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Frequently women, trying to be fit, resort to replacement of sugar with artificial sweeteners, which are often considered as panacea for full-bodied sweet-lovers. However, American researchers have proved delusiveness of this point of view, having studied properties of saccharin.

The American researchers have found out, that use of low-calorie sweeteners “disorient” metabolism. Therefore excess weight is put on much faster, than from usual sugar.

Authors of the research explain the reason of so paradoxical pattern by brain’s feature to perceive some food stuffs. The matter is that in a human consciousness sweets are indissolubly associates with plumpness. When sugar is replaced with a sweetener, the brain, being guided by a familiar taste, prepares an organism to assimilation of carbohydrates. And then, when they are absent, in general loses ability to control entry of nutrients.

After the second hour of a meal, the complaisant staff of a restaurant will serve sweetish corn porridge or rice broth. Eat, dear visitors, do yourself well.

It is necessary to notice, that every meal is accompanied with active consumption of green tea, or tea water. For a dinner, especially with visitors or guests, Chinese like to drink some beer or vodka. And instead of bread every visitor is brought a cup with sticky rice.

Usual Chinese lunch looks like that. Whether it is good or bad – it is impossible to say. More likely, such way of eating is unusual for us. But nevertheless it is worth sitting once from the beginning up to the end of the ceremony, to taste each dish and to experience, that «Chinese eat everything, that creeps, floats and flies… except for tanks, submarines and planes!»

Then hot dishes are served. Waiters bring one plate after another. Here is variety of meat - mutton, beef with an onions, duck with rice flat cakes, hen in a sour-sweet sauce, pork ears. Here an every possible fish, squids, octopuses, tiger shrimps.
When it seems, that nothing can be eaten any more, on the table appear Chinese pel’menis, and so on, so on, so on with a different stuffing. You can’t help tasting it!

Chicken - coconut soup
Chinese are not supporters of desserts and sweets in general. Favorite Chinese sweets - red or green beans with an ice-cream, sweet rice or small cakes from rice broth, tomatoes in caramel, chestnuts and fruit salad stuffed with something like mayonnaise. Though, certainly, there are also some more habitual for a European’s stomach dishes: apples, bananas, pineapples or pears in hot caramel. Fruit is immersed in cold water then caramel hardens and appears very appetizing sweet.

Nevertheless, at a traditional Chinese restaurant most likely you will be offered for a dessert … soup. Soup can be cooked from fish’s head or tail – a trunk you have eaten for a second course. Soup may also be cooked from tofu or a coconut.

Chinese do not like to eat alone. As a rule, ten - fifteen people sit at the big round table, who for all two hours of a lunch break eat one dish after another and discuss their urgent business.

So, how to eat correctly? We shall start that lunch time is special for Chinese. Schoolboys, students and office workers leave for a break at midday to start work or study again only in two o’clock in the afternoon. In the large companies and business centers the dinner lasts for an hour and is obligatory.
Chinese do not like to eat alone. As a rule, ten - fifteen people sit at the big round table, who for all two hours of a lunch break eat one dish after another and discuss their urgent business.
In the middle of a table there is a turning disk with viands. Everyone has a plate, small plate for soup, spoon, and sticks.

Firstly are served cold dishes: bean sprouts, salad from asparagus, reps, radish, meat pieces, fried peanuts, wood mushrooms, rice noodles. Sometimes crust jellyfishes are also served as a cold dish, but there are some dishes, when it is better not to know, what you eat.

Flakes, just as it is, are as a matter of fact oat or a corn flour. Except for pure starch and a small amount of vitamins of B group, they have nothing useful at all. Complete and utter calories.

Such breakfasts can be ready when it is enough to pour there juice, milk or kefir. They also can be instant and require 2-3 minutes for cooking. That is why ready breakfasts are less useful because they have already been prepared, so the most part of useful vitamins have already been boiled down. In this case, the preference should be given to instant or quick-cooking breakfasts.

Mueslis and flakes should be eaten only for a breakfast, and the preference should be given to the first. Flakes are carbohydrates, as it is, and starch, which can provide us with energy only in the morning and for a short while. And for a lunch and a dinner such food is useless, it is incomplete. Though people can eat them for breakfast every day – it is better, than not to have breakfast at all.