Russians misconceptions about healthy eating

• Misconceptions Russians about healthy eating

The founder of the portal "XX2 Century" Sergei Markov in his facebook The common error of Moscow middle class over the "useful" and "harmful" food. This fashion for farm products from the steaks, and the fear of "chemistry" and the desire to buy expensive exotic treats.

Russians misconceptions about healthy eating

1. What is expensive, by definition, is useful. What is cheap and designed for the mass market, it is useless, and even harmful. Black caviar - useful capelin roe - is harmful. Quinoa - useful potato - is harmful. Ice fish - useful, Pollock - is harmful. Food of Urban Cafe, MØS - helpful, the food of McDonald's - is harmful.

2. Animal fats are harmful, vegetable - harmless (exception - palm oil, sunflower - at risk). Olive oil is good, and butter, lard - is harmful.

Russians misconceptions about healthy eating

3. Red meat is bad but expensive steaks.

4. The entire exotic food or food with stems ** stymi useful names. Deflope - helpful, ham - is harmful. Croutons - useful crackers - is harmful. Pumpernickel with kumquat - helpful, roll with jam - is harmful.

Russians misconceptions about healthy eating

5. All food green helpful. Examples: pasta with pesto, arugula, kelp, green apples.

6. All that is in the list of ingredients referred to as E, is harmful. The substance becomes harmful from the fact that it is E-designation. Vitamin C - is useful, E300 - is harmful.

7. All that contains the name of an indication that it is any chemical (known as "acid", ending with "ol", "-AT" and the like) - is harmful. Vitamin C - useful ascorbic acid - harmful. The D3 vitamin - helpful, cholecalciferol - is harmful.

8. Adding to determine the name of food component reduces the degree of its harmfulness. Salt - bad (or at least useless), sea salt - it is useful, sea salt from the Dead Sea - is very useful.

Russians misconceptions about healthy eating

9. Steamed helpful fried harmful.

10. tasteless useful. Raw broccoli - useful (actually a combo, as well as acts Item 5), pork chop - is harmful.

11. Meat thick harmful animals (principle sympathetic magic in cookery). Pork, broiler chickens - bad, quail - useful.

Russians misconceptions about healthy eating

12. The food, which is made at the factory or in a large economy, is harmful to the farm - useful.

13. Any supplements are harmful, more harmful than confusing their names. Food without additives useful. Exception - additives with a pronounced ethnic theme in the title. Fugu fish - useful puffer fish with salt - less helpful puffer fish with a sodium chloride - very harmful puffer fish sodium glutamate - fatally dangerous puffer fish from Ajinomoto - very useful (under the brand name "Ajinomoto" in Japan sells sodium glutamate. - Ed)...

Russians misconceptions about healthy eating

14. If something is handmade, it is more useful. Dumplings - bad dumplings handmade sculpt - rewarding. Candy - is harmful, candy manual molding - is useful.

15. Sweet harmful, especially sweeteners (except sweeteners with a more "natural" names). Sugar - is harmful, cyclamate, saccharin - fatally bad, fructose - useful Stevia - very helpful.

16. Big beautiful fruits are harmful, because, of course, are GMO.