Nutrition and Diet Tips

Fast foods contain high levels of starch, sugar, salt and fat, combined into one big piece, being a fact which combined with a sedentary lifestyle result in obesity and diseases.

We can therefore say that fast food and obesity share a common bond, being affected to a greater extent the fringe child population, but is a real growing problem worldwide, since its expansion, has left the world without affect.

A study says that nearly one third of all children and adolescents, aged between 4 and 19 years, consuming fast food regularly.

The study also says the weight gain in these cases is up to 6 pounds per year in the regular consumption of fast food, but still a fact that definitely needs serious attention.

Fast foods are the main reason for the susceptibility to diseases, some of which are irreversible, leading to inactivity or lack of physical activity, general listlessness, loss of attention, decreased cognitive functions, and so on.

The need for an information campaign in all educational levels is a prerequisite to be taken by government agencies, to inform and teach about the harm to health or harmful effects of pizzas and burgers in the long term, particularly in children, which is the hardest hit today and even more in the future.

Nutrition during pregnancy is one of the main factors we must consider must pay special attention to:

• Folic acid is a vitamin that needs to drink daily. Deficiency leads to anemia, premature detachment of the placenta, infants with low birth weight and some malformations, mostly of the nervous system.
  Although present in many foods, which are subjected to heat during the cooking process makes it possible to destroy, so it is necessary to consume fresh fruits and vegetables without cooking, and, as ordered, take a multivitamin with this vitamin.
• If a pregnant woman has some degree of malnutrition may occur low birth weight, intrauterine growth retardation and fetal or neonatal death. In addition, it increases the risk of heart disease, hypertension and diabetes in adolescence and adulthood.

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