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A “cleansing diet” and walk, key to combat the excesses of Christmas
Following a “” of two or three days, based on vegetables, fruits, milkshakes and “much water” and start practicing sport rides half hour from the time it begins to burn fat- is the formula to successfully combat the excesses of Christmas dinner, according to today advised Dr. Francisco Maldonado, Technical Director of Nutrition Center.

For the expert, most importantly to restore the line after Christmas is to increase water consumption, according to Maldonado, “can drop dramatically with the cold.” Then you have to start exercising “smoothly” with rides about 30 minutes and to move from inactivity to the sport “can be harmful.”

“Moving from sedentary parties to make a sport could be harmful. It is better to start the activity with trips and gradually increase the pace every day since, after 30 minutes of walking, they begin to burn fat,” said Maldonado.

Regarding the food, it’s best to “two or three days,” a “cleansing diet” based on vegetables, fruit milkshakes, and then switch to the traditional Mediterranean diet, while controlling products such as bread, pasta, rice or sweet, especially in the early weeks.

“This is a balanced diet, not a diet with fewer calories or that requires us to count the grams of each food, as this will eventually get bored,” noted the expert, who advises against leaving products like olive oil, whose hormonal benefits outweigh the calories in the long run, “helps to burn fat.”

therefore, it is not cheap to follow the Mediterranean diet. Eating fruits, vegetables and fish is more expensive than eating fat (there are many studies about this). A family that spends follow a Mediterranean diet over two thousand euros a year. And according to Caritas, in Spain there are several million people with incomes well below those mentioned above.

Hence, many say that this Christmas, instead of eating mutton or bream and shellfish will eat offal (sweetbreads, tripe, testicles, tongue, blood, etc.)… It seems that now is the time to replace the “turkey rabbit” of last Christmas by the offal of these. And if there comes a fast food means less cost with, yes, increased caloric load.

However, the paradox is that if we follow the Mediterranean diet in general, we assume that cost is less than the economic cost associated with health spending associated with obesity and social spending, representing sick leave and unemployment. Indeed, a recent study by the Center of Disease Control and Prevention (Atlanta, USA), found that in developing countries, obesity is clearly correlated with income. However, in developed countries, the correlation is inverse: the higher the income, less obesity.

The same study found that the prevalence of obesity is higher in urban than in rural areas, which shows that the latter, to preserve the possibility of autarkic economies that grow what they eat, even if they have low incomes, do not fall into the trap of “cheap calories”. It is clearly demonstrated that obesity is related to the purchasing power of households and their economic patterns. That is, obesity is related to the pocket and the pocket with the diet. There are more overweight and obesity among the poorer classes, among the less educated and more unemployed than the employed. Are these the most disadvantaged social strata in their health by not following the Mediterranean diet? Can you consume if you so expensive? Is not it contradictory trade policies encourage the production, trade and consumption of foods high in fats and sugars to the detriment of the Mediterranean diet-driven public health policy? But who pays for this?

Nevertheless, there are effective efforts to follow the Mediterranean diet. The latter has served to provide information and transparency in the food market. I refer to the new official price indices offered by the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism, so criticized by the employers in the commercial sector of the distribution. In my opinion, to give more transparency, it becomes a useful tool for consumers to take the right decisions in a time of economic crisis, comparing food prices between cities, retail formats and brands and saving between 76 and 160 euros in food and beverages. Orense cheaper than Bilbao, Cadiz and Valencia, the three most expensive cities. Buy in supermarkets is more expensive, according to the distribution format. But products, traditional business is the most expensive to buy fish, meat for hypermarkets and large supermarkets for fruits and vegetables. Is it cheaper to Carrefour El Corte Inglés?

This sounds like when I published the statistics of the offering price of housing, plus the price of private housing, the housing protected, the appraiser and real estate transactions, land, housing satellite accounts, and so on. No one liked because it gave information and market transparency to a pyramid, the housing and another oligopoly, such as soil. But this also will speak. Where appropriate. The Spanish consumer as the buyer-investor-user of a home, it is still not well trained or well informed. Welcome to market statistics. They are the golden rule of a free market economy.

Asthma is an inflammatory disease that affects long into the lungs and breathing in the inflammation and spasm of the bronchial passages slow the flow of air into and from the lungs due to an increase of mucus, the exact cause asthma is unknown but has been linked to an abnormal immune response in which the attacks were believed to be caused by stress, allergies, changes in environmental conditions, viral infections, emotions, exercise, additives irritants in food and airborne. Individuals are affected by asthma has increased slowly over the last 20 years and believes that environmental pollution is the leading cause of exposure to a wide range of general chemicals and exposure to cotton dust, flour dust, animal fur and smoke in a workplace. Typical symptoms of asthma are chest tightness, shortness of breath, wheezing and coughing.

Just as the preventive use of an inhaler for asthma symptoms absorb other methods can be used to help the condition. Try to avoid things that trigger an attack, avoid dust, smoke, mold, pet dander, pollen, chemicals and food additives, to maintain a type of vegan diet with plenty of fruits and vegetables, avoid sugar, salt, caffeine, chlorinated water, avoid food additives such as sulfites, tartrazine, sodium benzoate, natural salicylates and increase dietary fatty fish like salmon, trout, herring, mackerel, sardines and tuna. He suffers from asthma can also be beneficial to try acupuncture and all called Buteyko breathing techniques. Read the rest of this entry »