2023-06-10 13:00:00
A healthy diet provides a better quality of life. Photo: Pixabay
feed on a healthy way can provide you with many benefits, in addition to helping to improve your physical condition. Healthy diet is key.
This feeding should include fruits, vegetables, white proteins such as fish and poultry, whole grains, legumes and nuts, avoiding the consumption of red meat and alcohol, or that it will derive, according to a study published in the ‘European Journal of Preventive Cardiology’, in Spanish ‘Revista Europea de Cardiology Preventive’, in a better physical capacity, especially in adults middle-aged, that is, from the age of 40.
Healthy diet
Study author Michael Mi, of Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, USAexpresses that the progress in the physical formwas found in the participants with better diets, which would be equivalent to perform a daily physical exercise of 4,000 steps.
In the study participated 2 380 personas between men and women, who underwent a exercise test cardiopulmonary exercise, to assess the amount of oxygen used during physical activity of the highest possible intensity, as well as, filled out a survey regarding food intake.
This information was obtained to qualify the diet quality using the Alternative Healthy Eating Index (AHEI; 0 to 110) and the Mediterranean diet (MDS; from 0 to 25), which have a close relationship with the heart health.
Diet quality
The researchers took into account the quality diet, fitness, as well as other factors such as age, gender, and dietary intake daily calories totals. The results showed that the AHEI mean was 66.7 and the MDS was 12.4.
“Our data suggest that eating healthy way is associated with better metabolic health, which might be a potential pathway leading to better physical form and ability to do exercise“said researcher Michael Mi.
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