Meat - harmful or Cole can not eat

"The China Study" in Russian have been waiting a long time. In the US, the American biochemist book veteran Colin Campbell was published in 2005, became the book of the year and has done a lot of noise, nearly brought down thence livestock. Readers rushed to give up meat and milk, and even Bill Clinton admitted after heart surgery began to adhere to recommendations "KI", feels perfectly and has lost 11 kg.

Our book was published in 2013 under the curtain of the publishing house "Mann, Ivanov and Ferber" and expected readers divided into two camps: the enthusiastic followers and sarcastic critics. "All this is nonsense - said categorically familiar dietitian. - No brainer, it's better to eat salads and fish than roast pork and sweets. Nothing new, solid juggling. " In a detailed conversation revealed that she did not read the book, but condemned.

If read, I would know that the author of the fish is also not recommended as myasko and eggs and cottage cheese, and milk - even suicide, especially for women, because it greatly increases the risk of breast cancer.

All products of animal origin, as well as refined products, according to "China Study", harmful to the human body and lead to major diseases at the moment of the killer: cardiovascular, cancer, diabetes, multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune diseases, etc. Whereas vegetable diet of whole grains, vegetables, fruits and vegetables not only reduces the risk of these diseases, but also improves the condition of those who are already ill, moreover, for a radical change food may cure.

You can certainly take these postulates of pure hysterics - well, you never know over the years from the prophets proclaimed a healthy diet, declaring the good news that they only opened the knowledge that you need to eat to lose weight and never get sick. However, never before has a system of views on food does not support such an extensive and lengthy investigation, it was not accompanied by so many scientific data, figures, graphs, observations. "The China Study" was written on the basis of the study of statistical data on nutrition, diseases, life expectancy and mortality in 65 districts of China, hundreds of thousands of people. Communication and power of various diseases has been proven unequivocally. "Squirrels have such a big impact that we can stimulate and stop the development of cancer, simply by changing their consumption", - said the author.

More entertaining arguments about the mutual responsibility of producers of junk food, the authorities and the media, which hide the truth from consumers for profit, they misinterpret its grains, which still reach the reader, and this is the case when creating an information vacuum is almost equal to mass extermination. The theory of global conspiracy always sounds intriguing.

Campbell is, to criticize. Experts point to the weak links in his chain of logic, on obviously wrong the questions in advance and getting the expected answers and readers are cautioned against hasty follow all its tenets.

To me, as a woman, which depends on the menu of the family (and therefore its - family - healthy or unhealthy eating habits) sunk into the soul of that righteous conduct - a vegetarian - a way of life thanks to the author manages to wife. She's learned to cook only vegetarian and yet delicious dishes, making it three times a day and ensures that family meals when it was balanced. Because in his book, Campbell insists on this: yes, vegetable diet could give a man everything you need and do not have to "catch up" essential amino acids, which gives us an animal food, but that in a vegetarian diet should be a balance of nutrients. You will be able to provide this? Given that most of us are not able to balance even a mixed diet - knowledge and hard work is not enough.

Apparently, in order to facilitate the transition from theory to practice, the daughter Leanne Campbell released the "Recipes Health and Longevity" - a cookbook based on the principles of his father. It divides all plant products in the categories 8 (seven parts of plants and fungi): fruits, grains, leaves, roots, legumes, buds, nuts. All contain various nutrients, and that a balanced diet, it must include all of them. Recipes contain not only animal products, but even vegetable oil - all meals, including healthy mayonnaise, go without him.

What to say? Reading these recipes alone - Poem: I did not even know that there are so many fruits and vegetables, and dishes that can be prepared from them. It is instructive. A little confused by passages such as "Take half a spoon of sweetener and two tablespoons egg substitute," but I do know what can be replaced by a substitute ... But where working woman (If I was not lucky to be born a man and marry a vegetarian) to find the time to ensure that in such an amount to wash, clean and cut? And that was enough for the whole family, which, except for the cat and me and my daughter, there are two eternally hungry men ?!

But good. Suppose you have a man who is all this cloud of fruit and vegetables to bring, to clean, to cook for the whole mob - or maybe in your town plenty of inexpensive vegetarian cafe, which serves any difficulty three times a day - and not go broke .

Are you sure that our plastic modified tomatoes in the winter useful glass of milk? Does a balanced diet provide only seasonal vegetables? But what about the people of the Far North, where for centuries the menu consisted of meat and fat of seals, walruses and whales with small patches of herbs and berries that ripen in time to the short northern summer tundra? Apparently, they too are dying packs exclusively from the "diseases of the rich", which provoked the animal diet?

Despite all these issues, and quite explainable internal resistance (Campbell remarks that we begin obsessively defend his usual system of power as an addict - the drug), I believe, "Chinese Studies" extremely useful book. It is needed to kick our sleepy minds and force to recover. What we eat ?! Why do we eat ?! Why do so many ?! "We eat like kings" - the author notes in passing, and he was right! This is doubly true for modern Russians: we all eat off of lean years in our country, for decades, the deficit we have in the subcortex sat desire to eat everything now, what if tomorrow will be. For a long time we were convinced that only eat vegetables from his garden - a symptom of poverty, lack of money. Get Rich - buy white loaf, pork fry, mayanezikom shall water ...

I spent my childhood holidays in the countryside. In all there were his farm - cows, sheep, chickens. Every day on the table were fresh eggs and fresh milk, solid cheese, home-churned butter, fat sour cream. Freshly fried fish from the Volga. After the slaughter cattle - tripe, meatballs with palm, roasted whole pigs. It would seem - live, great! But by the age of 40 healthy people, there almost was not. About overweight even not speak - of slender women there were only young and the sick. Heart disease, metabolic and vascular held second place. After alcohol, of course, but that's another story and domestic specifics.

Why do we believe that on the table without meat have nothing to eat? Why sausage still - a favorite national dish? Why salad in our understanding - a salad with mayonnaise? Why 5 servings of fruits and vegetables a day, which is recommended by WHO, for most of us - too many?

"The China Study" we need that to wake up and realize the banal truth: a knife and fork dig his own grave. You do not need large-scale studies to assure: all diseases - from supply to a far greater extent than on the nerves, but if you need a boost to a healthy diet, in which complex carbohydrates, whole grains, fruits and vegetables will occupy more space than it is now, let him it would be better obtained from books than from his own body.

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