Nutrition and Diet Tips

The recipe to combat childhood obesity seems simple: less TV, more exercise and proper nutrition. But it will be easier to apply. Often the evil of our children because we are parents of a very regular life, we are not careful with food, better meals ready to prepare something to fatigue, television is a good baby-sitter and is useless to argue for them to do sports, even when they are already tired from the day. So unfortunately it does not work. It is essential to change the style of life, to get of outcome.

4% of Italian children under the age of 9 years are obese and should be discouraged from the outset since it carries a 70% chance of being obese in adulthood. The parent must therefore act to limit the time beginning with the front of the TV and encouraging the child to practice a ‘physical activity.

Choose to do any small sports (soccer, swimming, volleyball, gymnastics) . It is important that they move and possibly in the company of other children. Then you analyze what were the mistakes that led to the baby food to gain weight and try to rebalance the power.

Be very careful with snacks. Should be avoided or replaced with something natural. And then you have to pay attention to the breakdown of the calories in your meals. Not good salty snacks such as potato chips, or chocolate cream.

Maintenance is one of the most important and costly steps in a weight loss plan, this is because it is time that our eating habits should be consolidated so as not to regain lost weight.

After losing weight, which is trying to sustain weight with maximum of 2 kilos swings above or below the weight that holds.

This process and balance to be achieved is often very difficult to achieve for any individual, however, with perseverance and patience, the body and the person they succeed and can learn from experienced no difficulties for the rest of their lives.

A preliminary result of Diogenes (Diet, obesity and genes) that the increase in protein intake prevents weight regain, while the glycemic index of foods plays a role.

Such research includes more than 400 families from 8 different countries, therefore, is the largest study at European level on nutrition and obesity.

Followed for 6 months to adult participants who were asked to lose 8% of their body weight at least before the intervention covering his entire family.

On average, a total of 763 people lost weight 11.2 kg. Then, they were assigned, randomly, one of 5 diets: 4 are combining different proportions of protein and carbohydrates, while the remaining fifth was based on the eating habits of the family with the addition of tips on healthy meals.

The results show that those individuals who received a high protein diet did not regain the lost weight, while the rest of the individuals increased between 2 and 2.5 kilos after weight loss.

The findings are not definitive, and these are known only in May 2009. But perhaps the reason, the proteins allowed a more favorable keep weight off his great power is quenching and low addictive potential such as foods high in sugars and fats.

However, it should be noted that a diet that includes more than 1.5 grams per kilogram per day of protein and is considered high in that nutrient, and also is contributing more than 2 grams per day / kg in a person with normal levels of physical activity and effort and without diseases that make exceptions, can cause severe kidney problems due to overloading of solutes.

The maintenance diet may be easier to only slightly increase protein intake, but my advice is to take care of the proportions so as to prevent unwanted diseases.

The chicken egg is one of the most important foods for humans. Few foods have the properties of the egg, both the diversity of dishes that we make and the ease to prepare, alone or combined with other foods.

For a child, or a person recovering old should consume three to four eggs per week, while a stout person, or physically active, could ingest up to seven in the same period. Healthy people should eat four to five eggs per week either directly: fried egg, hard tortilla or indirect: in sauces, creams, desserts.

Both the variety of nutrients it contains, as its high degree of use by our body, the egg is one of the most complete foods for humans. The egg is rich in proteins of high biological value and easy to digest. Egg protein is so good that scientists used as standard by comparing the protein quality of other foods.

Although for years maintained the view that a diet rich in egg damages health, recent studies have determined that a healthy person can consume up to two eggs a day. Other similar studies have provided evidence about the positive effects of lecithin or phosphatidylcholine present in the egg yolk, which, besides being an excellent source of choline and act on developing brain function and memory, limits cholesterol absorption that contains the egg.

Similarly other studies have confirmed that eggs are a source of carotenoids, readily available, and that these components, which are antioxidants, may help to delay cataracts. The energy content of eggs is relatively low, therefore, not conducive to cy.

The replacement of some saturated fats in animal fats from plant sources may reduce LDL (bad cholesterol) and triglycerides, decreasing the risk of cardiovascular disease.

But not all animal fats are bad because the fish is synonymous with benefits for heart health, not only as a source of protein in the diet, but as a source of omega-3 fats that represent high quality nutrition, prevention of diseases.

Especially important for postmenopausal women and middle-aged and older men to be included in their diets, recommending up to 12 ounces per week to reduce risk of cardiovascular disease, according to the American Heart Association (AHA).

The AHA notes that some types of fish can have high levels of environmental pollutants such as heavy metals (mercury), and therefore recommends that children and pregnant women avoid the types of fish believed to have the highest levels of mercury ( example, makerel king, swordfish, shark, tilefish).

The AHA also recommends varying the type of fish you eat to minimize the effects of these pollutants.

The conclusion is that all require healthy fats diet in limited quantities, but it gives us the fish is recommended in the animal kingdom because it promotes the health of our heart.

Also related to the functioning brain, what is needed in older adults, who can also find omega 3 in nuts and flax seed, in the plant kingdom, to further supplement a natural diet.