There are two ways to estimate the energy value of food. In the 19th century, the German physiologist Voigt determined the thermal caloric value of the main ingredients of food - proteins, fats and carbohydrates, burning them in a caloriferous furnace. When burning 1 gram of protein and 1 gram of carbohydrates, 4.1 kcal of heat is released, 1 gram of fat - 9 kcal (kilocalorie - the amount of heat required to heat 1 kg of water at 1 ° C). It is generally accepted that the human body's need for calories depends on energy losses during physical work. The harder the muscular work, the more energy is expended and the more calories a person should get from food and vice versa.

The table allows us to navigate food composition and make food combinations together in our diet. Explanation: 1. Starches and proteins in one meal are incompatible (bread - cheese, bread - sausage, pasta - meat, cereals - meat, pies with meat filling). 2. Starches and carbohydrates in one meal are incompatible (sweet cereal, sweet pastries, fruit filled pastries, etc.) 3. Carbohydrates and proteins in one meal are incompatible (sweet pastries with eggs, milk with honey or sugar, nuts with raisins or honey, cottage cheese with sugar, etc.).

In addition to smoothies, I use salads, flax crackers, fruit and occasionally seeds or nuts. To always be able to make fresh smoothies with greens, I bought an extra blender for the office. Whenever friends or clients stop by my office, they see a large pitcher of bright green liquid next to my computer. I always offer a taste of the marvelous smoothie. To my satisfaction, everyone likes green smoothies without exception, even though everyone eats differently.Unexpectedly for me, some friends and coworkers have improved health after a cup of green smoothie in my office!

Understanding the basics of chimpanzee nutrition will help us better understand the needs of humans. Take a look at the diagram (Figure 1), which shows a typical chimpanzee diet in the wild jungle (I created it based on data from Jane Goodall's book Chimpanzees of the Gombe Valley).As you can see, the two main groups in the chimpanzee diet are fruits and greens. Please do not confuse greens with root vegetables such as carrots, beets, or potatoes. Also, please do not confuse greens with cucumbers, tomatoes, zucchini and peppers. Chimpanzees eat root vegetables very rarely, only in cases of drought or starvation. According to Jane Goodall, the amount of time chimpanzees eat greens varies from 25 to 50% depending on the season.

Zumenko Alexander Grigorievich

. 53 years old, height 1,66 m. Since 1991, the workload led to the fact that I began to work 11-13 hours a day, worked in the same mode and on weekends, ate irregularly and as will have to. In relation to food I had no complexes, and ate everything (from herring to sweets), even porridge with bread, liked to finish my meal with sweet tea or other drink. He smoked a lot. Did not refuse to drink alcoholic beverages. Since 1992 practically did not go on vacation, stopped going on two-week hikes. But before that, since 1969, he was interested in them regularly: he crossed the Main Caucasus Ridge to the Black Sea from Dombai to Abinsk, climbed the "Shelter of Eleven" on Elbrus in 1988. On weekends I stopped traveling to the Goryachy Klyuch area, which I did at least 1-2 times a month until 1991.

Galina Ivanovna Rusenko

. At the age of 50 I came to Marva Vagarshakovna for gallstone disease. I was haunted by severe pain in my right side. After examination and treatment in the diagnostic center "SKAL" I was recommended to undergo surgery to remove the gallbladder full of stones after mechanical cleaning of the liver ducts in the hospital. I refused, having written a receipt. I was given a card with the diagnosis and told that I always carried it with me and in case of an attack doctors knew where to cut. I applied in Krasnodar to medical centers that were operating at that time, everywhere they promised to help, to cure, but did not guarantee to get rid of the operation to remove the gallbladder.

Autumn has arrived in Kuban. Rains, coolness, trees are turning golden, grasses are shriveled, blackened. There is no blooming of ragweed and wormwood. Sunflowers have bloomed. The air has become cleaner. Quite recently - at the height of ragweed blossom - a lot of people suffered from allergy attacks - a disease that exhausts a person both physically and mentally. My workmate, who had allergies, took a leave of absence, adding to it a leave of absence without pay. He gave all his savings and all his vacation money to survive these two months away from the blooming ragweed, except for going to the Arctic. And so he is forced to do every year. On the streets of the city and outside the city during this period you can meet both young and old people wearing a gauze mask. They find in it a small, though not quite reliable, salvation.

In contrast to the method of classical fasting, we have developed a method of so-called conditional or physiological fasting, adapted to modern urbanized conditions of industrial cities, because the main contingent of those being treated lives, gets sick and is treated in cities. In large regional, oblast and metropolitan clinics, as it is known, patients are often treated who have not been treated in a district or neighborhood hospital in the city. In the absence of a preserved ecological environment in the city, in which the treatment should take place, i.e. ecological rehabilitation of the patient, we offer a method of natural treatment, maximally ecologizing the internal environment of the body, as far as possible in urban conditions.

And where do these poisonous "bouquets" come from? Why by the age of sixty, and maybe by forty, almost every one of us acquires this "treasure" and lives with it all the remaining years in a constant struggle, "supporting" themselves with medicines and considering it a normal condition, because "I am not the only one"? All this happens because of the violation of the laws of nature by people. After all, "people obey nature even when they contradict it", as the great poet and philosopher W. Goethe said. So, dear readers, let us not be surprised and do not despair, no matter when the disease has caught up with us - in childhood, young or old age. Having found out the cause of our abnormal condition, we are able to eliminate it, i.e. to get rid of the disease. And please forget that diabetes, asthma, hypertension and allergies are not curable. That's what the doctors say. And I hear about it literally every day and I will say this: these diseases are not cured and cannot be cured by medicines, because medicines pollute the internal environment of the body and further interfere with the already disturbed equilibrium, i.e. timely self-regulation of the internal environment.

Neurosurgeon Prof. V. Lebedev notes that epilepsy is divided into symptomatic and so-called genuin epilepsy, i.e. in other words, epilepsy that arose "incomprehensibly from what". Behind the scientific medical term hides elementary ignorance of the causes of the disease. Is it possible to cure something whose causes are unknown? That is, to eliminate the disease without eliminating its causes? However, when diagnosed with "genuin epilepsy", according to Professor V. Lebedev (neurosurgeon), "the patient is given pills: tranquilizers, sleeping pills, combined, depressing CNS, all chemically very potent substances. Such treatment affects the patient's psyche, his intelligence, leads to the degradation of personality". What does the neurosurgeon suggest? Surgical treatment, i.e., removal of the brain tumor or arterial aneurysm that causes symptomatic epilepsy. It is clear that without removing the pathologic substrate, the disease cannot be cured.

The fact that music influences a person is known for a long time. The ancient physician Asclepius, as chronicles mention, successfully used music and singing to treat many diseases. D. Azarov cites the following facts: "Back in the last century, Russian researcher Dogel wrote a scientific work "The influence of music and colors of the spectrum on the nervous system of humans and animals. The author convincingly proves that in humans and animals under the influence of music changes in blood pressure, heart rate and breathing up to a complete stop. "Classical" music has a beneficial effect on health. So, relieves headache and neurosis listening to the polonaise of M. Oginsky. Normalizes blood pressure and cardiac activity "Wedding March" by Mendelssohn.

The representative medical newspaper "Our Doctor" in the article "Migraine Alternative" touches upon a very relevant topic for today. But the article draws a sad conclusion - migraine is incurable. Although there are many methods of treatment of such a phenomenon as, migraine, except for traditional, that is, painkillers and anti-inflammatory. Advise homeopathy, but it, as noted "Our Doctor", often gives the most severe exacerbations, which the patient can not withstand, quitting treatment. Acupuncture and psychotherapy - expensive and ineffective methods, in addition, not quite safe (acupuncture). Manual therapy and massage for the disease - migraine, are ineffective. However, at the very beginning of the article it is announced that "modern medicine has been intensively developing in the direction of treatment of such phenomenon as migraine".

How many people in the world suffer from such a phenomenon as, headache! Long, persistent or, conversely, periodic, but no less agonizing. Headache can be from a cold, after the flu, from high blood pressure, from the fact that a person is nervous, tired. It hurts entirely or only in the frontal part, in the occipital part. Sometimes half of the head hurts: left or right, and this is called a migraine, and such pain is particularly excruciating.

Drug addiction and alcoholism are serious vices of society. At present, they have reached threatening proportions and, if they spread further, threaten to destroy the entire social structure of society and disrupt the nation's gene pool, taking on the character of a national disaster. There is no doubt that in the situation in Russia at the beginning of the XXI century such measures are extremely necessary. If not the sale, then, at least, unrestrained and aggressive advertising of alcohol should be prohibited. And the state sale of alcohol should be limited, and private sale should be prosecuted like the sale of drugs. By the way, Gorbachev's anti-alcohol campaign, although it was conducted very ineptly and destroyed many hectares of vineyards, saved many families from destruction and people from death. But since our state does not take such measures and, apparently, does not intend to do so, let us talk about effective treatment of such pathologies as drug addiction and alcoholism.

The data on catastrophic increase of this mental state of depression and longing - depression, when life is not sweet to many people around the world and in particular in Kuban, where annually registered 12-14 thousand suffering from such a phenomenon as depression. The figure is certainly frightening. The reasons for this depressing situation are honestly given. To quote: "What are the causes of such an insidious disease as, depression, on what soil grows this vicious weed? Here they are: miserable salaries and pensions, high cost of goods and products, uncertainty in the future, accelerated rhythm of life, increasing intensity of work, nervous tension. The situation is aggravated by chronic illnesses, loss of loved ones, family disasters, misunderstanding of friends, and a feeling of being unneeded.

According to published nutritional calculations, only one category of food - plant greens - contained all the nutrients humans need. The bitter truth was that we didn't eat enough greens. What's more, we didn't really love it. We were sure that greens were an important part of the diet, but we never knew exactly how much of them we needed. All we heard was a vague recommendation to eat as much green vegetables as possible. To figure out how much greens to eat, I decided to study the diet of primates, particularly chimpanzees, as they are the closest "relatives" of humans.

When I started to collect materials for a book about greens, I was immediately hopelessly drowned in an ocean of information. In this critical situation I had to "find the truth or die". I felt responsible not only for my husband and children, who followed me on a raw diet, but also for all the listeners of my lectures and readers of my books, who switched to raw food. In the end, I decided to put everything on hold for a few months, sit down and read every available primary source on nutritional research. I decided to discard all ready-made opinions and focus only on the scientific evidence, because other people's seemingly flawless logical reasoning very often leads the reader to erroneous conclusions with devastating consequences. (Later in this book, I will give examples of such errors, of which I myself have been a victim.)

Nutritionists have never singled out greens and separate food group because most people don't see them as real food. Despite the fact that the nutritional value of carrot tops is several times greater than that of the roots, there is a deeply ingrained belief that greens are food for rabbits, sheep and cows. This belief prevents us from adding carrot tops to salads. As a result, we are throwing away the most nutritious part of carrots and many other plants.

There is another profound misconception stemming from the erroneous categorization of greens as vegetables. Unfortunately, many nutritionists and researchers are convinced that greens are not rich in protein. In the next chapter, you'll learn that, contrary to this popular theory, greens are an excellent source of protein. Nevertheless, I have enough data to make the following important conclusion: greens are the major food group that best meets human nutrient needs.