Nutrition, Diet and Health

The body needs many nutrients to maintain good health, and this is obtained through a balanced and healthy diet. This diet must meet various criteria: minimum physiological needs nutrients and energy to avoid nutritional deficiencies, although it should be noted that nutritional needs changes with age, physiological status and life ways, which means that the balance between the major nutrients should vary to suit different situations.

A balanced diet prevents diseases and is supported by a healthy active life, it is common today in medical treatises to consider that cardiovascular disease, obesity, acne, diabetes and dental caries are caused in part by unbalanced diets containing in excess of one essential components.

The industrial preparation of food that hides the original taste and flavor attributes unspecific, helps to eliminate the innate ability to regulate energy intake by taste and nutrition and eating habits, industrialization is a risk that condition to an imbalance nutritional diet, this imbalance affects all the macronutrients (fat, carbohydrates and proteins).

The vitamins, minerals and enzymes enable the body to perform its activities with speed and precision required for proper formation of body fluids, blood production and blood and to maintain healthy nerve function.

Vitamins, minerals and enzymes found in fruits and vegetables rather than the very mature or that have been stored for long periods, the longer you keep food stored the greater the amount of nutrients that are lost healthier foods are those that have been grown organically, ie without using insecticides, herbicides, artificial fertilizers or chemicals that stimulate their growth, before consuming foods should be washed very well in order to remove pesticides and other residues. If raw foods are not available, can be used as substitutes for frozen foods, but do not eat the processed, canned or packaged. If you find it difficult to eat raw, cook them lightly steamed or avail yourself of a stewpot.

To have good health is vital to consume a diet based on nutritional principles, when you are deciding which type of foods to include and which to avoid for good health, use the following recommendations:

• Avoid all saturated fats, hydrogenated margarine, processed and refined oils, shortenings, oils solidified, eat cold packed oils, maize, sesame, soybean, sunflower margarine of these oils, mayonnaise without egg.
• Avoid alcohol-based beverages, coffee, cocoa, and sweetened pasteurized juices, fruit drinks, soft drinks and tea, drink teas, fruit juices and vegetables, coffee substitute prepared with cereal grains, mineral water or distilled.
• Avoid fatty red meats, pork in all its form, hot dogs, hamburgers, smoked meats, marinated and processed sauces and viscera, eat more chicken and turkey raw, lamb, eat meat only once a week.
• Avoid all white flour products, white rice, macaroni, highly processed oatmeal and hot or cold cereal, eat all the grains and products containing them, cereals, breads, whole grain buns, cream of wheat, maize, rice integral.
• Avoid the following seasonings: black or white pepper, salt, pepper, white vinegar, all artificial vinegars; eat garlic, onions, parsley, all herbs, dried vegetables, apple vinegar, soy sauce, seaweed, sea salt .
• Avoid excess white sugar, sweets, jams and jellies with sugar, eat barley malt or rice syrup, small amounts of raw honey, molasses sulfur black stripe.
• Avoid fried fish, salted fish and canned in oil, consuming all white, freshwater fish, salmon, fish grilled or baked, or canned tuna in water.
• Avoid all soft cheeses, all pasteurized cheese products with artificial colors, ice cream, eat low-fat cheeses, goat milk, nonfat cottage cheese, unsweetened yogurt, buttermilk, all soy products.