‘Diet and Nutritions’

Obesity and Diet

Friday, January 1st, 2010

dietDiet is one word that such a mere desire, but are reluctant to be done. To help the knowledge about the diet itself, it would not hurt if you read the article this diet. If you read this diet, so I assume that you have the same problem with me is overweight. With a variety of reasons we do the diet, among other things: beauty, productivity, health or the doctor ordered for some reason and others.

Obesity during adolescence is an important factor, because many cardiovascular complications that occur in adult obesity, beginning with the incidence of abnormalities in childhood (Dietz and Robinson 1993, Dietz 1998).

This can cause us to be fat is to eat and excessive snacking, which causes imbalance of calories needed by the body where excess calories are stored in the body of excess fat and this can cause a case of degenerative heart disease, diabetes, hypertension and even stroke.

We usually consume too much like carbohydrates, animal proteins, animal fats, sugar, salt, processed foods and alcohol, and our little vegetable protein, vegetable fat, vitamins, minerals, essential amino acids, fiber, water, and even sports.

Food is always we are looking for tasty food tasty, sweet, salty, sugar, salt and oil, rather than looking for a healthy diet with balanced nutrients needed by the body. We are always concerned with taste buds than our bodies so we are not able to provide any required by the body. Body consists of trillions of cells that require change and nutrients to cells reduce it damaged and die, but because we do not understand our own bodies, these cells die and many are damaged, it is this which causes our body quality was so bad that it It can cause degenerative diseases such as heart disease, hypertension, diabetes and stroke. Actually gradually diseases we can prevent by improving our diet by regulating the quality, quantity, frequency of eating and food processing. We really need to keep your body needs food for our bodies become healthier.

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Folic acid in diet

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

folic acidFolic acid is a vitamin that in some circumstances of our life is very necessary. It is one of the B vitamins, especially important in the growth time, adolescence and during pregnancy.

This vitamin helps prevent certain birth defects related to the brain and spinal cord (called neural tube defects). Hence it is advised that the woman consumed before conception and during early stage of pregnancy to prevent these defects (for women age who may become pregnant, the recommendation is 400 mcg. Folic acid daily).

The difference between folic acid and folate is that the former is vitamin B complex man-made and is used as a vitamin supplement and added to certain foods (called enriched or fortified foods), while folate is the natural way of vitamin B complex and is found naturally in some foods.

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Why not work on low-carb diets?

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

low carb dietsAny person wishing to lose weight or burn fat to do essentially two things: increase the consumption of energy through the aerobic-anaerobic fitness, and food intake control, which we commonly call diet.

Particularly in the diet is 80% of success, if appropriate then we can burn fat and reach the ideal weight, but if not, then weight loss will never be achieved by much exercise you do.

At this point the problems begin for many, especially for those who decide to make a very limited carbohydrate diet. At first you may lose some weight, but soon staked or worse, begin to rise. Why diets do not work encarbohidratos?, Try to find out, in Fitness Gym give us a good explanation.

Carbohydrate fuel necessary
The exercise physiologists have a saying “Fat burns in the furnace of carbohydrates. In other words, without sufficient carbohydrates in the form of glucose, our body can not continue to use fat as fuel-efficient. How, then, a diet low in carbohydrates can burn fat? Good question.

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