A diet rich in antioxidant nutrients exerts anti-inflammatory power that achieves slow the development of diabetes, obesity and cancer, said today the president of the Spanish Federation of Societies of Nutrition, Food and Dietetics (fesnad), Alfredo Martinez.
Martinez explained that this is the conclusion of a major study presented at the Second Congress of the fesnad held up today in Barcelona, and stressed that this statement Underlying medical thinking, but has now been found.
“Some foods have a higher level of antioxidants that prevent inflammation,” noting that this, in turn, “acts as the trigger diseases such as diabetes, obesity and dyslipidemia,” remarked the professor of nutrition at the University Navarre.
The researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Faculty of Medicine, Boston, biochemist Barry Sears, a medical doctor at the conference explained the important role of inflammatory Zone Diet, which proposes the proportion of 40% carbohydrate , 30% protein and 30% fat with extra intake of Omega 3.
Inflammation is a normal process the body that helps prevent infection and heal injuries, but the inflammatory response may be increased so silent and out of control and lead to various diseases. On the other hand, stressed that diets moderate in protein and high in fiber are useful to lose weight, assuming that “not all weigh the same calories.” Some calories have thermogenic properties that help to lose heat and energy, and they have to satiety.
“And is that not all fats are equal,” he said, while he gave the example of the omega 3 found in fish, which reduces the risk of diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. “Vegetables, fish and olive oil” reduce the metabolic syndrome, which causes hypertension and cholesterol, Martinez explained in a different order of conclusions.
The same MartÃnez introduced the study during the conference ‘Obesity and metabolic syndrome: dietary treatment based on specific nutritional components’. In his view, a good diet does not depend on the quality and quantity of food consumed, but must take into account the distribution of nutrients in each meal to be appropriate and help maintain metabolic balance.
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