Doctors have collected the healthiest Russian diet: which products from our traditional diet protect against diseases.
When you hear "healthy diet", the Mediterranean diet immediately comes to mind. It is popular because it has been shown to reduce cardiovascular risk. Moreover, its value does not lie in the nationality of the products, but in general scientific principles. The menu contains a lot of vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, fish and vegetable oils. and restrictions on meat, salt, sugar and saturated animal fats.
Our food culture has historically been built around a whole set of products: grains, root vegetables, cabbage, fish, dairy products, mushrooms, berries and vegetable oils. Most of them are available all year round, says Doctor of Medical Sciences Elena Pavlovskaya.
To eat healthy, we don't really need to reproduce someone else's model, says the expert. It is easy to adjust it (more details in the cards) ⤴.