Optimal Health and Balanced Diet: The Essential Factors for Disease Prevention and Well-being

2023-07-07 21:16:26

Both the practice of exercise and a balanced diet are almost ‘essential’ to maintain optimal health and avoid, both in the medium and long term, multiple diseases. That point is what experts tend to emphasize, since changes in lifestyle should start at an early age and not only when there are signs of abnormalities.

“Healthy dietary practices start early in life: breastfeeding encourages healthy growth and enhances cognitive development, and may have longer-term health benefits, such as reducing the risk of becoming overweight or obese and developing noncommunicable diseases. later in life”, reads the WHO website.

The highest authority in health matters affirms that a constant, today, is that “people now consume more foods rich in energy, fats, free sugars and salt/sodium”, being precisely those that should be avoided or reduced. On the contrary, there are not a few individuals who “do not eat enough fruits, vegetables and other dietary fibers, such as whole grains,” she points out.

Avoid these fruits at night

Although it affects certain individuals more than others, at some point in life, anyone could be at risk of insomnia (a response, in part, to ‘inadequate’ sleep hygiene). Several reasons can lead to the break being interrupted and the next day the result is; for example, lack of energy.

The Objective points out vegetables with high soluble fiber as those that should be avoided at night, since the time for their digestion is longer. In that group is broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, turnip greens and; As far as fruits are concerned, an effect associated with insomnia would be in citrus fruits such as tangerines and oranges or others such as strawberries and kiwi.

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Regarding the reason, the indicated portal affirms that its intake at night, due to the acid load, generates burning and heaviness. The expert Gemma Oña, consulted by the newspaper La Vanguardia, details that, in general, those fruits with a high sugar content are not as beneficial as they might seem.

How to achieve a better rest?

Just as diet and a sedentary lifestyle are ‘key’ pieces for a good rest, so are other practices that are sometimes carried out ‘unconsciously’. One of these is staying practically until late at night with electronic devices such as cell phones or televisions.

Additionally, it is necessary to keep, as far as possible, the same schedule for both waking up and sleeping and ensuring that the period is not less than seven hours a day.

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