Tag: Carbohydrates
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5 Best Nuts for Snack in Diabetes
Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disease characterized by high blood glucose levels. The body produces less or no insulin (the hormone that promotes glucose into cells) or uses insulin in an ineffective way, resulting in an increase in the concentration of sugar (glucose) in the blood. The higher the levels of sugar/glucose that we consume…
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What is and what does Nutrition include?
Nutrition is the set of foods that we choose to consume not only to maintain ourselves in life but to have good health as well as to help them in impending diseases. Health is the state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or disability. The nutrients in…
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Nutrition for Hepatitis B
Hepatitis B is a viral infection that affects the liver, causing inflammation and damage, and over time, chronic liver disease can develop. The liver’s main functions are to filter the blood, process and store nutrients, help synthesize bile, and convert harmful substances into harmless ones. It is an essential organ in the body and plays…
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10 nutritional tips for a better response to Depression
Depression is a disorder that affects our mood, thoughts and behavior. It can start with a loss of interest and pleasure and develop into a daily feeling of anxiety, sadness and/or melancholy for a long time, resulting in abstinence from our social and interpersonal relationships. Depression is not combated with a special diet and needs…
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5 Myths about Diet Programs
1. Delete Carbohydrates from diet if you want to lose weight If we exclude carbohydrates from our diet we will have a slightly greater weight loss than usual, but this weight loss will be due to excessive water loss from the body and not to fat loss (1 gram of carbohydrate holds 3 to 4…
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Nutrition for Senior Athletes
In recent years there has been increased media interest in the nutrition of senior athletes. This is because it was initially observed and then proved that for a fairly large percentage of changes that take place in people’s health, during the fourth decade of their lives and after, the way of life is responsible, an…
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Lentils, 1 of the top legumes
The lentil is one of the first plants that man began to systematically cultivate. It is an annual bushy plant and is known for its fruits and is sold as a dry legume. There are many varieties, the best known are the Brown Spanish pardina, the French green Le Puy, the black beluga, the green…
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Foods for a faster metabolism
Metabolism is the chemical process that converts food and drinks into energy, it also helps in building and repairing body tissues. The higher the metabolism, the more calories are converted into energy, the easier it is to lose weight or maintain our weight. To increase our metabolism, the easiest thing we can do is to…
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Foods associated with good mental clarity
The basic function of the brain is, with the presence of its neurons, to receive, process and transmit messages and stimuli. It is responsible for the senses, perception and control (and coordination) of muscle movements and human mental functions such as thinking or learning and memory. Just as there is no magic pill to prevent…
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Lettuce
Raw lettuce consists of 96% water, 3% carbohydrates and contains a negligible amount of protein. 100 gr. of lettuce (2.5 cups of 250 ml/cup) has only 12 – 14 calories and this is the main reason that makes it an ideal food for weight control or for slimming diets. It also increases the feeling of…
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