Functional food

The pace of modern life is so fast that people almost fail to eat correctly. A quick breakfast, lunch on the go and a dense unbalanced dinner becomes causes of many diseases and ailments. Doctors argue that such a nutrition is shortening life on average for 8 years. Avoid negative impact on the body and strengthen health helps functional food.

What is functional nutrition?

Functional is called power, which gives the body the maximum amount of proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins, amino acids and minerals. And this is not just a meal, but products that have a wellness effect on the function of human organs. This is a source of energy.

The need for such nutrition arose in the middle of the last century in Japan. The idea of \u200b\u200bfunctional nutrition was immediately supported in many other countries of the world.

Causes of functional nutrition:

• Poor-quality food. In modern products, it began to use a large number of unfulfilled additives, substitutes of taste, dyes, synthetic vitamins. Eating such food a person satisfies hunger, but does not get substances beneficial to the body. As a result, the authorities begin to lack natural substances.

• Human nutrition. Without thinking about the consequences, people eat very salty, sharp and oily food. Its disorderly reception and an unbalanced diet is the reason for the decline of forces, obesity, depression, diseases of many internal human internal organs.
• The increase in the number of diseases such as hypertension, diabetes mellitus, myocardial infarction, angina, atherosclerosis, stomach cancer and intestines.

All these factors caused functional nutrition. There was a need for healthy food, which is able to treat the body and extend the life of a person. Natural products have all the necessary beneficial properties. Due to the content of trace elements, amino acids, vitamins, carbohydrates and fats, it is possible to compile an individual diet. For example, in Japan, functional chocolate candies are sold, which affect the prevention of heart attack and soups to improve blood circulation.

Functional food: Functional food

Functional foods differ from ordinary "healthy" products. They are grown exclusively in pure ecology, without the use of any additives. All substances contained in such products must have only natural origin. Only the product that has received scientific evidence of its benefit can be considered functional.

Natural biologically active components can be added for functional food to products - lactic acid bacteria, amino acids, bioflavonids, peptides, polyunsaturated fats, natural vitamins, trace elements.

All products for functional food, which are desirable to eat every day are divided into five groups:

1. Equal milk products enriched with probiotics - yogurts and other dairy drinks.
2. Cooked on the water porridge, flakes and muesli.
3. Natural vegetable oils.
4. Seafood - polytai, salmon, cod, crab, pink salmon and other species.
5. Fruits and raw vegetables grown in the region where a person lives.

In addition to natural products in the diet, you can add and ready to eat functional food. It can be soups, drinks, cereals and mashed potatoes, which are enriched with natural biodevices. Such a diet is able to provide the body with the necessary daily rate of useful and natural substances. Similar products Many are compared with cosmonaut food - a homogeneous, easily digestible, enriched with natural elements of food.

Functional food Constantine Monastic

Konstantin Monastic is known as a catering consultant, which actively implements the idea of \u200b\u200bfunctional nutrition. He became the author of 4 books dedicated to healthy food, and also founded a broadcast on this topic in Chicago. Konstantin Monastic is a member of the American Association of Power Consultants.

To functional nutrition, the man appealed after having sacchalter and obesity. He changed his power supply, the selection of products and cured of these diseases, and also got rid of intestinal disorders and dental pain.

The monastery came to the conclusion that diseases of people arise for two reasons:

1. From the use of excessive amounts of carbohydrates and fiber.
2. From a lack of fats, proteins, minerals, vitamins.

The foundations of the functional nutrition of the monastery

1. Refusal of flour and grain products containing a large amount of carbohydrates. From them in the body increases the level of insulin, and it converts carbohydrates into fat. Monastic offers exclude from the diet of porridge, pasta, bilbo-bakery products.
2. Refusal to eat vegetables and fruits, which contain a large amount of carbohydrates and fiber. The intestinal mucosa is broken due to an excess of coarse fiber. As a result, various types of gastrointestinal disorders arise. Monastic vegetables and fruits recommends consuming only during their seasonal ripening. From the diet you need to exclude potatoes and vegetable juices.
3. The main components of the diet should be meat and dairy products. Any meat does not contain carbohydrates and consists of water, fats and proteins. It has all the necessary amino acids for humans, vitamin B12 and dietary iron. Meat requires careful chewing and therefore causes the active allocation of digestive enzymes. Meat bought in the store, monastic advises to soak in milk. This will allow to get rid of traces of pesticides and antibiotics.

Efficiency products - the second component of the functional diet. These are yogurts, sour cream, oil, cheeses and other dairy products. Konstantin Monastic considers milk the first and most natural product that begins to use a person immediately after birth. Khalestirin is not a hindrance. Scientists have proven that only those substances that can dissolve in it are falling into the blood, and halastin does not apply to them. Thanks to it, the state of the intestinal mucosa is maintained.

Functional menu of monastery

After 6 years of unsuccessful vegetarianism, Konstantin Monastic switched to functional food. It includes:

• Beverages: Coffee with cream and one teaspoon of sugar, tea.
• Salads: Greek with cheese, from tomatoes, cucumbers and avocado, meat.
• Meat soups: Low, Salonka, Harcho, Broths, Puree Soups.
• Meat dishes: Roast, chicken chops, befstrogen, schnitzel, kebab, rabbit in sour cream.
• Vegetables: Zucchini, tomatoes, sweet pepper, onions. You can eat in the raw form or bake.
• Dairy dishes: Yogurts, sour cream, cheese, butter.
• Fish dishes: Casseroles, Fish fried on a weak fire.

  Functional foodEnergy Diet.

The compositional nutrition includes mineral-vitamin additives, natural origin. It is believed that even the best diet cannot provide a person with a necessary amount of nutrients. Therefore, nutrition consultants are advised to include in the diet of functional nutrition, Energy Diet biological products (diets).

They are created in a French laboratory. The Energy Diet composition includes natural minerals, vitamins, fats, proteins, fiber, potassium, phosphorus, zinc, calcium, iron, iodine, manganese, copper and enzymes help digest food. This is the ready-to-eat food. It comes in powder form and is diluted in milk or water.

Facts about Energy Diet products (Energy Diet):

1. functional food products Energy Diet is not a cure and Bud. This varied and balanced diet.
2. The positive effect on man have not the products Energy Diet, and their functional effects on the organs that are balanced natural ingredients.
3. Eating foods Energy Diet, should not give up meat, fish, milk, fruits and vegetables.
4. Energy Diet products can be given to children and the elderly.
5. Energy Diet products do not require a long time to digest in the stomach and do not rot in it. They are quickly absorbed by the body, delivering useful substances into cells.
6. Energy Diet functional nutrition can only be allergic reactions to the components of natural biological additives.
7. Energy Diet functional nutrition helps to get rid of excess weight and depression, restore the energy supply of the body, ensure balanced nutrition, eliminate the problems of the gastrointestinal tract.
8. Energy Diet products are suitable for vegetarians, raws and monosiced.
9. In the line of products for functional food Energy Diet, special complexes have been developed for different groups of people:

• for athletes;
• for pregnant women;
• for kids;
• for the elderly;
• for those who want to lose weight;
• for the health of the body.

Functional Food Product Technology

Food specialists have developed products enrichment technologies that allow them to make them functional. First, the basis of the future functional product is selected:

1. Dairy.
2. Meat or fish protein.
3. The base of vegetables and fruits.
4. Vegetable proteins (for example, soy).
5. Vegetable oils.
6. The base of cereals.
7. Mixed - combines 2 basics.

To enrich products based on meat in them, calcium, polyunsaturated fats, iron are added. For each group of people, the composition is adjusted. For example, for pregnant women in products based on poultry meat, folic acid, vitamins of group B, iodine are added. For those who suffer from heart disease, calcium and collagen are simply necessary.

Milk-based products enriched with bifidobacteria, lactulose, probiotics, calcium, vitamins. For children, a variety of functional products are created. For example, yogurts with lactulose protect the intestines from disorders and restore digestion. Vitamin D added to milk helps to absorb calcium.

Based on fruits and vegetables prepare functional puree, cereal, soups, dry vitamined drinks. Enriched them with microelements, extracts from medicinal plants, microelements. For example, if you add natural calcium to orange juice, it will help the complete absorption of vitamin C.

So functional nutrition becomes more balanced and useful than normal. Many nutritionists suggest that this is the food of the future.

Where to purchase Functional food products

Do not think about the fact that food nutritionals are not available or are a deficit. You can buy them both in stores and order via the Internet. Products must be certified.

Today, many natural dairy products have appeared in the stores, enriched with alive useful bacteria, vitamins, microelements. To understand whether the product is functional, read carefully a label. It should indicate that the product is natural, does not contain synthetic additives, dyes, taste amplifiers, the composition can be enriched with vitamins, natural fruit or other components.

Functional meat products or vegetables and fruits are better to buy from farmers who work in environmentally friendly regions. It is very important that farms there are no chemical treatment of plants.

Energy Diet products (Energy diets) can be purchased in specialized stores or via the Internet. In order not to become a victim of the scam, check the certificate and interest other customer reviews. Remember that Energy Diet products are produced in France. Buy the manufacturer's representatives are a guarantee of quality, compliance with technology. If a person who offers an Energy Diet says to you, it's bad, then he should not be trusted. Professional functional nutrition consultants know that Energy Diet products are not bad. This is a natural food produced on high-tech equipment.

Advantages and disadvantages of functional food

There are many benefits of functional food. If there were no, it is unlikely that this direction has become so popular in many countries of the world.

Advantages of functional food:

1. Absolutely natural food.
2. Food is quickly absorbed and gives the body the maximum amount of beneficial substances.
3. Functional food is available at any age
4. It helps to increase the body's immunity.
5. Allows you to get rid of many diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, cardiovascular, cancer neoplasms and many other diseases.
6. Human weight leads to normal and relieves obesity.
7. Promotes the removal of toxins from the body.
8. It is a source of energy for humans.
9. Gives a rejuvenating effect.
10. Prolongs human life.

Disadvantages of functional food:

1. In case of uncontrolled use of functional food products, enriched with useful components, there may be an organism's oversaturation. It is especially important to avoid patients with allergies and children. Before taking functional products, you must consult with nutrition consultants or nutritionists.
2. In the functional nutrition system, Constantine Monastic is proposed a complete exception from the diet of porridge and the maximum reduction in the use of vegetables and fruits. Many doctors disagree with this. Oatmeal in the morning is still considered a source of energy and is useful for digestion. And vegetables and fruits give the body natural vitamins and trace elements. But in order to reduce the negative impact of rough fiber on the intestinal walls, doctors advise to cut the skin with them. Also, these products are better to buy not in stores, but grow themselves. Then fruits and vegetables will be really helpful.

Functional Nutrition Reviews

Millions of people around the world have already tried functional food. The number of reviews is huge. Most of them are positive.

On parents' forums discuss dairy products for children. Adults note the positive effect of functional products to work the intestines of children who suffer from constipation. Also, functional nutrition helps to solve the problem of obesity at an early age. Parents argue that after the child has become such products, his weight began to decline. Those who cares about the health of children and have long apply functional nutrition. We forgot about endless hospitals. "

Women who want to lose weight with the help of functional food Energy Diet, talk about their experience as follows: "For three months I add to my diet of the energy cocktails diets. Noticed that the weight began to decline. Previously, I could not lose 4-5 kilograms. Now the problem is solved. I began to eat much less. I dinner only with cocktails. " Almost everyone who begins to function easily with Energy Diet products reach the desired result.

Talk about the effect of functional nutrition and elderly people. Many claim that they began to feel ease in the body and additional energy: "I always bothered the weakness of the body. Already for dinner, I felt fatigue. Often sled heart. After my wife and his wife and his functional nutrition, a feeling of the strength appeared. Now we have everydays are busy with household chores. Bought a garden and grow clean products for themselves and their children. "

Athletes who need energy daily leave a lot of positive feedback on functional nutrition. People say not only how easier it was to play sports. Special attention is paid to warning from the use of dietary supplements and other substitutes for functional products: "My first experience in functional food was sad. Podon-manager sold me bad. Neither taste, I have not received a result. Only disappointment that in vain spent money. After time, I managed to buy real functional products from the manufacturer. And after time I felt that my body earned like a clock. Problems with gastrointestinal tract disappeared, energy for long workouts appeared. "

Recipes from functional products (video)