I buy whatever I want. “Why I will never buy myself a house”: all the disadvantages of owning real estate. “Art in general cannot be environmentally friendly”

You can eat right either by superhuman effort of will, forcing yourself to eat healthy food, or simply by changing your eating habits. If a person follows the first path, then in most cases his experiment ends in failure after a year, a month, and sometimes after a few days. David Yan chose the second option. And now he tells you how to learn to love healthy food and get rid of many years of addiction to junk food.

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If this book is just another brainwashing, like “don’t eat this, don’t eat that,” then I will close this book and live as I lived. We can make you happy. This book is about exactly the opposite. About how to make sure that we can live happily without food restrictions.

Peculiarities

• All the author’s conclusions are based on the recommendations of the World Health Organization.
• You will learn which 4 foods should be completely eliminated from your diet to reduce the risk of developing numerous diseases.
• The author gives dozens of recipes for delicious and healthy cuisine.

For whom

For everyone who cares about their health. For those who want to eat healthy, without limiting themselves.

Key Concepts

Review on the Trendy-Brandy website

“Now I eat whatever I want! David Yan's nutrition system" - will this book help you lose weight? The book “Now I Eat Whatever I Want! David Yan's Nutrition System" is distributed free of charge - it can be downloaded on the Internet. Or you can buy the printed version: the author donates the entire fee to the treatment of children with cancer. The author of this book is not a nutritionist, doctor, or fitness trainer. David Yan - 45-year-old... Read more

Review on the ZOZHNIK website

A book about unhealthy and healthy foods A fresh book by David Yan (yes, that same billionaire and founder of ABBYY) about proper nutrition has fallen into our hands. The data in the books is scientifically based, verified by specialists from the Institute of Nutrition of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences and laid out in the form of very simple and understandable reading that will prolong your life. If the editors of Zozhnik wrote a book about the rules of healthy eating, it would be... Read more

Review from Ksenia Goncharova Review by Yulia Korneva (blog live-up.co)

The book "Now I Eat Whatever I Want" very clearly explains the main problems of the modern diet and helps readers cope with these problems. The author of the book, David Yan*, is by no means a nutritionist or a doctor; he works in an industry that is far from healthy nutrition. Being a candidate of physical and mathematical sciences, he approached the issue of healthy nutrition absolutely rationally and scientifically: he studied the mechanisms of influence... Read more

Review from Elena Shifrina (founder of the BioFoodLab project)

I really liked David Yang's book. It’s nice that it was written first by a man (which means they still think about their diet), and also by a person who has no professional relationship with medicine and dietetics. David is a physicist, and he very meticulously, as only passionate people can do, examines the processes occurring in our bodies while eating this or that food. He has already analyzed... Read more

Review from Alexey Katkov

I also came across a great book “Now I Eat Whatever I Want!” - David Yang wrote. Since the topic of proper nutrition is our topic, we read it with pleasure. In short, I really liked the book - a good look at proper nutrition, I recommend it. Of course, the name is a little flashy, but in general, names are invented to interest the reader right from the shelf in the store. Books... Read more

Review by book blogger Sascha Van Ecker

NOW, I EAT WHATEVER I WANT! - a fan of the Dukan diet adapted the famous system for himself and published a book with a motivating title. All money from the sale of the publication goes to a fund to help children. As a separate book about the nutrition system, it is weak. If you evaluate the book, it is interesting for fans of the Dukan diet. I'm sorry, but I won't recommend it to everyone. Only for those who were on DD, 2/5...

When I say that fashion, our appearance and our purchases say much more about us than nothing, many believe me. They don’t believe that behind expensive shoes and beautiful hairstyles there may be a need that is much deeper than just the desire to look beautiful and neat.

Of course, initially everything depends on A. Maslow’s table of values, which divides our needs into five categories: physiological needs, the need for safety, social needs, the need for esteem and the need for self-realization. An interesting fact is that with the development of the service market and industry, our spiritual needs are gradually dulled when the material comes to the fore. This process became an aid for the emergence of such a term as “consumer society,” which means a reality where all human relationships lose their meaning, turning into a definition of hierarchical status or degenerating into a competitive struggle. This “brave new world” practically destroyed traditional consumption, when people bought any goods because they needed them. He analyzes a completely different, “sign” consumption, when a product is bought because it is fashionable, because it is advertised, because it is new. Thus, the thing loses its meaning, becoming obsolete even before it is bought, because advertising will immediately offer a new, even more fashionable thing.

The question arises. Why do people unconsciously buy products they don't need? And I see two approaches to the answer in this story. The first is justified by social approval. It’s not for nothing that they say that “you meet people by their clothes.” In the modern world, in order to be competitive without having an individual style or hype things, you need to have a fairly strong character, personal qualities in the form of a sense of humor, charm or a stock of knowledge. That is, the average person who does not have outstanding character traits finds himself left behind. Therefore, all of us, with the exception of a few, such as Mark Zuckerberg, have to participate in a constant race for survival. And we can’t say that this is one hundred percent bad. You just always need to understand that there will be someone who can afford to buy more.

You should start to be wary when shopping becomes an addiction. I think many have seen the hysteria of Russian stars about? Surprisingly, for the sake of instant fame, many are ready to wear even something that, in principle, does not quite organically combine with their everyday style. And here I do not mean that these people do not have independent popularity. Just a collaboration between a street brand and a fashion industry veteran is a big breakthrough, and if you have the opportunity to buy it, then you automatically become the number 1 star. I wonder if Yana Rudkovskaya knew about the existence of Supreme before?

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06/10/2018 Irina RYABOVA.

A retired school teacher talked about how much she earns, what she spends money on and why her principle is: “I live today and now.”

“I really love my job”

59-year-old Galina has been working as a primary school teacher for almost 40 years, about 5 of them while retired. There was not a day’s break - the woman says that she loves her job very much:

“I knew already in the fifth grade that I would be a teacher,” said Galina. “And my first student was my own sister, who is five years younger than me.” I studied homework with her every day at home.

In addition to the love of work, of course, the salary also stimulates. Moreover, our heroine has three children, four grandchildren and a fifth “on the way.”

Income

Galina’s “net” salary is 600-700 rubles, depending on the availability of bonuses and various events at school. Plus a pension of 350 rubles. Total: 950-1050 rubles.

Galina lives with her son, daughter-in-law and little granddaughter in a 4-room apartment. She mainly pays for utilities and food; the children are “responsible” for buying equipment and preparing food.

Expenses

The main principle of a woman is “I live today and now.” She began to be guided by him after her husband died at the age of 48. According to her, he was a hardworking and responsible person, he worked hard and put everything off until later, so that one day he could live “for real.” The man died suddenly in the prime of his life, and the woman realized that there might not be a future. Galina never collects money; she is sure that if you spend it, it will appear.

Nutrition. This family doesn’t skimp on food; they buy whatever they want: meat, fish, vegetables, their favorite cakes and cookies every day. The daughter-in-law does most of the cooking. They don’t buy potatoes; relatives bring them from their dachas. On average, Galina spends 250-300 rubles on food. per month.

Public utilities. Utilities, including the Internet and mobile phone, cost about 150 rubles per month.

Cloth. A woman spends little on clothes and doesn’t see much point in it. For her, the more convenient, the better. Over many years of working at school, her wardrobe has accumulated many business suits, more than 20 jackets alone. More often, she has to buy shoes of different styles: classic ones for work, appropriate styles for leisure. In total, it costs about 50-100 rubles per month for new clothes.

Trips. Galina travels a lot around Belarus, mainly with her children for work. The last time we went to the botanical garden in Minsk was in May. Every year a woman tries to go on vacation to different countries. Been to Switzerland, Germany, Italy, France. Last year - in Bulgaria. This year he plans to go to Koblevo (Ukraine). An all-inclusive trip for one will cost 350 USD, Galina wants to take another 150 dollars with her for all sorts of little things. A woman is waiting for her vacation pay to buy a ticket.

Rest in the city. Galina loves to sit with her family in a cafe. On weekends he goes dancing at the sanatorium. Lenin. Likes to attend concerts and the theater. True, lately she rarely allows herself to do this - she has a lot to do at work and at home. On average, he spends 50 rubles a month on vacation.

Perfumery. The woman used to distribute Oriflame cosmetics and perfumes. Now he is purchasing it for himself and for his loved ones. This costs about 100 rubles a month.

Manicure, pedicure, haircut A. Galina loves to be beautiful and regularly visits a hairdresser and a familiar manicure and pedicure specialist at home. She spends about 30 rubles on this every month.

Health treatments. Twice a year, a woman undergoes courses of healing and cosmetic procedures in the spa salon of the Tourist hotel or in the sanatorium named after. Lenin. He gives 50-100 rubles for this. Sometimes children give certificates for these services for their birthday or March 8th.

Health products. The woman has been using dietary supplements for many years - biologically active additives to strengthen the immune system and prevent various diseases. He believes that it is much more effective and pleasant to carry out prevention than treatment. This expense item costs her about 30 rubles a month.

Present. Galina loves to give gifts to her loved ones. Every month he spends about 100 rubles on this.

Appliances. This expense item is covered by children. The last thing we bought: a plasma TV as a gift for Galina for her birthday. The purchase cost them 1,100 rubles.

Books, magazines for work. Galina has been buying a lot of books and magazines all her life, which help make her lessons interesting. Nowadays he gets a lot of information from the Internet, but he doesn’t want to give up printed publications yet. Now he spends about 20 rubles a month on this.

Other. A woman likes to attend all kinds of presentations: dishes, health products and other things. He believes that he will learn a lot of useful things there. As a rule, he doesn’t hold back and buys at least something for himself or takes it in installments. The last thing I bought in installments was a sleeping bag with natural sheep wool for 650 rubles, and I pay 80 rubles a month.

Income, rub: 950-1050 rubles

Expenses, rub:

1. Food: 250-300;
2. Utilities: 150;
3. Clothes: 50-100 rubles;
4. Rest in the city: 50;
5. Travel: 500 USD (about 1000 rubles) this year;
6. Perfumes: 100;
7. Manicure, pedicure, haircut: 30;
8. Health procedures: 50-100;
9. Health products: 30;
10. Gifts for loved ones: 100;
11. Books, magazines: 20;
12. Products from presentations: 80.

Total: 910 rubles per month(excluding holiday travel and health procedures)

In the world of mass markets and the celebration of fast fashion, few people think about where sweaters and pants that have become obsolete for one or two seasons go. Teacher and artist Daria Apakhonchich, having seen enough of a garbage dump in a Karelian village, decided to conduct an experiment: for the last six years she has not purchased clothes. On the eve of the December ecofeminist exhibition, which Daria and her friends are currently preparing, we talked with a St. Petersburg resident about why people give her unnecessary clothes, how much money she has saved in six years, and how it turned out that refusing to buy new things relieved her of stress.

“I started to think seriously about trash”

I live among people who buy a lot - in my opinion, too much - clothes. And then they give it back: “Here are three pairs of pants for you, because I bought five.” This is not a disease, they are not shopaholics: clothes are simply available, and people buy them easily.

I used to buy clothes out of necessity. Giving up the purchase was an experiment. At that time, six years ago, I began to think seriously about garbage: separate collection had just appeared, we began to sort waste and recycle it.

Every summer we go to Karelia: our friend lives there, in a village of 20 houses. This village has not found a civilized way to solve the “garbage” problem. A few years ago, they did put up containers, but they don’t recycle anything, but stupidly bury it somewhere in the forest. Before the advent of containers, we watched the local landfill grow for 10 years. What is 20 houses? Tiny community. But there was so much in the landfill - even old toys and mattresses. It looked like a post-apocalypse. I looked and thought: “40 people managed to do this in a few years.” What is happening in the cities? We are given the privilege of not seeing this. Which is great for modern city dwellers, but terrible for the future and those who already live next to landfills.

For example, in Moscow the city has gone beyond landfills. We were visiting friends near Dolgoprudny, and they said that new houses were being built around former landfills: “Periodically, when the wind blows, we simply die from the smell.” I don’t think that any of my blouses (or even 10 blouses) are capable of a similar effect, but we need to look at the problem as a whole.

The skirt is a gift; a jacket that my daughter used to wear to school.

“It turned out that I didn’t really need new clothes.”

In addition, six years ago I worked at a school - and it so happened that they began to give me a lot of things. At some point, I discovered that my closet had accumulated eight jackets, several formal skirts... That’s an awful lot.

At first, refusing to buy new clothes was just a joke, but then it became part of everyday life: it turned out that I didn’t really need new clothes. It doesn’t even occur to me to go into a store and buy, for example, a new jacket.

When I say that I haven’t bought clothes for six years, my interlocutors are surprised: “Really? Does not look like it!" They give me a lot - for example, friends whose clothing sizes have changed. I think this is a natural situation in societies where clothes are treated as something that can be given away. Many people are familiar with this from the example of children: if a child has outgrown clothes, they can give them to a child they know.

The most difficult thing is with shoes and outerwear. I was lucky: my daughter has outgrown me, including in terms of foot size, so I wear both her shoes and outerwear.

By the way, I don’t have strict restrictions for children. If my daughter wants something new, we go and buy it. But overall she is unpretentious. My son is three years old, and he still evaluates clothes from the point of view of whether they are red or not. Red means good. It’s very comfortable with him because he likes everything. My husband is also unpretentious. We have an ecological order at home: if my husband buys something, it’s at a second-hand store.

An antique Japanese jacket (“ideal item for a teacher”) - a gift; my friend Oksana gave me the skirt; tights made from two different pairs

"I didn't make any vows"

For me there is no “sin” in buying clothes. I didn't make any vows. If I realize that I don’t have, for example, outerwear, then I’ll go to a second-hand store and buy it. By the way, during these six years there were still situations when I bought clothes. For example, when I was pregnant, I bought several very beautiful dresses from Thank You. Then I bought something at a charity auction in support of Open Space. (volunteer site in St. Petersburg. - Ed.). And once I bought a dress with four sleeves from a friend who sews unusual clothes: the line is called Freaky Dress. That is, purchasing clothes for charity or to support a good friendly brand is a sacred thing.

When an item completely deteriorates, having exhausted its resource 100%, it is not a pity to recycle it. But if you can shake it off and turn it over, I continue to wear it. After all, every city dweller is familiar with the principle of sorting clothes into three categories: normal, average and bad (as an option: for going out, at home and for mushrooms).

The sweatshirt from Rodina Inexpensive was made and given by my husband; Mom gave me the pants

“They give me clothes with great pleasure”

People really want to be useful. They have a (absolutely fair) feeling that throwing things away is not good. People tend to give away something that has not exhausted its useful life and does not deserve to end up in the trash. It seems to me that reuse (reusing things) is very popular now. You leave some unwanted shoes next to the trash bin because you hope that a homeless person will take them. People console themselves with the hope that things will be useful to someone else.

They give me my clothes with great pleasure, and then my head starts to hurt: where should I put them? 80% of what is given is not suitable. I bring it to “Thank You” or “Peremolku”. Or I’ll unobtrusively find out which of my friends can give it to.

“I think I saved a lot”

Not buying clothes solved many problems. I've never liked shopping. I was stressed: I tried on something, I didn’t like anything. And now I don't have much choice. So the question - whether I like myself in some way or not - has been removed. I open the closet, put on what I have - and I really like everything.

I haven't tried to calculate how much money I saved over these six years, but I think it's a lot. You can roughly imagine using the example of spending on your daughter: during the season you spend at least 6 thousand rubles on shoes - winter boots, a change of clothes, shoes. In general, about 20 thousand per year. It costs about the same for clothes. Now multiply 40 thousand by six. I find the following exercise useful: when you walk down the street and think “let me buy a 45 jacket,” you should not buy, but write down the price. A year later, count and be happy: “Wow, I saved millions.”

You can draw an analogy with smokers (although, of course, it is not entirely correct: clothing, unlike cigarettes, is a necessity). “If dad didn’t smoke, how much he would have saved!” Buying extra, obviously unnecessary clothes is one of the addictions. I don’t want to judge anyone, but sometimes I see stories where people buy a lot of unnecessary things, and then it torments them: clothes hang everywhere, pushing them out of the house.

Five or six years ago, my friends gave me a lot of low-waisted jeans: apparently, they were in fashion then. A huge number of identical pants. Almost all the jeans were new. People bought these jeans because they were sold everywhere, and then they couldn’t wear them: after all, a low waist is not for our climate. I gave away these jeans, but still wore some myself with a long jacket.

Four sleeve dress from Freakydress; on the legs - cut-off tights that became leggings

“Art in general cannot be environmentally friendly”

Money not spent on clothing can be given to help detainees, fines, charities, or books. I do not perceive my life as the life of myself and my family members. It seems to me that this is the life of my country. When I transfer a thousand rubles to Open Space, I don’t have the feeling that I’m helping only him: I’m doing it for myself, so that I have a place to attend interesting lectures, so that the headquarters for helping detainees has a place to gather after the next rally. Or the School of Human Rights, where many of my friends study, is a forge of urban consciousness. Or Nochlezhka, which does magical things, and if it weren’t supported, we would have a completely different cityscape. Or the cool organization “Children of St. Petersburg”, which teaches Russian to migrant children.

As for books: I don't buy very many. I like paper books, although I agree that, like clothing, they are not an environmentally friendly commodity. There are several things that I haven’t yet figured out how to approach. For example, art: I understand that art in general cannot be environmentally friendly, but it can touch on environmental topics. It's the same with books. If a book is a work of art, it deserves to be printed, and I don't feel sorry for the wood that went into it. What if the book is bad? Until you read it, you won't know.

The coat and scarf were donated by Russian language teacher Irina Andreeva

“We strive to demonstrate quality of life through clothing”

We have a YouTube channel " Feminists explain" There are thousands of comments, many negative, evaluating our appearance. And then another commentator wrote: “If your clothes were more stylish, then I would listen to you. Otherwise you say important things, but look very bad.” Moreover, I know that this is not so - we all look normal. I think this is a revealing comment: it is important for people to show wealth in their appearance. But why? Apparently, this is some kind of stereotype: we strive to demonstrate the quality of life through clothes.

I have never encountered such comments in real life. But what matters here is who you are. If you are a European-looking woman living in the city center and having some kind of status in society, this is one situation. But if I were a migrant, it would be a completely different picture. One person is allowed to do certain things and another is not. A modern avant-garde artist can walk barefoot because it’s a performance, and everyone will say: “Yes, that’s interesting.” But if instead of the artist there is an elderly person or a person with mental disabilities, everyone will react differently. It matters to us who does it. Who doesn't buy new clothes?

Sister Varya gave the jacket (Daria remade the item by adding a pattern)

“Well done, sew 115 more jackets”

I am very interested in experiments in the field of fashion. It seems to me that this is a huge resource: with the help of clothes you can declare your position, find yourself. When clothing becomes art, the principle of sustainability does not apply. If a person sees some truth in the 115 jackets he sewed, I cannot say: “Why did you do this?” I’ll say: “Well done, sew 115 more jackets.” I love Shvems, who make socially themed clothing from recycled materials. I like the sewing cooperative “Nadenka” and their embroideries - for example, on the topic of domestic violence.

Fashion is not just about clothes. This is about a certain style, trends. Maybe fashion for ecology or feminism. It's like a force of nature. And using fashion is like surfing: there's a wave and I'll jump on it. We just have to stop and ask ourselves: in which direction is this wave taking us? Do we want to go there? For example, recently there has been a fashion for fur keychains in the shape of bunnies - in fact, these are hares, only dead ones. I look at the children I know, who are generally not prone to cruelty, who wear these keychains, and I understand that they cannot stop and ask themselves the question: is this really a kind toy? For me, this is one - creepy - pole of fashion. And there is another, when fashion addresses questions about who we are and where we are moving - in this sense it can be kind and interesting.

“I don’t plan to stop buying clothes for the rest of my life.”

I think clothing is an unfortunate misunderstanding of our ecological branch. If we had grown fur, we wouldn't be talking about her at all now. But since we have to do something with clothes, let's act according to the situation.

I don't plan to stop buying clothes for the rest of my life. This is an experiment that may end sooner or later. I'm not finishing it just because it's not necessary yet. I have something to wear - and there is no shortage of something.

We live in a consumer society. Recently I had to go through a bitter experience - my father passed away. It is not customary to grieve for a long time over the loss of a loved one, since you need to have time to collect a lot of documents and notify different stations about what happened. Once I completed these tasks, it was time to clean my late father's apartment.

Where to begin?

In the process of sorting through all the things, I felt like I was running out of air, because each of them was filled with memories. It took me a week to sort through the boxes that had accumulated in the apartment over the past 10 years. I sold some things, gave some things away, and threw some things away completely.

This process was difficult for me because my father spent a lot of effort to acquire these things. And I thought about how humanity is destroying the planet, since many of us are busy earning money to buy things that neither the owners nor their descendants need.

Awareness

I decided to experiment - to refrain from buying any things for two hundred days. Agree, most of those who have a regular income spend money thoughtlessly. Or maybe try to do without supermarkets for a while? Of course, you should not take into account the purchase of food or medicine. If I needed something, I borrowed it or bought a used item rather than a new one. I learned 7 key lessons from this experiment.

Key Lessons

1. The world is full of unnecessary things . When I started selling my father's property, I looked through thousands of advertisements on the global network. I was surprised how many things are produced in our country, and then all this dishes, furniture, clothes just end up in a landfill.
2. Shopping addiction needs to be treated. At the beginning of my experiment, I began to satisfy my need for one or another product by visiting special sites. The range of goods was simply amazing, with many packaged items for sale that had never been used. From which we can conclude that the purchasing process itself is not a conscious choice, but the result of an influence on our consciousness.
3. We are used to thinking that used things are not hygienic. . I decided to record the result of the experiment on the blog and then came across several comments that buying used products is not hygienic. That is, in the understanding of many people, all, even packaged products are “contaminated with foreign microbes.” This is very strange, you will agree. Remembering at least the volunteers who are happy to help people by sharing their clothes or furniture. Where does the stereotype come from that this is only suitable for low-income groups?
4. Companies need supermarkets . During all the days of the experiment, I realized that I did not feel the need for supermarkets at all. After all, all the necessary products can be purchased in a small store near the house, where it is always cozy and polite staff works. When you go to a shopping center, you are guaranteed to buy unnecessary things that were not initially on your shopping list. In such stores, everything is designed for this, you plan to buy everything at once, and even save money, but in reality it turns out differently - you spend much more money than you planned before leaving home.
5. It is not worth it. After 6 months of no impulse purchases and abstaining from using credit cards, I felt relief. Mentally, I felt much better. Life without shopping is wonderful, and you don’t have to constantly deal with the fear of running out of money. Nothing is worth it.
6. You can pay one person, not a company . When purchasing something online, it turns out that many sellers are decent people who really want to sell something useful to you. In such cases, by the way, bargaining is appropriate, since people are trying to get back the money they invested, and not just make money. These salespeople will be happy if you make a purchase, unlike mall cashiers. And you will be happy knowing that your money will end up in the pocket of an adequate person, and not a ruthless company.
7. I don't need much . Of course, there are certain things that you should only buy new, for example, personal hygiene products. Smart purchases allow you to stabilize your financial situation, because you will agree that it is much better when income exceeds expenses. I can afford to relax with friends and take a taxi home, but at the same time I do not experience stress, only peace of mind. Often we attach importance to things that really don't matter. My opinion is that the best way to live peacefully is to strive for minimalism. And to understand this, I had to experience a bitter loss - the death of my father. I hope this article will help you understand a lot of things. published