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When you go on a vacation traveler must follow the diet, which is not a diet to lose weight, but they are just a few tips to deal with a little more serenely the holidays. Of course I turn to those who must deal with many flight hours, be subject to a severe jet lag and adjust to climatic conditions, hygienic and cultural backgrounds. The first thing to do, if you have one time zone to be addressed in a few days, has split the meals during the day, so once you get there is easier fit. This is a little trick, but it works.

Another thing to do is eat solid. During the journey is easy not to feel good, maybe you suffer a little ‘flight or car. Bring snacks or crackers to address the vacuum created in the stomach. Were also very careful about what is being offered in hotels or restaurants.

If you go to an exotic drink only bottled water, avoid ice (could be done with tap water or bother you if it’s hot), do not eat raw vegetables (you never know how it was washed) and avoid ice cream, cream, mayonnaise, sauces, etc..

All this serves to avoid unpleasant intestinal disorders. Instead you can rely on the flight, everything is very controlled. Of course, sometimes the dishes are unbalanced from a nutritional point of view: you are so careful not to overdo it. If you have small children with you, always remember to bring some food for them. The dishes are never like those of the house and the tastes are a bit ‘strong.

A low level of blood cholesterol significantly reduces the risk of heart disease or brain learn to control our cholesterol levels through proper diet, rich and varied, but most of all healthy.

Imagine The Cholesterol is a fat-like substance often found in most tissues of our body, and is the starting point of certain hormones. But it is also the main component of the aretoma, which accumulates in our body, causing diseases such as arteriosclerosis. Hence the importance of controlling our cholesterol levels, and a good way to do this is through food.

Suggestions to modify our eating habits

Consume preferably plant foods instead of animal.
Replace the use of animal fats (butter, bacon, etc..) By polyunsaturated fats such as olive oil or sunflower oil, vegetable margarine, …
Increase consumption of fish (2 or 3 times a week) preferably blue (salmon, mackerel, sardines …)
Limit consumption of whole milk and its derivatives, especially the cheese (do not consume more than twice a week).
Reduce consumption of foods high in cholesterol such as egg (no more than two per week), shellfish and organ meats (like liver, brain, kidney …)
Increase consumption of vegetables high in protein (beans, peas, chickpeas, beans, lentils), to compensate for reduced consumption of meat and sausage.
* To be able to eat at home, because this is the easiest way to control fat. Consume the cooked vegetables and meat on the grill or barbecue, and avoiding fried and roasted.
* Unless we are overweight, you do not give up bread, pasta, or sugar, coffee or wine, provided that we take in moderation.
* The fat in our diet should in no case exceed 30% of total calories.

Cholesterol is a fatty substance that your body needs to build its cells and produce certain hormones. It is carried throughout your body via the bloodstream. A small amount of cholesterol is sufficient to meet the needs of the body.

When there is too much cholesterol in your blood, you have high cholesterol. It is a common disorder. Cholesterol generally increases with age and can increase your risk of heart disease, cerebral vascular accident (stroke) and peripheral vascular disease.

Most cholesterol in your body (about 80%) is synthesized in the liver. The diet provides the rest. Dietary cholesterol comes from animal sources like eggs, meat and dairy products. There are 2 main types of cholesterol, it is important to know:

* The low density lipoprotein (LDL) or “bad” cholesterol;
* The high-density lipoprotein (HDL) or “good” cholesterol.

The bulk of LDL or “bad” cholesterol circulates in the blood, unused. Normally, the liver removes cholesterol that “extra”, but many people have more LDL cholesterol than the liver can convert. LDL facilitates the accumulation of plaque (fatty deposits) harmful on the walls of arteries.

HDL is considered “good” because it removes LDL cholesterol from arteries and tissues and transports it to the liver where it can decompose.

Causes

Whether low or high values of your LDL cholesterol levels are determined by many factors, including:

* Diet,
* Body weight,
* The level of physical activity,
* Age (cholesterol increases with age)
* Sex (men have cholesterol levels higher),
* Alcohol consumption,
* Heredity.

The consumption of foods high in saturated fat and dietary cholesterol is another cause of elevated cholesterol. Other factors can also increase your cholesterol, including lack of physical activity and overweight. In some cases, high cholesterol is a genetic disorder hereditary designated familial hypercholesterolemia. This disorder makes you more liable to contract heart disease when you’re still very young.

Medical conditions such as diabetes, hypothyroidism, liver disease and kidney disease can cause elevated cholesterol.

Childhood obesity is considered the body weight gain exceeding 20% the estimated ideal weight according to age, sex and child height. This problem is due to excess fat stored in adipose tissue.

Childhood obesity is a chronic disease. It is the disorder of affluent societies, where food resources are plentiful and varied but misused. No child is born obese, is or becomes obese due to the practice of bad habits in daily food, and little or no physical activity. We must also educate on food, and we must not forget that parents are the reference and mirror in which you look at every second, and if the parents have bad habits and eat only certain foods and reject others without logical reason, they imitate us and will do the same.

This pathology is increasingly affecting more children, and worried, concerned and alarm to both parents and pediatricians because it may be the cause of the occurrence of diseases of children or adults in full growth stage.
Consequences of childhood overweight

This is a physical and aesthetic problem that complicates any daily activity, which could create psychological problems as low self-esteem, anxiety and depression, but also means an increase in cholesterol and causes heart disease, arteriosclerosis and hypertension, and metabolic diseases like diabetes. Read the rest of this entry »

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Medical science is well aware of what foods are most favorable to the health of the body, and what are the most harmful, the medicine has also established the most suitable diets for each particular case.

Rules for Healthy Eating:
The fat used today and which are often source: lard, beef fat themselves and are added to an artificial, usually increases the level of cholesterol in the blood by promoting the emergence of arterioscleosis and heart disease and sometimes in very early ages, and a special way those who can not put any limit to a binge, sometimes verging on gluttony. Read the rest of this entry »

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Reducing fat in the diet will benefit in two ways:

- Facilitates weight loss
- Helps reduce cholesterol

Food choice
- Cereals
- Fresh Fruit
- Vegetables
- Fish
- Chicken

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