Tag: fruits
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Nutrition for Healthy Preschoolers (PART 1 – the content of nutrition)
In the last 20 years, lifestyle has brought significant blows to the nutrition of preschool children. Nowadays, our young children eat less breakfast, consume less homemade food, while the intake of ready-made food that is not prepared at home has increased. Unfortunately, they now get more calories from snacks, consume more fried foods and foods…
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10 tips for a Healthier Diet
A healthy diet provides all the nutrients in the amounts our body needs to stay healthy and feel well. Many times it is not easy to follow a specific nutritional program that is personally made for us. During this period, we can follow 10 tips to eat as healthily as possible. 1. We consume as…
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10 Foods We Should Eat + 10 Foods We Should NOT Eat When We Have Diarrhea
Diarrhea is the passage of loose stools in increased quantity and frequency. Acute (due to infectious causes) or chronic diarrhea (lasting more than a month) is accompanied by excessive loss of fluids and electrolytes. What foods should we eat when we have diarrhea? The recommended foods are the next: 1. Boiled white rice 2. Noodles…
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Water and human body
Water is the most important component in our body. Our body can survive several days without food, months or even years without certain vitamins and minerals, but only a few days without water, while our energy is reduced if we go without water for even a few hours. The total content of the human body,…
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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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Alkaline foods & nutrition ? true or false ?
The stability of the pH of our body fluids constitutes the acid-base balance of the body, the maintenance of which is essential for its smooth functioning. Normally, the pH of the blood ranges between 7.35 – 7.45, that is, slightly alkaline. When the pH balance is below 7.35 or becomes even worse acidic below 7.00,…
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Foods that increase histamine
Histamine is a substance that is mainly involved in the functions of the immune and central nervous systems. Histamine initiates an inflammatory reaction to alert the body’s immune system to a possible attack. This inflammatory reaction causes blood vessels to dilate in order for white blood cells to act faster against the infectious agent. The…
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Summer Nutrition
When it is very hot (heat wave) the body naturally increases sweating, thus maintaining its temperature within normal limits. In the summer the body does not need as many calories as in the winter and this is because…. it gets hotter. The calorie is a unit of measurement of heat, so with more calories we…
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IPSC Nutrition – Match day
Nutrition on match day is definitely something that all competitors should seriously consider in order to achieve maximum performance. It is not wise to eat foods that only have empty calories, such as refined added carbohydrates (sweets, candies, chocolates) and do not have other ingredients that will help us achieve maximum performance, such as complex…
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Vitamin C
Vitamin C, also known as ascorbic acid, contributes to the normal formation of collagen for the normal function of blood vessels, bones, cartilage, gums, teeth, skin, and acts as an antioxidant, helping to protect cells from oxidative stress that causes an increase in free radicals, which are considered the main cause of cellular aging. Vitamin…
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