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postheadericon Food For The Obese

To maintain for long periods a hypocaloric diet, it should be varied, balanced, friendly and tailored to individual conditions. Before discussing the different types of diet, we need to examine the nutritional recommendations that should be considered in developing a diet for obese patients:
Carbohydrates:Should be 100 g minimum to preserve proteins, prevent ketosis and to avoid large fluctuations in weight due to changes in water balance.
Protein:0.8 g / kg / day plus 1.75 g of high biological value protein per 100 kcal of caloric deficit proposed. They are necessary for the maintenance of lean body mass.
Fats:Fewer than 30% of total caloric distribution of 10% saturates, 10% polyunsaturated and 10% monounsaturated.
Alcohol:Shortly consumption or permanently delete it. Provides 7 kcal / g.
Vitamins, minerals and electrolytes
According to dietary recommendations of the U.S. National Research Council, are considered necessary only supplements in diets with less than 1,000 kcal. The usual vitamin complexes do not provide electrolytes and minerals.

Fiber:The input fiber is useful because it increases satiety and may prevent constipation, frequent low-calorie diets, also recognizes its beneficial effect on the metabolism of carbohydrates and lipids. It is difficult, however, to obtain the recommended amount of fiber, 20-30 g / day or 25 g/1000 kcal / d, making it necessary to use supplements such as bran, oat bran or other.

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postheadericon How To Choose Foods For Diabetics

Having diabetes is not easy. When a person has diabetes should eat healthy foods, staying physically active, take your medicines and control your weight. To avoid the complications of diabetes, should also monitor the level of blood sugar, blood pressure and cholesterol. You must do all this, besides fulfilling their daily duties. No wonder that people with diabetes may feel tense and frightened.
One wants the best for their family and friends with diabetes. You may want to find a way to relieve stress she feels her mom or maybe would like to help her husband to better control their diabetes. It is difficult to manage diabetes when you have no support. The effort you make to help your loved one can make a big difference in how you feel and how facing diabetes.
* Control the amount: the portion to eat should be neither more nor less than a slice of approximately 2, 5 cm wide. Enjoying your intake, savoring each bite and eat slowly, be enough with this amount of sweet.
* Choose fiber: as the quantity, you must also pay attention to the quality of what we eat, it will not be the same cream-filled cake that another full of fruit. The basic idea is to pay attention to choose the ingredients and preferably those of have some fiber, for example, which has strawberries, seeds, berries, fresh or dried fruit.