[LifeStyle] The fashion of knowing what you eat

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Mobile applications have also reached the food sector to help us eat healthier

In the field of nutrition, 'realfooding' has become the latest trend to help society change consumption habits for healthier ones. This translates into keeping ultra-processed products away from our fridge. Carlos Ríos has been the creator of this movement whose philosophy is based on eating the food that "our grandmothers made."

The practice seems simple, but when push comes to shove, when we have to put the products in the shopping cart, we tend to include a lot of processed foods. Working life makes it difficult for us to find time each day to cook, but it is possible to combine a healthy diet with work. That's why when we go shopping we can't throw ourselves like crazy at precooked dishes. The more natural the products, the healthier. This combined with exercise, the best formula for a balanced diet.

The nutritionist Carlos Ríos estimates that approximately 80% of the products that we can find in a supermarket are ultra-processed. To combat bad habits, it has launched a mobile application, MyRealFood, which allows scanning the bar code of food and returns nutritional information with a label that tells you if it is "Real food", "Good processed" or "Ultra processed". Consumers, smartphone in hand, will be able to scan the products in the supermarket to find out which ones they should not include in their shopping cart.

But it is not the only mobile application. Another with similar characteristics is Yuka, with which they can scan food that scores from 1 to 100 according to the presence of additives and indicates if it is excellent, good, mediocre or bad. With this tool they can also scan cosmetic products in which it will indicate the presence of additives in creams, shampoos and other products. If a product or food is not considered good, recommendations will appear with similar ones that have a better score.

Yuka or MyRealFood help us fill the shopping cart, but now do we know how to combine foods properly? Are we eating the ideal ratio of carbohydrates, protein and fat? There is also an application for it: Yazio. In their profile, they can add their weight and goal, and it will set a daily goal for calories and the carbohydrates, proteins and fats that they should eat at each meal. In this way, they will be able to contemplate the calories they are ingesting throughout the day and compensate in case of excess.

Technology is making our lives easier every time. But do not forget that, although eating healthy is essential, if we add to the equation the practice of sports, we will find the right balance to lead a healthy lifestyle.