As you know, Beautylife is the preventive lifestyle that I pursue to live with a better quality of life.
Food plays a key role, it is a miracle medicine. Within my G Method, diet is important but even more important is keeping our intestinal microbiota in optimal conditions so that food is absorbed well.
Knowing what you can eat and what you should not eat depending on your health conditions is a treasure trove of knowledge to treat and prevent health problems, from the flu to cancer. Diet has a very great effect on health and disease.
Diet is the only factor that affects our health, which we can fully control, you decide what you eat. We cannot control the other factors of the exposome, the air we breathe, the noise, and the emotional climate that surrounds us; but what we eat.
It is important to keep in mind that various types of foods provide vital substances for health, some of them known and others unknown, therefore varying the diet is essential to maintain a healthy state.
The three theories about the healing power of food.
There are three theories that serve as a basis or guide for research on the curative and preventive power of foods:
1. Antioxidants in foods, which serve to combat diseases,
2. The forgotten, pharmacological power of fat
3. New types of “allergies” or food intolerances.
Thanks to these theories we will learn to protect ourselves from certain nutrients.
ANTIOXIDANTS
Oxidants come in different forms, the most notable and with the most studies are free oxygen radicals. These molecules have lost an electron and remain unstable, in a frantic search for another electron to stabilize themselves...they attack everything that crosses their path, destroy healthy cells and generate in a matter of seconds more free radicals that go out of control, forming reactions. in chain.
Free radicals can attack DNA, the genetic material of cells, causing mutations, which are the first step towards cancer.
When it occurs at the level of cell membranes, free radicals attack the adipose or fatty part of the membranes, they become peroxidized and become defenseless...promoting chain reactions contaminating millions of fatty molecules.
Where do oxidants come from? Some are normal metabolic wastes resulting from respiration and immune reactions. That is, this origin is difficult to control because it is a necessary action to live. But many oxidants come from the environment and are destructive, for example: ionizing radiation, air pollution, chemicals, pesticides, tobacco, medications...
Avoiding risks with a healthy lifestyle, BEAUTYLIFE...it depends on each of us.
But we can also defend ourselves even better against these oxidants with FOOD.
Foods, specifically those of plant origin, fruits and vegetables, are full of powerful antioxidants. Once ingested, they reach the tissues and fluids, where they can help combat the invasion of oxidants.
Unusual plant antioxidants such as: quercetin, lycopene, lutein, glutathione and other better known ones such as vitamins C and E, beta-carotene and selenium.
Antioxidant research is booming, there are blood tests to know the antioxidant status of our body. This way we can know the person's oxidative level, if they are consuming enough antioxidants.
To prevent it, what we can do best is feed ourselves with a significant load of plant antioxidants.
I'll give you a hint, when you consume fruits and vegetables, choose the ones that have color; The more intense, the greater the amount of antioxidants. Fresh and frozen fruits and vegetables have more antioxidants than canned, processed or cooked ones.
- Red grapes instead of green or white.
- Red and yellow onions instead of white.
- Raw or lightly cooked cabbage, cauliflower and broccoli.
- Raw and crushed garlic.
- Vegetables cooked in the microwave oven instead of boiled in water or steamed.
- Cold extracted extra virgin olive oil.
- Dark green leafy vegetables.
- Pink grapefruit instead of white.
- Whole fruits instead of juices.
- Fresh and frozen juices instead of canned.
- Carrot, sweet potato and pumpkin orange colors….
- Ripe red tomato.
Take advantage of this opportunity and follow my posts to create an ideal Beautylife diet for yourself.