There are many false beliefs about nutrition that are accepted as true by most people. Assertions are without foundation and may even interfere with proper nutrition. How much you know about nutrition?
1. The pasta fattening
“Fattening?. A diet rich in carbohydrates provides fewer calories than one rich in fat. The pasta and bread provide carbohydrates slowly absorbed thereby releases energy gradually longer maintaining satiety. The 50-55% of daily energy we need should come from carbohydrates.
It is considered appropriate as a consumption of 3 to 5 grams of carbohydrate per kilo of body weight per day.
Hydrates in the body can be used in different ways:
1. Used as a form of energy. In fact the brain is the only form of energy it uses, consuming about 140 grams of glucose per day. If you decrease your intake, as occurs in prolonged fasting, the brain uses so-called ketone bodies from fatty acid oxidation in the liver.
2. Stored as glycogen in liver and muscle.
3. Hydrates are not used, turn into fat and stored in the liver and adipose tissue. But in this transformation process spends 25% of the energy they contain, which are stored total calories than if we take the same amount of fat.
The consumption of diets low in carbohydrates leads to a higher intake of fat, leading to increased levels of uric acid and blood cholesterol.
A diet rich in carbohydrates provides fewer calories than a diet high in fat.
Foods such as cakes, buns or cakes are also foods rich in carbohydrates but unlike pasta or bread, are nothing desirable to have large amount of refined sugar and foods normally be high in fat.
2. The fries are not good
The cliche that the chips are not good is one of the most widespread. However it is not true. It is true that food calories add up the calories of oil used in frying.
Therefore not a proper cooking technique if you want to lose weight. However, it is one of the techniques that best preserves the nutrients in food to the required cooking time short.
Also during frying is an exchange of food fats and olive oil to food. This is especially beneficial in the case of meat and fried foods with the use of olive oil.
In this case the saturated fat (unhealthy) which is the meat has passed to the oil and the oil is monounsaturated fat to meat, so that finally the meat has lost “bad” fat and has earned “good” fat .
3. The fruit fattening food taken after
The fruit is not fattening taken before meals and another behind. Will you be adding calories if we leave in the bowl while we eat? The organism does not compute the calories of a food in different ways if taken before or after other food.
An orange provides the same calories you take when you are taking. If you take the fruit before eating may eat less bread or less cooked and so fewer calories are taken. But equal amounts of fruit, bread and cooked the same calories are taken in the order taken.
It is true that the fruit, due to the large amount of fructose but mainly it provides glucose, the body produces a response consisting of a rapid release of insulin (fructose has an absorption rate of 40% below the glucose) that will be responsible for transport of sugar into the cells. This insulin release awakens hunger.
This makes some people feel hungry after finishing in less time eating and eat more. And that something else is causing the excess calories, not fruit.
4. Fat breakfast
Breakfast. First thing we need energy to cope with everyday life.
Breakfast is the main meal of the day. At night there is physical activity important but our body continues to consume calories to cover the functioning of the brain, kidney, lung, heart, etc..
After all night without eating, the onset of daily activity needs an energy input. This energy must be used quickly to supply organs like the brain but must also be slowly released.
It is therefore desirable combination of fruit (monosaccharides and disaccharides)) and bread or cereals (polysaccharides). Dairy products provide protein and ensure the necessary daily amount of calcium. Also contain vitamin A, D and B vitamins
If we breakfasted well you have enough energy to optimal physical and mental performance throughout the morning. It has been shown that children who come to school without breakfast perform less well than their peers that if breakfast. And the same applies to adults.
If you do not eat breakfast are more likely to eat fattening foods like cakes or buns industrial, chips, nuts, etc.. Several studies have shown a higher incidence of obesity among people who skip breakfast.
5. Fat nap
Slimline nap. There is very little difference in calorie expenditure that makes our body as we sit watching TV while we sleep.
It has also been found that a nap of 10 to 20 minutes a positive impact on our health, decreases stress and increases performance in the afternoon.
6. The breadsticks are less fattening than bread
Like bread, breadsticks, peaks or donuts are made with flour, water and salt. In this case the rear seat has lost water and no fresh bread.
Thus an equal amount (weight) of breadsticks and bread have more calories the breadsticks as almost all his weight is “food” and the bread has a lower part of “food” and most of water has no calories and therefore is not fattening.
7. Suspend one meal a day helps you lose weight
Ideally, distribute intakes throughout the day on five times so as to make breakfast, mid morning, lunch, snack and dinner. It helps to have a constant supply of energy with which we will not hunger.
8. The water between meals fattening
How many times have we heard that the water should not be taken between meals because they fattening? This is a topic long ago passed from one another and yet is totally false. Water has 0 calories and therefore the water is not fattening. And not fattening never, before eating or after eating or between meals. Never.
So you can drink whenever you want. In fact it is much more saline water to eat without it. The food is nicer and lighter digestion if taken during the same water. That yes, in moderation for not dull. A glass or cup and a half is the most appropriate measure.
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