Why buy the food? Go to the nearest cafe (not fast food of course) and have a good and healthy food there served to you by a waiter.

Yes, of course. But at least 3 dishes (soup, second course and tea/coffee) of those must be hot. Ok, you Americans live in a warm climate and you prefer an ice tea. No prob with that, but soup and the second course (say pasta with a meat/chicken) must be hot. I doubt a plastic container will keep them warm.

The problem with buying lunch can be, lack of time, cost, and no good local restaurants.

As far as heating lunch brought from home just microwave it.

As a practical health related matter, most people I know would benefit greatly from having lunch consist of fresh fruit, cut up vegetables, a salad and some nuts. One good healthy natural meal each day will also be the easiest.


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What's the connection between eating warm meals and preserving health?

:1orglaugh

although i should have stopped reading @ guy#2

do yourself a favor and try vicchysoise and also gaspacho, both are AMAZING cold soups and easy to prepare.

This is going to be a junk/diet food theme soon, pharma traders are welcomed to spam away!

A straight and direct one. Hot soup once a day is just necessary for our stomachs. As about the second course, so usually it's just tasteless is it's cold. E.g. did you try to eat a cold pasta with a cold rissole or chicken?

You will call me an American hater again, but this is a very specific US problem, because you are a fast food country. Anywhere else in the world, fast food is not dominates that much and there is no problem to find a good cafe with affordable prices and healthy food. I already posted this to another thread here: https://translate.google.com/transla...%2F&edit-text=. It's an example of very affordable restaurant chain with a good healthy food. That's how it looks like in a real life:

http://msk.allcafe.ru/s/pic/news/_20...B2%D0%B0_1.jpg

http://msk.allcafe.ru/s/pic/news/_20...B2%D0%B0_3.jpg

http://msk.allcafe.ru/s/pic/news/_20...B2%D0%B0_4.jpg

http://i.otzovik.com/2013/08/11/499915/img/31910807.jpg

http://i.otzovik.com/2013/08/11/499915/img/9899854.jpg

http://i.otzovik.com/2013/08/11/499915/img/41958232.jpg

http://i.otzovik.com/2013/08/11/499915/img/60803118.jpg

http://i.otzovik.com/2013/08/11/499915/img/15444249.jpg

Note the prices. You pay 429 rubles (about $7) and get a smorgasbord (eat as much as you can):

http://elki-palki-ufa.ru/wp-content/...er.ru_8841.jpg

Or you can have a so-called business lunch (with hot soup etc) for only 239 rubles ($4)

P.S. Yes the prices in dollars were 2x times higher just a year ago. But now we have an economical crisis, so... :)

What I meant was what's the scientific reason behind it?

average Russian monthly salary is 30,000 RUB or so? divide by 30 days = 1000 daily...
=42.9% of average Russian's income going to lunch? :error

I simplified it a little, but still, it's not as accessible to an average person as you make it sound...


(here comes... "in Moscow" and/or "my friends".... :winkwink:)

Yes, there were many researches here: https://www.google.com/search?q=польза+горячего+питания - use with Google translate. Just a quote from one of those docs:

An average whole-Russian white salary. You forgot about the black one :winkwink:

Those are Moscow prices. Prices in Russia are much different. And once again: you can't save money to the detriment of your health.

Those who earn 30,000 RUB a month don't eat in cafes with waiters etc. They eat in their factory cafeteria. According to the movie picture posted by OP, I assume that in this thread we are talking about educated people with normal jobs but not about poor rednecks who live for 30,000 RUB.

P.S. We have a 5-day working week in Russia, so I don't understand where that your 30-day month is came from :) So having a daily business lunch in a restaurant (like one shown above) will cost you only 5736 RUB ($93) a month even in Moscow ;)

Do you know of any international studies that were conducted on grown adults and not adolescents? Genuinely curious about the link between the two.

Those were conducted on both old and young ones here, but I have no idea about the International studies because I was never interested in that theme. I just know it works. Every gastroenterologist here will tell you that most his/her patients with gastritis are victims of dry food. And every doctor here will prescribe you a hot soup once a day if you have any problems with digestion. This is not some abstract science. This is a pure and very HUGE statistics.

As small dictionary to my post above: white salary - the declared one, black salary - the undeclared one.