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.

Another threat that hangs over our teenagers and begin to create real health problems is called fast food or fast food, snacks or appetizers and that young people eat with their friends in specific locations. Many of these foods have ended with the common denominating and derogatory term because they do not eat junk foods properly to the person who takes them and often end up being harmful and damaging to health.

In any case, it is important to consider that sporadic or occasional consumption of these foods or food nutrition poses no harm if the rest of the diet is balanced.

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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.

In preschool children, milk and dairy foods are the star, followed by fruits, vegetables, potatoes, cereals, sugar, meat and fish. School children consume plenty of dairy products, fruits, vegetables, potatoes, cereals, meat and meat products, fish, eggs and sugar.

At this age begins to worry about the first meal of the day, ie breakfast, since many children do not eat breakfast or even properly do so.

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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.

Feeding children up to 3 years

In the period extending from birth to 3 years of age, nutrition plays a vital role in child development as most of its systems and organs mature during this time.

All anomalies that appear in the body due to poor nutrition during these years will be irreversible in the future.

The infant must gradually learn to eat, food handling and semi later solids. That learning is part of their development and allow you to chew, taste and identify familiar smells and textures of foods eaten by adults, and manipulate them, swallow and assimilate.

As we have seen, from birth until 4-6 months of life, the child is only able to suck and swallow liquids, so basically milk fed either the mother, rather artificial. Later, from that age until about one year of age, complementary feeding is introduced to meet the nutrient and energy demands of a rapidly growing organization. Stresses at this stage the introduction of semisolid foods for which child to practice and learn to chew.

As of year and up to 3, the child will progressively incorporating the family eats menu, suitable for their age. Initially playing with food and, later, want to feed himself. Often shows interest in food from their elders and asked, even after you finish your meal.

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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.

Teens

It has been shown that energy intake of adolescents is slightly lower than the recommendations with an imbalance in the supply of nutrients. The energy provided by carbohydrates is well below the recommendations. The energy from fat and protein is located well above the recommendations.

… And how it should be

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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.

Adolescence is associated with a multitude of changes in personal lifestyle and is also expected to be in food preference and eating habits. The adolescent’s eating behavior is determined by many external factors (features family, friends, social and cultural values, social media, nutritional knowledge, experiences and personal beliefs, etc..), And internal (physiological needs and characteristics, body image, likes and dislikes in food, psychosocial development, health, etc..).

Currently, there is differential as fact eating behaviors of adolescents often go for snacks or appetizers called and fast food or fast food, junk food also.

Energy and nutrient intake at different stages of development

As seems to be …

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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).

Sunflower oil, safflower oil after it is the richest in linoleic acid and after wheat germ, is also in vitamin E.

Soybean oil, neutral flavor, is rich in polyunsaturated fats, especially linoleic acid.

Walnut oil is obtained by cold pressing and requires no refining. It is the richest in linolenic acid. Is oxidized and rancid easily.

Sesame oil, taste and pleasant aroma, contains the same proportion of oleic acid (monounsaturated) and linoleic (polyunsaturated). No need refining, contains a natural antioxidant, sesamol, which makes it very stable and resistant to oxidation, which supports several years without rancid.

Coconut oil and palm oil, we are already into something else, because these oils are rich in saturated fat, like saturated fats which are abundant in foods of animal origin, its frequent consumption is associated with increased levels blood cholesterol and therefore do not have the cardioprotective effect of the other oils. Are less healthy than any other conventional oils usually used in the manufacture of bakery products and fried snacks like products.

Olive oil is best for frying because it best resists temperatures up to 160 º -200 º needed for frying. Is the most stable and it decomposes more slowly. Another advantage permeates least fried food, making it less caloric.
Do not mix oil and used again. Or olive oil with seed, have different points of smoke, olive hold a higher temperature than the other and whether the mix, you burn the other and produce irritants and potentially toxic.

Best Techniques for Fry

Avoid overheating: it is preferable not to exceed during frying temperature of 170 º. If using an electric fryer, set the thermostat for the oil smokes or not dark.

If the temperature is too high, irritating and potentially generate toxic substances. Always dispose of cooking oil and, of course, burned.

The fried food must be dry, water promotes the breakdown of the oil

You have to filter the oil after each frying to remove burnt food debris left floating and promote the oxidation and decomposition of the oils.

Not use the same oil and two or three times to fry, especially if you humeado or is obscured.

If we want food crispy breaded or battered and soak less oil, we add each egg one tablespoon of water or milk.

If you also put absorbent paper towels to soak it too much fried food oil, the better.

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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

Refined olive oil is obtained from an oil containing free fatty acids because many were achieved by hot pressing or comes from poor quality fruit, it needs refining to make it edible. Is pale, its acidity is less than 0.2 ° so that has little flavor and contains very few vitamins, phytosterols, and substances responsible for aroma.

Pure olive oil or just olive oil, is the most common in the market and comes from a mixture of virgin olive oil and refined. Its acidity should not exceed 1 º. – The olive pomace oil is obtained by applying solvent to the cake remaining after extraction. It’s the worst and needs to be refined to reduce its maximum acidity of 0.3 º.

Nutritional properties of olive oil

The virgin and pure olive oil are the richest in vitamin E (natural antioxidant) and phytosterols. They all noted for their high contribution of monounsaturated fat (mainly oleic acid), which works better in preventing cardiovascular disease. This monounsaturated fat increases blood levels of ‘good cholesterol’ (HDL) cholesterol.

On the other hand, vitamin E and oleic acid prevents oxidation of lipoproteins or blood cholesterol transporters (related to the development of cardiovascular disease) and other substances associated with the development of certain cancers.

These two particular olive oil give it the label of health food. This explains to recommend the use of olive oil (preferably virgin or pure olive oil), although this does not mean eliminate the use of seed oils, also healthy.

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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.

This was done using solvents approved moving the waste oil and then subjected to a warming that these solvents removed by evaporation of the final product completely.

Refining: This operation removes the impurities that are formed during the extraction and oil will communicate an undesirable taste. Includes several processes that reduce acidity and soften the taste of oil. The acidity is determined by the amount of free fatty acids: the more free fatty acids it contains, the greater the acidity of the oil.

From the nutritional point of view, the best oils are cold-pressed, as both the hot-pressed lower refining the content of substances that give the oil its taste, aroma, color and some of its most avalanches as lasvitaminas E and beta-carotene or provitamin A, and finally, antioxidants and phytosterols to prevent some of the cholesterol we eat with food is absorbed from the intestine, which is beneficial for people with high cholesterol levels blood and cardiovascular disease prevention.

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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.

Available in the market for a variety of oils: olive, sunflower, soybean, corn, ¿what we should look to choose one or the other?.

All of them are fit for consumption but there are appreciable differences in nutritional value, sensory characteristics, culinary uses and even more appropriate in its effects on health. Although foods are calorie, oils are commodities that should be every day in our diet, but always in the right quantities. It is best used in cooking olive oil (from olives) and seeds, and so we get the proportion of the different types of fat (monounsaturated, polyunsaturated and saturated) meets which requires balanced diet and cardio.

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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.

Traditional medicine specialists also use it in other circumstances:

Kidney problems. Some of the compounds and minerals of this fruit make it easier to work the kidneys clean the blood.
Anxiety and restlessness. It is usually advised as a painkiller for people very nervous.
High cholesterol. The banana contains soluble fiber, which reduces levels of this type of fat in the blood.
Joint problems. It is highly recommended in cases of arthritis and gout, as it helps neutralize and eliminate the substance linked with rheumatic pain, uric acid.
Diabetes. It is well tolerated in the diet of patients with this disease since glucose also has other compounds that provide energy and cause less havoc in the body (sucrose, levulose). In addition, soluble fiber that contains help in regulating blood sugar levels.
Obesity. Contrary to popular belief, is included in those regimes to lose weight because their compounds help you feel full and lose your appetite.
Prevention of gastrointestinal diseases. Sugars and fiber contained are eaten by the intestinal flora, thereby preventing the development of bacteria that cause infections.
Stroke prevention. According to recent research, the daily intake of potassium contained in bananas (4 grams, approximately) reduces the possibility that pathways that supply blood to the brain is obstructed and create temporary or permanent paralysis and even death .
Cancer prevention. This fruit is rich in phenolic acids or phenols, substances which on contact with air generated by the typical darkening of the pulp, but also have antioxidant qualities, ie help to detoxify the body and neutralize the effect of substances responsible for emergence of tumors, known as free radicals.

Also, the banana is used by those in sports that demand high performance over time (tennis, distance running and soccer, to name a few), as their consumption during periods of rest or the end of the practice is highly desirable both by the energy it provides and its content of potassium, which helps prevent cramps.

Finally, one can only note that obtaining the benefits of this fruit is higher when consuming 1 or 2 a day, and when the skin looks yellow with small dark spots. Do not forget to combine with other fruits, because a diet is rich in diversity of products including and not a single food.

credit to: María Elena Moura

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