Archive for the ‘Nutritional Properties’ Category

Factors Affecting the Absorption of Vitamins and Minerals

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010

Factors Affecting the Absorption of Vitamins and Minerals

There are many everyday consumer products that produce less absorption of vitamins to ingest them or eliminating them. Good or bad habits, it is useful to consider these reductions because most people are consuming at least one of these products.

Snuff
Consumption of snuff causes an impoverishment of the body in beta-carotene and vitamin C, and produce other problems and diseases of snuff consumption. Smoking a pack of 20 cigarettes per day doubles the daily requirement of vitamin C. There are several problems caused by the consumption of snuff, and those related to food, nutrition and oral health are explained in our health section.

Alcohol
This results in lack of B group vitamins and vitamin C. Alcohol has several effects on food, some positive and some negative, it is important to know. (more…)

Tags: , , , ,
Posted in Nutritional Properties, Vitamins | No Comments »

Feeding your children. Healthy nutrition from infancy to adolescence

Friday, February 5th, 2010

Feeding your children. Healthy nutrition from infancy to adolescence
Obesity and overweight are epidemic and characters. It is a disease with serious consequences in adulthood that begins in childhood: 26% of children and youth of our country are overweight and almost 14% are obese. But even more disturbing is the trend exhibited by this sickness.

There are many reasons that led to this situation. First, our country has undergone great changes in recent decades that have impacted greatly on the type of food. Traditional diets have been replaced with diets with higher energy density, which means more fat and more sugar added to food, coupled with a decrease in consumption of fruits, vegetables, grains and legumes. In addition, these dietary changes combined with lifestyles that reflect a reduction in physical activity at school and during leisure time. (more…)

Tags: , , ,
Posted in Nutritional Properties | No Comments »