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Nutrition: An Addiction to Sweets
The addiction to sweets cravings commonly called, represent a serious health hazard. However, for most people it becomes very difficult to be aware of if they have an addiction or not contributing to damage your body. In some countries like the U.S., there have been studies on the subject, revealing that the need for sweets can lead to an imbalance in the levels of blood sugar.
In addition, other research suggests that these cravings hide a protein deficiency, which may explain why most vegetarians suffer from this obsessive taste for sweets, especially chocolates. Other experts suggest that diets low in fat but high in sugars and starches, causing severe insulin shock, causing it to generate more desire to eat, causing obesity.
Diet and Longevity
Dietetics and nutrition are now becoming a broad research. For decades, is looking at the answer given by certain animals to caloric restriction, applied to them, giving extraordinary and impressive results. One of the most interesting is the great longevity of animals subjected to caloric restriction, which certainly reminds us of the importance of diet food.
Is known and is under investigation, the enormous amount of food components beneficial to health and disease prevention. Also have seen the healthy character of caloric restriction, and not only in people with certain diseases such as obesity and overweight, but also diabetes, hypertension and degenerative diseases of aging, like cardiovascular diseases, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, etc.
Are impressive data on the activity of caloric restriction in animal organisms, particularly in mice fed 35% fewer calories (whose life expectancy is 25 to 27 months) lived an average of 53 months, almost double its life expectancy. These results have also been observed in primates, and recently but in a shorter period in humans.
The mechanism of action is caloric restriction slow aging, but also significantly delayed the onset of certain diseases that occur with age such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, hypertension, demensia, eye diseases, etc.
However, if you want to put in Practical calorie restriction requires a deep knowledge of nutrition to devise a diet in which with the passage of time does not appear Nutrional deficiencies.
Dietary fiber and cancer
Dietary fiber is the fraction of all plant foods digested by digestive enzymes and are fermented in or greater degree by the bacterial flora. These fibers are composed mainly of insoluble fiber (cellulose, hemicellulose) and soluble fiber (gums, mucilages, oligosaccharides …). These compounds are present in large quantities in vegetables and whole grains. For a couple of decades is watching his habitual consumption is associated with a low rate of colon cancer, one of the most malignant and common cancers in the West.
Again, we must speak of the Mediterranean diet as the ideal to provide such a valuable fiber. This is contributed mainly by legumes, pasta, bread, fruit and vegetables, these foods are very common in the Mediterranean area, so a diet of these features prevents colon cancer, among other diseases. It also prevents constipation uncomfortable, slows gastric emptying and causes a sensation of fullness, this last property is interesting for the treatment of overweight and obesity.
Tips for People on A Diet
How many holidays we are forced to attend throughout the year? It depends on the social activity, but in one way or another, between releases, presentations, weddings and christenings and business lunches and dinners, any professional is involved in banquets where everything goes against its weight.
However, in today’s society, where ecology and other healthcare positions there will be more slowly as smoking cessation, there is no need to justify, just becomes an elegant sign of denial and the waiter leaves, without our having to any explanation of our partners.
When attending a party:
* Try to eat some of his dietary program before leaving, what will give strength to deny the obvious temptation.
* Allow sweets and alcoholic beverages. Drink fruit juice, mineral water or soda with ice and lemon.
* Refuse to choose canapes and cheese.
* If there is only sandwiches, accept a cap that has ham or cheese and avoid like the devil anything whatever, including mayonnaise.
* Do not drink alcohol on an empty stomach. If you must take a whiskey, add enough water, ice or soda. Do not let the joy of a glass allows the obesity regain the lost weight, and you know that after the first drink, they can get other, as the former inhibits the will.