The beginning of the year is an opportunity to start with new habits that serve our wellness. MDZ Radio spoke with Paola Navarro regarding some aspects to take into account to start with a feeding healthy. The specialist warned that we must be careful with “magic” diets.
“Eating well means relating to food in a kind and healthy way, in the sense that eating does you good, but contemplating other aspects, not just the feeding or nutrition. We talk regarding having everything it takes to be healthy. You also have to link up with eating in a healthy way. This means accepting that eating is good for us but that it gives us pleasure, being able to create a bond that is not an eating disorder or an obsession,” explained Navarro.
The nutritionist warned that our feeding should have all groups foods such as protein, carbohydrates, healthy fats, fiber, vitamins, minerals and water. “Foods have all of this, some have a little more, some have a little less, some have just one thing. Then the important thing is the processing of each food, how you prepare it, then there is the food and then everything else. , the social, the meeting. We cannot stay in something only of calories or diet, but everything else that implies, “he added.
With respect to processed foodsthe specialist highlighted the new Nova classification system for the degree of processing that food has and said: “Processing would be any act that transforms food and that is not in its natural state. So, a process, for example, is peeling a apple. Nor is it necessary to demonize and have that fear of everything processed because sometimes it falls into false extreme fanaticism, “he said.
Navarro explained that the ultra-processed foods, are those that have two or three processes. “Our food is refined, processed, the industry uses it to sell us, it does not want to take care of us. That is where one has to learn to choose. That is, try to cook more, to do things at home more healthybut not to go to an extreme”, he said.
In relation to this, the specialist indicated that “nothing will happen” if we occasionally consume some processed cookies, or something fried. “We must not demonize, but we must try to make our diet as healthy as possible, but without thinking regarding diet,” she added.
On the other hand, the nutritionist explained that there are also eating patterns, such as the Mediterranean diet, vegetarian patterns, which are endorsed by all institutions. “Everyone needs a consultation with specialists so that they give you a complete diet and so that you do not fall into deficiencies,” she explained.
Finally, he mentioned the “famous magical diets” and defined them as “eating styles that cannot be sustained over time and sometimes lead to fanaticism.” In this sense, the specialist indicated the importance of detecting the degree of evidence of them. “One has to be wary of those that produce quick results, in 20, 30 days,” she closed.
