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During the months of detention, many people reduced their intake healthy food and consume those that contain a high caloric index (saturated fats, sugars and refined flour, such as soft drinks, pizza, desserts, cakes, etc.). This, added to the decrease in physical activity, resulted overweight, obesity and diabetes, among other diseases.
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The return to the new normal coincides with his arrival summer and, with it, the obsessive desire of some people to want to be absent kg earned by resorting to strict diets or “miracle” supplements.
For Pedro Tirado Rau, a nutritionist at Sisol Salud in Lima, certain diets and weight loss remedies can cause serious complications in the body. “Following a strict diet or resorting to” miracle “supplements limits the consumption of certain foods and the amounts our body needs, as fewer calories and fewer nutrients are ingested, which can lead to a lack of minerals and vitamins.”, indicated the.
The specialist assured that many subsistence allowance recommended are unbalanced; some of them are classified in calorie (those with a low energy content), dissociative (ensures the fattening of the food combination), exclusively (to eliminate some nutrients) monodiets and liquid diets.
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“In extreme cases, the side effects of these diets can involve metabolic and neuropsychiatric disorders, gastrointestinal disorders and can even cause ketosis and kidney problems.”mentioned the nutritionist.
A healthy diet it must also be personalized under the supervision of a professional nutritionist. It must be balanced and composed of protein (meat, dairy, eggs, beans), carbohydrates (whole grains such as quinoa, kiwicha, oats, brown rice; tubers (potato, cassava, sweet potato, olluco), FATS (avocado, olives, sesame, chia, flax seeds, olive oils, sunflower, sacha inchi) and nuts, as well as vitamins, minerals, water and trace elements (fruits and vegetables in their great variety).
Finally, throwing stressed that the diet should be in accordance with the age, sex, physical activity and health of the person. In addition, he recommended to lead a healthy lifestyle, which includes drinking water (two liters per day), exercise (at least 30 minutes a day), sleeping 7-8 hours and abstaining from coffee, alcohol , cigarettes, soft drinks and junk food.