New Year is a period when, according to Armenian traditions, tables are groaning with food. Many of us at that time forget about the sense of proportion. How much we should eat, so that we do not harm our health, told in an interview with NEWS.am Medicine, dietitian of the  Research Institute of Balneology and Physical Medicine of the Ministry of Health of Armenia, Vardanush Petrosyan.

What for lethal terminations, the dietician mentioned, that, of course, no one dies from overeating in the New Year eve immediately, but there is nevertheless a risk. For example, a drunk driver behind the wheel is a threat to himself and to others. Drunken people in general have a high risk of injuries.

«Our grave we dig with our teeth, » said the doctor. In Armenia, according to her, most people do not die due to infectious diseases, but because during their life they consumed food in enormous amounts. This may be the reason that during the Christmas holidays people become ill from overeating. 

The problem is that people obtained cardiovascular, oncological, endocrine and other diseases because of the wrong eating. About 75% of Armenian population dies just because of this. Self-control is weak during the holidays, especially when we drink. First of all, there is plenty of food; secondly, we are obliged to walk-in guests, where assertive hosts make to eat everything.

«Holidays themselves are associated with food, but it does not mean, that in one day it is possible to self-harm to death with food and alcohol. In medical practice, it is a very rare case», she said. 

The doctor said that if over a lifetime a person eats properly, then seven days of holidays will not harm him/her; another question is, when (s)he has a diabetes or hypertension, then any extra piece of food and alcohol can be fatal. During the holidays people lose self-control and forget that they should not drink and eat much, because most of them associate recreation with the condition of not denying themselves in anything.