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Healthy Snacks and Correct
Often the secret to keeping food and no plans to get too hungry meals, snacks are just as distracting play the role of appetite until lunchtime.
That is why we always recommend a mid-morning and the other half in the afternoon, so when lunch or dinner, only consume the bare minimum. On the other hand, snacks provide energy to the body, without going needs for long fasts.
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Physical Activity in Children, For a Healthy Lifestyle
for our children to be physically active throughout their lives
There is no doubt: childhood obesity is an epidemic worldwide. Therefore, more responsible governments have decided to attack this disease with measures that promote a healthy lifestyle. Spain has decided to keep pace and has published a guide for school health, ‘Make School Health. Guide to Getting it ‘, developed jointly by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Health and Social Policy.
This guide is intended for the entire school community, including parents (who have a lot to say and do), and health personnel. Thus, since the school is to instill healthy habits and prevent future risks … but we must be aware that even from home we have much work to be done.
At school …
Healthy eating and exercise are two key pillars of the six areas that underpin this guide. The remaining four: emotional health and wellbeing (mental health, boost self-esteem, etc..) Affective-sexual education, (the fight against gender discrimination, prevention of sexually transmitted infections, etc..) Safety and risk prevention and unintentional injuries (promoting the use of safety devices in the use of vehicles, sports, etc..) and education about drugs, alcohol and snuff (free lifestyles to promote drug use, reduce the incidence, etc. .)
Thus, one of the biggest problems among Spanish students is a sedentary lifestyle. New technologies, computer games, television … the current lifestyle does not encourage children to “move” and practicing sports. We must be aware that we are encouraging for the future adult patients (hypertension, cardiovascular disease, etc.). It has been demonstrated that the initiation to the sport during childhood and adolescence increases the likelihood that remain in adulthood and thus, the welfare of individuals.
But at home …
The effort to have healthy children is to be made, no doubt, from all fronts. Therefore, in addition to education are a core value of family and other social networks and agents. Because for our children to be physically active throughout their lives, they need their parents to join a sport, encourage, support and accompany them during training and competition.
How to Maintain Healthy Eating Habits?
Eating at the wrong foods high in sugar and fat generated in the smallest habits can be very detrimental to future
Today, one of the causes leading to overweight and obesity is the habit of eating outside the established schedule. This not only affects adults but also children as they consume at their leisure and unhealthy snacks at school.
One way to avoid this problem is to acquire a healthy lifestyle at home or outside it. In this respect, the healthier snacks are a great help to prevent childhood overweight.
To learn more about this issue, we talked to the nutritionist at the University of Chile, Miguelina tambourines, who explained to us that a healthy snack is one that consists of “lots of food consumed mid-morning or afternoon and should not contain more than 200 or 250 calories a day and hopefully low in fat and sugar. ”
Example of servings in a healthy snack
Recommended foods include fresh fruits, fruit juices, dried fruit (raisins, apples, pears, plums, figs, peaches, apricots), seeds (peanuts, almonds, peanuts), grains such as bread or preferably integral with avocado marraqueta , ham, fresh cheeses or jam. In dairy products, yogurt and milk with low fat or fat-free semi.
Healthy Eating to Live II
Protein
They are the builders of our body. Of them are composed primarily of muscles, connective tissue and skin. Forman hemoglobin in the blood. Many are enzymes that control and enable thousands of vital processes. Other essential works transport exercise: hormones, vitamins and minerals.
A poor intake of proteins in our diet, besides causing loss of muscle mass, resulting in edema (swelling). Vegetable proteins such as soy or spirulina are you have more protein than animal meat, and cleaner.
Vitamins
They are simply organic substances necessary for life. They are essential for the normal functioning of our body, our growth, vitality and general well being and are found in tiny amounts in all natural foods.
Vitamins regulate and energize your metabolism. The lack of vitamins, no matter how small, can endanger our body. To avoid this, you should include your diet, natural supplements and diet that you can find among our products in the form of capsules, tablets and syrups.
Minerals
They are the inorganic components of food, ie those found in nature without being part of the living. They play an important role in the body, as they are necessary for the development of tissues, hormone synthesis and most of chemical reactions involving enzymes.
Healthy Eating to Live I
Nutrition is vital for humans. If we eat better food, our bodies and our minds will be more balanced.
Currently in Chile, we have large quantities of food but the quality of these is very low. Therefore, we must be aware both personally and within the family on our eating habits and how they impact on our health.
Every time we face our choice of food or the preparation of daily menu at home, it is essential that we have very clear what our body needs: water, carbohydrates (sugars), proteins, vitamins and minerals.
Each of them fulfills its specific function in our body.
Water
It is the most abundant compound in all living things. Note that the aging and decay of the body accompanied by a progressive dehydration of the tissues. We drink 1 ½ to 2 liters of water per day.
Carbohydrates or carbohydrate
We provide the energy of each day. They are transformed and absorbed as glucose, galactose and fructose (sugars). If there is too much intake of carbohydrates, the excess is converted to fat.