How often as a child were you given chicken broth to drink when you had a cold and advised to eat more carrots so that your eyesight would never deteriorate from studying and reading?
Surely many have encountered something similar. Food is a useful and vital thing, but in some cases it cannot be attributed with medicinal properties.
So, chicken broth does not cure a cold: it does not have the property of destroying harmful microorganisms that caused the disease. Therefore, when relieving symptoms, singing its praises alone is not recommended.
However, it is also unnecessary to completely reject chicken broth when you have a cold: when the body throws all its strength into fighting the disease, it simply has no time to "distract" itself by digesting food. And broth is easily digested, while having sufficient nutritional value to maintain the patient's strength.
In addition, drinking broths helps harmful substances leave the body faster: it is not for nothing that doctors advise drinking more warm liquids first when you have a cold.
As for carrots and their effect on vision, they can also help. But only in one case - when the deterioration of vision is caused by a deficiency of vitamin A and this disease is called nyctalopia. How does it manifest itself? In the fact that you literally go blind at the onset of twilight and darkness.
Eating carrots with sour cream or sunflower/butter so that beta-carotene is better and more fully absorbed is a good way to restore your twilight vision.
However, it is not recommended to rely on the healing properties of this root vegetable for myopia or hyperopia: such vision pathologies cannot be cured with carrots.
Are you familiar with the statement that for normal and active brain function you need to eat sweets? They say that sugar stimulates mental activity, and therefore for good study or productivity at work you need to keep chocolate or candy on hand, and snack on something containing carbohydrates.
This statement is partly true: the brain does need carbohydrates to function. But which ones?
Those found in confectionery and baked goods are called fast and are indeed absorbed into the bloodstream and reach the brain quite quickly. But this burst of activity quickly fades away, since such sugars are quickly broken down.
In addition, there is evidence that sugar can even worsen productivity, because its abundance in the blood reduces the level of a neuropeptide called orexin. And our activity and vigor depend on it.
Where is the truth? In the middle, as in many other cases. The brain needs carbohydrates and glucose, but slow carbohydrates are much preferable to fast ones.
Those who test their strength with all sorts of weight loss systems and diets, firmly believe the statement that low-fat yogurts and cottage cheese are much more useful for the figure than those that contain at least one percent of fat. Is this true? No: people can get fat not from fatty foods, but from an excess of those same fast carbohydrates.
In small quantities, animal fats are necessary for the body: they are responsible for the health of the brain, skin and vision. And low-fat products, if eaten only for a long time, lead to brittle hair, dry skin and even hypovitaminosis.
Vitamins such as K, E and A will not be fully absorbed without a fat component in the diet. Conclusion? It is impossible to leave the body without fats at all, but it is important to control their quality and quantity.
And finally, it is very strange to hear nowadays that any disease can be overcome if you regularly eat one or two apples.
Of course, these fruits are very healthy, they contain a lot of vitamins, fiber and pectin. But apples cannot be considered a universal remedy against all known diseases. Iron deficiency and the accompanying anemia cannot be eliminated with apples alone: they are not as rich in iron as pork or beef liver, for example.
It is not even worth talking about more serious illnesses, such as cancer or AIDS: apples can only serve as a supporting element, but not a cure. Therefore, do not replace pills, medical procedures and visits to doctors with these fruits.
Author: Valeria Kisternaya
