Kasha - our joy

Kashi is useful and tasty, but unfortunately recently it has become undeservedly forgotten and driven out of everyday rations by fast foodand semi-finished products, which does not bode well for our health.

In ancient times in Russia porridge occupied the main place on the dining table in each family, without it there was not a single feast.

Proverbs and sayings of those times about porridges emphasize the use of porridge for health and their important role in nutrition, for example, it was alleged that a Russian peasant without porridge can not be fed.

A physically weak person is still often said to have eaten a little cereal, thus indicating the importance of its use for strength and endurance. The British generally do not represent their diet without cereals, the world knows their traditional oatmeal for breakfast.

During the USSR, when whole scientific and research institutes engaged in nutrition hygiene, there was no doubt about the health benefits of cereal and therefore it was a mandatory food in kindergartens, schools, hospitals and the army, which was very correct. Now children in children's institutions are very often fed pasta, sausages, stews and even semi-finished potatoes, which causes serious concern to the public and parents.

What is the use of cereal for health ^

Nutritionists call porridge the best option for a healthy breakfast, which is many times better than the usual for us since morning sandwiches with sausage and cheese and fried eggs. The benefits of cereals are very high due to the presence in their composition of a whole complex of useful vitamins and microelements, as well as fiber and complex carbohydrates. Eating for breakfast a bowl of porridge, a person gets a long feeling of satiety and energy for the whole day.

Kashi is considered to be so useful and easily digestible that it is recommended by pediatricians as complementary foods for infants, as well as for proper nutrition during pregnancy and breastfeeding. When a child after 4 months of age has a growing need for vitamins, minerals and proteins, doctors say that all of the above is easily obtained by introducing into his diet useful grains.

Very important role is played by the presence in all varieties of porridge fiber - the most important element that ensures proper digestion, restores useful intestinal microflora and helps to remove toxins from the body. This is an extremely important point, because incomplete and irregular emptying often causes hemorrhoids, varicose veins and other serious problems.

Undigested toxic remains of stool, being in the intestines for a long time, are absorbed back into its walls and blood, causing a general poisoning of the body. Fiber also makes the stool softer, prevents the absorption of harmful substances and absorbs bad cholesterol, excess fats, nitrites, toxins and even radionuclides.

After the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, doctors began to strongly recommend the use of fiber in constant nutrition for residents of radiation-contaminated areas, using its unique property to bind radionuclides in the gastrointestinal tract.

Scientists say that if you regularly eat foods that are rich in fiber, then the rhythm of emptying the bowels becomes regular and it begins to work as "by the hour," which means we will forget what constipation and sense of heaviness in the intestines are.

A wonderful cleansing property of dieticians is used to develop various diets. Unique in this sense is the pearl barley, undeservedly forgotten in our day. On a pearl diet, one of the most effective and cheap, it is very good to sit down after alcohol or food poisoning, and also after overeating, when the body is in great need of rest, cleaning and unloading.

Such a diet is difficult to endure, but if you stay on one barrel for five days, the effect is simply wonderful - in addition to losing excess kilograms, the skin will be cleansed and elastic, the swelling will return, the intestine will normalize, and allergic reactions will subside.

It's no accident that in olden times in Russia the pearl barrel was generally considered "boyar" food and ordinary people was not available. The Japanese researcher Yoshihie Hagiwara, who studied the useful properties of cereals for more than 10 years, from the total number called the most useful barley and claimed that it is oats that are the best source of nutrients a person needs for health.

Porridge for beauty ^

Hollywood stars also necessarily include porridge in their menu, especially oatmeal, which is considered a beauty product, because due to the presence of antioxidants in its composition, it prevents aging of the skin and the whole organism, making the skin cleanand smooth, eliminating the causes of hair loss, making them shiny and silky. Softly enveloping the entire gastrointestinal tract and improving digestion, oatmeal is a good dietary product for patients with diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, and due to the low glycemic index is recommended as the main food for symptoms of diabetes mellitus.

By the way, there is a small trick in using oatmeal - even if you ate it very little, and after it overpowered a very thick and fatty breakfast, oatmeal, due to its unique composition, will not allow harmful cholesterol to get into the blood and deposit on the walls of the arteries in the form ofplaques, thereby protecting your body from the underlying cause of hypertension and cardiovascular disease.

Other cereals are not less useful and are also recommended for use. If you want to be healthy and get all the vitamins and trace elements necessary for the body, make sure that you have different cereals in your menu, alternating them for a change.

But it should be noted that different "quick" cereal from the bags will not bring any benefit to the body, because the cereals in such products are cleaned from the shell, which means they are devoid of fiber, and are steamed and flattened, which means they lack vitamins. In addition, various dyes, thickeners, flavors, flavor enhancers and other non-useful substances have been added to such products. The most useful are porridges cooked from whole grains.

When buying cereals for cooking porridge, give preference to less processed. Porridge will be the more useful the less processed croup. If it is deprived of the shell, crushed and evaporated, then there are no useful substances left there, so the person will not benefit from such food and quickly get hungry, having received only extra "empty" calories.

Kashi are an excellent way to maintain harmony, contrary to popular belief that they get fat. The fact is that in the preparation of porridge the cereal increases in volume by absorbing water about three times. Therefore, in order to calculate the caloric content of the ready-made dish, its weight is divided into three and only then multiplied by the calorie content of dry cereals. For example, a 150 gram buckwheat contains only 170 kcal.

Also do not forget that in order to maintain harmony, beauty and health, a proper drinking regime is necessary. Regularly drink enough water( at least 2 liters per day) - this will be the best preventive and curative remedy for a huge number of diseases.