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How much you know about nutrition? (II)

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

fiber

1. The fiber tapers
No. We relate take fiber to lose weight, but in reality the fiber or fat or thin. Fiber is the part of food that is neither digested nor absorbed by our bodies because we lack the enzymes that would be required to do so. So do not add calories but not the rest. However, it has wonderful properties it acts as a regulator of intestinal function, prevents constipation, regenerates the intestinal flora and produces satiety thereby decreasing hunger.

2. Margarine is less fattening than butter
No. Both are considered within what are called solid fats. The difference lies in their origin and way different from how you get both. Butter milk is obtained by mixing the batter and cream.

The margarine fats obtained from animals, plants or both which are subjected to a chemical process called hydrogenation, which converts liquid fats into solid fats. It has the advantage that they can produce margarine, unsaturated vegetable oils, but the disadvantage that in the process of hydrogenation changes the chemical configuration of the fat, creating trans fatty acids are unsaturated fats that behave in our bodies as if they were saturated.

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How much you know about nutrition? (I)

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

about nutrition

There are many false beliefs about nutrition that are accepted as true by most people. Assertions are without foundation and may even interfere with proper nutrition. How much you know about nutrition?

1. The alcohol removes the cold
The Saint Bernard dog who comes swift with his barrel of rum to assist the skier is an image that all we keep in our memory. It should give joy to see your face approach with good-natured but today we know that it is best not to test the alcohol that carries his keg.

Alcohol is a vasodilator. It makes the skin capillaries dilate so that more blood reaches them. This produces a momentary sensation of heat to the cold comfort but in reality it is producing a heat loss, since the blood to be so close to the body surface cools faster.

This causes a decrease in body temperature that can cause death by freezing. Not infrequently, there have been cases of people drunk bastards who have died from cold.

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