The Russians revealed two laws of nutrition to prolong life

A lot of factors affect a person’s life expectancy, but one of the most important is nutrition, Victor Tutelyan, chief freelance nutritionist of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said in an interview with Sputnik radio.

According to him, in order to live long and fully, you need to eat food that meets at least two laws of nutrition science.

“The first law of the science of nutrition is the law of the correspondence of the energy value of the diet, caloric content, to our energy costs. It is important to get as much energy from food as you have spent. To live long, physically active, you need to follow this law. If you get less, you will lose weight, become emaciated, and if you get more, you will get better and get a whole bunch of diseases, primarily cardiovascular diseases, ”the academician warned.

The second law of nutritional science is the correspondence of the chemical composition of the diet to our physiological needs for food and biologically active substances, he continued.

“We need about 200 chemical compounds to enter our body, of which 30-40 are irreplaceable. If they are, you are healthy; if not, you are sick. These are vitamins, and a number of minerals, trace elements and much more, individual amino acids. It is very important to monitor the presence of high-grade protein foods in your diet,” Tutelyan explained.

At the same time, he pointed out that with age, you need to gradually change the diet, make it more easily digestible, but nutrition should remain complete.

We also recall that earlier the academician expressed concern that more than half of Russians have problems with being overweight, and a quarter of citizens suffer from obesity. The nutritionist referred to systematic epidemiological studies in different regions of the country.