Vote for Your Health

In recent decades, food and exercise have emerged as cornerstones in the prevention and treatment of relevant diseases, eg, obesity and osteoporosis. The fundamental objectives to be pursued by both physical exercise such as food if you want to be successful in the prevention and treatment of these and other diseases.

A person who makes mild-moderate exercise (walking, jogging does nothing …) without the aim of the competition, basically, in addition to proper hydration, a varied and balanced diet that is, you need to eat all kinds of food, while ensuring that there is a predominance of foods high in carbohydrates, limiting to a maximum of 30% of daily calories consumed as fat and 12-15% of calories as protein.

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The decrease in consumption of bread – about 10 percent in just the last year – is due in large measure, the little knowledge about the nutritional benefits of this product and poor medical guidance which was devoted to extending mistakenly believing that bread is fattening.

Experts meeting in Madrid on the occasion of the presentation of the ‘White Paper Pan’ stated that, undoubtedly, the bread is the food that contributes to better nutritional balance, as it provides an important part of carbohydrate of dietary fiber, minerals and vitamins.

Not to mention that this is not a diet rich in fats or sugars, so that the bread itself is not fattening not only provided the diet and living habits are good, but contributes to a healthier diet.

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A significant percent of cancers could be prevented if during the life take a number of precautions that have been proven to reduce the chance of developing various cancers. In this paper we present some recommendations that should become facts of everyday life.

• Change in eating habits: Calorie restriction, varied diet that meets the recommendations of vitamins, minerals, proteins, fats and carbohydrates.
• Avoid obesity from an early age. Obesity in childhood causes a precocious and incomplete development of the reproductive organs, the prelude to cancer of the reproductive organs.
• Reducing animal fat in the diet. Animal fats stimulate the production of bile acids that are mixed with feces and travel to the colon where they are converted into carcinogenic compounds by bacteria in the intestinal flora.
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