Is it true that separate nutrition is an effective way of losing weight?

When there are quite a bit before the onset of warm months, people ask the question of "how to lose weight to the summer." Among the popular recommendations you can find the so -called separate nutrition. We decided to check if this diet has a scientific rationale.

On the benefits of separate nutrition write Different sites About a healthy image life. Arguments in favor of him can Meet and in the media (for example, in Cosmopolitan and weekly "7 days"). In articles Explained The mechanism of action: "The simultaneous use of acidic and alkaline foods slows down digestion, disrupts the metabolism and leads to weight gain." In addition to weight loss, to pluses of separate nutrition Related intestinal cleansing, elimination of unpleasant odor from the mouth and breeding of slags (about why slag is a delusion, we are already They wrote previously). The popularizers of this diet are also the stars of domestic and foreign show business-it is reported that separate meals are practiced Sharon Stone, Ksenia Sobchak, Pavel Priluchny And Vera Brezhneva.

The founder of the theory of separate nutrition counts American Naturopath Herbert Shelton. He formulated his concept in the form of capacious aphorism "Nature does not produce sandwiches." In articles on separate nutrition, shelton is often attributed to a medical education, but in fact he Graduated Only the College of Physical Education of Bernard Macfadden's College of Physcultopathy, as well as the school of naturopathy and chiropractics. Bernara Makfadden Today they would call a bodybuilder, he promoted a raw food diet, a dream on the floor, exhausting training, as well as sexual emancipation. In particular, he invented the device for a short -term increase in the male member by placing it in the area with negative pressure. It is also noteworthy that the cause of the death of McFadden became Refusal of medical treatment for digestive disorder. On the ideas of Makfadden Shelton and built his theory. 

In 1928, Herbert Shelton published the book “The Correct Combination of Food Products”. In it, he claims that different products require different digestive conditions. In the case of simultaneous use of non -spanking products in the body, fermentation and decay processes begin, leading to intoxication. Shelton Highlighted Seven categories of food that were categorically forbidden to mix within the framework of one meal: proteins, starchy products, fats, “acid” fruits, “semi -acid” fruits, necraneous and green vegetables and gourds. However, this idea contradicts Not only medical data, but the whole history of mankind, when people consumed together different types of food and did not die of poisoning. Moreover, in nature there are almost no products of “pure categories”. The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation Curses Example: “For centuries, people ate bread with milk. And not because they were versed in biochemical processes, but because such food allowed to get enough and supported health. And we already understand biochemistry and begin to understand that amino acids from plant and animal proteins are absorbed in a certain ratio. If some amino acids are not enough, then the rest are absorbed worse. For example, there is little indispensable amino acid in grain, and it is not absorbed enough. But she is in abundance in milk. And if you combine these two groups of products together, a full -fledged protein product is obtained. ”

American nutritionist Tamara Froman in detail I dismantled All the postulates of the theory of Shelton, and not one of them found sufficient scientific and medical confirmation. Rotting as such is impossible in any of the digestive tract, no products of products can lead to a violation of the PH-environment of the gastrointestinal tract, products can be digested simultaneously in a variety of combinations. Summing up, Framiman concludes that the concept of separate nutrition is a common medical myth. Within the framework of the scientific and educational forum "Scientists against myths" the concept of separate nutrition Disassembled Elena Motova. It also explains the failure of the theory by the fact that “we have no enzymes that break down separately bread, separately melon or patch beans. We have enzymes that break down chemical bonds in large molecules. As a matter of fact, we can take this concept to the fantasy section. ” 

At the same time, theoretical analysis was not limited. Back in 2000, scientists Spent Randomized clinical test. Volunteers of overweight adhered to one of the types of power for six weeks: the former consumed proteins, fats and carbohydrates in isolation, the latter, without such a restriction, could mix nutrients at their discretion. At the same time, the calorie content of nutrition in both groups was the same. Six weeks later, scientists have evaluated many parameters and found that weight loss in both groups was almost the same (6.2 ± 0.6 kg for separate nutrition and 7.5 ± 0.4 kg for the standard diet), the loss of adipose tissue was slightly larger in the second group, they also normalized blood pressure. It was not possible to find any advantages of the group of separate nutrition. 

It is important to note the potential danger of separate nutrition theory. Since Shelton did not have a medical education, he more than once was fined And he even served in prison terms for taking medicine and reading lectures on medicine without a license. There were also deaths in his practice. In particular, for the treatment of a seven -year -old daughter of one of her followers of Shelton prescribed Diet from water and juices. After 41 days of such nutrition, the girl died of pneumonia, which arose against the background of the general exhaustion of the body. In 1942 against Shelton A lawsuit was filed With the wording “Murder by negligence” and “Treatment without a state medical license”, however, it did not reach a court hearing. In the 1980s, the trial of a similar case after It came before the trial. William Carlon from Los Altos, adhering to the recommendations of Shelton, died on the 30th day of the prescribed diet from pneumonia caused by the general exhaustion of the body. The court ordered the relatives of the deceased to pay monetary compensation, but Shelton again escaped personal punishment. He also managed to close his weight loss school before the court sentence. At the same time, the death of Carlton was the sixth that happened in the practice of Shelton in the previous five years. The last years of his life, Shelton was chained to bed due to Parkinson's illness, but continued to popularize his theory, dictated books and articles, receiving huge fees for them.

Shelton's main associate was the surgeon William Howard Hay. It is like “Heya's diet” the theory of separate nutrition The most popular In the English -speaking world. Unlike Shelton, Hei had a medical education, but he adhered to a lot non -traditional views. In particular, there was enemy vaccination, believed that aluminum was able to cause cancer (why this is not so, we They wrote earlier), and Recommended People with diabetes of the first type are a complete rejection of insulin therapy. 

Thus, from a scientific point of view, there are no limiting factors to mix different types of nutrients. Moreover, the evolutionary digestive tract is arranged in such a way that different types of food entering it are complemented by the necessary enzymes digesting. It makes no sense to adhere to separate nutrition for weight loss, since medical experiments have shown that only a general decrease in the calorie content of the diet leads to a reduction in weight, and not separate consumption of proteins and carbohydrates.

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