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Adolescent Food

At this stage of the life cycle energy and nutrient needs are quickly being augmented by a time of intense growth and development and the high physical and intellectual activity that develop these young people.

It is important to consider the psychological changes that adolescents experience as they are, in most cases, those who control their own diet and not go in a sense, it can produce the acquisition of eating habits and inadequate even harmful to health (obesity, elevated blood fats, sugar or diabetes, even some types of cancer closely related to food as the colon).

Many experts consider this stage as especially vulnerable from the point of view of nutrition. Again at this stage we must pay special attention to the breakfast food because it is the least interesting day wake up in adolescents. Many of them do not eat breakfast or quick and wrong in the sense both qualitative and quantitative. Read the rest of this entry »

Food for preschool and school children

Progressively being established patterns or eating habits of these children, largely learned and imitated their parents, hence the importance of proper nutrition education on their part, and the adoption of healthy dietary habits.

It is necessary to establish in the early child dietary intake to ensure a rich, varied and balanced foods of different textures, colors, flavors and components that allow for adequate nutrition and growth while gradually enable them to acquire preferences food and cooking and a good selection capability. Read the rest of this entry »

Newborn feeding

The mother has been breastfeeding for a long time the usual way of parenting. However, in recent years, many women have abandoned this practice by major social changes have taken place in our society and, above all, by the incorporation of women into the labor market. They fully demonstrated the advantages and benefits of breastfeeding for the infant to achieve normal growth and development.

When breastfeeding is not possible for medical reasons or otherwise, will resort to artificial feeding. It is important in these cases to avoid penalties behaviors of the decision of the mother, since the child’s nutritional requirements are adequately satisfied with the new infant formula.

It has also used the so-called mixed feeding, ie the combination of breastfeeding and artificial, but this solution does not seem very appropriate. Read the rest of this entry »

Preschool

It has been observed in a large study that, in general, energy intake in children is adapted to the recommendations established for this age group, although in some cases are slightly higher. It has also been found that there was an imbalance in the nutritional composition of foods, so that energy intake from fat was above the recommended values. The proportion of energy provided in the form of protein is also higher than recommended, while that of carbohydrates is very inadequate.

Children 7 to 10 years

Several studies have shown similar food intake to the recommendations, while others report that they are superior. As for proteins, a contribution can be seen well above the recommended values. Fats consumed in excess, while the energy provided by carbohydrates is lower than recommended. Read the rest of this entry »

Dietary habits are acquired in the family, begin to form at birth and develop in childhood, particularly in adolescence, as determined by the habits of the parents.

Learning by imitation occurs not only at home but with the biggest, if children and friends, group or leader in adolescents. The nutritional habits acquired in childhood is very little change in subsequent years so that individual food habits in most older people are virtually identical to those purchased in the early stages of his life. Read the rest of this entry »

They abundant polyunsaturated fat (especially linoleic acid, and in certain oils, linolenic, the latter similar to the fat blue fish). Linoleic and linolenic acids are essential, must be included every day in the diet because the body can not produce on its own.

In our body, polyunsaturated fats cardioprotective the following effects: reduce total cholesterol levels and other blood fats called triglycerides, reduce the risk of blood clots (thrombosis and cardiovascular-cerebrovascular accidents) and produced vasodilation (increase the diameter of blood vessels). Read the rest of this entry »

Season approaches the olive harvest, fruit which gets precious olive oil. Compared with seed, olive oil is more aromatic and flavorful, making simpler, more stable (takes longer to become rancid) and more suitable for frying, and more enduring high temperatures without decomposing. There are different types:

Virgin olive oil is not refined and is achieved by crushing the olives into a paste and applying cold pressure to squeeze the oil. Only subjected to physical processes which remove solid particles contained in suspension, and to make it transparent. Depending on the amount of free fatty acids according to fruit characteristics, quality and smoothness of taste will be more or less:

Extra virgin, refined and current: the Extra, fruity flavor and aroma and soft, the acidity is less than 1 degree (1% free fatty acids) in the fine reaches 2 ° and the current up to 3 º. The lower the acidity, the better quality. – Virgin lampante: contains more than 3 of acidity and is not edible because of its strong flavor Read the rest of this entry »

The oils are vegetable fats that are forming small droplets within the cells of seeds and some fruits. The most common for human consumption are obtained from soybean, sunflower, corn, sesame, walnut, coconut and fruits such as olive and palm fruit oil.

Industrial production phases of oil

Removal: To get the oil must be broken by grinding plant cells and then isolate it from the other components of seeds or fruits. The grinding is performed by rollers or grinding until a smooth paste is subjected to a pressing using mechanical devices that apply pressure to the paste to squeeze out the oil. The pressing can be hot or cold. Hot you get more oil but, in contrast, requires a further refining process than cold pressing. On the other hand, the ‘cake’ or residue left after pressing still contains 10-20% oil which can also be exploited. Read the rest of this entry »

Defend their positive effect with cholesterol, praising their qualities in the heart healthy diet, nutritional value and spread, of course, praise his performance in the kitchen: salads, chips, sauces …

In the Mediterranean diet, the king are the olive oils and nuts and seeds, which among us have played the role for decades in other culinary cultures have desempeñadao butter and other less healthy fats than oils. Know the organoleptic characteristics (taste, color, aroma …) and nutrition of the different types of oil used by each one more suitable for use in cooking and choose correctly among the vast supply of oil that give the store shelves today is a common practice among consumers, especially among those most concerned about maintaining a healthy diet but no less satisfying to the palate. Read the rest of this entry »

Since ancient times it was said that the banana has ideal properties for the treatment of some digestive disorders, which has been tested in our day because research has shown that the pulp contains substances with antiseptic (kills bacteria), in the intestinal smooth oils that reduce inflammation and irritation of mucous membranes (tissues that line the inside smooth digestive system) plus a protein, pectin, which favors the evacuation of the colon.

Specifically, it is said that when the fruit is ripe helps relieve discomfort caused by gastritis or ulcer (inflammation and perforation of the stomach wall, respectively), in addition to combat constipation and is effective in the treatment of colitis (inflammation of the intestine thickness due to infections, stress or eating disorders), and hemorrhoids (dilated veins located in the rectum or anus). Moreover, evidence shows that when green is effective in controlling diarrhea. Read the rest of this entry »