clinging his teeth to a juicy chunk of meat and drooling in a way that is completely inappropriate for a spiritualized lady.

The trading industry was convinced that the bait was once again swallowed, and began to massively churn out brains, and then money.

And then a bunch of bad myths sprang up, and the facts, as always, were left aside. Meanwhile…

Vegetarianism is not a diet

This is a way of life, or rather, an ideology that came to us from distant India. All this is closely mixed with the principle of ahimsa, that is, non-violence, which underlies Vishnuism, Shaivism and other Indian religious movements. Now no one will figure out what went where.

Ahimsa — behavior that leads to the reduction of evil in the world, directed against the evil itself, and not against the people who create it (lack of hatred).

It is possible that vegetarianism is one of the theological chips that was born out of purely economic practicality. Still, to maintain in a very limited Indian area such a livestock population that would be enough for this entire horde … to put it mildly, is problematic. But now is not about that.

According to ahimsa and the vegetarianism that follows from it, any annihilation spoils your karma, that is, the line of life and destiny in the next rebirths, not only in the case of eating the meat of an innocently killed cow, but also if you had a bite of a bunch of parsley or killed an annoying mosquito.

They have a kind of a kind of «ladder» when killing mammals is worse than, say, killing dill. Nevertheless, even plant foods are cunningly cleansed with the help of rituals so that everything is tip-top and the gods do not find fault.

Further, a controversy begins on the topic of what exactly is considered non-violence towards animals, and from here all sorts of lacto-, ovo-, pesco-vegetarians and their mixing (lacto-ovo-, lacto-pesco-, etc.) breed. I will not blow your mind and save you from unnecessary details. If you are interested, you can google — there is a lot of everything on the Internet on this topic.

In any case, if you proudly push a plate of steak away from you because you read somewhere that this is eating a corpse … you are not a vegetarian. You are a victim of marketing! Let’s call a spade a spade. In fact, all these marketing muddles never had any scientific value, let alone health benefits.

What am I leading to? If you are deeply immersed in Hinduism, that is one thing. I’m not going to challenge anyone’s religious beliefs. However, if at some point you decided that “meat is evil”, I have bad news for you. It’s time to clear your mind. What can I help you with now?

Vegetarianism is more than just meat-free

This is the main thing that marketers failed on. The whole madhouse on the topic of vegetarianism was built on a terrible theory that a person was supposedly not created to eat meat. And this idea immediately equated a crowd of talented biologists with a herd of complete idiots. Because official science classifies a person as an OMNIVORE.

Just remember this, and the next time another fanatic starts to drive you with his nonsense about how we don’t digest meat there, send him to the anatomy textbook.

A person initially has a set of teeth designed for both meat and vegetables. You can go to any farm and check: your teeth are guaranteed to be different from the teeth of a cow. If this is not the case, then I have bad news for you — it seems that you have problems worse than the ideological issue of nutrition …

Yes, we do not have such a short intestine as a tiger. That is why we can digest not only meat, but also “grass”. But our stomach secretes such a killer set of liquids for digestion that — by golly! — if a cow had one, she would run after the shepherd herself in an attempt to devour him.

At this stage, we return to the previous point again. Any attempt to scientifically substantiate vegetarianism will be deliberately delusional! Because the essence of vegetarianism is not whether a person is meant for meat or not. Whether eating meat is eating a corpse or not. The idea is generally on a different plane.

The idea of ​​nonviolence. This means that if you are a vegetarian (even lacto-ovo, which can be milk and eggs), then you will not eat most cheeses. Stunned? Let me explain. Because in the process of making 90% of cheeses, substances from the ventricles of calves are used. As you understand, leaving a calf without a stomach and at the same time saving his life is not possible.

All this insanity about “eating corpses” and “human inability to eat meat” was invented only to hang your brain with another advertising foolishness, which, on the whole, successfully happened to a whole crowd of people.

Vegetarianism is on the dangerous edge

Once again I remind you: I do not touch religious beliefs. If a person believes in something, in any case, this something is more important to him than a figure and other things. But if you decide to throw out the chicken because it will supposedly bust your belly, think about the following. By the way, this is the official position of scientists who have been studying the issue from all sides for a very long time. Now again there will be a big splash to everyone who, foaming at the mouth, proved the unsuitability of little men for meat.

B12! Vitamin B12 that we can’t get from plants! Meanwhile, he is actively involved in the construction of bones, the formation of blood, and at the same time in the BJU exchange.

Where will his absence lead you? I’ll tell you on my own example, because at some point I myself managed to get hooked on vegetarianism.

So, all the time that I was a proud «NON-eater of corpses», I just threw it into that. in terms of training. I plowed in the gym, tried to count calories … Zero sense. I was constantly tired, cold and ready to climb the wall due to the lack of results, which, by the way, immediately went uphill as soon as I started eating normally. Because the absence of the same B12, saturated fats and animal proteins (protein in plants — the cat cried) will kill your entire balance of BJU in the bud, and at the same time all muscle building. Say thank you if they don’t start to break down.

Another of the consequences of marketing noodles is that everyone is firmly convinced that vegans are fit, young, luxurious people.

Go to India or Thailand, where there is a big bias towards plant foods, and see for yourself. No, Indians and Thais are wonderful people, but for some reason I don’t see a crowd of smart ladies and cast jocks there, although, in theory, everything is fine with them, maybe.

Surprised? The fact is that there is a shortage of proteins and a DASHING bust of carbohydrates, mostly «fast», — these are southern countries, and, not eating meat, people there mostly hamster fruit and sweets on sugar, honey and other things, from which any A healthy person and generally a healthy person should run like the plague. Here I exaggerated, of course, everything is not so tough. But do you remember that the consumption of simple carbohydrates should be limited in general to a minimum?

Vegetarianism and healthy lifestyle

So, let’s systematize: is it possible to be a vegetarian and follow the principles of a healthy lifestyle, the balance of BJU and the calorie intake?

In general, as they say in the good old movie, «nothing is impossible for a person with intelligence.»

Everything is relatively easy for lacto-ovo vegetarians, because they can get everything they need from milk, eggs, butter, etc. That is, from those products that did not cost anyone their lives, but at the same time contain proteins , saturated fats and essential vitamins. Sandy-vegetarians also live well, who feel sorry for the poor cow, but do not feel sorry for the shrimp at all.

As for vegans, it’s already much more difficult for them: they don’t eat anything that is of animal origin at all. And this is just an advertising apocalypse, because I did not understand the key idea of ​​this movement. This is not about «eating corpses» or about «pity for our smaller brothers.» In general, it is not clear why a person should not have milk if no one was harmed. True, some vegans defend their positions foaming at the mouth, pointing out the inhuman treatment of dairy cows … Well, then private farms will help you.

Now half of the farmers practice such things as the personal visit of the buyer. You can go yourself and make sure that your cow is cared for and cherished.

In general, what is going on in the head of the supporters of veganism is a secret with seven seals. One way or another, without all sorts of additions, the life of a strict vegan not only does not fit into the norms of a healthy lifestyle, but in general does not contribute to any kind of health … Unless you throw tons of all kinds of additives: vitamins, food enriched with biologically active substances, etc. Frankly, I have never seen a single vegan in my life who would really be puzzled by compiling a complete diet.

Medical associations tell us that, in principle, this is possible — now medicine is already at the level that we will soon, perhaps, really be able to eat one tablet for lunch, and in terms of composition it will be “chicken with green peas”. However, compiling a complete diet for a vegan is more difficult than for a professional bodybuilder who eats really by the hour and constantly throws something extra. A vegan, on the other hand, will have to count food not only in terms of calories and BJU, but also in terms of the composition of trace elements. If you are not a nerd and not an experienced chemist, then you are doomed.

By the way, this is not the only catch …

How does vegetarianism ruin your figure?

Now stop! All vegetarians who have taken up axes and pitchforks, cheerfully forgetting about their non-violence, can put stabbing and cutting tools away.

I have already noted: it is difficult, but possible. In general, you can be a vegetarian and follow the principles of a healthy lifestyle, provided that you are not a completely hard-nosed vegan or a vegan with a doctorate in biochemistry and anatomy.

However, there is one moment at which 90% of the whole idea collapses. An adequate part of vegetarians — those who came to this nutrition system not under the influence of advertising pressure, but on a sober head — and so, they themselves say that it is necessary to «ripen» to vegetarianism. This should be a conscious step, when the head comes into agreement with the body and you yourself do not want meat.

What actually happens nine times out of ten? You heard somewhere that meat is bad, and vegetarianism will make you handsome. In addition, you quickly realized that beer, chips and chocolates for the most part fit perfectly into the principles of vegetarianism, and rejoiced many times over.

Now everything harmful, fatty and sweet is allowed — and in general, the problem was only in meat.

Fine! It’s not so bad that you start to lean on light carbohydrates. Maybe you still retained part of the brain and somehow monitor the balance of BJU.

The problem is that man is conceived by nature itself as a creature that must eat meat, consume animal proteins, saturated fats, etc. I have already proved this with at least an example with vitamin B12.

More precisely, it was not me who proved it, but scientists, I just reminded you. Come on, add 2 + 2. You need B12. But B12 without any chemicals can only be obtained from food of animal origin. Therefore … well done! The Lord God, Mother Nature or the great Cthulhu (depending on who you believe in) originally intended exactly this: MAN IS CREATED BY A FEATHER! This is evidenced by the bone structure, internal structure and the fact that we can get most of the nutrients only with meat, milk, cottage cheese, etc.

But you are a hard nut to crack and ready to go against your own nature. Because smart guys on TV and blog said that meat is fu! Weakness occasionally rolls over you, and you also freeze every now and then, but you can survive this. Warm clothes and more time to rest will save you. However, there is a small problem. You always want to eat! And this is what I put it mildly…

You come to visit and smell the baked beef or chicken skewers. You walk past cafes, restaurants, or yet another McDachny, and from there you can still smell the same meaty smells… The stomach tries to jump out of the throat so that something meat finally gets into it, salivation goes off scale… In this place, you either break down or twist yourself into a knot and move on.

Further more. You become a little fiend. Like any person who severely restricts himself, everything starts to annoy you. Especially people who dare to eat meat in front of you. Because you are in so much pain!

By the way, it is by these signs that it is easiest to determine which way a vegetarian came to this diet — natural or violent. «Natural» vegans are non-aggressive and will not read philippics (filippika — an angry, diatribe) to anyone with the motive «how can you eat this muck?». All this splashing of saliva simply indicates that a person is forcing himself not to eat meat and has already been brought to a boiling point.

If you’ve quit smoking, you know how it is: for a while you hate all smokers. Only your body does not need cigarettes, and irritation gradually disappears along with addiction. As for food of animal origin, then, as you remember, you need it downright according to the plan from above, so it will only get worse.

Irritability, constant stress, hence sleep problems, constant feeling of hunger — all this begins to get stuck with an exorbitant amount of carbohydrates, mostly simple ones. The balance of BJU flies to the same place. Over time, calorie content goes there. Endless stress knocks down your hormonal metabolism — the already complex muscle building with severe restrictions on animal protein finally falls to zero.

You’re hungry, angry, flabby…

Are you sure this is exactly what you were looking for?

At the same time, you understand that this is absolutely NOT what the advertisement promised you. Next comes the fun part. Yes, yes, the BREAK I mentioned earlier! You begin to absorb cheese, butter, meat in such quantities that your body is ready to almost fall into a coma. A monstrous load on the liver, intestines, stomach … The body is shocked by the amount of saturated fat that suddenly got into it. He is exhausted from digesting a mountain of meat. In general, the effect is comparable to the fact that you lie down for a long, long time, and then immediately grab a 100-kilogram barbell. As they say, it remains only to lie down and die.

You can object: now there are so many different-sized substitutes around that you can easily remove the meat without causing your taste buds to suffer. Soy sausages, soy sausage, even soy meat! There are rumors that they have already learned how to fake red caviar … And I give my head for cutting off, it’s better not to know what it is from. It’s not even about chemistry. Firstly, if you think that all these products are one to one similar to your favorite sausages, sausages and meat, you will be severely disappointed. Of course, all these alleged substitutes will satisfy the need for protein, but in order for soy meat to be at least edible, you will have to jump over it much longer and more actively than over a chicken breast.

Secondly, from the amount of fat in most of these substitutes, any nutritionist will fall into an indefinite coma. Yes, fats are also needed, but there must be a measure for everything!

Thirdly, there are no large producers of food for vegetarians in Russia. Maybe it’s sad, but true. Therefore, you have absolutely no guarantees that you really eat what is stated on the package. I’ll say more. You don’t even have a guarantee that you’re eating a meat substitute and not a soy mix with meat cartilage and offal. Maybe you are a devoted adherent of what is written on the package? Then I have bad news for you. Roskontrol every week finds a dozen or two companies that mold real fairy tales on the packaging about the composition of the food they produce.

Vegetarians are a grateful audience

A problem that follows directly from the previous one. For most of its history, humanity (at least its European part) ate meat. Whoever objects, send to the library to study history. It went to extremes. For example, in medieval England, the aristocracy practically did not eat vegetables at all — it was believed that this was peasant food. But there were more than a hundred different options for meat dishes.

What did all this lead to? Meat eaters (and most of them) have a habitual diet. There are usual criteria for evaluating food. At least some basic ones, according to the principle “this is useful, but this is harmful.” As for vegetarian food, they began to produce it quite recently — as soon as the fashion rolled on. That is why vegetarians have become a fertile ground for vparivanie everything that is possible: from food from incomprehensible what to the standard exercise under the guise of yoga. Vegetarianism is still heavily mixed with Hinduism, and modern advertising also promotes all topics related to it from all sides.

Meanwhile, most modern Europeans should not practice yoga at all, because initially it is a system designed to develop a healthy body and improve the spirit, and not to replace neurologists, osteopaths and other specialists. Orthodox Indian yogis say directly: “If you have health problems, you should not practice. Get well, then come back.»

Various superfoods, superadditives, supersubstitutes and other «superwire» designed to facilitate the transition to a vegetarian lifestyle, in fact, will only lighten your wallet.

Among the articles generously scattered all over the Internet, it is extremely difficult to collect grains of truth. In each series of such texts, there is the very thing that they are trying to sell you. And it will not always be only products for vegetarians. In a huge marketing funnel, both dietary supplements are spinning, which supposedly should help cleanse the body, and yoga gurus of various sizes, calling for replacing any sport with yoga practice — at best, fake and useless, and often also dangerous to health.

Somewhere nearby, representatives of sects also lurked … Simply put, you need to have a very sensible head and thoroughly understand the topic in order to switch to vegetarianism and at the same time avoid all the traps that will be placed on your way.

So, if you are a staunch vegetarian and compassion for «our smaller brothers» is so important for you — who am I to hold you back or dissuade you. However, I warn you: immediately accept the fact that you will have a very — VERY! — strictly adjust your diet and be extremely picky about any food that enters your stomach.

It is advisable to find a doctor who will help you deal with vitamins, and at the same time a trainer who has real experience working with vegetarians and who knows in practice how to normalize loads and what to do with the diet.

If you have been swallowed up by insatiable advertising, and at the sight of a juicy hunk of meat you begin to salivate involuntarily, leave vegetarianism alone.

Once again, this is an ideology, not a “super diet”. Giving up meat won’t help you become a super-strength man, even if you’re trying to target Bruce Lee and the Mister Olympias. Especially if you don’t take your ass off the sofa for days and hamster buns in life-threatening quantities.

Remember, among the stars of bodybuilding and sports there are indeed vegetarians, but they do not gnaw salad, lying on the couch, but plow in the gym like you never dreamed of.

In general, for a short period, a vegetarian diet can be useful, but only as another willpower workout, with a very careful approach, without going vegan and with strict adherence to BJU.

However, if you can’t wait to test yourself, it’s easier to do it in training. Regular visits to the gym develop willpower just as well.

Myth 7. After 18:00 — no, no!

A great thing for everyone who wants to finally kill the already not too lively and voluminous muscles. Like half of the myths, this one came from the right ideas, multiplied by the unwillingness of some to understand and the unwillingness of others to explain normally.

By the way, one of the most beloved and tenacious myths. It consists in the fact that after 18:00 a lock should be hung on the refrigerator and an alarm should be set, and those who approach it should be beaten with a hard club, for which a separate riot police detachment can be created in the kitchen.

And after that, universal grace will come: the arrow on the scales will fall down, and if you have them electronic, then the numbers will start ticking back at the speed of a stopwatch on a bomb in some Hollywood movie.

The main lure of this myth is that until the “X” hour, you can eat anything you want, without limiting yourself in anything.

A strong belief in the effectiveness of the method is based on the fact that you allegedly simply do not have time to eat enough before the evening to exceed the caloric content.

Three times «ha»! Fast food and sweets will exhaust your limit in two meals — and, as they say, hello, we’ve arrived.

Even worse, few people think about why you can’t eat after 18. That is, the carriage turns into a pumpkin at midnight, and the digestive tract closes at 6 pm? And everyone believes that there is a branch of Mosgosenergo and at 18:05 the evil head of the stomach will put up a sign “Included an increased tariff”.

And that’s not the idea at all. It’s just that the figure was calculated based on the schedule of a standard «lark» who goes to bed at 9-10 pm. And the point was initially that it would be better to stop hamstering 3-4 hours before bedtime.

By the way, not so much because of the allegedly sharp decrease in metabolism at night (although this is a fact — when we sleep, all processes are slower, including digestion), but because the body becomes somehow uncomfortable right away from digesting food in a drowsy for a number of reasons — up to heaviness in the stomach.

So if you are a 100% “owl” and the bed has never seen you before 3-4 am, you can safely, without a twinge of conscience, have dinner at midnight, without flinching from the reproachful look of the scales.

Myth 8. Fruits and vegetables don’t make you fat

How I love him! I have a feeling that in this myth all the desires to hamster at least something from the heart and without looking back have merged into a single ecstasy. A high honor fell to vegetables and fruits, because they seem to have few calories, and useful substances to the very peel.

Ay! Does anyone remember fructose? Guess why it matters?

Because in terms of calories, it is close to sugar. Do you remember about it? Congratulations!

Two or three calorie-dense bananas can replace an adequate meal. Now imagine what happens in the body from a pelvis of fruit salad.

Your fat at this moment just sings hosanna to you! (Hosanna — a solemn prayer exclamation)

Vegetables… Yes, vegetables are generally low in calories (if we don’t count potatoes, for example). But it is better not to consume them with basins.

Firstly, some of them contain a decent amount of acid (a kilogram of tomatoes can be safely called the action «Farewell to the stomach!»).

Secondly (this can be immediately attributed to all plant foods), from the useful there is a rather meager vitamin and mineral supply (which you still can’t really balance without additives) and fibers that don’t even interfere with our intestines. But not in the «eat as if not in myself» option.

Vegetables and fruits are necessary and important, but you need to know the measure in everything.

Even despite the fact that some representatives of the plant part of the diet have such a small amount of calories that they are digested almost at a loss to the body.

Here, low calorie content + thermal effect work at the same time, which we will talk about in the chapter on calorie content.

Myth 9. 0% fat = 0 calories

At some point, fat was declared enemy number 1. And food manufacturers began to proudly sculpt huge inscriptions on their products, screaming about the total and irrevocable fat-freeness of everything that they “throw out” into stores (from yogurt to mayonnaise).

The buyers nodded their heads, were delighted and began to stuff the whole thing into themselves. And the companies, having put their income into their pockets and built a couple of new villas, modestly kept silent about a couple of nuances.

First, low-fat does not mean low-calorie or sugar-free. Look at the composition of any low-fat yogurt. In 99% of cases, sugar will be there for sure. There are 10 options without fat and without sugar, no more.

Secondly, there are a number of elements that are not normally absorbed without fat. The same vitamins A and E.

Thirdly, fats can significantly reduce the glycemic index of food. And this is very good (and why, you will learn in the chapter about this very index).

Who said that fats are not needed by our body? Blood clotting, immune system function, hair and nail growth, interarticular fluid formation — all of this requires fats.

By the way, for the regeneration of brain cells and the nervous system too. Yes, fat even participates in the construction of body cells — it is just needed for the formation of the shell of any cell.

Just fats are different, and they are required by the body in a certain amount.

Totally defatting your diet, you will only slam your health. And if at the same time you do not follow simple carbohydrates, then the weight will increase.

Myth 10. Superfoods

The invincible superheroes of our diet! Or exploitation of our brains?

In general, it has long been known that one advertising couple in one way or another works for 90% of people.

First you need to convincingly howl: “We are all going to die!” Then add a sly one: “Unless…” – and please, there is a queue at the seller, like for sausage in the USSR.

It was on this simple mechanics, and also on the banal human laziness, that the topic of superfoods took off at one time.

Because everyone and everyone wants to eat the «magic root» and — gop-la! — get rid of the hanging belly, shortness of breath and the evil eye imposed by a neighbor three years ago for making noise at an inopportune time.

Until 2007, you could call anything superfood with impunity.

The main thing was to declare that your product, for some unknown reason, is more useful than another.

By 2007, the EU finally woke up and demanded proof from those who wanted to slap the coveted label on the packaging.

But then an “amazing” thing came to light. It turns out that people do not care what it says on the package. Superfood terms are as simple as 1, 2, 3.

A little secret…

All superfoods are certainly brought from somewhere far away and certainly have some kind of exotic legend. They saved the Indians, Aztecs, Egyptians from all misfortunes … It is strange that aliens have not yet replenished this list.

…much money…

Cheap is not good! This is downright the memory of the ancestors, which will not leave humanity alone.

And if we are still able to save money on buying equipment or a car, then as soon as we are promised a “miracle root”, a critical part of the brain falls into a coma.

Royal jelly (popularly referred to as royal jelly) costs around 1000 USD for 40 g. 1000 USD! With this money, you can get vitamins for the most I don’t want.

If you see in the store… I don’t know… flour for 1000 USD per kilogram, you will run farther from it than you see. But this is where the stereotype kicks in. Superfood should be super expensive.

…and oh-oh-so many promises!

According to the sellers, superfoods should save humanity from all misfortunes. They cleanse the body and moisturize the skin, speed up the metabolism, treat the kidneys, liver and dementia … Although no, the latter, perhaps, are not treated.

Fact: the more a person is promised, the more willingly he grabs his wallet and starts throwing away a ton of money, throwing himself at all this super food. But for a trainer in a good fitness club, he has no money, you see …

Sometimes someone else’s opinion of varying degrees of authority is added to the list. And no one really cares how the celebrity actually relates to the product.

So at one time sales of goji berries soared, which Dukan mentioned a couple of times in his book. And he just mentioned it in a variant like “you can eat them as an alternative to sweets.”

Very soon, goji berries turned from a safe dessert into a panacea for fat, bulimia, and almost oncology. And all this under the slogan «Dukan recommends!».

Spirulina, green coffee and coconut milk are regularly advertised by our celebrities. And judging by the quality of this advertisement, I strongly doubt that they are aware that they are working as someone’s «face».

The most modest of swindlers timidly sculpt «miracle stories» about how the girl was fat, and the boy was a dick, and no one liked them, and their life did not go well. And then they started drinking super coffee, eating it with super berries wrapped in super algae, and immediately turned from ugly ducklings into standards of beauty, intelligence, became talented and objects of universal admiration …

Are superfoods bad or good?

Can we say that superfoods are bad? By and large, no. It’s not some scary menace like appetite suppressants or those creepy worms that models used to swallow in handfuls. No. In 99% of cases, these are ordinary products, even quite healthy for themselves, with some of their own vitamins, minerals and other things.

Superfoods are not a panacea. They are neither good nor bad. They just are.

You can skip superfoods and still be beautiful, fit and healthy.

You’re not going to throw yourself on bread screaming “Oh yes! Does it have carbs!? Ay! They are in many places. It’s the same with superfoods. Goji berries are an excellent substitute for half the berries of our climate zone, which, by the way, are cheaper and taste — to be honest — much more pleasant. Green coffee is not much different from regular coffee. If you have a predisposition, then the pressure and the «motor» will still briskly jump into the golden distances, and the brain will go into the «quick wake-up» mode with green coffee, with brown, with gray-brown-crimson flecked.

Well let me now introduce you to our heroes.

Popular Superfoods

Goji berries

Meet — common dereza. By the way, it is popularly called «wolfberry», but, fortunately, it belongs to its non-poisonous subspecies.

According to the legend of Canadian and American marketers, this berry really works wonders: rejuvenates, restores immunity, turns you into a sharp-sighted eagle and a tireless Casanova, controls cholesterol, appetite, fats, muscles, bestows the power of King Kong and even saves you from breast cancer.

In reality, Asians have been making various drinks from these berries for a long time, but, alas, only with a general strengthening effect.

By the way, all the results of «super research» on «miracle berries» have long been recognized as fake (Fake (from English fake) — fake, falsification, forgery, deceit). There is not even really vitamin C, which flashes in any advertisement.

That is, in principle, it is, of course, present there, only in order to get as much vitamin C as in one ordinary apple, goji berries will have to eat 13 servings.

Some nutritionists generally consider goji berries to be potentially dangerous. According to unverified reports, they can cause allergies and adversely affect people suffering from arthritis.

Asai

This is a Brazilian palm tree, which has been mercilessly cut off for 11 years, trying to get fruits with yet another miraculous properties, which, in general, do not differ much from the properties of other “miracle fruits”. It is believed that acai berries give youth, strength, energy, healthy sleep, vigorous running. From the funny — the promise to cure the psyche and destroy the cancer cells already in the body.

The taste is generally nothing — they resemble blueberries with chocolate and nuts. They really contain a lot of antioxidants — at least our “local champion” (cranberry) is overtaken by 10 times. But … isn’t it easier to buy blueberries and currants than to bother with some expensive overseas berry?

By the way, due to the international scam with these berries, their exports reached such proportions that the Brazilian Indians began to starve — for them it was one of the main sources of food.

So don’t be a monster! Leave the berries alone and don’t starve the Indians!

Seeds of chia

Latin American guest, according to the original source of sage. Yes, yes, ordinary sage with all its attendant properties.

Good detox levels, plenty of plant-based protein, omega-3 fatty acids, fibrous, gut-healthy structure…

But stop! A plate of almost any porridge + 4 capsules of fish oil — and you will have exactly the same set inside!

This is not to mention the fact that, due to their “foreignness”, chia seeds can cause severe allergies.

And let me not mention that, according to the sellers, this is another panacea that will rid you of fat, strengthen your teeth, heart, heels and karma.

Green coffee

«Drink and lose weight» — a fairy tale like this. Naturally, with a hint about the miraculous properties of the type, it accelerates metabolism and helps burn fat faster.

Hourly Cardio Exercises Help You Burn Fat Faster! Building muscle helps you burn fat! Five times a meal with a balanced content of proteins, fats and carbohydrates (BJU) helps burn fat!

And green coffee helps to burn extra money and soar in the clouds for a couple of weeks. Because it’s exactly the same coffee you drink every morning. Only from unroasted grains.

And he, of course, will slightly speed up your exchange rate (metabolism) (stupidly due to a jump in heart rate), but he definitely won’t turn a fat elephant into a slender gazelle.

golden berry

She is Physalis. A rare representative of something really useful. Contains vitamin C, carotene, vegetable protein, five types of acids at once and tannins.

Is it worth it to give away almost 4000 wooden per kilogram of these «miracle berries»?

Think for yourself, decide for yourself. For the same amount, you can buy vegetables and fruits for a week, no less. Moreover, to buy in such a way as to provide yourself with ALL the necessary vitamins, and not just the unfortunate tseshka (meaning vitamin C), which is promoted everywhere, but which is already contained in half of what we use.

Coconut oil

This time, let’s turn our face to the African continent, where carefree natives do not yet know that they, it turns out, owe their amazing health to coconut oil.

Aborigines, however, are unaware of their health, because life expectancy in Africa is simply monstrous. But we don’t need to know about it at all in order to fill our stomach with another pseudo-superfood, which, no doubt, contains a lot of interesting things … but it still won’t help you lose a single gram if you sit in front of a computer all day, eating cakes, for baking which, by the way , this miracle of nature is also used.

For those who are still hesitant and stubbornly trying to press the order button, I will throw in a couple of additional thoughts for digestion. Coconut oil is mainly used to make soap. Rarely — margarine. It really is a miracle product indeed.

Seriously, oil is like oil, with its own specific taste. Nothing special.

It’s just that the hype for olive oil has finally subsided. To replace him, a coconut was pulled into the light of day. Then they’ll find something else. We turn on the brain, open the trigger on common sense, we go further.

Bee pollen and royal jelly

We have already eaten Indians and Africans. Why not now get to the bottom of our smaller brothers? And so smaller that they are … bees.

Do they collect pollen? Gobble up! Is there any royal jelly secreted? Everything is in the fire! Everything will go! We are dying of hunger as a species, and we have nowhere else to get food from!

Another company of generally useful, but hardly outstanding products. In the «advertising set» fairy tales do not change from time to time: rejuvenation, treatment of impotence, and now also infertility. In addition, you will even be promised accelerated recovery after a heart attack and fractures.

A balanced diet with a properly selected vitamin group and a timely medical examination in the presence of some real health problems, oddly enough, so far show greater efficiency.

Maybe the bees are lazy?

Spirulina

If you’re not generally put off by the fact that it’s a healthy cyanobacterium, you can even try consuming it.

In terms of protein and useful elements, spirulina is still inferior to a healthy piece of meat with a normal vegetable salad. But for vegetarians, this is a good option. High Vitamin B₁₂, which vegans always have problems with, a good percentage of protein — why not.

The only frustrating thing is that the sellers of this “miracle remedy” for some reason are in no hurry to tell that spirulina is strictly prohibited for use without consulting a doctor for people who are treated with anticoagulants (anticoagulants are chemicals that can change blood viscosity, in particular, inhibit clotting processes), as well as those suffering from phenylketonuria (phenylketonuria (phenylpyruvic oligophrenia) is a rare hereditary disease associated with impaired metabolism of amino acids, which leads to severe damage to the central nervous system, in particular to impaired mental development).

Useful? Maybe… Great? Traditionally no. No outstanding effects on the human body in spirulina have yet been noted. Maybe we’re just not her target audience.

guarana berries

Once they were already actively advertised as part of various energy drinks, promising an awl in the pope and non-passing activity for 6-8 hours more than planned by nature. But either our people have finally begun to sleep at night, or they just have this noodles already fallen off their ears … And here it is, a new story.

Now guarana extract burns fat, strengthens the immune system and is about to take its place under the slogan «Running from a heart attack.»

You will most likely need this effect when you see the price of this «miracle remedy». Another way to get rich for cunning «money collectors».

In fact, the US Food and Drug Administration has not yet confirmed the positive effect of guarana berries on health, but in combination with caffeine (how are you drinking coffee?), this “miracle berry” can cause epilepsy. The chances are low, but… Are you sure you want to check?

Shea Butter

It has a whole ONE more or less confirmed property — anti-inflammatory, and then as a cosmetic product. Although… maybe if you take it internally, it will… stop the inflammation of the stomach? Hm, hardly.

Medical research is such a small thing! Here the sellers of the “miracle oil” know for sure: it will save you from all diseases, cure blood vessels, expel fat, give you a boost of energy, tighten your chin, and make your skin soft and silky.

By the way, have you noticed that the promises are repeated almost unchanged? Don’t you think that every superfood should still have some kind of its own chip? Otherwise, why would he be super? ..

That’s it. They just tell you what every person ultimately wants: to be healthy, young and beautiful. And you are bought as if you were buying MMM shares (JSC MMM, a private company created by Sergei Mavrodi, is regarded as a classic and largest financial pyramid in the history of Russia), and you are waiting for a miracle. If anyone will be forever healthy in this situation, then only the sellers of this “miracle remedy”, who, with your money, will provide themselves with an ideal life with a balanced diet and healthy workouts while you choke on berries in half with oil and bacteria.

Acerola

Or Barbados cherry. When Bruce Lee started eating it, swindlers all over the world seemed to howl with joy. True, the great actor and martial artist was only interested in vitamin C in this fruit, but — Lord! are such trifles. Acerola, of course, will defeat atherosclerosis, and at the same time will contribute to the production of collagen. And this is very, very important. After all, you will lose weight so quickly that everything will sag without collagen.

I hope you understood that it was sarcasm, and have not yet reached for the mouse to find and order a couple of packages of overseas cherries, which are actually funny even with a vitamin composition. For example, advertising campaigns emphasize the presence of vitamin K in acerola. The most honest, modestly lowering their eyes, report that, in fact, it is already excreted in the human body, but only with a healthy intestinal microflora …

And again ow! Dear! Maybe then it’s better to correct this microflora of yours than mindlessly throwing berries at you? Or, maybe, when something hurts, you will also swallow analgin for years instead of going to the doctor?

Mummy

I just want to add “my mumiyo” … A veteran, but still not a pensioner among superfoods. For many years it has been passed off as a panacea for everything — up to fractures. Once an indispensable component of traditional medicine, which is now called to be used for any reason — from an extra sneeze to a hanging belly.

What does science tell us about this? Firstly, science tells us that this remedy is generally harmless, but it is recommended only as a GENERALLY STRENGTHENING type of ordinary dietary supplement.

Secondly, it is still not really clear how it is formed. To date, there is only one version: after the flight, the bats gathered in a cave, did their dirty deeds there and flew away.

Ahem, yes… And then we are treated with it. Such … almost urine therapy from the wild.

Thirdly, there is very little real mumiyo (just like deflope — (deflope — a meat dish made from jerky)) is very small. And this is not enough for it to be counterfeited more often than all other means.

No, the process of determining a real mumiyo is described in detail by ancient doctors, but something tells me that you are hardly ready to smear someone’s dissected liver with this product …

At least, I hope that there are no such enthusiasts among my readers.

Most often, instead of mumiyo, they sell (forgive my French) kakahi of small rodents. Are you sure you want to spread THIS somewhere or eat it? ..

Shirataki

Another product that is actively promoted under the auspices of the Dukan diet.

Shirataki are offered to all sufferers without pasta. Well, yes, in fact, this is a carbohydrate-free pasta. Normal substitute. Even edible. I think, especially if you last saw pasta a year ago and you don’t even remember what they taste like.

Shirataki isn’t a superfood by any means, but it’s a safe and possibly healthy thing to have if you’re looking to limit your carb intake and just can’t resist the urge to have a bowl of navy pasta at dinner.

And here we come to the main question.

Is there a superfood at all?

He is not. SIMPLY NO! Superfood is a huge hoax, it’s a brilliant marketing ploy, just an advertising term. Nothing else. Until now, there is not a single product that somehow actively, immediately and irrevocably overshadowed all the others. Except, perhaps, those that we already eat.

So there are no arguments in favor of buying all of the above. There are, however, several compelling arguments against.

Scientists have proven for a long time that the food that is “grown” in its climatic zone is best absorbed by a person. Our ancestors ate it, and we, following them, are, as it were, «imprisoned» for digestion and maximum assimilation of everything that this food contains. But overseas dishes, even if they contain something useful, are absorbed much worse, they can cause a completely unpredictable reaction in the body, and there are as many benefits as they will never bring to the natives.

God bless her, with the conditional usefulness of these superfoods. You have no guarantees that you will buy what you were promised at all.

Are you sure it’s goji berries in the bag?

In general, they look very much like a barberry. Is that yellowish thing really royal jelly? Or just mass-produced chemical rubbish?

What to do? Do not buy these superfoods at all! The usual healthy diet is cheaper, easier, and more reliable.

If you have a lot of extra money, give it to an orphanage. Such an act will bring more benefits than any «miracle berries» and «miracle oils», and at the same time it will improve karma.