Some Interesting Things about Healthy Foods (Draft 1)

If you eat healthy foods, this helps you to keep and increase your health. It is an automatic process, and depends of your culture obviously many aspects exert an influence in your way to eat. People, who practice good eating habits are stronger than others, are more proactive and have the conditions to develop your full potential. It is possible develop a healthy diet through many kinds of food whether origin, vegetal or animal. It is important to mention that exercise is very helpful to increase the results of your diet, and help you to avoid illness like overweight.

Tips to develop a healthy diet:

·       Try to eat more vegetables and fruits.

·       Reduce the consumption of sugar.

·       Reduce the consumption of salt.

·       Reduce the consumption of fat food.

·       Try to obtain the same number of calories that your body spends.

A healthy diet is the consumption of food that your origin is vegetal with a limited consumption of food with high content energetic, alcohol drinks, salt, processed meats and carbonated drinks.

Some chronic diseases present in occidental area are related with the increase of levels of IGF-1. Some discoveries in the biology establish that the consumption of milk can develop chronic diseases like artherosclerosis, carcinogenesis and some degenerative diseases.

According to OMS about 30% of factors related with cancer have a direct relation with the habits of eat. Some long-term studies have shown more conclusive relationship between red meat consumption and colon cancer and its relationship to other diseases. Studies realized in England and Germany confirms that people who eat only vegetables have about 40% least of possibilities to contract cancer.

Unhealthy diets are a major risk factor for the development of a number of chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, overweight and obesity, cardiovascular disease and cancer. OMS estimates that about 2.7 million deaths each year associated with diets low consumption of vegetables and fruits.  Therefore, this cause of death is considered a preventable causes of death most widespread.

«WHO | Diet and physical activity: a public health priority»

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