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For most, it's no longer a secret that to improve health it is better to eat more fruits, vegetables and less animal food, according to the Internet edition for girls and women from 14 to 35 years old Pannochka. net Nitrates are known to be an indispensable attribute of the nitrogen cycle in nature, a necessary part of nitrogen nutrition of plants, without which complex biological processes of protein synthesis are impossible. They were, are and will be, even if you completely abandon the use of fertilizers. Nitrates in plants are reduced to nitrites, which, subject to further transformations, give ammonia (NH3), the basis of plant nutrition.

So, the presence of nitrates in plants is normal in itself, but excessive increase is highly undesirable, t. they have a high toxicity for humans, or rather, their reduced form - nitrites, which, with a massive ingress into the body, interact with the hemoglobin of the blood. As a result, a substance called methemoglobin, already incapable of carrying oxygen. As a consequence, normal respiration of cells and tissues of the body is disrupted (tissue hypoxia), as a result of which lactic acid accumulates, the amount of protein. Nitrates are especially dangerous for infants, t. their enzyme systems are imperfect and the recovery of methaemoglobin in hemoglobin is slow.

Nitrates reduce the content of vitamins in food, and through them affect all types of metabolism.

With prolonged intake of nitrates in the human body (even in small doses), the amount of iodine decreases, which leads to an increase in the thyroid gland.

It was found that nitrates are associated with the appearance of tumors in the gastrointestinal tract in humans.

Nitrates promote the development of pathogenic (harmful) intestinal microflora, which releases into the human body toxic substances (toxins), resulting in autotoxication, t. poisoning of the body.

Nitrates enter the human body in various ways: through food products of plant and animal origin, through drinking water, medicines.

The bulk of nitrates enters the human body with canned and fresh vegetables (40-80% of the daily amount of nitrates).

A small amount of nitrates comes with bakery products, fruits, dairy products.

Nitrates are contained in animal food. Fish and meat products in kind contain a few nitrates (5-25mg / kg in meat, and 2-15mg / kg in fish). But nitrates and nitrites are added to cooked meat and fish products in order to improve its consumer properties and for longer storage (especially in sausage products). Smoked sausage contains 150 mg / kg of nitrite, and in boiled sausages it is 50-60 mg / kg.

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