[LifeStyle] These are the novelties of the nutritional pyramid

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The Spanish Society of Community Nutrition (SENC) has added a new base to the classic healthy eating pyramid that includes recommendations for maintaining a healthy lifestyle "because eating is not just a dish," said the president of the scientific committee of SENC, Professor Javier Aranceta.

The new base of the food pyramid, recommends society without exception to walk 10,000 steps a day, since "health is 50 percent what we move," said Aranceta. In addition, he advises paying attention to emotional balance, "essential for the eating process", the expert has assessed. "If we are in low spirits, we do not buy the same thing, we do not cook the same and we do not eat the same," he added, at the same time that he pointed out that "the body asks us for foods that raise serotonin, but that generates depression and we enter into a wheel".

Energy balance

The new base of the food pyramid also encourages concern about energy balance, which means that if a person eats more food, they must exercise more, and cook with healthy culinary techniques, such as steaming. Lastly, it includes drinking between four and six glasses of water daily as a means of hydration.

On the other hand, the pyramid has another novelty: a sustainability bar that refers to that of the environment. "We are considering for the first time not only individual health, but also the health of the planet, the impact that the food process has on the environment," said Professor Aranceta, who has qualified that he is "barbaric".

In this context, the foods that are at the top of the pyramid, such as ultra-processed, red meat, sausages and complex dairy products, have a high environmental impact, while those lower down have a more environmental impact. limited. In addition, all local, local, seasonal and traditional agriculture products also have less impact.