The idea that diet can improve health is very old. In the fourth century BC, the Greek physician Hippocrates recommended to his contemporaries:
Let food be your medicine and your medicine, food
The principle remains valid, although the problem arises when trying to describe it as a healthy diet. What is healthy?
I do not have the answer, or rather, I can not say for sure. There are times in which food is very good, some bad, there is no fixed sentence. Better go around biting a little.
Here I bring to the condemned in the past, today they do not look so bad.
The egg
Until recently it was said that his wealth was a bomb cholesterol arteries. But the truth is that only 3% of that ingested through the diet becomes blood cholesterol. So we can eat an egg every day without fear. Furthermore, the pigment of the yolk protects against macular degeneration associated with age.
Coffee
From this point, the recommendation is:
Coffee for (almost) all
Take two to three cups a day reduces the risk of Parkinson’s, diabetes, colon cancer, gallstones and liver cirrhosis. Some 20 000 studies have found more good than harm, though pregnant, hypertension and insomnia should limit their consumption.
Vinegar
Before it was said that caused anemia and recommended removing it from the diet. Today we know that two tablespoons of vinegar before meals can reduce insulin spikes that occur after meals in diabetics. The effects are similar to those of a drug such as metformin.
Ketchup
Who knows what will that
We were told to discourage their consumption. Meratol For it is a cocktail of vitamins A, C, B and K, and minerals: calcium, iron and potassium. But above all, is lycopene, the pigment that gives tomatoes red, which keeps our cells young and prevents prostate tumor.
Spices
The phytochemicals (protective compounds) that contain used for almost everything. Ginger protects our heart, like aspirin, and reduces the pain of arthritis. Cinnamon regulates blood sugar and cholesterol in the body. And that makes chili capsaicin in the pepper has a powerful analgesic effect. Yes, also itchy.
The wine
A study by Harvard University followed for 12 years to 38 thousand people in France found that the wine was associated with a lower incidence of heart attacks, as long as they take little and regularly. Excessive consumption increases the risk liver and kidney.
Chocolate
It has 300 psychoactive substances, such as phenylethylamine, related to the well-being. The more black than the chocolate has less fat (hence its use was limited before) and cocoa, the food with more antioxidants. It is also very rich in magnesium, which is involved in the mechanisms of inflammation of the arteries.
The Seafood
Cuantísimo pleasure have lost some for fear of high cholesterol! It was an unfounded fear, because what goes up is the good cholesterol (HDL), who keeps the bad (LDL). He also has zinc, which regulates body fat, which improves acne, dandruff and prevents hair loss. Zinc is also recommended for fertility, so if you’re a child for Reyes … you know.
I probably let some poor food court and convicted, but no doubt they have gone through the ordeal to be (finally) acquitted.
And speaking of acquittal, will one day do you trans fats? Time will tell.