Low-fat diets

Dietetics or "regimes" carry with them the idea of deprivation, as if eating well was a punishment. This is true only when there was excess over a long period of life and must make a dietary rehabilitation. To do this, a decrease in meal size will be needed.

The food is not to deprive himself but his power to choose wisely, and educate his children in that direction. It was during childhood that will take the good habits that will have consequences for all life.

The food is to offset the body's needs for calories, vitamins, water, minerals and ensure a healthy body. A good diet can prevent most major western diseases, such as hypertension, diabetes or obesity. The power has several functions: nutritive, therapeutic and fun.

Diets, whose purpose is primarily weight loss, are derived from the basic rules of nutrition that are:

- Reduce consumption of sugar is rapidly absorbed;

- Reduce consumption of animal fats (meat fat);

- Reduce the consumption of alcoholic beverages;

- Reduce salt intake;

- Prefer lean meats and fish, especially oily fish like salmon, rich in omega-3 fatty acids;

- Prefer pulses;

- Eat every day fruits and vegetables.

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Diets to lose weight are to reduce food intake and increase expenditure through physical activity, while respecting the dietary laws stated above.

In most cases it is advisable to lose weight fast. A too rapid weight loss occurs at the expense of muscle (muscle wasting) and is responsible for adverse skin reactions (streaks, skinfolds).Weight loss should be moderate and steady between 2 and 3 kg per month at most, to reach the ideal weight. Time is wasting the time of dietary rehabilitation, during which you must learn to eat fruits and vegetables, avoid fats and alcohol. The sport is essential to rehabilitation.

Everyone must follow are own pace. Weight loss is often excellent in the beginning of the plan, which is motivating, it tends to slow down thereafter, and requires a renewed motivation.

If overweight, weight loss of 5 to 10% of initial weight is already causing considerable benefit in terms of cardiovascular risk and diabetes. The key is to continue to lose weight gradually, possibly with the help of some medications prescribed by the physician, without being discouraged, and always trying to improve his diet. This still means eating more fruits and various vegetables, fish, avoid fast foods, deli meats and dishes too salty.

Some fad diets that promise quick results and exceptional, and are based on the elimination of a food, the consumption of one food (there is such a diet based on canned tuna ...) or unique association between two classes of food are not based on any serious basis. They can give good results for a few weeks, like almost all regimes in the beginning, but the only result that counts is the long-term weight loss, which will be achieved through dietary rehabilitation and reduced caloric intake.

The dietary rehabilitation is also the answer to the majority of metabolic problems, which theoretically would require a special dietary treatment. A good diet is maintained as a treatment against high blood pressure (low salt), cons of blood fat disorders such as hypertriglyceridemia (less sugars and alcohol) or against diabetes. It is illusory to pretend treat hypertension, for example, only by reducing salt intake.

Often hypertension is associated with obesity and diabetes and diet beginner treats all these diseases.