Nutrition and Diet Tips

The fruits are converted each summer in one of the favorite foods. Refreshing, in juice or separate, easy to prepare and consume, and also with a low price, since summer is the date on which greater quantity and variety can be found in markets. Beyond its flavor and its ability refreshing, fruit is one of the healthiest foods recommended by nutritionists.

Its high content of liquid prevents the dreaded summer dehydration, in addition, fruits are an inexhaustible source of vitamins and carbohydrates: the best way to get the calories needed to withstand the extra exercise routine in the summer. Fruits, on the other hand, include a high fiber content, which reduces problems such as gastrointestinal upset, and their regular consumption is recommended by experts as a perfect way to reduce the risk of such serious diseases as cancer or coronary heart disease.

Eating fruits and vegetables in Spain is the highest in Europe: the fruit stands at 77 kilos per person per year and fresh vegetables to just over 50 kilos. Among vegetables, potato and tomato are the most appreciated the Spanish, and among the fruits, orange rules the basket.

An adequate intake of vegetables during these months would ration of between 200 and 250 grams per day. Vegetable consumption are decreasing in Spanish diets, although in the summer months has been an increase in this consumption. The vegetables in salads provide our body vitamin C, carotenes, folates, carbohydrates, fiber and minerals.

Among the substances with a greater interest is the fiber, which is classified into soluble and insoluble in water, both having different physiological effects. The insoluble dietary fiber fermentation just suffers and has marked effects in regulating intestinal soluble fiber found in vegetables and fruit, and has a close relationship with the metabolic processes of the digestive system.

Sports nutrition is a factor that each day has more in mind in most competitive sports and people who go to the gym.
It is very interesting and hopeful that such basic concepts as diet and care have been promulgated by the Natural Medicine for centuries are finally considered. It is not uncommon to hear that this or that football team requires its players to eat on the premises of their own club because they want to watch your diet or sports nutrition and players.

Care and diet are clear advantages for athletes

Until recently, only heard talk about food or sports nutrition for bodybuilders. It was almost the only, being athletes, who already spoke of proteins, carbohydrates, supplements to increase muscle mass, and so on.
Fortunately this has changed radically in recent years and there are a number of sports nutritionists who are responsible for: (more…)