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Trans Fat-Free Diet
The health benefits of trans fat-free diet are many and varied. This type of fats from hydrogenated oils used in some industrial food.
While fats should be present in our daily diet, the worst kind of fat to be removed from our diets is trans fat.
Dangers of trans fats
Trans fats are used because they improve the texture of foods and help it last longer longer. Are obtained from processed vegetable fats. Trans fats are responsible for increasing our bad cholesterol, increasing the risk of cardiovascular disease. Trans fats are accumulated directly on the points where they would like to see: tummy, twenty, buttocks, hips and abdomen.
This type of fat gives us very few nutrients and calories. Its consumption is a clear susceptibility to obesity. Many people experience a loss of considerable weight and durable with only eliminate trans fats from your diet. These products are rich in trans fats to be avoided:
* Bakery products: cakes, cookies, donuts, biscuits, cakes, crepes, …
* Snacks: chips, peanuts, …
* Margarine
* Frozen pizzas
* Pre-cooked dishes, especially the breaded fillets
* Finally, avoid cooking with hot oil: fry before the oil starts to smoke in the pan
Has recently been shown that pregnant women should avoid this type of fat and negatively affecting the baby during pregnancy. Another reason to remove trans fats from our diet.
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Natural Antioxidants from Fruits
Who has not heard of products such as juices and smoothies, vitamin A, C and E, and even candies that contain vitamins or multiple benefits achieved through the inclusion of plant foods in the diet?
The media insist on the virtues of foodstuffs fortified with vitamins and potential health benefits, praising his role in the fight against “oxidation” of the organism to certain diseases and aging. Today, nutrition and dietetics not only dealing with food components that provide nutritional benefits: proteins, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals. Other substances properly
What are antioxidants?
This is a group of vitamins, minerals, natural dyes from plants and other compounds and enzymes (substances from our body involved in multiple metabolic processes), which block the damaging effect of so-called free radicals. Most of the antioxidants found in plant foods, which explains that include fruits, legumes, vegetables or whole grains in our diet is so beneficial.
Free radicals and oxidation
Breathing in oxygen is essential for cellular life in our body, but following the same molecules are produced, free radicals, which lead to lifelong negative health effects for their ability to alter the DNA (genes), proteins and lipids or fats.
In our bodies are continually renewing cells (skin, intestine?) And others not (liver cells, neurons?). Over the years, free radicals can cause a genetic defect on the first, increasing the risk of cancer and reduce the functionality of the latter (the cells that are not renewed), which is characteristic of aging.
Habits as common as intense physical exercise, smoking, consumption of diets rich in fat and overexposure to solar radiation and environmental pollution, increase production of free radicals.
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