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.
