Nutrition and importance of so-called. functional foods

Not every processed food is bad food!

Functional foods are new and promising direction in the food industry. Its aim is to improve people's health and prevention of common diseases. Functional products help to increase physical endurance, improve digestion and regulate appetite.
Above all, these are foods fortified with dietary fiber, bifidobacteria and lactobacteria, vitamins, minerals and trace elements. They include also special foods for athletes, dietetic products for patients and a significant proportion of biologically active additives.
Nutritionists have long argued that food enriched with etc. bifidobacteria is particularly valuable for health. They are needed by the body to fight harmful microorganisms - "War", which leads the human body from birth to death.
And crying baby and child because of complaints of stomach pain can be caused by a weakening of the beneficial microflora. Poor health of the elderly are also often associated with lack of bifidobacteria.
Functional foods are good for healthy people - prophylactic purposes, but are especially important in the treatment of disbakteriozata called by experts "scourge" of our time, in which grade dinner often replaced by "fast food" - chips, hot dog , sandwiches, etc.
Products with a "live" bacteria improve the activity of the gastrointestinal tract, helping in diseases of the liver and pancreas, allergies, immune system disorders. Some of them are of great importance in cancer when patients undergo chemotherapy course and radiation therapy and natural intestinal microflora died.