[LifeStyle] Preventive nutrition: strengthen your immune system and enhance your natural beauty

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One of the most common purposes of entering a new year is to play sports and take care of food. After the holidays it is a perfect time to change the diet. Diets are becoming more boring and more people prefer to incorporate new eating habits into their lives. And as in everything, for this there are also fashions. Today we have a multitude of information at our fingertips to get started in new eating routines and exercise routines for beginners.

Years ago, nutrition and lifestyle fads were focused on weight management and self-image care. Since the COVID-19 crisis came into our lives, consumers demand routines and products focused on preventive and immunological nutrition.

We can define preventive nutrition as the diet of the future. It is a tool to avoid or prevent the appearance of certain diseases that can appear due to a bad eating habit. It is an education to be able to acquire healthy habits such as a healthy way of eating and taking care of the body with exercise. This way of life will help us to feel better inside and out.

Preventive nutrition is especially focused on acquiring habits from children and young people and food re-education for adults. We must take into account the needs and wear that each person will have during the day to ensure a correct caloric intake for their activity.

Right now the trend in food is everything related to strengthening the immune system, with large contributions of vitamins to avoid diseases.

Vitamin C
The star supplement of this fall-winter is vitamin C. It is an antioxidant and immunomodulatory. It is essential for a multitude of biochemical functions within our body.

It is a water-soluble vitamin, this means that it dissolves in water and the excess of this vitamin is eliminated through the urine. It is necessary for the growth and repair of tissues throughout the body and helps repair and maintain cartilage, bones, and teeth.

It can be an ally in the prevention of degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and prevent the cell mutation that causes cancer. It also prevents heart disease as ascorbic acid lowers cholesterol by preventing fat from adhering to blood vessels.

Consuming vitamin C, contrary to what is thought, does not reduce the risk of catching colds, what if it does is that they are shorter and with milder symptoms. Combine vitamin C with zinc if it can help prevent common colds and their duration.

 

Reduction of sugars
Sugar is one of the ingredients that harms our health the most. They provide calories without nutrients causing damage to our body. Natural foods, such as fruits and vegetables, already contain sugars that our body needs, so it is not necessary to consume products with added sugars.

Refined sugar is currently the cause of many diseases in society such as obesity, diabetes, cancer and hypertension, among others.

Trends in child nutrition are aimed at avoiding sugar overdose in the little ones, and educating them from an early age on the importance of a healthy diet. Parents are more and more demanding, they give more importance to knowing how to read the labels and knowing the composition of the products they give to their children.

The current trend is to reduce sugars, consume more and more natural products and, above all, acquire the habit from a young age of the importance of fruits and vegetables.

Proximity product
A trend that is becoming more and more loyal today is to consume local products. It is a concept that triumphs within the current of healthy lifestyle.

That the food spends the least time in refrigerators is the best thing to do, so the closer it is to the home, establishment or restaurant, the better. There are times when the food comes from other countries, with many hours of travel, from cold stores where they even spend months reducing the original properties of the product, which are the most beneficial for food.

There are times when it is not possible for food to come from a very close source, but as far as possible it is convenient to choose natural, high quality, sustainable and local foods to ensure a high nutritional density that is essential to achieve the maximum contribution of nutrients and that is reflected in our skin. In addition to our health and our energy.

Benefits of preventive nutrition
Thanks to this style of eating we can obtain great benefits in our health such as

*Prevent blood problems like anemia
*Solve digestive problems such as heartburn, intolerances or constipation.
*Prevent osteoporosis
*Regulate stress and anxiety
*Reduce insomnia problems
*A good diet can play an important role in preventing degenerative diseases
*Avoid obesity, diabetes, cholesterol and hypertension
*Preventive nutrition is a 360 personal care that aims to strengthen our immune system and enhance our natural beauty from within.