Are you on a diet? Then you should pay even more attention to the list of ingredients on the labels of packaged products. Chemical additives could compromise the results of your diet, despite your efforts.
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Seven to diet? Then you should pay even more attention to the list of ingredients on the labels of packaged products. The artificial additives they could compromise the results of your diet, despite your efforts.
The doctor Sally Norton, an expert in diet and nutrition, suggests that we should focus more on food additives than on Calories when we are on a diet and in normal daily nutrition. The motivation is very simple: we do not know the long-term effects on health substances used to preserve, flavor and improve the appearance of foods.
If our diet is full of additives such as dyes, flavorings and preservatives, maybe we should rethink the way we eat.
How can we do to change our diet for the better? The expert suggests that base our shopping and our diet on fruits, vegetables and whole grains and to leave out the classic highly processed packaged products, of industrial origin, including snacks and ready meals.
In his opinion, if we focus only on the quantity of calories ingested, we risk following a misleading eating style, which allows us to eat, for example, a high-calorie snack rich in additives for lunch, when instead we could choose a fresh salad. of vegetables and a plate of brown rice.
According to the expert, what leads us to gain weight is mainly represented by refined sugars and by chemical additives, ingredients found in many packaged products. So here is again the recommendation to read the labels carefully and to buy mainly fresh or dry products but still intact and not industrially processed.
La quality of food that we consume - beyond the caloric aspect - could play a fundamental role in helping us regain and maintain a healthy weight. The expert suggests that beware of all artificial additives, even to those that are used to prolong storage and to make food production cheaper and more convenient for companies.
Our attention should be particularly focused on artificial sweeteners, chemically produced substances that could cause us to eat more due to a sudden increase in the sense of hunger.
Diets high in processed foods are considered harmful to our health by the expert, while diets based on fresh and whole products such as fruits, vegetables, nuts, legumes and whole grains can reduce our risk of heart disease, diabetes, obesity and other problems.
“What we eat makes a difference to our health. So we should always choose foods that are as fresh and simple as possible "- stressed the doctor. There solution to maintain a healthy weight It's within everyone's reach: Avoid processed foods and canned or bottled foods and industrially produced beverages as much as possible. According to the expert, this represents the basis of a balanced diet.
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So not only would we reduce the amount of artificial additives we are consuming, but we would ensure a more natural diet, which would move away from the processed foods that fill most supermarket shelves. Avoid processed and prepackaged products it will help not only health but also the environment, according to the expert's conclusions. One more reason for change the way we eat and shop for the better.
Marta Albè
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