Food - Nutrition - Diet - Diet What do they mean? PART I

Surely you've ever heard 'Monday I start the diet', 'I have to put on a diet'. But what it is really a diet? Well, to clarify these issues we will start by explaining some basics.

FOOD AND NUTRITION:

Food is a voluntary process by which we choose the foods we eat.

Food and nutrition
However, nutrition is the set of processes through which the body uses, transforms and incorporates by feeding a number of substances found in food, nutrients.

That is, not nutrition can control, it is an involuntary process.

So that we are well nourished we must have a proper diet, and it only depends on us.

Despite this, currently the supply is clearly influenced by advertising, lack of time to prepare food and work schedules that make us eat faster and precooked foods.

But our food is perfectly educable, highlighting at this point that the habits formed in childhood affect very significantly at maturity and therefore we must emphasize the importance of good nutrition education for the children of the house .

Another highlight is the fact that our diet affects our health, citing a person consuming excess animal fats have more risk of heart disease, obesity, etc. Our food also is marked by social, cultural and economic factors, but also the energy and nutrient needs have to be covered.


DIET AND DIET:

Dietary is how to use food properly. Normally we talk about this term in healthy individuals, when we do not use diet to treat disease, but to prevent them.

Diet and diet

Diet is simply what we eat every day, creating our eating habits.

A diet does not necessarily have to be low in calories but provision is made in society generally, because these diets are low in calories, and are destined to lose body weight.

To maintain proper nutritional status, we incorporate into our diet a variety of foods daily and weekly basis since there is no food that alone contains all the necessary nutrients for our body to function properly.

Also point out that there is no taboo foods, no food is bad, the problem comes when we eat too much. For example, fats are essential in our body because they play a very important role at the cellular level, and is also the vehicle through which some vitamins are absorbed. But if we eat too much fat, we run the risk of becoming overweight, high cholesterol or triglycerides.

Important points:

Our diet should be adapted to our age, sex, height and physical activity. You do not need the same amount of energy a 6-year-old teenager, or a sedentary person will need fewer calories than an athlete.

We have to enjoy eating using cooking techniques that allow us to prepare tasty dishes and healthy at the same time.

Eating well is not synonymous with eating a lot as an abundant food can be lacking some nutrients.

Ideally, we eat a little of everything since both excess or lack of one nutrient can cause us disease.

In short, our diet has to be varied and balanced.