Beans and other legumes, such as chickpeas, soybeans and lentils, can cause gas as they contain high amounts of raffinose, stachyose and verbascose, oligosaccharides that are not digested by the body, and can also cause bloating, abdominal discomfort and cramps. The oligosaccharides present in beans are used as food by intestinal bacteria, promoting fermentation and […]
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To carry out nutritional re-education with children, it is first necessary to change the parents’ habits, especially through simple actions, such as not buying sweets for home and always having salad on the lunch and dinner table. Children tend to imitate their parents’ attitudes, which is why it is necessary to unite the entire family […]
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Selective eating disorder is a relatively common childhood eating disorder, which occurs when a child always eats the same foods, rejecting all other options outside of their acceptance pattern. Thus, it is common for children to always like to eat the same meals, rejecting new foods, and having difficulty eating in restaurants and at other […]
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Foods such as sausages, sausages and bacon can cause cancer because they are smoked, and the substances present in the smoke from the smoking process, preservatives such as nitrites and nitrates. These chemicals act by irritating the intestinal wall and causing small lesions in the cells, and daily consumption of around 50g of these types […]
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Eating chocolate helps you lose weight because small doses of chocolate in the body promote metabolism, keeping it faster and helping to reduce the amount of fat in the body. Furthermore, some antioxidants present in dark chocolate interfere with the production of a hormone called leptin, which regulates satiety and helps you lose weight. Find […]
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Some ways to stop or reduce the desire to eat sweets are to increase the consumption of foods that give a greater feeling of satiety, reduce hunger, balance blood sugar levels or that stimulate the production of serotonin, which is a substance related to feeling of well-being and pleasure, like bananas, oats or chestnuts, for […]
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Selective eating disorder is a relatively common childhood eating disorder, which occurs when a child always eats the same foods, rejecting all other options outside of their acceptance pattern. Thus, it is common for children to always like to eat the same meals, rejecting new foods, and having difficulty eating in restaurants and at other […]
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The mind diet is a diet that improves a person’s learning process, concentration and productivity. Find out more! The Dash diet and the Mediterranean diet are essential to combat hypertension, heart attack and senile dementia. Experts managed to combine the two diets, with the aim of acting on cognition, facilitating learning, creativity, productivity and concentration. […]
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