Eating for a Healthy Heart – part 1
The key to healthy and enjoyable meal comes with a basic knowledge of nutrition. Knowledge of food gives you control and allow a good option as they eat, as what food manufacturers want to know that you eat. The availability of the wide variety of foods available in the market, has given us a wide range of options than before. The question is: get the most out of it? The science of nutrition has grown gradually over the past two decades, and gives us a solid basis for making recommendations on how a healthy diet. Now it is quite clear that a poor diet increases the risk of heart diseases other, while a good diet can reduce these risks significantly. Because different foods of many different types of nutrients in different proportions, no single food contains all the nutrients you do not need a balanced diet. This is why diversity in your diet is very important because it allows for different nutrients from a wide range of sources. The best for Food, which came a day from these five main categories of food. Group 1 – Carbohydrates: It is a food source of glucose is very important to our bodies, and come in two forms: simple and complex sugars. Simple sugars are the simplest form of carbohydrates and is presented as one or two molecular combination, ie monosaccharides (one sugar molecule) – glucose, fructose and galactose. Disaccharides (two sugar molecules) – lactose, maltose and sucrose. Glucose, which we call blood sugar is mostly found in all fruits and vegetables. Fructose is the sweetest of known natural sugars, is found in honey and some sweet fruits. The diasaccharides containing monosaccharides together always at least one molecule of glucose. Lactose, which is glucose and galactose, are found mainly in lactose. Maltose is found in malted milk drinks and consists of two glucose molecules. While sucrose is our famous white package sugar glucose and fructose together. Simple sugars that stimulate insulin secretion and insulin from hunger-related, you tend to feel hungry again in less time than the more complex sugars, although the consumption of white sugar can be in the U.S. and U. K, being another source of sugars, such as how to make sweets, chocolates and sweets to continue making an important contribution to our daily diet. In fact, it is quite difficult, processed foods that contain at least find a certain amount of sugar. The complex sugars, on the other side is made of glucose, but unlike simple sugars, which do not dissolve in water and have to cook before it is digested. Examples include flour, pasta, beans, bread and potatoes. Do not think that sugar is as bad as we thought, to believe, in fact, is very important for a balanced diet for a healthy meal, but caution and restraint is necessary. Group 2 – Fiber: or roughage is a form of carbohydrate. This is the cell wall of plant foods. It’s part of our food is not digested by our bodies. Fiber comes in two forms, soluble and insoluble fiber. Soluble fiber in oats, lentils, peas, beans, citrus fruits, apples, bananas and some vegetables. They dissolve in water and forms gel in the stomach and helps lower blood cholesterol, especially the bad cholesterol. Insoluble fiber helps promote soft bulky stool. You get this kind of fiber from whole wheat flour, nuts, cereals, bran and brown rice. Eat more of whole wheat bread contains twice as much fiber bread. Basically, you increase your fiber intake, particularly soluble fiber. And if you need to drink alcohol, drink in moderation. Reduced or avoided, if necessary with a cholesterol-rich food such as eggs, liver, kidneys, red meat. Choose complex sugars to simple sugars through. Reduce intake of salt, because salt is connected to the development of blood pressure and drink lots of water. Eat to live and live to eat. Enjoy! Knowledge is power, learn and live!
