For a balanced diet! For our health and to live in an active way, it is essential to have a good supply.
A balanced diet is one that gives every individual all the food needed to meet their needs, maintain health and prevent disease emergence.
Good nutrition should be:
- Complete, hence should provide all the nutrients required by our body in sufficient quantity: Proteins, carbohydrates, lipids or fats, vitamins, minerals and water.
- Balanced, keeping a certain relationship between the Carbohydrates (55 - 60% of total daily calories), protein (12 -15% of total daily calories) and fat (25 -30% of total daily calories).
- Varied; choose between greater diversity food as possible from our rich food supply.
- Adequate, quality and quantity, provided by age, sex, physical activity, type of work, etc.
is important to distribute food or 4 5 meals depending on the pace of life. The ideal distribution is breakfast, midmorning, lunch, snack and dinner. Provided by the three fundamental and not picking between meals. Believe it or not, better control your weight eating this way. But this, as will be explained in detail in a future article.