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Follow the advice of HLA San Carlos to improve your eating habits

January 18 from 2019 - 13: 22

At HLA they are aware that losing weight is a tough task and that the best way is to be advised by a professional nutritionist.

To help you with this goal, in the nutrition area of HLA San Carlos They offer us some advice.

Do not eat less quantity and less frequently but eat the same or more quantity, but always healthier foods and increasing the frequency of meals per day.

For this there is only one key: the consumption of fruits and vegetables, as well as whole grains such as pasta, bread or brown rice without forgetting legumes. These foods provide a large amount of fiber, water and vitamins and minerals, important for proper nutritional status.

It is also recommended to consume both a meal and dinner a vegetable dish, which helps the feeling of fullness, providing few calories and large amounts of nutrients.

If the diet is not giving the expected results, this team offers answers to six questions that you are surely doing at this moment:

What foods make you lose weight more?

Marián Martín Ballester, nutritionist of HLA San Carlos de Denia declares that "there are not really foods that fatten or lose weight by themselves, but the food has a certain caloric density, that is, depending on the proportion of the different nutrients contained in the particular food will have more or fewer calories." In this case, foods with more fat content tend to be foods with higher caloric content since 1g of fat provides 9 Kcal, compared to proteins or carbohydrates that 4kcal would provide, which does not mean that there is suppress foods with high fat content if not that it is necessary to limit them, especially those whose fat is of the saturated type such as fatty meats, processed products such as industrial bakery. In foods such as fruits and vegetables is the opposite, large amounts that provide few calories due to its high water content.

To play sports in the gym. What accessories should you take?

Daniel Martínez Pardo, HLA nutritionist El Ángel de Málaga, states that even if you do physical exercise in the gym, there is no need to vary your diet if you already have a healthy and adequate diet. Increase the consumption of fruits and vegetables will help the correct functioning of the organism and what is important is to correctly choose the source of protein foods such as legumes, fish, eggs, unprocessed lean meats to be able to have energy.

Can you live to eat chicken and rice?

Many people believe that to lose weight in a fast way you have to eat white rice and grilled chicken frequently. The HLA Nutrition team affirms that there is life beyond chicken and rice and if what you want is to consolidate a healthy body in your line it is necessary to look for a rich diet that motivates; Not a monotone that bores us. Therefore, they affirm that one should not be afraid of creative cuisine and experiment with new culinary techniques such as papillote, sautéed, more elaborate salads, etc.

Should we eliminate all fats and sugar from our diet?

Rocío Bueno Martínez, coordinator of the area of ​​nutrition, states in this regard that "we must limit the consumption of dubious and saturated fats to bet on other healthy fats (polyunsaturated and monounsaturated) such as extra virgin olive oil, avocado or the coconut".

In this sense, Rocío says that "it is necessary to limit the consumption of refined oils, hydrogenated fats, visible fat in meat foods, sausages, industrial pastries and have special caution with the added sugar of some products found in the Supermarket".

What is the maximum weight that I can lose?

Weight loss should be gradual and controlled so that the body can get used to and better adhere to the changes in habits that should accompany weight loss that should not only consist of eating healthy and balanced; they must be accompanied by a daily physical activity, a good rest and a correct hydration, among others.

Each person must find the most effective way to change these habits and it stops being so important to lose kilos to make way to lose fat since not only have to look at the scale, it is important to see where it is lost since with the same weight, the same person can have more or less volume according to their body composition.

However, to face this process with guarantees, it is important to go to nutrition and nutrition specialists such as nutritionists so that they can give the guidelines for a correct change of habits and also to control the percentages of body fat and muscle. to make a correct tracking of the weight loss.

Tips

This team of professionals, spread over HLA hospitals throughout Spain, affirms that although there are no tricks to shorten the weight loss process, it helps to abandon habits such as:

- The consumption of alcohol: they are empty calories and do not provide any benefit (not even the glass of wine a day).

- Ultra processed food: do not consume them and make way for natural or processed foods such as legumes or canned fish and dairy products, always with caution that they do not have a high content of salt and that they do not contain added sugars.

- Refined flours: replace them with whole flours. The consumption of whole products has a greater contribution of fiber in the diet and also a greater number of nutrients such as vitamins and minerals.

- Miracle diets: you have to learn healthy eating habits with the help of a professional and keep them over time.

Contact Hospital San Carlos Grupo HLA

Nancy Street, 3-5
966 470 162
Only by appointment: 965 17 47 37
Appointment by Whatsapp: 679144005
From Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 20 p.m. Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 14 p.m. (General medicine and nursing). Emergencies in Hospital San Carlos Dénia.
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