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Food and Exercise

Food and ExerciseIn 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.

If, moreover, this person is doing this exercise, for example, weight loss, may follow a hypocaloric diet. These diets can also be varied and balanced if they have no less than 1500Kcal.

The daily diet of a very significant influence on physical performance of an athlete. Proper diet, in terms of quantity and quality before, during and after training and competition is essential to optimize the physical performance. Athletes also need, in addition to proper hydration, a varied and balanced diet.

How can a person be sure that it has a deficit of a vitamin or mineral? Taking a varied diet (eating everything) and balanced (that 55% of daily calories as carbohydrates are carbon, that 15% of those are as protein, and the rest as fat).

Regular exercise increases the need for protein and some vitamins and minerals, it is also needs extra eating a varied and balanced diet. In short, food specialists are very aware of before taking these supplements and other ergogenic aids, an athlete should review the diet.

Some Tips to Prevent Cancer

How to prevent cancerA 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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