Change cooked to raw!

Does this mean that our beliefs so far have been wrong? Well, the devil is in the details: cooking vegetables do not protect against cardiovascular disease, and raw vegetables do. Unfortunately, all the benefits of a "green diet" disappear when you take into account lifestyle factors such as physical activity, education levels, smoking, drinking alcohol, eating fruit, red and processed meats, and using mineral and vitamin supplements. Victoria Taylor, a nutritionist at the British Heart Foundation, emphasized that such data does not mean that we can conscientiously exclude vegetables from the menu if we do not like them. "Eating high-fiber foods such as vegetables can help you lose weight and improve levels of risk factors known to cause heart disease," says Professor Naveed Sattar of the University of Glasgow, Scotland.

What the researchers point out in the results of this study is the need to change the way you think about diet as such. Adding individual healthy ingredients will not improve your health. You must learn to build healthy eating patterns from scratch. This is shown by data from the UK's Biobank, a study involving nearly half a million British adults designed to investigate how genetics and the environment contribute to many common diseases. It is worth adding that on average people in Great Britain eat about 71 grams a day, or a third of a cup, including a small amount of vegetables in raw form. The nutritional guidelines require five servings of fruit and vegetables per day, with each serving being approximately 80 grams (1 cup) for a total of 5 cups per day. In contrast, in the US, dietary guidelines are more specific: adults are advised to eat at least 1.5 to 2 cups of fruit and 2 to 3 cups of vegetables each day. By dividing cups into tablespoons, a healthy vegetable intake includes up to 48 tablespoons of vegetables each day.

Before a fat Thursday, it is worth asking yourself a rhetorical question - how many spoons of vegetables in one donut?

Source: CNN