Is it true that the first dishes are more useful than the second?

Many of us have heard about how good for health are from childhood. It is believed that if there is a regular one regularly, then there will be no problems with the stomach, excess weight and digestion. We decided to check if there are scientific evidence of the superiority of liquid food over solid.

Many of us are known about the importance of soups from childhood from parents And grandmothers. In many Families Soup is still an obligatory part daily diet. Explain This is the fact that one who does not eat soup will earn gastritis, an ulcer of the stomach and get problems with the intestines. Countsthat soups are less calorie, so perfect Suitable Those who want to lose weight. Among the advantages of soups are also indicate to the fact that such food Allows to warm up to the body faster.

By calculations Scientists, soups appeared in the diet of man about 20,000 years ago. Ceramic slippers with traces of fire were found in Syanen's cave in China, in which our ancestors, apparently, were preparing various stews. Unlike most modern recipes, the basis of those soups made up various cereals. Now soups Enter The menu of many national kitchens includes traditional cabbage soup in Russian cuisine, borsch in Ukrainian, a cranes in the Polish, goulash in the Hungarian, Tom Yam in Thai, Buyabes in the Mediterranean or Minestron in Italian. 

Modern soup most often consists of vegetables and/or meat, which are subjected to heat treatment in gradually heated water. Depending on the recipe, vegetables and meat can be pre -cut into pieces, the ingredients can also be pierced. Soups are served both hot and cold. It is impossible to deny the fact that soup is a source of fluid, which means that the body's water balance is able to maintain the water balance. According to data The “American clinical nutrition magazine”, the consumption of a low -energy broth -based soup as the first dish, saturates more efficiently than the solid food similar in composition, accepted along with water of the same volume. Research also Showedthat lovers of soup have smaller body weight and waist volume, and also less often suffer from obesity. At the same time, scientists note that the mechanisms underlying such a pattern need further research.

It is important to note that it is a mistake to consider the soup of a deliberately more useful and less high -calorie food. The average portion of the first varies from 250 to 500 g. Thus, the booster plate will be contain from 140 to 285 kcal depending on the volume that comparable, for example, with a couple of cheesecakes. But the same portion of chicken cream-soup give the body is already from 367 to 735 kcal, which is comparable to Bigmak From McDonald’s (503 kcal in a portion). More high -calorie soups does frying, especially prepared in sunflower oil (which can also contain Transfinery), the broth cooked on the chicken with uninhabited skin, adding salins and smoked meats to the dish. 

It is also incorrect to assume that the use of soup is able to protect from gastritis and the development of stomach ulcers. These diseases do not arise from malnutrition. According to modern scientific data, stomach ulcer is a bacterial disease that causes the microorganism of Helicobacter pylori. Scientists who have proved the bacterial nature of the stomach ulcers in 2005, Received Nobel Prize. Today more than 50% of humanity infected Helicobacter pylori, in some countries (for example, in Egypt, Ethiopia and Mexico) - up to 90%. At the same time, the very presence of bacteria in the digestive tract does not mean the instant development of the disease, since the healthy mucous membrane of the stomach protects the organ from the harmful effects of microorganism. The main provocative Factors diseases - taking non -steroidal anti -inflammatory drugs (aspirin, ibuprofen, diclofenac, etc.), smoking And Genetic predisposition.

Therefore, no matter what ingredients are part of the soup, it itself is not able to protect the body either from infection of Helicobacter pylori, or from the development of gastritis or stomach ulcers. At the same time, therapeutic diet (table No. 1) with an existing stomach ulcer, it includes soups made of wiped cereals, potatoes and vegetables (except cabbage), as well as milk soups with vermicelli, noodles, rice and semolina, and meat and fish broths, vegetable and mushroom decoctions strictly strictly Forbidden. Also meat and fish broths Not recommended In diseases of the gall bladder, biliary tract and liver. Soups with beetle, carrots, potatoes Not suitable For diabetics, since when thermal processing of these vegetables in water, their glycemic index increases.

The opinion that the soup is better absorbed, as it consists of smaller pieces is also erroneous. In the stomach food It turns to the chimus - puree from particles to 1–1.2 mm in diameter, Mixed With gastric juice, regardless of how large pieces were on the plate initially. And the main process of suction of nutrients is happening Further, already in the intestines. Moreover, the understanding of the digestion process also refutes the idea that soup is able to warm better than hard food. In the stomach any food Heating or cools to the body temperature in a relatively short time (up to five minutes), so heat production directly depends Only from the composition of food: the larger the protein, the warmer to the body. In 100 g of chicken broth Contained On average, 2.9 g of protein, while in chicken fillet is almost ten times more - 21 g. Therefore, from the point of view of thermogenesis (heat production), firm chicken fillet will be much better than liquid broth. 

IN modern dietetological Recommendations, founded on large -scale research, there are no references to the fact that liquid food must be present in the diet.

Thus, in general, soups do not have any unique valuable characteristics. Low -calorie lung soups from vegetables can be useful to those who follow their figure. True, to the same extent as the vegetables themselves. In some diseases, the doctor may advise you to include some soups in the diet, and some can exclude. But in itself, liquid food will in no way protect against diseases of the digestive tract. The harm or benefits of the soup, like any other dish, determines only its composition, the method of preparation, as well as the size of the portion.

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