Category: Your Diet

What should I eat if I have high cholesterol?

Cholesterol is a type off fat, a lipid that has a role in numerous important physiological processes such as cellular and digestive processes and hormone synthesis, among others. Our bodies can produce the cholesterol they need through the liver, however, we can obtain additional quantities from our food. 

Is cow’s milk bad for us?

There are people in the world who tolerate lactose and people who don’t. If you are one of the latter, all you need to do is restrict or eliminate your intake of dairy products (depending on your degree of intolerance) and you will not have any problems. But even if you do not have any trouble digesting milk and dairy products, you may have been led to believe that they could be harmful to your health. 

Consuming processed meat

In 2015, the International Cancer Research Centre, a World Health Organisation (WHO) body for the study of cancer, published a review that included epidemiological studies carried out over the 20 previous years. Experts came to the conclusion that consuming processed meats can cause cancer.

A suitable diet and ageing

Eating correctly is a cultural task, it is learnt during childhood and lasts a lifetime, like education.

Wise choices and errors in the “art” of eating are reinforced during old age by way of the new behaviours that appear due to changes in later life.

Transgenic Foods

Transgenic foods are foods obtained through a genetically manipulated organism. From antiquity, mankind has been modifying plants to use as food by mixing lots of genes more or less at random. But modern biotechnology tries to insert a specific gene from another species into the target species in order to achieve a specific result. 

The Diabetic Diet

Diet is an important aspect of the treatment of diabetes and patients must follow their doctor’s recommendations and comply with the restrictions they are given. People suffering from diabetes benefit from a high-fibre diet containing a lot of vegetables.