Trying to lose weight, many women try to completely exclude from their diet fatty foods. However, this should not be done. Why?.

The doctor-therapist of the Voronezh City Clinical Hospital No. 3 Elena Gurova.

Scientists' verdicts Previously, the situation with the consumption of fatty foods was clear: butter and lard are harmful, vegetable oils are useful. In general, without fat is even better: you will be slim and healthy.

However, in recent years, some unshakable statements of dietetics of the last century have been refuted. The largest study on the study of the dependence of health on fat consumption was started in the USA in the first half of the 20th century. It continues to this day. However, even now scientists came to the conclusion that people who are on a mixed diet are the most healthy and physically active. In their diet, both animal and vegetable fats.

It is impossible to completely refuse fat. After all, if they lack, the body begins to process carbohydrates into fats. And this is not the best option, because of the carbohydrates are not the most useful fats.

Over the past 10-15 years, the massive use of low-fat products in the US has not led to a decrease in the number of fatties. Moreover, the number of Americans with obesity is constantly growing. Increases and the incidence of diabetes, which is directly related to excess weight.

So for health, a fat-free diet is no less harmful than a constant abuse of fatty foods. Lack of fat leads to a general metabolic disorder.

Another popular enough belief:

margarine is more useful than oil - it also did not stand the test of time. In margarine there really is no cholesterol.

But it contains trans fats - "broken" fatty acids, not typical for normal foods.

Recently, in an influential English medical journal, surprising results of long-term observation of 80,000 nurses. It turned out that food lovers with trans fats significantly increase mortality from coronary heart disease and myocardial infarction.

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