Healthy Eating - What Is Best For Us?

Victoria Aly Author: Victoria Aly Time for reading: ~3 minutes Last Updated: August 08, 2022
Healthy Eating - What Is Best For Us?

Healthy eating involves the application of a diet that differs to some extent from the traditional one for a certain period of time. The motives for resorting to diet can be aesthetic, medical, personality or even religious and

Healthy eating involves the application of a diet that differs to some extent from the traditional one for a certain period of time. The motives for resorting to diet can be aesthetic, medical, personal characteristics or even religious and philosophical teachings.

One of the common approaches is the so-called reduced nutrition, which restricts the import of energy sources. It is usually combined with increased energy expenditure in order to lose weight for medical or aesthetic reasons. If its duration is short and the intensity is moderate, no negative impact is expected.

An easier form of fasting is intermittent eating, with food intake only 2-3 times a week. However, they can reduce the import of vital elements, and this can lead to disease manifestations, the most well-known of which is anemia. However, with the reduction of subcutaneous adipose tissue, it should be known that it affects the parenchymal organs - liver, kidneys, as well as the heart, skeletal muscles, which affects their functional state.

Systematic restriction of nutrient imports leads to a change in the biochemical processes of the body and adaptation for optimal utilization of nutrients (nutrients) as energy sources. The plastic role of nutrients goes into the background. Often, the application of such regimes with strict restrictions, for a shorter or longer period of time, leads to the accumulation of imported nutrients as reserves in the transition to a normal diet, and this makes the diet meaningless.
 
Unloading days

are a more favorable option, applied for example once a week, when only fruits and vegetables and sweetened with honey teas, liquids, and possibly milk. It is believed that such measures help to purify the body, to improve the general condition, to raise self-esteem and stimulate performance.

A particularly well-known type of diet is vegetarianism. It includes vegetarianism, which avoids the consumption of meat and meat products. A variant is the so-called moderate vegetarianism, in which not only mammalian products are accepted, but fish and poultry are allowed.
 
With vegetarianism, on the other hand, dairy products and eggs are limited. Although vegetarians and vegans get most of their essential nutrients through nuts, soy products and the like, it is well known to deprive their bodies of essential nutrients. Products of animal origin are the main source of complete proteins, which are not contained in products of plant origin, respectively essential amino acids, iron (the main source of digestible iron is meat), B vitamins, especially B12, essential (essential) fatty acids, the main source of which are fish, as well as cholesterol (extreme restriction of external cholesterol intake stimulates endogenous synthesis of such and increases the risk of atherosclerosis).

However, we must mention some advantages of these diets. Among vegetarians, the risk of cardiovascular disease is lower, they are less likely to suffer from malignant diseases, as well as cholelithiasis (gallstone disease). Achieving such goals, however, must be achieved through a sensible diet and not severely restrictive.

Not an unknown approach is so-called.
 
Separate meals, based on the idea that the joint consumption of certain substances may limit the absorption of some of them. The basis of this diet is the competitive relationship of nutrients to enzymes and transport systems. Undigested food leads to disorders of the digestive tract. For example, acidic foods should not be consumed with those rich in complex carbohydrates, as the latter need an alkaline environment for their processing. Acidic products and proteins are also not a good combination, and the absorption and metabolism of the proteins themselves affect and are influenced by those of fatty acids and carbohydrates. The latter, in turn, being complex and simple, also have special requirements for the digestive process.

In modern life, combining nutrients in a suitable way is not very easy. In most foods, fats, carbohydrates and proteins are present at the same time. However, it is believed that if their intake is slow enough and in reasonable quantities, for an optimal period of time, the body will cope with their absorption without any pathological consequences.

Nutrition is not the only, but perhaps one of the most important factors for our health. This is especially evident in the structure of morbidity among different nations. Nutrition, some culinary treatments such as frying, smoking have been proven to have a negative impact, the harm of the presence of a lot of salt in food is known, but the role of seafood, olive oil, and olives, whole grains are emphasized.

Health means life, and nutrition should be a way of life.

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