UNIT 5 "HEALTHY FOOD"

What do you think about healthy food?

I think about the healthy food, is beneficial to health, and provides all the essential nutrients and energy that each person needs to stay healthy.

Usually "healthy" food are that ones you can find in an orchard, they are natural foods, organic foods, whole foods, and sometimes vegetarian or dietary supplements. Such products are sold in health food stores or in the health/organic sections of supermarkets.

A well-fed person has more opportunities:

     • To develop fully

     • Healthy Living

     • Learn and work better

     • Protect yourself from diseases

The varied diet ensures the incorporation and use of all the nutrients, that we need to grow and healthy living.

Healthy eating, not only improves the quality of life at all ages, has been shown to prevent the development of diseases such as:

-       Obesity

-       Diabetes

-       Cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases

-       Hypertension

-       Dyslipidemia

-       Osteoporosis

-       Some cancers

-       Anemia

-       Infections

Also, I have to tell you about four types of foods you should not miss in a healthy diet

-       fruits

The fruit is an important source of vitamins and minerals. It is a food that contains fat, and helps us maintain proper cell function. Therefore eat daily is necessary, prevents premature aging. It is also true that the fruit contains carbohydrates, so we cannot abuse of them, and we must consume them at morning, because that’s the moment when the metabolism works faster and is easier to consume excess glucose.

-       vegetables

Like fruit contain high amounts of vitamins and minerals, making this food group an essential daily for healthy diet. Vegetables also don´t provide us fat and help us to maintain good function of the body. This type of food can be consumed at any time, just need to know how to prepare to avoid adding fat. So eat steamed, roasted or raw is the best choice.

-       fish

Fish is one of the best protein sources at our disposal. Fish offers very high biological proteins and easily assimilated by the body value. This nutrient is needed to maintain muscles and tissues in perfect condition. But not only the fish gives us this nutrient, but we must emphasize its mineral content and low calories.

-       cereals

Cereals are the basic diet of all human, as that provide carbohydrates. All cereals we also provide B vitamins, necessary for the proper functioning of the body. A point to consider is to choose the type of cereal that we will eat , and it must be integral for better use of our organism and not take spikes of glucose