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The theory of adequate nutrition
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Last reviewed: 04.07.2025
The classical theory of balanced nutrition resulted in several extremely serious errors. One of them is the idea and attempts to create ballast-free food. The balanced approach and the idea of refined (ballast-free) food that follows from it, apparently caused significant harm. Thus, a decrease in the proportion of vegetables and fruits in the diet, the use of refined cereals, refined products, etc. contributed to the development of many diseases, including those of the cardiovascular system, gastrointestinal tract, liver and bile ducts, metabolic disorders, the occurrence of obesity, etc. A number of erroneous conclusions were also made about ways to optimize nutrition. Another error is the idea of using elemental nutrition as a physiologically complete replacement for traditional food. In the same way, direct intravascular nutrition will never be able to provide the full range of biological effects that occur with natural nutrition. A completely different issue is the use of monomers as food additives, and elemental diets - temporarily according to medical recommendations in extreme circumstances.
In order to understand the differences between the two theories and the reasons why the classical theory is becoming an important element of a more general theory of adequate nutrition, it is necessary to characterize the main provisions, theoretical consequences and practical recommendations of the new theory and compare them with the classical one. The conclusions devoted to the theory of adequate nutrition were published in the periodical press (Ugolev, 1986, 1987b, 1988) and in monographs published in 1985 and 1987.