THE FOOD OF HEALTH - A feel good you start on the table - Novionline

Novi Ligure – Over the last fifty years we have witnessed in Western countries to a radical change in eating habits. We have gone, in fact, a diet based on unrefined foods of plant origin, to a power less healthy, consisting of refined foods, readily available, but often lacking from the nutritional point of view .

At the same time extensive research on the population showed an increase of chronic diseases such as diabetes, obesity, osteoporosis , of degenerative diseases and, unfortunately, also of cancer (according to the American Institute for Cancer Research , more than 30% of cancers are directly related to food understood both in terms of quantity and quality).

As a result of this combination of factors has increased the interest in the possible protective role of proper nutrition in health . For today are in fact produced more and more experimental evidence that highlights how the foods are important determinants in the onset of many diseases and how it is possible, through appropriate changes in eating habits, prevent or even cure them. The importance and the close relationship of the binomial “Nutrition and good health” is also underlined by the World Health Organization (WHO) considers that proper nutrition and health basic human rights.

Many people do not believe in the potential power and often underestimate or even ignore the damage that assimilation wrong and inconsiderate of foods can make your body . The long-term nature of these dietary choices, however, is one of the key factors to achieve a good state of health and well-being. The clinical manifestations resulting from a diet, often personal and not suitable, only appear after following incorrect behavior, albeit minimal, for a long period of time. The sum of all the steps that a person does in the course of one’s life plays an important role in the quality of its physical aging. Lead a healthy and active lifestyle is the key aspect to healthy aging and follow a balanced diet constitutes a basic element that affects not only the achievement of an aesthetic “ideal”.

In the recent years has grown a lot attention on issues related to the theme of Nutrition also demonstrated by the growing space that is dedicated. In the proliferation of contradictory messages becomes more and more necessary a guide to guide us in the personal choice of lifestyle food properly is able to reconcile the feed with the pleasure of eating healthy, without giving in to diets “trendy” is often not continuously offered balanced and sometimes harmful to our own health.
This book was created with the purpose of promoting the culture of healthy eating discussing topics related to the responsibility of food and consumer awareness through in-depth, nutritional advice, curiosity, derived from questions posed by readers who have an interest to receive and exchange information about the world of food.