| Every meal you take can affect the quality and | | | | combination of galactose and glucose), fructose (a |
| duration of your life. Despite this, I bet you don't | | | | rather sweet sugar - 1.7 times as sweet as normal |
| know much about nutrition. Does orange juice really | | | | sugar - mainly found in fruits and honey), dextrose or |
| supply vitamin C? Do you need to eat meat to get | | | | glucose (a sugar found in many plants) and maltose |
| proteins? Does integral bred is really healthy? | | | | (the sugar found in malt and beer). |
| To get wise decisions about what you should eat | | | | 3. Drinking a glass of orange juice is less nutritive than |
| you must know better what you're eating. | | | | eating an orange. The fruit has less calories and the |
| Facts about foods | | | | juice loses a great amount of fibers. Several studies |
| Here are some of the key facts about common | | | | indicate that fibers help to regulate carbohydrates |
| foods and nutrition that will surprise you: | | | | (sugar) metabolism. That way the sugar from fruit is |
| 1. It is estimated that, in developed countries, people | | | | absorbed in a slow rate then the sugar encountered |
| ingest almost the double amount of proteins they | | | | in the juice. |
| need. There are studies that show that when more | | | | 4. For some persons too much salt leads to an |
| proteins are ingested more calcium is lost. This can | | | | increase of the blood pressure. The recommended |
| explain why countries that are huge consumers of | | | | daily dose is 2400 milligrams... but lots of people |
| proteins also have higher rates of Osteoporosis, a | | | | consume 4000 or even 8000 milligrams per day. |
| disease originated due to lack of calcium. | | | | One evidence that people don't eat well is that |
| 2. Sugar consumption can achieve, in average, 150 | | | | there's a huge percentage of over-weighted. This has |
| grams per day. More than 70% is hidden in prepared | | | | a great impact on the overall quality of life. People |
| foods and beverages. You must check the labels for | | | | suffer from a lack of self-esteem and confidence, |
| the amount of sugar, looking for names as sucrose | | | | but above all as a fragile health. If you eat well (I |
| or saccharose (the official chemical name of the main | | | | mean quality... not quantity!) then you'll be able to lose |
| type of sugar and the sugar used mainly in products | | | | weight and greatly improve or quality of life. And |
| and at home), lactose (the sugar found in milk, a | | | | simply by doing it, I'm sure than you will live longer! |