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Empty Calories

There are certain foods, highly palatable, containing sugars and fats in large amounts, while only provide essential nutrients for our health. The calories that provide these are known as ‘empty calories’. The intake of such foods, therefore, is a bad habit in our daily diet should be deleted or replaced. These are some of the [...]

The Fat Intake in the Development of Obesity

There is always the eternal debate when deciding to reduce fat or reduced carbohydrate when trying to lose weight, and as we have said many times, calories are not equal if they come from fats, if derived from grain, so it is time to show that fat consumption is a factor in the development of [...]

Nutrition and Uric Acid

Uric acid Uric acid is one of the most important substances in the body, as if their production is more than adequate, not just eliminated through the urine and accumulates around the cartilage, causing diseases such as gout. Uric acid is a type of acid in the liver after the intake of animal foods such [...]

Avoid Saturated Fats

Whenever we talk about health, saturated fat is the biggest concern to us because it is closely related to cardiovascular disease, hypercholesterolemia, overweight and obesity. What are they and what food is saturated fat? Saturated fats generally are those that come from the animal kingdom, except for oily fish (which are unsaturated and very healthy [...]

The Glycemic Index Foods

Recent studies in nutrition, maintain that an optimal diet is one in which consume low glycemic index carbohydrates and thus low glycemic load, and the results show that short-term decreases hunger and food intake calories, and long term reduces the incidence of obesity and associated chronic diseases. People who want to reduce their body weight [...]

Don’t Forget the Vitamins and Minerals

In the diet of athletes is always present the importance of proteins and carbohydrates, but often remains relevant to the role that vitamins and minerals in the body. Certain vitamins such as B complex, are essential for the proper functioning of neuromuscular and besides, without them we can not metabolize carbohydrates well. In addition, many [...]

How Much Protein My Body Can Absorb in One Meal?

The answer depends on your story. Your body adapts to the intake, it is well researched and documented. The World Health Organization has studies the protein intake of more than a century old.

Advantages and Disadvantages of Fiber

Fiber is the part that is not digested food. It is found mainly in foods of plant origin and has several advantages in the diet: first, no calories and it is strongly indicated in the restricted diets. But it is not the only advantage of the fiber must be accompanied by increased water intake. It [...]

Highs and Lows of Carbohydrates I

How foods affect blood sugar levels in the blood. The old myth that a sugary snack will cause a dramatic rise and then a fall in levels of blood sugar has been overturned as research findings on the physiological effects of food on blood sugar levels. Have devised new ways to measure the reaction of [...]

Carbohydrates

There has been much publicity in recent years on the carbohydrate or carbohydrates. It has been said time and again that this food group produces energy and reduces obesity and cardiovascular problems, among others. While it is true that we need and should be part of a healthy diet is important that we know how [...]