‘balanced diet’

Tips for eating a balanced diet

Friday, January 8th, 2010

Tips for eating a balanced dietIn the adult, get a healthy balanced diet is really easy: you just have to try different foods adapted to take their numbers and mode of food preparation to the demands of our body. From this simple scheme, we can realize some more advice such as:

  • Need to cook fresh foods at certain intervals. Use as standard canned, ready-made meals, always eating away from home … this is a problem for vitamin and mineral value of our meals. Yes for work we have to eat this way, try to get home to take salad, a dish of vegetables, fruits and dairy products that complement the vitamin and mineral value of your daily diet

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Foods to see everything clearer

Thursday, December 24th, 2009

healthy eyeA balanced diet, consuming as much fresh vegetables fruits, eggs, meat and fish, because this way you can get the necessary amounts of all vitamins, and improve eye health. Meet the most important vitamins for maintaining good eye health.

1. Vitamin A – Retinol and beta-carotene
Tomato. It is a food especially rich in vitamin A. Vitamin A has two natural sources: the retinol from the animal kingdom, and beta-carotene from the vegetable kingdom.

They succeed those who say that carrots are good for the eyes, contains beta-carotene, a substance that our body can convert into vitamin A, crucial in the process of vision and represents a great help in keeping daylight vision and night. Vitamin A is essential in the regeneration of rhodopsin, whose decomposition by the light allows the process of vision.

The lack of this vitamin can lead to blindness or decreased Twilight visual acuity after dark. And also other problems such as dry eye conjunctiva and corneal ulceration.

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